Smart devices : 52 poems from the Guardian 'Poem of the week' / selected and reviewed by Carol Rumens.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rumens, Carol, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--21st century.

English poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xvii, 11-242 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Carcanet, 2019.

Summary:

A year of hand-picked poems and commentaries from the Guardian's 'Poem of the Week' blog.Carol Rumens has been contributing 'Poem of the Week' to the Guardian for more than a dozen years. Do the maths: that's more than 624 blogs! No wonder she has a large and devoted following. She's a poet-reader, not an academic. She is fascinated by the new, but her interest is instructed by the classic poems she has read. They make her ear demanding: when it hears that something, it perks up. She perks up.'A poem is a small (or large) machine made of words.' Rumens partly agrees with Williams but she develops the conceit, seeing each poem 'as a more flexible instrument, a miniature neo-cortex, that super-connective, super-layered smartest device of the mammalian brain'.She tries to avoid poems built from kits with instruction manuals. She looks for surprises, and she surprises us.--from publisher.

Contents:

The Lake of Memories p. 11 / Howard Altmann

A Fire Shared p. 15 / Peter Didsbury

Outside p. 19 / Karen McCarthy Woolf

Boy Soldier p. 23 / Fred D'Aguiar

The Coloration of Feathers p. 27 / Ruth Fainlight

A Bone Flute p. 31 / Judith Wilson

Death makes dead metaphor revive p. 35 / Denise Riley

The Oy of the Poyem p. 39 / Zohar Atkins

Breezeaway p. 43 / John Ashbery

April Fools' Day p. 47 / Elaine Feinstein

Microbial Museum p. 51 / Maya Chowdhry

To a Nightingale p. 55 / R.F. Langley

Tweet Tweet p. 61 / Jean 'Binta' Breeze

Jasper p. 65 / Tony Conran

Lavernock translated by Harry Gilonis p. 71 / Saunders Lewis

The Walking Father Blues p. 75 / Miriam Nash

Poem for Professor Frye p. 79 / Nausheen Eusuf

But Those Unheard p. 83 / Mules Burrows

Someone Else's Song p. 87 / Kamela Das

Us p. 91 / Zaffar Kunial

Lapstrake p. 95 / Ross Cogan

They (may forget (their names (if let out))) p. 99 / Vahni Capildeo

The Colour of 'Stones p. 103 / Syl Cheney-Coker

Prison Camp Violin, Riga p. 107 / Robert Sheppard

Sin Visits Me p. 111 / Malika Booker

Squaks and Speech p. 115 / Ian Gregson

Origin of the Mimeo p. 121 / Siobhan Campbell

Everywhere you see her... p. 125 / Mimi Khalvati

Your Summer Arm p. 129 / Naomi Foyle

How Are the Children Robin p. 133 / W.S. Graham

Musk-Ox p. 137 / Jane Yeh

The Barber Shop translated by Jackie Wilcox and the poet p. 141 / Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke

The Black Guitar p. 145 / Paul Henry

Loop p. 149 / Cliff Forshaw

Tiny Pieces p. 153 / Billy Mills

Why the swan p. 159 / Andrew Lambeth

Yoga for Leaders and Others p. 163 / Philip Fried

Moving On p. 169 / Robyn Bolam

A Braid of Garlic p. 173 / Marilyn Hacker

Chainsaw p. 177 / John Kinsella

World Trade Center / Mail Runner /'73 p. 181 / Peter Balakian

The Light, Changed translated by John Nanghton p. 185 / Yves Bonnefoy

The Miracle of the Bees and the Foxgloves p. 189 / Anne Stevenson

The Autumn Outings p. 193 / Maurice Rutherford

Ay, But Can Ye? translated by Edwin Morgan p. 199 / Vladimir Mayakovsky

Going, Going... p. 203 / Leah Fritz

The Words Collide p. 207 / Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

In His Other House p. 211 / Jee Leong Koh

Political Asylum p. 215 / Dick Davis

Poem translated by Lesley Saunders p. 219 / Maria Teresa Horta

Visiting Star p. 225 / Stanley Moss.

ISBN:

9781784107796

1784107794

OCLC:

1120190123