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Psyche Unbound

Heather Buck

Imprint: Anvil Press Poetry
Publisher: Carcanet Press
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Paperback (64 pages)
(Pub. Jan 1995)
9780856462603
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  • Psyche Unbound is Heather Buck’s third collection of poems. Whether writing about war, nature, faith, childhood, art or people, she explores the presences which deepen our daily lives – perceptions of mortality and of the life of the spirit – through imagery firmly rooted in the world of the senses. The clarity, concentration and direct emotional weight of these poems will reward repeated readings.

    Heather Buck was born in Kent in 1926. She started to write in 1966 as a result of Jungian analysis and published four collections of poems. She lived in Lavenham, Suffolk and died in 2004. ... read more
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