Wild and wounded : shorter poems, 2000-2003 / Michael Hamburger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hamburger, Michael.

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

84 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Anvil Press Poetry, 2004.

Summary:

Wild and Wounded collects Michael Hamburger's shorter poems since Intersections (2000). It is published to mark the 80th birthday of one of Britain's leading poets of the last half-century. The dominant theme in these poems is the passing of time - whether referring to the injured swan in the collection's title poem, a tree 'surreptitiously dying', or the poet himself, contemplating

... difficulties with grammar now, with tense, With mood, with person, case - and, yes, the sense. As illness, frailty, absence and obsolescence become more pressing to the poet, his poems, by contrast, achieve an enthralling robustness and vigour.

Contents:

Apology 5

Redundant Epitaphs 11

Detained 15

Diminuendo 20

Muted Song 21

Wild and Wounded 22

Fallen 26

Memorial 26

Summer Yet Again 27

The Dog-Days Interrupted 28

'An Embassador is an Honest Man, Sent to Lie Abroad for the Good of His Countrey' 31

Sketches Towards an Impossible Portrait 32

The Alienation of John Clare 35

Rest on the Flight 37

Mr Littlejoy's Belated Response 38

Letter to L. F. 39

At the Mixed Farm 42

At Liverpool Street Station 43

Post-Paschal 2003 44

Plus Ca Change ... 47

Holiday Town 51

Injured Cow 53

Plum 56

Impertinent Questions 57

Beech Hedge in Winter 58

Marrow 59

Advice Towards Closing Time 60

Waiting for the River Ferry 61

A Cat's Last Summer 62

November Light 63

Chiaroscuro 67

Amor Fati, February 68

Conversation with the Muse of Old Age 70

Avoir de la Bouteille 72

Tautological Ode to a Cat 73

Chauffeuse 76

Fragment 78

Appendix to the Deeds 79

Snowed In 81

Transition 83

Ave Atque Vale 84.

ISBN:

085646371X

OCLC:

55068883