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Simon Mundy's Selected Poems is a monumental collection that brings together work published in five collections, across five decades, including the critically acclaimed By Fax to Alice Springs and More for Helen of Troy, as well as the more recent Waiting for Music, which included many of his collaborations with composers. Published to coincide with the poet's seventieth birthday, this selection of Mundy's work draws on his deep and enduring love of the arts and travel, and paints portraits of people, land and seascapes the world over.

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'A book I will take with me as my companion everywhere... Beautiful.' (Bettany Hughes, on More for Helen of Troy) 'Mundy can be cheeky, he can be rueful, but he is always passionate.' (Daljit Nagra, on By Fax to Alice Springs)

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Simon Mundy studied drama at university, but soon veered towards writing poetry and reviews, and at 23 he found himself a music critic and arts journalist. A champion of the arts, he has served as Director of the National Campaign for the Arts and Vice-President of PEN International's Writers for Peace Committee, and he co-founded the European Forum for the Arts and Heritage; he remains an adviser to the European Festivals Association. His writing includes biographies, novels, non-fiction, playscripts and poetry.

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