Seasonal disturbances / Karen McCarthy Woolf.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCarthy Woolf, Karen, author.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--21st century.

English poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

83 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Carcanet Press Ltd, 2017.

Summary:

Set against a backdrop of ecological and emotional turbulence, these poems are charged yet meditative explorations of nature, the city, and the self. A sinister CEO presides over a dystopian hinterland where private detectives investigate crimes against hollyhocks; Halcyon is discovered as a dead kingfisher, washed up on an Italian beach. Lyrical and inventive, McCarthy Woolf's poems test classic and contemporary forms, from a disrupted zuihitsu that considers her relationship with water, to the landay, golden shovel, and gram of &. As a fifth-generation Londoner and daughter of a Jamaican émigré, McCarthy Woolf makes a variety of linguistic subversions that critique the rhetoric of the British class system. Political as they may be, these poems are not reportage: they aim to inspire what the author describes as an 'activism of the heart, where we connect to and express forces of renewal and love'.--cover.

Contents:

The Hollyhocks p. 9

Conversation, with Water: Lying on the floor of the wheelhouse... p. 12

The Science of Life 492: Hence* p. 13

Up on the Hill p. 14

On the Thames p. 15

Most birds travel in pairs... p. 16

Gulls p. 17

The pull of the tide... p. 18

The Science of Life 575: Abyss p. 19

To Dover from Calais p. 20

Soldiers career up and down the river... p. 21

Kingfisher p. 22

Blot out all my iniquities... p. 24

Christmas Eve p. 25

Variation (Untitled) p. 26

O River, here I aw, riding on your back... p. 27

Ars Poetica 101 p. 28

The Science of Life 861: Holes and Corners p. 30

Although it's obvious... p. 31

Poem in Which I'm Pleased to Have Opted p. 32

& Because p. 33

The Science of Life 531: Prone p. 35

Happiness p. 36

The Science of Life 574: The Sin p. 37

Jay tells me living on water... p. 38

Number 19 p. 39

Even a frayed rope... p. 40

Tatler's People Who Really Matter p. 41

The closest is lying with my head... p. 42

Day of the Dead p. 43

Yesterday, at the make-up counter... p. 44

Horse Chestnut I - A Coupling p. 45

The Science of Life 261: Evolution p. 47

Of Ownership p. 48

True Love p. 49

There are many thicknesses of rope... p. 50

Argument p. 51

Verbs I Have Seen in Relation to Migrants, with Cranes p. 52

Here p. 53

The Science of Life 496: Conquest p. 54

A review of Masaru Emoto's book... p. 55

Voyage p. 56

On the sixth day of the fifth month... p. 60

Seasonal Disturbances

Staring at the surface... p. 62

Every new construction p. 63

The Science of Life 493: A Death p. 64

According to Mr Emoto... p. 65

Outside p. 66

But the heart is not in service... p. 67

The Science of Life 388: The CEO p. 68

The Neighbourhood p. 69

They tell me the bridge-jumpers fight... p. 70

The Science of Life 683: Her Anger p. 71

The experiment is pleasing... p. 72

Landay p. 73

Now, at the back of my mind... p. 74

The Island p. 75

Horse Chestnut II - A Coupling p. 76

O River I submit... p. 78.

Notes:

"A Poetry Book Society Recommendation."

ISBN:

1784103365

9781784103361

OCLC:

962009430