From the fortunate isles new & selected poems / Tony Curtis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Curtis, Tony, 1946- author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

240 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Bridgend, Wales : Seren is the book imprint of Poetry Wales Press Ltd., [2016]

Summary:

Seren celebrates the 70th Birthday of the Welsh poet Tony Curtis with the publication of his From the Fortunate Isles: New and Selected Poems. This landmark book features poems from ten of his previous collections, in addition to a substantial number of new poems: marking a career in poetry fifty years in duration. This is a poet whose themes and variations remain consistent: a deep affection for his roots in West Wales, tender attachments to family, a profound interest in the wars of the last century, and an abiding fascination for all art forms, particularly painting and poetry. Book jacket.

Contents:

Early Work and Album (1974)

Man and Bird 13

The Mystery of the Homing Pigeon 14

Travelling 15

Killing Whales 16

Two Images from Dreams 17

Family of Saltimbanques, Paris 1905 19

In Camera 20

Preparations (1981)

Preparations 21

Strongman 22

From Vermont 23

Swimming Class 24

Pwllcrochan 25

Letter from John 26

My Father 29

Poem From my Father 30

My Father in Pembrokeshire 31

To my Father 32

Return to the Headland 33

Poem for John Tripp 35

The Weather Vane 36

Letting Go (1983)

Letting Go 37

Tannenbaum 38

Crane-flies 39

The Infants' Christmas Concert 40

Five Andrew Wyeth Poems: Andrew Wyeth at The Royal Academy 42

Spring Fed 43

Pine Baron 44

Chambered Nautilus 45

Winter 1946 46

Letter to John Digby on Long Island 47

Lines for Hanlyn Davies 48

The Last Evening 49

My Grandmother's Cactus 50

The Freezer 51

Veteran South Dakota 1978 52

Trials 53

First-class in the Hold 55

Jack Watts 57

Pembrokeshire Seams 58

Land Army Photographs 62

The World 64

Tortoise 65

Poems: Selected and New (USA 1986)

Worm 66

Two For Luck 67

Field of Wheat 69

The Last Candles (1989)

The Last Candles 70

Games with my Daughter 73

Villanelle for a Photographer 74

Thoughts from the Holiday Inn 75

Wind from the Sea 84

Summer in Greece 85

The Emerald 86

From the City That Shone 88

Friedhof 90

Couples from the Fifties 92

Second Half 93

Taken for Pearls (1993)

Taken for Pearls 94

At the Border 95

Under the Yew 97

Reg Webb 99

The Captain's Diary 100

Queen's Tears 104

Summer in Bangkok 106

Brady's Glass 108

From the hills, the town 109

Incident on a hospital train from Calcutta, 1944 110

The Night-trees 111

Portrait of the Painter Hans Theo Richter and his wife Gisela in Dresden 1933 112

The Visit to Terezin 114

The bowl and the Spoon 115

Sutherland at Picton Ferry 116

Coracle 118

War Voices (1995)

William Orpen & Yvonne Aubicq in the Rue Dannon 119

The Front 122

The Death of Richard Beattie-Seaman in the Belgian Grand Prix, 1939 123

Home Front 125

Poles 126

Lines at Barry 127

Lessons 129

Soup 130

The Grammar 131

At Ochrid Lake 133

Great Uncle Charlie 135

In McDonough County 138

The Arches (1998) With collages / John Digby Digby, John

I 140

VIII 143

XVII 144

XX 147

XXII 148

XXIII 151

Heaven's Gate (2001)

Heaven's Gate 152

Icarus 153

Blackberries at Pwllcrochan 154

Ernie's House 156

Lottie Stafford's neck 157

English Oaks 158

Gorse at the Seventh 159

Eggs 160

Glyn 161

Crossing Over (2007) 161

Crossing Over 162

Megan's First Snow 163

From the Book of Hours 164

Mapping the World 166

Concerning Some Pictures 167

A Noble Going 169

Dai Greatcoat Visits Waterloo 170

Turning 173

At Gumfreston Chruch 174

Barafundle Bay 176

The Plot 178

The Final Shift 179

Slow Worm 180

Eight Pegs (2011) 181

From Gelligaer Common (2012) 184

From The Alchemy of Water (2013) 186

From The Fortunate Isles

From the Fortunate Isles 189

Two at Manorbier 191

From Brunei Quay 192

Wyeth's Liberty Launch 193

Clay 194

Coram's Cloths 195

Seeking Gwen John 196

Our Little Horovitz 198

The Seventy-First 199

Shillings and pence 201

The Blue Grave Of Corfu 202

Patron's Lippizans 204

Following the Horses 205

Gettysburg 207

Pro Patria 210

In Budapest 212

A History of the World in 101 Objects 214

For Queen and Country 215

Andrew Wyeth's Snow Hill 216

Holsteins Black and White 218

From The Needles 220

Poems from Dyffryn Gardens

Waggons 221

Distance travelled 222

The Circle of Oaks 223

Quartet for Two Painters: Prendergasi's Quarry 224

Reaching Yr Achub 225

The Visit 225

Meeting Point 226

Lydstep Headland 227

A Scattering 228

St Elidyr's, Amroth 229

Amroth in October 230

Wanting Choughs 232

Dylan at One Hundred 234

Birthday Poem for Dannie Abse at Ninety 235

A Pembrokeshire Artist 238

Workshop 239

Seamus on the Tube 240.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

ISBN:

9781781723302

1781723303

OCLC:

951508880

Publisher Number:

99969238397