Poems from an Attic
selected poems, 1936-95
$31.16
- Hardcover
208 pages
- Release Date
16 February 2026
Summary
Poems from an Attic: Iris Murdoch’s Lost Verse
Newly discovered, an intimate collection of poems that shine a light on Iris Murdoch’s own life and loves.
A definitive collection of poems by the major twentieth-century novelist and philosopher, newly discovered in the attic of Murdoch’s former home.
While she is pre-eminent as one of the twentieth century’s great novelists and philosophers, Murdoch’s life as a poet has languished in the shadows. Yet throughout her lif…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784746124 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784746126 |
| Author: | Iris Murdoch, Anne Rowe, Miles Leeson, Rachel Hirschler, Frances White |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Chatto & Windus |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 16 February 2026 |
| Weight: | 400g |
| Dimensions: | 222mm x 138mm x 25mm |
About The Author
Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin in 1919. After working in the Treasury and in the UN, she discovered philosophy, eventually becoming Fellow at St Anne’s College, Oxford. Her philosophical concerns are at the heart of the 25 novels for which she became famous, gaining the Whitbread Prize for The Sacred and Profane Love Machine and the Booker Prize for The Sea, The Sea. Until her death in 1999, she lived in Oxford with her husband, the academic and critic, John Bayley. She wrote poetry all her life.
Rachel Hirschler is the lead transcriber with the Iris Murdoch Collections at Kingston University Archives. Miles Leeson, Anne Rowe and Frances White are leading academics and editors who have published widely on Iris Murdoch’s life, philosophy and novels. Together they administer and contribute to the work of the Iris Murdoch Research Centre, the Iris Murdoch Society and the Iris Murdoch Review.
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