The dog of memory / Helen Farish.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Farish, Helen, author.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Memory--Poetry.

Memory.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

85 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Hexham, Northumberland : Bloodaxe Books, 2016.

Summary:

The dog of memory, an animal more often unbiddable and capricious than it is comforting and predictable, roams the landscapes of its choice: not only place, Helen Farish's native Cumberland and further afield - mornings in Sicily, night skies in Athens - and people, but also the landscape of literature itself, explored through inventive readings of ten authors first encountered during her school days. Farish's doggèd and rigorous meditation on memory ranges far and wide, employing a poetic which is equally assured whether on territory close to home - snowy childhood afternoons at an aunt's - or evoking Caesar on the sands of Alexandria. Rendered in poetry of dexterity and poise, this authoritative third collection takes the reader on a deeply moving but thrilling journey which is lyric, dramatic, enquiring. Helen Farish won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. She has also received a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Book jacket.

Contents:

I

A borrowing 11

My Casablanca 12

Allington Cross 13

Palermo, da capo 14

Missing the rain 15

Jane Eyre, a sequel 17

Underground city 22

The dog itself 23

Pancake Day 24

De Bottelier, Bruges 25

L'homme tranquille 26

Pastoral 27

Elizabeth and Darcy go walking out 28

Storma, Bavaria 29

Athens 30

A goddess, a city and a tree 31

II

Calling 35

Judgement Day 36

Tea-time at my aunt's 37

In deep 38

Cahier 39

La Pergola du Parc, Casablanca 40

Rough Guide to Vienna 41

The death of Doctor Zhivago 42

HMS Affray 45

Cavafy's suitcase 46

Moon × 6 47

Cumberland, 1974 48

Twelfth Night: or, What You Will 49

Shift 50

Winter toad 51

Still life 52

The Market Gardener's Tale, 1953 53

What you once owned 56

The bus to Oualidia 57

Aftermath 58

Daughters of a suicide 59

Saving the ladybird 60

Tess has a word with Hardy 61

Angela 62

Six hen pheasants in my garden last Tuesday 63

In Rainsbarrow Wood 64

III

Complimentary calendar 67

How to make pasche eggs 68

Fallen apple tree 70

Let me count the ways and the times I've walked round Buttermere 71

Custodian 72

The Old Chancel, Ireby 73

Reading the label 74

The thing itself 75

Friday night at the Sphinx 76

The glow 77

Low Lorton 1/4 High Lorton 1/4 78

The monkey clock 79

A life in geography 81

In the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts 82

Remanence 83

Literacy lesson 84.

ISBN:

9781780373188

178037318X

OCLC:

938393412