Fields away / Sarah Wardle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wardle, Sarah, 1969-

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

80 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Tarset : Bloodaxe, 2003.

Summary:

Sarah Wardle's poetry ranges from playful wit to gentle lyrics, exploring a personal geography from country to city. Every poem covers different territory, but in each the voice is distinctively hers: 'sparky and feisty' (Sheenagh Pugh), with 'a hint of darkness and wicked wit' (Roddy Lumsden). She can be mischievously inventive -- imagining a Parliament of poets, or a people's revolution at the Palace -- as well as powerfully reflective (the horror of a Sussex car bomb). And she confronts the suffering, treatment and prejudice of schizophrenia in poems such as 'Psyche', 'Digitalis', 'Metamorphosis' and 'Flight', in which we watch her, like a released blackbird, 'spread her wings and soar'.

Contents:

Arcadia 9

Reading Room Requiem 10

On Westminster Bridge 11

Sceptic's Song 12

Urban Symphony 12

Music for an Empty Ballroom 13

On Rereading King Lear 14

Laws of Disturbance 15

Psyche 16

Metamorphosis 17

Classical Illusion 18

Single Volume 19

Flight 20

Digitalis 21

Cosmic Confusion 22

Calypso 23

Rhapsody in B Flat 24

Benjamin 25

Blues on the Tube 26

Cerebral Thought 26

Burial Goods 27

Word Tasting 28

In the Beginning 29

If Nature 30

Driving through the Villages 31

Eastbourne 32

Full Moon with My Grandmother 33

Cloths of Heaven 33

The Close 34

Judgement 35

Time Travel 35

Shorts 36

Buridan's Ass 38

All in the Mind 38

Republic VII 39

Chained Library 39

New England 40

In the National Palace Museum, Taiwan 41

At Miletus 42

Heraclitean Haiku 43

On Samos 43

Statues 44

Prose Poem 44

Lesson, 1914 45

The Capital 45

On Examination 46

Agamemnon to Lear 48

Socrates to Descartes 49

Young Man in Bronze 50

Modern Poet 51

Poets' Parliament 52

Here and There 53

Geography 54

No Man's Green 55

Translations 56

Word Hill 57

Age of Awareness 58

Magic 59

Pond Dipping 60

Solitaire 61

Sisterhood 62

Joint School Dance 63

Latin Love 63

Variations on a Theme 64

Hubris 65

Underground 66

How To Be Bad 67

Rain 68

The Architecture of Trees 68

After Blake 69

Fun with Donne 70

Set Pieces 71

Prelude 72

Overture 72

Monument 73

Cross-country 74

Upper Palaeolithic 74

On Southwold Pier 75

Pastoral 76

Fairytale 76

Jewish Wedding 77

Newenden at New Year 77

Villanelle 78

Toast 79.

Notes:

Poetry.

ISBN:

1852246200

OCLC:

51871866