All Things Tire of Themselves

For "All Things Tire of Themselves", Arnold Wesker has selected what he considers to be his best and most characteristic poems. In a Foreword commissioned for this publication, TV writer and producer Michael Kustow describes it as 'an extended soliloquy about family, love, ageing, anger, Jewishness' whose 'predominant tone is one of sadness and disenchantment, but never resignation...'Out of this struggle with despair, the poet delivers a hard-won wisdom, 'a precarious triumph over thieving time.' In addition to his work for the stage, Wesker has published collections of stories, essays, a book for young people, an autobiography, and most recently his first novel, "Honey", but until now he has not brought out a poetry collection even though he has written poems and published them in magazines for many years.