Collected Poems Author:Brian Cox Ever since he was an undergraduate, Brian Cox, editor of the "Black Papers on Education" (1969-1977), chairman of the National Curriculum English Working Group which led the Cox Report, and founder-editor of "Critical Quarterly", has been a poet. To mark his retirement as John Edward Taylor Professor of English at Manchester University, Carcanet... more » have published his "Collected Poems", including work from his previous books "Every Common Sight" (1981) and "Two-Headed Monster" (1985) as well as new poems. The poetry has the virtues of his autobiography "The Great Betrayal: Memoirs of a Life in Education" (1992). The poems come to rest in relationship, in celebrations of marriage and the stabilities of abiding love.« less