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To fold the evening star : new & selected poems / Ian McMillan.
Van Pelt Library PR6063.A25376 T6 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McMillan, Ian, 1956- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English poetry--21st century.
- English poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- x, 246 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Carcanet Press Limited, 2016.
- Contents:
- Dad, the Donkey's on Fire (1994)
- Kake Yourself Comfortable 3
- Why We Need Libraries 4
- Pit Closure as Art 5
- Lilian's Poem 7
- Death's Feet 8
- Husband and Wife 9
- Tempest Avenue 9
- Deaths from Ice Cream 10
- Ted Hughes is Elvis Presley 11
- Visit 14
- Early Train, Rain, Wombwell Station 16
- Poem Occasioned by the High Incidence of Suicide amongst the Unemployed 17
- Song for Roof Building 18
- The Force of His Storm Knocked Me from My Stool 19
- Moon Rivet: Lives of the Great Comedians 20
- Henry's Skeleton, George's Leg 21
- Jesus Died from Eating Curtains 23
- Stone, I Presume 24
- Point of Transit 25
- Still Life Life 26
- Realism (Nothing is Ever Finished) 28
- Dad, the Donkey's on Fire 29
- Stories
- Poetry Matters 30
- The Route to Work 36
- Whatever Happened to Freddie Galloway? 40
- Grisp the Wheel at Ten Past Two 45
- There's Always a Man in a Cardigan 51
- Just Like Ours Except for the Ducks 56
- On the Closure of Cadeby Colliery 59
- Title (Northumberland June 11th/12th 1987) 60
- Slow Thaw 62
- In Fear of Absttaction 63
- Brief Encounter 64
- The Day after Armistice Day 65
- The Mirror in the Toilet 66
- Essential Engineering Works 67
- The er Barnsley Seascapes
- 1 Goldthorpe er Seascape 68
- 2 Ml Seascape near Hoyland: er it's a rough day 69
- 3 Er Darfield Seascape 69
- 4 Little Houghton Seascape er like 69
- 5 An Old Seadog er Speaks 70
- 6 Er from a Learned Paper about Seascapes 70
- 7 Seaview Video, Barnsley: Er Latest Offers 71
- 8 Seascape Could er Be Anywhere around here 71
- The Christmas Tree's Press Conference 72
- The Grimness 73
- Modernism: The Umbrella Girl Forgets What She is Talking About 76
- Burst Pipe with A Level' Notes 77
- Halifax! 78
- Rotherham 80
- Snails on the West Shore, August 1991 81
- Three Boring Miles on the Exercise Bike 83
- Smoke 84
- Bosnia Festival: Your Full Guide by our Arts Reporter 85
- The 70 86
- Frog Dream 87
- Dear Mr McMillan 88
- A Cliché Defines the Moment in a Poem about Language and Oppression 90
- Mining Town 91
- A Discussion on Modern Poetry with Example: Postman Pat's Suicide Note 92
- Bat Wars 93
- Sonny Boy Williamson is Trying to Cook a Rabbit in a Kettle 95
- The Scream on Stockpott Station 96
- My Caravan's Got a Bontempi Organ in it 97
- The Ice House 98
- Epic, I Mean an Epic Feel to it 99
- Grace 100
- Top Row/Low Row, Woolley Colliery Village 101
- George and Joe on a Bench: Wind-Symmetry 102
- Brisk Coffee 103
- Sunset Ower Barnsley 104
- The Next Poem I Write 105
- Postmodernist Summer Nights in the Dearne Valley 105
- The Literary Life 106
- The Continuity Girl has Died 108
- Great Dogs of History 109
- The Veins in my Neck 110
- Beethoven was Deaf, You Know 111
- In a West Yorkshire Bus Queue 113
- November 1963 in a Scotland of the Mind 114
- The Making of the English Working Class 115
- From I Found This Shirt (1998)
- I'd Better Not 119
- My Dog 120
- Self Portrait 121
- Tuesdays and Wednesdays 121
- Home Support 122
- Poem Containing Several R.E.M. Song Titles 123
- Endless Shedness 124
- Poem Is a City 125
- Happiness on the First Train from Barnsley to Huddersfield 126
- Free Improvising Musician Drops Frying Pan 127
- From Perfect Catch (2000)
- Malvern Link, Early Morning 131
- Branwell Brontë is Reincarnated as a Vest 131
- Lumb Bank, 1978 132
- A House of Bricks 132
- Body and Bone: The Fat Man in the Bath 133
- Slip of a Man 135
- The Mexico Poems 143
- This Lake Used to be Frozen: Lamps (2011)
- It's Only a Novelty Coronation Street Alarm Clock 155
- Tom Jones 155
- A Miniature 157
- It's the 4th of July! 157
- Sleeper 158
- Old Age 159
- Norman Stopped Me on the Street 160
- Not a Real Bear, But a Bear Nevertheless 160
- Walk 162
- The Evening of the Day Pavarotti Died 166
- Drift 167
- Did You Ask for a Decaff off that Other Lady? 169
- Yorkshire Pudding Rules 170
- A Series of Novels 171
- Black Cloud Over My House Sometime in the 1960s 172
- The Inevitability of Snow 172
- The Idea of Loneliness in the Little Chef, Uttoxeter 174
- Platform 2 175
- Aubade/Nocturne 175
- The Poet Speaks 176
- Unrealismus/Realismus 177
- Ah've Soiled Ma Breeks! (2012)
- Come and Sit Over Here with Those Ideas of Yours 181
- Ah've Soiled Ma Breeks! 182
- Anchored 184
- A Scientific Explanation of the Mystery of the Passing of Time 184
- Tony Bought a Guitar and Got a Parking Fine 185
- The Language of Philosophical Enquiry 186
- Early Morning Stroll. Deep Woods. Just Seen My Mate Who Spent His Early Years in a Children's Home. 186
- Face of Our Lord Jesus Christ Seen in Yorkshire Pudding 187
- Ian McMillan's Unfishnished Poem 188
- T'invisible Man O' Methley 189
- Torch Passes By 189
- A Black Dog in Four Legs 190
- Dream of a Tree in a Spanish Graveyard from a Small House in the South Yorkshire Coalfield 193
- M' Writing Table 194
- Playing Chess with Uncle Charlie 194
- Plain, Cheese & Onion, Salt & Vinegar 196
- Fantasia on a Theme of Uncle Charlie 196
- Uncle Jack's Rubber Tarts, Boxing Day 1964 197
- The Sun Comes Up 198
- A Mo-ment 198
- My Achilles, He'll 199
- Keith's Mankini: A Three-Line Work in Progress 200
- Jazz Peas (2014)
- Me and Dave and Thelonious Monk Waiting for the 14 Bus 203
- An Archaeologist Finds an Umbrella 204
- Annual Report 204
- Approaching those 'Ruddy' Belisha Beacons Near the Post Office Again 205
- As Thoughs 206
- Elegy, Eulogy, Eelegy 209
- Figs 209
- Language and Politics 210
- Language and Politics 2: Maps and Dog Ventriloquism Combined in the Same Tale 212
- Language and Politics 3: Complexity and Simplicity, a Debate 213
- My Kidnapping 215
- Norman Came to My House 216
- Oboe 217
- Pumped; to be Accompanied by Pumping Music 218
- Railway Ballad: Broken Rail 218
- Rhapsody, in a Jumpy Way, on the Word 'Unravel' 220
- The Indoor Glider: a Miniatute 221
- The New Punctuation 222
- We're Doing the Quick Crossword 222
- An Old Map 223
- New & Uncollected Poems
- From 'Grafters'
- A Group of Group Portrait Questions 227
- A Light Breeze Carries the Stink into My Backyard 227
- Glimpse 228
- How Small, How Very Far Away 229
- The Hero Explains 229
- Framed 230
- Quartet 231
- He Finished Up Down Nine-Clog Pit 232
- This Wooden Flag 234
- Cat Hills 235
- Rhapsody on Boat Names and Some Observations on the Weather 236
- From the Garden, with the Mushroom 237
- To Fold the Evening Star 238.
- ISBN:
- 9781784101886
- 1784101885
- OCLC:
- 952667520
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