Barefoot : the collected poems / Alastair Reid ; edited by Tom Pow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reid, Alastair, 1926-2014, author.

Contributor:

Pow, Tom, editor.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scottish poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xiii, 226 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK : Galileo Publishers, 2018.

Summary:

"Born in the small community of Whithorn in Galloway, Alastair Reid (1926-2014) became one of the most international figures in post-war Scottish literature. A staff writer on The New Yorker for many years, he was widely admired as an essayist and as a translator of Latin American writers, including Neruda and Borges. He also spent time in Mallorca working with Robert Graves in the 1950's. During his lifetime he published over forty books of poetry, prose, children's books and travel writings. But it was as a poet that he began; his writing informed by breadth of vision and curiosity about life. Above all, he was a remarkable poet of place and of change. Barefoot is the first edition of his collected poems. Edited and with an introduction by Tom Pow, it contains previously unpublished poems from the poet's youth. This landmark collection allows the reader to follow the development of Alastair Reid's lyrical and vivid poetry."--Dust jacket flap

Contents:

Call Back The Days (Early Poems) 1943-49 (?)

Call Up p. 19

The New Way p. 20

Legacy p. 21

Hospital Afternoon p. 22

Travellers' Tales p. 23

Call Back The Days p. 24

Torchlight Procession p. 25

Tomb p. 26

And When The Sun... p. 27

Nocturne p. 28

To Lighten my House (1953)

I

Poem Without Ends p. 29

Poem for my Father p. 30

Lay for New Lovers p. 32

My One High Morning p. 33

Boyhood p. 34

To Look in the Heart p. 35

Grandfather p. 36

The Village p. 37

Autobiography p. 38

Not Now for my Sins' Sake p. 39

The Day the Weather Broke p. 40

Song for Four Seasons p. 41

II

Spell for Five Fingers p. 42

The Question in the Cobweb p. 44

Music Box p. 46

Saturday Park p. 47

Designs for Three Dancers p. 48

Nursery Songs p. 50

Three Sides of a Penny p. 51

New Hampshire p. 52

III

Four Figures for the Sea p. 54

Underworld p. 57

The Seasons of the Sea p. 58

The Waterglass p. 61

Directions for a Map p. 63

Maine Coast p. 69

Isle of Arran p. 70

To Lighten My House p. 71

Oddments, Inklings, Omens, Moments (1959)

Was, Is, Will Be p. 73

A Game of Glass p. 75

Ghosts p. 76

Once at Piertarvit p. 77

The Rain in Spain p. 80

Poet with Sea Horse p. 82

Cat-Faith p. 83

Who Am I? p. 85

An Instance p. 86

Growing, Flying, Happening p. 87

At First Sight p. 89

Calenture p. 91

In Such a Poise Is Love p. 93

For Ring-Givers p. 94

In Memory of My Uncle Timothy p. 95

Ghosts' Stories p. 96

The Tale the Hermit Told p. 97

Oddments, Inklings, Omens, Moments p. 100

For Her Sake p. 102

A Lesson for Beautiful Women p. 104

Small Sad Song p. 106

Old Painter to Young Model p. 108

Two Weathers p. 109

Casa d'Amunt p. 110

Living in Time p. 112

A Leavetaking p. 114

A Homecoming p. 115

Childhood Landscape p. 116

Spain, Morning p. 117

A Note from the Coast p. 118

L'Amour de Moi p. 119

Pigeons p. 120

What's What p. 122

From Passwords (1963)

Foreigners p. 125

Disguises p. 127

Speaking a Foreign Language p. 128

The Syntax of Seasons p. 129

The Figures on the Frieze p. 130

Outlook, Uncertain p. 132

Me to You p. 133

The O-filler p. 134

Curiosity p. 136

Propinquity p. 138

Frog Dream p. 140

Wishes p. 141

What Bones Say p. 143

A Lesson in Music p. 145

The Spiral p. 146

From Weathering (1978)

The Manse p. 149

Aunt Elsie* p. 151

My Father, Dying p. 153

A Day for the Book p. 155

Me To You (parts 1 and 2) p. 157

Quarrels p. 160

March* p. 162

Scotland p. 163

Galilea p. 164

New York Surprised p. 165

In Mexico* p. 167

Isla Negra, Chile p. 168

T'iree p. 169

Chelsea Reach p. 170

Geneva p. 171

Where Truth Lies* p. 173

Flying Time p. 174

Daedalus p. 175

The Colour of Herring p. 177

Making Soup* p. 178

Weathering p. 179

James Bottle's Year p. 181

Old (1973) p. 183

New (1974) * p. 184

That Dying p. 185

Stalemate p. 186

Black Holes p. 188

The Fall p. 189

Querida Mañana p. 190

Visiting Lecturer p. 192

The Academy p. 194

A Lesson in Handwriting p. 196

Translator to Poet p. 198

What Gets Lost p. 199

Take It From Here* p. 201

* Previously unpublished or uncollected

And Finally

High Treason by José Emilio Pacheco p. 203

Three Poems by Judas Roquín p. 204

Whithorn Manse p. 205.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and title index.

ISBN:

9781903385821

1903385822

9781903385814

1903385814

OCLC:

1077775328