Phillips’s other books of poetry are Pale Colors in a Tall Field (2020), Wild Is the Wind (2018), Reconnaissance (2015), Silverchest (2013, nominated for the Griffin Prize), Double Shadow (2011, winner Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry and finalist for the National Book Award), Speak Low (2009, finalist for the National Book Award), Riding Westward (2006), The Rest of Love (2004), Rock Harbor (2002), The Tether (2001, winner of the Kingsley Tuft Poetry Award), Pastoral (2000) and Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems, 1986-2006. His debut book In the Blood was the winner of the Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize in 1992 and his poetry is published for the first time in the UK 20 years on Then The War and Selected Poems, 2007-2020 is out with Carcanet and described by Publishers Weekly as “lyrically rich, insightful poems…full of palpable aching”. He is Professor of English at Washington University in St Louis, where he also teaches creative writing. The Los Angeles Review of Books calls Carl Phillips “a poet of enchantment and persuasion” and he is one of America’s most celebrated poets, the author of a dozen books of poetry, two collections of selected poems, two works of criticism and essays, and a translation of Sophocles’s Philoctetes (2003, Oxford University Press). The Los Angeles Review of Books calls Carl Phillips “a poet of enchantment and persuasion” and he is one of America’s most celebrated poets, the author of a dozen books of poetry. Part of Manchester Literature Festival, the annual John Rylands Poetry Reading with Manchester’s Carcanet Press is an event all in itself, and this year is no exception, welcoming “one of America’s most original, influential, and productive of lyric poets” Carl Phillips, shortlisted for the Best Single Poem in the 2022 Forward Prizes for Poetry with ‘Scattered Snows, to the North’. John Rylands Research Institute and Library, Carl Phillips at John Rylands Library Sarah-Clare Conlon, Literature Editor Posted 5 October 2022 Carl Phillips.
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