Second Prize
The Nightingales Code: A Poetic Study Of Bob Dylan
By John Gibbens With Photographs By Keith Baugh
370 pp.
Touched Press, 4 Varley House, County Street, London SE1 6AL
ISBN 0-9539153-1-X
A mint copy, signed and contributed by the author.
Gibbens' exploration, from a poet's point of view, of Dylan's
lyric opens doors I never knew where there. Paul Williams wrote:
"John Gibbens digs deep (below the basement) and casts new light
on a body of work always worthy of fresh exploration and
excavation. Even the songwriter himself might be pleased at this
evidence that his early work is indeed made new once the emphatic
listener has encountered and begun to absorb the Time Out of
Mind and World Gone Wrong performances. The
Nightingale's Code is refreshing and surprising and well
worth examining."
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