My Eightieth Year to Heaven

Overview

This soothing poetry collection honors the simple pleasures associated with home, holidays, friends, and much-loved places. Lucid and carefully honed language carries these poems straight to the heart, creating a sense of hope and optimism.

Reviews

"Sprightly, modest verse makes for convivial reading . . . an enjoyable book, the felicitous thoughts of an unostentatiously cultured and observant writer."  —Times Literary Supplement

"[Cox is] a poet so wary of the passionate and the rash [he] writes poems in which passion and rashness seem mysteriously present."  —Times Educational Supplement

Author Biography

Brian Cox is the author of Cox on Cox and the founding editor and current associate poetry editor of Critical Quarterly. He is a former John Edward Taylor professor of English literature, former dean of the faculty arts, and pro-vice chancellor at Manchester University.