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Swimming Chenango Lake: Selected Poems Charles Tomlinson was born in Stoke on Trent in 1927. He studied at Cambridge with Donald Davie and taught at the University of Bristol from 1956 until his retirement. He published many collections of poetry as well as volumes of criticism and translation, and edited the Oxford Book of Verse in Translation (1980). His poetry won international recognition and received many prizes in Europe and the United States, including the 1993 Bennett Award from the Hudson Review; the New Criterion Poetry Prize, 2002; the Premio Internazionale di Poesia Ennio Flaiano, 2001; and the Premio Internazionale di Poesia Attilio Bertolucci, 2004. He was an Honorary Fellow of Queens’ College, Cambridge, the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences, and of the Modern Language Association. Charles Tomlinson was made a CBE in 2001 for his contribution to literature. He died in 2015. The poet David Morley, editor of this volume, is an ecologist and naturalist by background. He won the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry for The Invisible Gift: Selected Poems and a Cholmondeley Award for his contribution to poetry. His Carcanet collections include The Magic of What’s There, The Gypsy and the Poet, Enchantment, The Invisible Kings and Scientific Papers. He wrote The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing and is co-editor with the Australian poet Philip Neilsen of The Cambridge Companion to Creative Writing. David Morley studied with Charles Tomlinson at Bristol and currently teaches at the University of Warwick. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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Carcanet Classics include Beowulf translated by Chris McCully Dictator/Gilgamesh adapted by Philip Terry Gilgamesh Retold by Jenny Lewis Pearl translated by Jane Draycott Edmund Blunden Selected Poems edited by Robyn Marsack Catullus The Books of Catullus edited and translated by Simon Smith Rebecca Elson A Responsibility to Awe: Collected Poems Walter Pater Selected Essays edited by Alex Wong Propertius Poems translated by James Womack Arthur Rimbaud Illuminations translated by John Ashbery George Seferis Collected Poems Charles Tomlinson Swimming Chenango Lake: selected poems edited by David Morley William Carlos Williams Collected Poems volumes I and II

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Carcanet Classics include

Beowulf translated by Chris McCully Dictator/Gilgamesh adapted by Philip Terry

Gilgamesh Retold by Jenny Lewis Pearl translated by Jane Draycott Edmund Blunden Selected Poems edited by Robyn Marsack

Catullus The Books of Catullus edited and translated by Simon Smith Rebecca Elson A Responsibility to Awe: Collected Poems Walter Pater Selected Essays edited by Alex Wong

Propertius Poems translated by James Womack Arthur Rimbaud Illuminations translated by John Ashbery

George Seferis Collected Poems Charles Tomlinson Swimming Chenango Lake: selected poems edited by David Morley William Carlos Williams Collected Poems volumes I and II

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