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Was and is : collected poems / Neil Powell.
Van Pelt Library PR6066.O94 A6 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Powell, Neil, 1948- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 264 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester [England] : Carcanet Press Ltd., [2017]
- Summary:
- I was the child who made a world in a shed; Who talked to animals, birds and sunsets; Who built an igloo from the first snowfall. I am the man who is almost none the wiser. From 'Was and Is', There are two lands of Collected Poems, one of which presents an author's work exactly as it first appeared volume-by-volume. This is the other sort. In preparing this volume, Neil Powell has returned to his poems of the past fifty years and arranged them as nearly as possible in chronological order of completion. Some poems from previous volumes have been set aside, while others hitherto unpublished or uncollected have been introduced. The resulting book is partly the narrative of a lifetime in which certain themes, seen in changing lights, recur: landscape and seascape, music and poetry, friendship and the deaths of friends. Ranging from the playful to the elegiac, these poems now resonate with each other in new and unexpected ways. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- I 1966-1975
- A Black Cat in July 3
- Wickham Market 3
- Solstice 4
- Five Leaves Left 5
- For My Ancestors 8
- At Berkswell 9
- Identities 10
- Previous Convictions 11
- The Window 14
- After Marriage 15
- 'Autumn is the curse of English poetry' 16
- The Cricketers 17
- Wood Farm 18
- A Modern Jazz Quartet 19
- The Ruined Garden 21
- A Midsummer Letter to Peter Thornton 21
- Distons Lane 25
- Period Three 26
- A Pebble 27
- Afternoon Dawn 28
- Gathering 29
- At Little Gidding 30
- The Key 32
- In the Distance 32
- Kimbolton, 1973 33
- Midwinter Spring 34
- For You 35
- Suffolk Poems 37
- Listen 42
- An Autumn Letter to Roger Walton 43
- The Way Back 45
- In a Cold Season 46
- Chronology 47
- A Spring Letter to Richard Monk 48
- At the Edge 50
- 1 August 1975 51
- A Late Summer Letter to Alec Chasemore 51
- A Cooling Universe 54
- II 1976-1986
- Teasels 65
- The Black Bechstein 65
- Early Summer 67
- Four Quarters 67
- The Bridge 69
- The Other Night 70
- Somewhere 71
- Sur la Terrasse 71
- The Vanished Places 72
- A Season of Calm Weather 73
- Return Trip 77
- The Last Field 78
- Old School Tie 79
- Days 80
- Sunday 81
- Toadflax 82
- Out of Time 83
- Windows 84
- Stages 85
- Solstice 90
- With the Sea 91
- Off the Map 92
- Hawker at Morwenstow 94
- Crabbe at Aideburgh 95
- Iken, Again 96
- The Noble Truce 96
- Allotments at Baldock 97
- Changing Trains 98
- Coda 99
- Citrus 100
- July, 1982 100
- Going Downhill 101
- In Arden: Cambridge, 1982 102
- Sleeper 103
- Studies 104
- So Much Unfinished 107
- North Sea Nights 108
- Coming to Light 109
- Listening to Rain 110
- Outside 111
- Raw 112
- Distant Music 113
- Therfield 114
- Natural Magic 114
- True Colours 115
- My Father's Business 115
- Visiting 117
- III 1987-1997
- Sun Street 121
- The Difference 122
- The Lunatics' Compartment 123
- Poet and Pheasant, Totleigh Barton 125
- Strangeways 126
- You've Changed 127
- In Another Light 128
- The End of Summer 129
- The Stones on Thorpeness Beach 130
- A Virus 132
- Providence 132
- Aubergines 133
- Borodins and Vodka 134
- True Stories 135
- The Reasonable Shore 140
- Sixpence for the Man 141
- Moving House 142
- Two Rollerskaters in Oakley Square 143
- For Music 144
- Outing 150
- Yaxley 151
- After the Tempest 152
- Compost 154
- Poet and Cat 155
- Hundred River 156
- Celandines at Deanoak Brook 157
- Shell 158
- Road 159
- A Halfway House 160
- IV 1998-2011
- My Chelsea 163
- Across the Street 164
- 1 August 2000 165
- Results 166
- Thanks 167
- Three Sightings of W.G. Sebald 170
- Covehithe 171
- Two Adolescents 171
- The Picture of the Mind 172
- Reading Proust on Aldeburgh Beach 172
- Waveney 173
- For Andrew Mackinlay Esq, MP 176
- At the End of the Line 176
- Dusk in the Surrey Hills 177
- The Nature of Things 178
- Route 424 187
- The Garden at Clears 189
- Adam 193
- Finzi's Orchard 194
- Was and Is 195
- The Boy on the Bus 195
- Point-to-Point 196
- Me and Mr Jones 198
- Shutting Down 199
- The journal of Lily Lloyd 200
- Parkland 230
- The Break 231
- The Lindshammar Pig 232
- A Huntingdonshire Elegy 233
- Kenpas Highway, 1966 235
- Blackborough Park 236
- Strand, 1923 240
- Louis Takes a Break 240
- At the Piano 241
- Proof of Identity 244
- Hotel Codan 245
- Knole 246
- The Gardener 247
- In Sudbourne Wood 249.
- Notes:
- Includes indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1784102326
- 9781784102326
- OCLC:
- 970027768
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