77 DREAM SONGS PB – JOHN BERRYMAN

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.