The Poet
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| Originally published | 1996 |
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| Authors | Michael Connelly |
| Followed by | The Scarecrow |
| Series | Jack McEvoy |
| Genres | Crime Fiction |
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| ID | 1168537 |
About The Poet
The Poet is the fifth novel by award-winning American author Michael Connelly. Published in 1996, it is the first of Connelly's novels not to feature Detective Harry Bosch and first to feature Crime Reporter Jack McEvoy. A sequel, The Narrows, was published in 2004. The Poet won the 1997 Dilys Award.
A life too interesting: Shane MacGowan
... Streams of Whiskey is a tribute to a MacGowan hero and inspiration, The Poet and playwright Brendan Behan, who once described himself as a " drinker with a writing problem"...
Charlie's Bar, Fermanagh, 'blown away' by Christmas ad response
... Completely overwhelming The video draws to a close with words from The Poet, WB Yeats: " There are no strangers here, only friends you haven t yet met"...
Simon Armitage: Poet laureate on 'life-changing' visit to the Arctic
... " And I started to think that that might be part of the role of The Poet in the contemporary age - to speak up for nature, rather than just use it in a poem...
Pablo Neruda: Chilean poet's death still shrouded in mystery
... Forensic experts in Canada, Denmark and elsewhere have pored over The Poet s remains in a bid to establish what killed him, but have been unable to provide a definitive answer...
Seamus Heaney: Digging through Nobel Prize winner's legacy
... Hilary draws a line from Heaney s success to, and - for her, that level of talent wouldn t exist without The Poet s influence...
Town celebrates Robert Burns' first book of poems
... The East Ayrshire town plans to mark the anniversary of The Poet s funeral and the publication of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect with a festival featuring poetry and music...
Memorial celebrates 'radical spirit of Scotland' Winnie Ewing
... Mr Salmond ended by saying The Poet Hugh MacDiarmid had once described Robert Burns as " the true radical spirit of Scotland" and said that is " exactly how we should remember Winnie Ewing"...
Dylan Thomas' copy of first poetry book up for auction
... The book includes messages from The Poet to two of his love interests...
Dylan Thomas' copy of first poetry book up for auction
By Peter GillibrandBBC News
Dylan Thomas' personal copy of his First Book of poems will be auctioned as part of The late Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts ' literature collection.
The auction - which includes many rare first editions - comes two years after Watts' death.
Thomas' 18 Poems is expected to fetch up to £10,000 when it goes under The Hammer in September.
The Book includes messages from The Poet to two of his love interests.
The Collection of poems was first published in December 1934 - a month After Thomas ' 20th birthday.
It includes The piece that is said to have made Thomas famous - The Force that Through The Green Fuse Drives The Flower - written when he was just 19.
An inscription Written By Thomas in ink inside The Book 's cover is Crossed Out , but refers to his first serious Girlfriend - The writer, Pamela Hansford Johnson, who he Almost Married at one stage.
" To Pamela Who Knows very well The things I'll suggest if she's going to write on The Front of this pawky book, " it reads.
Another inscription, in pencil, reads " My Own Copy" before a final Note - " Given to Emily in 1937" - suggests he presented it to another romance, The American writer, Emily Homes Coleman.
Rock 'n' roll legend Watts, who died in 2021, amassed A Number of works by mostly 20th-century authors.
A signed copy of The Great Gatsby leads The Collection , with an estimated price of between £200,000-£300,000.
The auction will take place in two parts, a live sale at Christie's headquarters in London on 28 September, and an online sale that runs from 15 to 29 September.
The esteem Thomas is held in by rock 'n 'rollers was highlighted recently when, ahead of a gig in The City with his band Hollywood Vampires .
Related TopicsSource of news: bbc.com