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The Met Office advises caution / Rebecca Watts.
Van Pelt Library PR6123.A898 M48 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Watts, Rebecca, 1983- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Weather--Poetry.
- Weather.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 72 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Carcanet Poetry, 2016.
- Summary:
- "Rebecca Watts's debut collection is a witty, warm-hearted guide to the English landscape, and a fresh take on nature poetry. In assured style, Watts positions herself where Wordsworth, Frost and Hughes have stood; with an original point of view and an openness to the possibilities of form, she retunes the genre for modern ears.From the wide-open plains of ecology and social history to the intimate enclosures of dreams, homes and bodies, these poems approach their often-unusual subjects with the clarity and matter-of-factness of Simon Armitage and with humour that recalls Stevie Smith, spinning memorable scenes and vivid images from the material of ordinary language.Animals, as familiars and omens, abound. Weather anticipates and directs human drama, under the analytic and tender watch of a poet influenced as much by science and realism as by Romanticism. As landscaper, orienteer and companion, Watts finds new ways of negotiating the complex territories of our physical and emotional worlds."--Page 4 of cover.
- Contents:
- Realism 09
- Letter from China 10
- Saturday Morning, Gorilla Kingdom 12
- Hawk-Eye 13
- Emmeline's Ascent 14
- Map 15
- To White Moss Wood 16
- Two Bats 17
- Tilt 18
- The Hare 19
- Milk 20
- The Ways 22
- Oxford 23
- German Tinder Box, c. 1800 24
- Jetsam / Flotsam 25
- Ferry Lane 26
- Linda at Swanfield 27
- Illuminations 28
- The Molecatcher's Warning 3C
- Carpe Diem 31
- On Marriage 32
- Insomniac 33
- Party 36
- The Met Office Advises Caution 36
- Split 37
- Pigeons 38
- On the Proposed Bridge over Ditton Meadow 40
- Swing Song 41
- Jesus Green 42
- Ickworth 44
- Visitor 45
- Flesh & Bone 46
- Cynosure 48
- When you have a baby 49
- Focal Periosteal Reaction Seen in Distal Fibula 50
- After rain 51
- Lodge Farm 52
- Dove Cottage 53
- Confession 54
- Turning 56
- Spiritus Mundi Reloaded 57
- Emperor Penguin 58
- Aldeburgh Beach 59
- Night Owl 60
- Current (I) = charge (Q) - time (t) 61
- Brontë 62
- Deep Six 63
- Antarctica 64
- Footnote 66
- Advent 67
- Christmas Day 68
- Long Jump 69.
- ISBN:
- 9781784102722
- 1784102725
- OCLC:
- 960724098
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