Great Regulars: Because W.G. Sebald published very few poems

in his lifetime, because there has been no tremendous hurry to produce this book (he died in 2001), and because his fame as a prose writer is now so well established, it would be easy to look on this Selected Poems as a collection of pieces written in the margins of more important work. To regard it as we do the poems of Angela Carter, for instance: a surprisingly good bonus. In fact it turns out to be a significant addition to Sebald's main achievement--full of things that are beautiful and fascinating in themselves, and which cast a revealing light on the evolution and content of his prose.

from Andrew Motion: The Guardian: Across the Land and the Water by WG Sebald--review

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