77 Dream Songs

Faber are pleased to announce the relaunch of the poetry list - starting in Spring 2001 and continuing with publication dates each month for the rest of the year. This will involve a new jacket design recalling the typographic virtues of the classic Faber poetry covers connecting the backlist and the new titles within a single embracing cover solution. A major reissue program is scheduled to include classic individual collections from each decade some of which have long been unavailable: Wallace Stevens''s Harmonium and Ezra Pound''s Personae from the 1920s; W.H. Auden''s Poems (1930); Robert Lowell''s Life Studies from the 1950s; John Berryman''s 77 Dream Songs and Philip Larkin''s The Whitsun Weddings from the 1960s; Ted Hughes''s Gaudete and Seamus Heaney''s Field Work from the 1970s; Michael Hofmann''s Acrimony and Douglas Dunn''s Elegies from the 1980s. Timed to celebrate publication of Seamus Heaney''s new collection Electric Light the relaunch is intended to re-emphasize the predominance of Faber Poetry and to celebrate a series which has played a shaping role in the history of modern poetry since its inception in the 1920s.