What must happen / Jeffrey Wainright.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wainwright, Jeffrey, editor.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Genre:

English poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

87 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester, [UK] : Carcanet, 2016.

Summary:

In What Must Happen, Jeffrey wainwright recalls lost parents, relations and friends. The thread of elegy continues through a sequence of contemporary hymns to Roman gods, while a homage to the twentieth-centuary Italian painter Ottone Rosai asks, twenty times, 'What is there to an empty street?" OOne anser:'the simply sunlit,/the clearly pure,/the assent to less'. Another:'plums / so prolific they colour out / the leaves'. Rather than polarising the joyful and the solemn, Wainwright embraces their complex interaction. The Poerms in What Must Happen are painted with a hair-fine brush, unwilling to an adequate fiction as long as an inadequate truth reach. 'There are these things and sometimes the these things / but they will not be seen apart.' 'What Must Happen is at once a lyrical meditation on of history and on ourselves as perceiving subjects in objects and other species. It ranges confidently geographies and societies-from working lives in and Apollo. Combining sinuous intelligence with compassion, Jeffrey Wainwright's latest collection the forefront of contemporary English poets.' John Book jacket.

Contents:

What Must Happen 09

Crockery

Antiquarium 13

Etruria Hall 14

Dirt 15

China Cabinet 16

Homus Economicus 17

Going Global 18

The Prims 19

Manchukuo 20

Sunday Afternoon 24

Agricola 26

These Things 36

Predictable Days 40

Passing 41

Shadding In 42

Self-Portrait 43

An Empty Street 44

A Nearly Empty Street 53

Clouds 62

My Childhood 65

On the grass 66

Both Sides 68

To J.D 69

The Immortals

Jupiter 79

Venus 80

Apollo 82

To Himself 85.

ISBN:

1784101966

9781784101961

OCLC:

950054610