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Newly-published:  First of two life-long compilation of poems written by Michael Tolkien

About this Poetry Collection:

This first book of "Collected Poems" by Michael Tolkien combines full collections published between 2000 and 2009, the second and third of which incorporated poems from booklets:  Learning Not to Touch (Redbeck, 1998) and Reaching for a Stranger (Shoestring, 1999).

CRITICS ON THE COLLECTIONS:

Learning Not to Touch (1998)

'...there is a genuine sense of emotional urgency...coupled with solid structures, which makes for authentic poems...'  (S. Blyth: Prop)

Outstripping Gravity (2000) and Exposures (2003)

'...increasing flintiness...suggests tight-lipped rage at how we let our illusory 'real world' worsen... A spiritual search is picking its way through not only the junk-thought and junk-objects we're bombarded with, but also the authentic difficulties of finding meaning...' (H. Lomas: Ambit 163)'

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Taking Cover (2005) '...his poetry is fluent, crafted, easy on the eye and mind...it has a wide range of subjects and is anchored in a believable reality presented in detail which is allowed to speak for itself...his stance avoids sentimentality with a detachment which is not indifference...' (Eddie Wainwright: Envoi 144)

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'His best poems do something both original and informed by the tradition he loves: they are visually and aurally satisfying...This is a collection that uniquely celebrates absences, a book for which good readers-hundreds of them-should make time...' (Helena Nelson: Poetry Salzburg Review)

About the Author:

MICHAEL TOLKIEN was born in Birmingham in 1943, and brought up in rural South Oxfordshire and North Yorkshire. He studied Classics and English at St. Andrews and Oxford, and worked as a secondary school teacher in Rutland, and later in adult education in Leicester.

Since 1997, Michael has published two booklets, eight full collections of verse, and three illustrated verse narrative fantasies.

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COLLECTED POEMS – Volume 1 can be ordered

from Amazon.co.uk at:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Collected-Poems-Book-1996-2009/dp/1835636276

from Waterstones at:

https://www.waterstones.com/book/collected-poem... (https://www.waterstones.com/book/collected-poems/michael-tolkien/9781835636275)

and from Barnes & Noble at:

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/collected%20po...

Media Contacts:

Publisher:  New Generation Publishing

Tel.:  0208 292 5163

Contact:  darin@theinspiragroup.com (Michael Tolkien's literary agent)