By Blows

New poems from the British author of numerous books. His recent poetry volumes include Under the Circumstances (Oxford University Press, 1991) and Old Men and Comets (OUP, 1993). His memoirs, Interplay and Play Resumed, appeared in 1995 and 1999. He received the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1981. Of Enright's 1987 Collected Poems (OUP) Gavin Ewart wrote in The Observer: 'Anybody at all interested in English poetry should read this book. It has in it the best autobiographic sequence written this century... It also contains... some of the wittiest and wryest comment on the modern world to be written in our time'Enright, D. J. is the author of 'By Blows', published 2008 under ISBN 9781861711502 and ISBN 1861711506.