Bloodaxe Books | Nick Drake: four poems from Out of Range @BloodaxeBooks | Uploaded March 2019 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Nick Drake is a poet, novelist, screenwriter, dramatist and librettist, and has published four collections with Bloodaxe Books. His first book-length collection, The Man in the White Suit (1999), won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 1999, and was followed by From The Word Go in 2007. In September 2010 he was invited to join Cape Farewell's trip to the Arctic to explore climate change, and from that journey arose a commission from United Visual Artists to create poems and texts for their ground-breaking installation High Arctic at the National Maritime Museum (2011). Those poems, together with others inspired by the Arctic and its voices, are gathered in his collection The Farewell Glacier (Bloodaxe Books, 2012). His fourth collection, Out of Range, was published by Bloodaxe in 2018.
Pamela Robertson-Pearce filmed him reading poems from his Bloodaxe collections at his home in Hackney, London, in February 2019. These are split into four sets posted as separate videos. In this video, he reads four poems from his most recent collection, Out of Range: ‘Maenad’, ‘The Foley Artist (take two)’, ‘Grace’ and ‘The Back of Your Head’. The other videos include poems on climate change [youtu.be/1n5xJzeQbHc], on love and loss [youtu.be/eZzfdgswftY], and on being this Nick Drake and not the other one (‘Live Air’, youtu.be/XebKHCrc-gI).
For more information on Nick Drake’s poetry collections, please see: bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/category/nick-drake
Nick Drake is a poet, novelist, screenwriter, dramatist and librettist, and has published four collections with Bloodaxe Books. His first book-length collection, The Man in the White Suit (1999), won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 1999, and was followed by From The Word Go in 2007. In September 2010 he was invited to join Cape Farewell's trip to the Arctic to explore climate change, and from that journey arose a commission from United Visual Artists to create poems and texts for their ground-breaking installation High Arctic at the National Maritime Museum (2011). Those poems, together with others inspired by the Arctic and its voices, are gathered in his collection The Farewell Glacier (Bloodaxe Books, 2012). His fourth collection, Out of Range, was published by Bloodaxe in 2018.
Pamela Robertson-Pearce filmed him reading poems from his Bloodaxe collections at his home in Hackney, London, in February 2019. These are split into four sets posted as separate videos. In this video, he reads four poems from his most recent collection, Out of Range: ‘Maenad’, ‘The Foley Artist (take two)’, ‘Grace’ and ‘The Back of Your Head’. The other videos include poems on climate change [youtu.be/1n5xJzeQbHc], on love and loss [youtu.be/eZzfdgswftY], and on being this Nick Drake and not the other one (‘Live Air’, youtu.be/XebKHCrc-gI).
For more information on Nick Drake’s poetry collections, please see: bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/category/nick-drake
