Poor man's coat : hardanger poems / Christopher (Kit) Kelen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kelen, Christopher, 1958- author.

Series:

UWAP poetry series

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

195 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Crawley, Western Australia, UWA Publishing, 2018.

Contents:

The whole country's uphill p. 11

The summer poems

Ålvik p. 14

The evening of the tractor p. 16

The glass fjord p. 17

In dusk slant dappled p. 18

The fjord like laid paper p. 19

Naming the twilight in Norway p. 20

Uphill p. 21

Boulders of Ålvik p. 22

Tree, rock, cloud and me p. 24

On such a day p. 25

Minded of trees

Imagine me made of mist p. 30

Trees p. 31

Here we are p. 32

Do you think that you can find the place? p. 33

Stand and listen p. 35

See the wind in high branches p. 36

What bird is that? p. 37

Laying low p. 38

Drip p. 39

Fairytale p. 40

Up through branches p. 42

Which silence most pure? p. 46

Here's my hat what's my hurry? p. 47

The other worlds

On blue disc p. 50

When we were young p. 51

The other worlds p. 52

Truth p. 53

The gods are far and otherwise engaged p. 55

Trees and stars p. 56

Where was I p. 57

Le mot juste p. 59

The place in mind p. 60

Parable p. 61

In the picnic woods p. 63

A blessing p. 64

The autumn poems

Above Ålvik, up to the krosfuru p. 66

Does it get bluer? p. 68

Glorious September dusk p. 69

My boots p. 70

Voices of the track p. 71

Bobil come back p. 73

Timber and stone p. 75

Parables of rain p. 76

Every day the mountain needs naming p. 78

Atom swerve p. 81

The track can be an argument p. 83

I don't know what they make in there p. 84

Dark and bright

A little ache p. 88

Green p. 89

The damage is already done p. 90

Always look on the bright side p. 93

Light up p. 94

Written from a shadow p. 95

Damn your eyes p. 97

Birds sing p. 98

Cuppa p. 99

Sweet p. 100

If I'm asleep p. 101

The rain is its own room

The rain is its own room p. 104

I must be the mystery myself p. 107

Around p. 108

Looking p. 109

To be a member of the mist p. 110

After rain p. 112

Haiku/senryu p. 113

The year is slipping away p. 114

Hulder encounter p. 115

In the steep part, on a broad rock face, no ropes p. 116

Watching the water p. 119

Song p. 120

Little Ode to Aten p. 122

At Kvandal p. 123

It's lifting p. 124

Set in again p. 126

Autumn-mindedness p. 128

Become your own hobby p. 130

A death ahead p. 132

Takk for alt p. 133

A record of first falls p. 136

Immensity and wonder p. 137

Clonal clan p. 138

With a flock of wool p. 140

Lost line p. 142

Exemplary p. 144

If p. 145

Ekphrastics

In the Bergen Gallery: Cowshed Courting p. 148

Munch p. 149

In the National Gallery, Oslo: Norwegian landscape p. 151

In Hendrik Avercamp's'Winter' p. 153

In Joos de Momper's 'Summer' p. 154

Haiku for Juan Gris' 'La Fenêtre Ouverte' (1921) p. 155

Klee p. 156

Dreamt up p. 157

On tour

Takes time p. 160

Utne p. 161

A blue truth p. 162

Crazy bell Sunday in Ålvik again p. 163

A door p. 164

The rain is in the roof p. 166

Ålvik Headlines p. 167

On tour p. 168

A little more time with the sky

What can you say p. 172

Leaving this world p. 173

In a text p. 174

Go there p. 175

Little black cloud p. 176

Reading the minds of clouds p. 178

The singing is the closest sky p. 180

Days of blank p. 182

Metabusiness

A note on the method p. 184

I sought a place beyond p. 185

In the beyond of speech p. 186

The echoing p. 187

Not so hard to grow a forest p. 188

Around the tune tree all are singing p. 189

Here we are p. 190

Sometimes p. 192

In one book p. 194.

ISBN:

9781742589763

1742589766

OCLC:

1046606311