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Flambard Press is publishing a collection of poems by the author of The French Lieutenant's Woman, John Fowles, with the majority of the 90-strong collection never published before.
The indie was awarded Arts Council funding for the project, with Selected Poems to be published on 31st May as a £12 pb with flaps.
An introduction to the poems has been written by Adam Thorpe, who has worked on the project for five years, going through archive and manuscript material he was given access to by Fowles' widow, Sarah Fowles.
Managing editor Will Mackie said the poems, written from the 1950s right through to nearly the end of Fowles' life in 2005, "explore many of the themes Fowles visited in his fiction—love, desire, nature and suffering".
Poems, released in the US in 1973, was the only collection of Fowles' poems to have been published before.