Still life : poems from the cheshire prize for literature 2010 / edited by Emma Rees ; front cover image, Luiz Meléndez.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rees, Emma.

Meléndez, Luiz.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (115 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chester, [England] : University of Chester Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In a hot Spanish kitchen a little boy's mouth waters as he daydreams about the citrus tang of freshly-squeezed juice; in the weak sunlight outside a Russian Orthodox church, splinters of wood dance like so many motes of dust; and in a camp in Germany three prisoners of war look upwards and marvel at the near-weightless liberty of the birds they see. These are some of the exquisite moments almost visual in their vibrancy that are captured in the pages of Still Life. In this rich and textured anthology, the mundane is transfi gured as poets attempt to answer or at least to establish the big ques

Contents:

Front cover

Title pages

Copyright page

Dedication

Contents

The contributors

Foreword

Rita Ray - Still life with oranges and walnuts (Luis Melendez)

Philip Williams - Diptych

Jennifer Anne Durban - The cupboard under the stairs

Heather Freckleton - Hide and seek

Haiku moments - Sheila Powell

Anna Mackenzie - Furniture complex

George Horsman - Worms

Clive McWilliam - Spellbound

Clive McWilliam - Ada in the garden

Frances Sackett - Burning the clothes

Frances Sackett - Shoreline

Linda Houlton - Twelve men and a cheeseboard

James Phillips - Threads

Simon Gotts - The careers master

Jean Page - Grasshopper girl

Jean Page - Cotton atlas

Angela Topping - Paper patterns

Frances Sackett - Moonwalk

Philip Watts - Amaryllis

Liz Loxley - Early sparrow-grass

Pontoon

Liz Loxley - Sloe gin

Rob Blaney - Darwin's finches

Angi Holden - The migrant

Richard Hughes - Rook and jackdaw migrations observed in Germany 1942-1945

Caroline Hawkridge - The lure

Joy Winkler - Wings, planes and weather vanes

Ruth Symes - Grandparents

Anne-Marie Biggs - The history department

Barbara Holliday - An orphan at thirty six

Peter Branson - Icon

Rob Blaney - Jazz on nine eleven

George Horsman - Massage

Jonathan Musgrove - Temple garden

Russell Morris - Crossing: 1946

Ellis Lloyd - Crosby Sands - an iron man speaks

Ellis Lloyd - Helsby in winter sun

David Selzer - At Jodrell Bank

Catherine Bruton - Warrington Bank Quay

Philip Williams - Quarry

Angela Topping - Duke's Clough

Peter Howard - Fog

Andrew Bailey - Salt

Alison Leonard - A fourth dimension

Sheila Powell - Sheep

Angi Holden - Recall

Robbie Burton - Horeb

Jonny Reid - Dodo

John Davies - Mending your guitar

Yeats exhibition.

Jake Campbell - My granddad at Souter Lighthouse

Judy Ugonna - Lunet (Friction Drum)

Judy Ogonna - Slit Drum

Jonny Reid - Jake

Vikki Littlemore - Teenagers in love

Michael Scully - Snagging

Helen Clare - Gerris lacustris (common pond skater)

Anax imperator (emperor dragonfly)

Back cover.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 26, 2013).

ISBN:

9781908258809

1908258802

OCLC:

874812914