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The river's voice : An anthology of poetry / edited by Angela King and Susan Clifford for Common Ground ; [foreword by Roger Deakin].
Van Pelt Library PR1195.R57 R58 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rivers--Poetry.
- Rivers.
- English poetry--20th century.
- English poetry.
- American poetry--20th century.
- American poetry.
- Canadian poetry--20th century.
- Canadian poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 221 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- White River Junction, Vt. : Chelsea Green Pub. Co., 2000.
- Summary:
- Rivers are an inexhaustible source of metaphors and meanings, linking us with numberless generations who have paused to wonder at the paradox of constancy and flow. Poetry has a special capacity to convey the elusive qualities of running water, its magical transformations, its correspondences with life's meanderings, and the particular qualities of actual streams and rivers.
- In this book, more than 180 poems create a chorus of older voices (Shakespeare, Blake, Wordsworth, Dickinson) and new, from both sides of the Atlantic, including Margaret Atwood, Seamus Heaney, A. R. Ammons, Adrienne Rich, Randall Jarrell, William Carlos Williams, Gary Snyder, Wendell Berry, Andrew Motion and Elizabeth Bishop.
- Contents:
- The Poems, A-Z by title
- 'Above all rivers thy river hath renown' / William Dunbar 21
- Abstracted Water / Roy Fisher 21
- Along Almost Any River / J. H. Prynne 22
- Anahorish / Seamus Heaney 23
- Angler / Adrian Henri 24
- At Dunkeswell Abbey / Anthony Thwaite 24
- At the Sand Creek Bridge / James Galvin 25
- The Baite / John Donne 27
- Ballade to a Fish of the Brooke / John Wolcot 28
- The Banished Gods / Derek Mahon 28
- The Banks of Nith / Robert Burns 30
- Bathing / William Wordsworth 30
- Beck / Norman Nicholson 31
- Behind the Waterfall / Hilary Llewellyn-Williams 32
- Beside the Wye / John Greening 34
- Birmingham River / Roy Fisher 36
- Boundaries / John Fuller 38
- Brian Boru's Well / Richard Murphy 39
- Bridge / G. F. Dutton 40
- The Brook / Hayden Carruth 41
- The Brook / Edward Thomas 41
- A Brook in the City / Robert Frost 42
- The Charles River (1) / Robert Lowell 43
- 'Clunton and Clunbury' / A. E. Housman 44
- Composed upon Westminster Bridge / William Wordsworth 45
- Concord River / Adrienne Rich 45
- Culvert / Roger Garfitt 47
- A Day on the River / Vernon Scannell 48
- Dean-bourn, a rude River in Devon, by which sometimes he lived / Robert Herrick 49
- Definition of a Waterfall / John Ormond 49
- Derwent River / William Wordsworth 50
- Dipper / Norman MacCaig 51
- Dockland / Bernie Steer 51
- Downstream Effects: River Stour / James Crowden 52
- The Dowser / Edwin Morgan 54
- Drouth End / Paul Hyland 55
- An Eel / Ted Hughes 55
- Eels at Night / Robert Minhinnick 57
- Embankment at Night, Before the War / D. H. Lawrence 57
- The Estuary / Patricia Beer 59
- 'The factories, bathing in the Moscow river' / Osip Mandelstam 60
- First Day of September / Frances Bellerby 61
- The Fisherman / Martyn Crucefix 63
- Five Rivers / Norman Nicholson 64
- Flat Rock / A. R. Ammons 66
- Flood / Blake Morrison 67
- Floods / Craig Raine 67
- A Flowing River / William Carlos Williams 68
- The Ford / John Clare 68
- Fording the Flooded Goldie River / Gary Snyder 69
- Forest Pools / Leonard Clark 70
- 'Gentle Brent, I used to know you' / John Betjeman 71
- Gray Wagtail / Norman MacCaig 71
- Green River / Donald Davie 72
- Guests of Silence / Jeremy Hooker 73
- Heaven / Michael Cullup 76
- Heraclitus on Rivers / Derek Mahon 76
- 'How shy the attraction' / James Galvin 77
- Hudson River School / Charles Tomlinson 77
- Hundred River / Neil Powell 79
- Hungry Thames / Helen Dunmore 79
- Huntingdonshire Eclogues / John Greening 80
- If Anything Will Level with You Water Will / A. R. Ammons 81
- In Avon / John Burnside 82
- In the Backs / Frances Cornford 83
- Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath / Samuel Taylor Coleridge 84
- Kingfisher / Phoebe Hesketh 85
- Kingfisher / Norman MacCaig 85
- The Kingfisher / Andrew Marvell 86
- The Launch / Paul Mills 86
- Liffey Water / William Oxley 88
- 'Like Rain it sounded till it curved' / Emily Dickinson 88
- Long Nanny Burn / Katrina Porteous 89
- Lothian Burn / Stewart Conn 90
- The Mill-Water / Edward Thomas 90
- Mists over the River / William Carlos Williams 92
- Mother Anthony's / Hilary Llewellyn-Williams 92
- The Names of the Sea-Trout / Tom Rawling 93
- Net and River / Maura Dooley 94
- Not Drinking Water / Peter Dale 95
- 'Now the children are old enough ...' / Andrew Motion 96
- October / Iris Murdoch 97
- An Offering / John Greening 98
- On Sturminster Foot-Bridge / Thomas Hardy 99
- On the River Avon, near Stratford / David Wright 99
- Otter Out and In / Alice Oswald 100
- Penmaen Pool / Gerard Manley Hopkins 101
- The Poet as Spirit of the River / Michael Hartnett 102
- The Porch over the River / Wendell Berry 103
- The Question / Percy Bysshe Shelley 104
- Repose of Rivers / Hart Crane 106
- Rising Damp / U. A. Fanthorpe 107
- River / Fleur Adcock 108
- River / Margaret Atwood 109
- River / Carol Ann Duffy 110
- River / Alice Oswald 110
- A River / Anne Stevenson 111
- The River / Peter Fallon 112
- The River / Alexander Pope 113
- The River / R. S. Thomas 115
- The River God / Stevie Smith 115
- River History / Lavinia Greenlaw 116
- The River Idle / Phoebe Hesketh 118
- River in the Valley / Gary Snyder 118
- The River Meadows (In Flood) / Andrew Marvell 120
- The River of Rivers in Connecticut / Wallace Stevens 121
- River People / Joan Downar 121
- River Profile / W. H. Auden 122
- River rising in India / Jenny Joseph 124
- River Song / John Heath-Stubbs 125
- 'The Riverbed ...' / Seamus Heaney 125
- Riverine / Lawrence Sail 126
- Rivers / Peter Levi 127
- 'Rivers arise; whether thou be the Son' / John Milton 131
- 'The river's tent is broken ...' / T. S. Eliot 131
- Riverside / Michael Vince 132
- Round Oak and Eastwell / John Clare 133
- Ruskin Remembered / Charles Tomlinson 134
- Rustic Fishing / John Clare 135
- St Winefride's Well / Gillian Clarke 137
- Salmon / John Ormond 138
- The Salmon Leap / Hugh MacDiarmid 141
- Sands of the Well / Denise Levertov 141
- Sap / Robert Minhinnick 142
- Scotland in an Oxford Landscape / Olivia Byard 143
- Severnside / Charles Tomlinson 144
- Shadwell Stair / Wilfred Owen 145
- Sibard's Well / Charles Causley 146
- 'So went he playing on the watery plaine' / Edmund Spenser 146
- The Soaking / Ivor Gurney 147
- XII Song / William Blake 148
- The Song of the Brook / Alfred, Lord Tennyson 148
- Sonnet / Sheila Wingfield 150
- Sonnet to the River Otter / Samuel Taylor Coleridge 151
- The Spring at Chedworth / Alison Brackenbury 151
- Spring Tide / Michael Longley 152
- Springhead at Fontmell Magna / James Crowden 153
- Springs / John Montague 154
- The Springs / Wendell Berry 155
- The Stream / Robert Wells 156
- Sweet Thames Flow Softly / Ewan MacColl 156
- Symphony in Yellow / Oscar Wilde 158
- Tay Bridge / Douglas Dunn 158
- Team Gut / Katrina Porteous 159
- Thames / Michael Hamburger 162
- The Thames / Sir John Denham 163
- 'There are too many waterfalls here ...' / Elizabeth Bishop 164
- 'There is a willow grows aslant a brook' / William Shakespeare 165
- The Third Thing / D. H. Lawrence 165
- To my Mistris sitting by a Rivers side / Thomas Carew 166
- To the River Charles / H. W. Longfellow 167
- To the River Duddon / Norman Nicholson 168
- Torridge Salmon / Tom Rawling 170
- The Trout Map / Allen Tate 171
- The Twist in the River / Katherine Pierpoint 173
- Two Rivulets / Walt Whitman 173
- A two-seater privy over a stream / David Constantine 174
- Under the Waterfall / Thomas Hardy 175
- Valley / Gillian Clarke 177
- Vermillion Flycatcher, San Pedro River, Arizona / Margaret Atwood 178
- Vignette I / Keki N. Daruwalla 179
- Vignette II / Keki N. Daruwalla 180
- The Voice of the Rain / Walt Whitman 181
- The Watchers / Edward Thomas 182
- Water / Fleur Adcock 182
- The Water Below / Fleur Adcock 183
- Water Colours / Ivor Gurney 184
- The Water Diviner / Dannie Abse 184
- The Water Diviner / Patricia Beer 186
- Water Everywhere / U. A. Fanthorpe 186
- Water Meadows / Leonard Clark 187
- Water Music / Elizabeth Jennings 188
- Watercourse / John Cassidy 189
- Watering Place / Paul Hyland 191
- Waterspout, 1853 / Ruth Bidgood 192
- Well Water / Randall Jarrell 193
- 'Where is the sacred Well, that bore my Name?' / Jonathan Swift 194
- 'Where Stour receives her strength ...' / Michael Drayton 194
- 'Who carved a bird and a fish' / Carol Ann Duffy 196
- 'Wide o'er the Brim, with many a Torrent swell'd' / James Thompson 197
- The Wounded Otter / Michael Hartnett 197
- The Wye Below Bredwardine / John Powell Ward 198.
- ISBN:
- 1890132691
- OCLC:
- 44164094
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