Lyonesse / Penelope Shuttle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shuttle, Penelope, 1947- author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--21st century.

English poetry.

Poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

151 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Hexham : Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2021.

Summary:

"The submerged land of Lyonesse was once part of Cornwall, according to myth, standing for a lost paradise in Arthurian legend, but becomes an emblem of human frailty in the face of climate change in Penelope Shuttle's new poems. There was indeed a Bronze Age inundation event which swept the entire west of Cornwall under the sea, with only the Isles of Scilly and St Michael's Mount left as remnants above sea-level. Lyonesse was also Thomas Hardy's name for Cornwall where Penelope Shuttle has lived all her adult life, always fascinated by the stories and symbolic presence of Lyonesse. In her preface she writes: 'Lyonesse is a place of paradox, both real and historical as well as an imaginary region for exploring depths. It holds grief for many kinds of loss... The poems seek re-wilding of a city where human loss interconnects with mythic loss; myth is rooted in the real.' This book is two collections in one: the second part, New Lamps for Old, is a collection of poems she needed to write in coming up for air from the watery depths of Lyonesse, to find ways to begin again, to find meaning in life after losing her husband, the poet Peter Redgrove. The 'old lamps' of a former life have been extinguished, leaving darkness. Her challenge was to find 'new lamps' to illuminate and give meaning to life. Lyonesse is a fluid magical world. The poems of New Lamps for Old are concerned with earth, air and fire. Both collections share allegiance with the fifth element, the spirit."

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Lyonesse

Door

Palm Sunday

The Gownshops

Our Cradle Sea

Strike, strike the bell

Make a Wish

Kelpy

easy

Inscribed on a Stela found on the seabed

Sentimental Customs

Night Gate

By the hoar rock in the drowned wood

here's my Lyonesse

Legends

Fortuna

Owls

Clad me naked

Why the Maidens prefer future funk to a Sumerian goat

Interviewing Neptune

My Friend

In the dark

Saturdays & Sundays

When the Devil seals the seam with hot pitch

Midsummer

Lizzie

Willow o' the Wisp

Holy Father Lions

O Shake That Girl with the Blue Dress On

Boat-drawn

Rusalka

Siren Scholarship

The Foster Brothers of Kernow Speak

Sewing Lesson Under the Sea

Land Under Sea

An Account of the Submergence

Land Under sea

Church of the Crayfish Christ

Up jumps the shark

Starlit

On St Mary's Quayside an old salt button-holes a passer-by

Many brave hearts are asleep in the deep, so beware, beware

Jackie Onassis orders new dancing shoes

Twinned with Canopus

They say the voiced angel is an invention of the English

More deadly than the Siren's song is the Siren's silence

We are the servants of lions

Sea Street

The Restorer

May the Holy Ghost blow your sailboat home

The Devil

Praise the Crayfish Christ striding over the waves!

Mermaid sightings here

Cradle-rocker's Report

Prospectus: Lyonesse College

My Old Lover

Lions on a love prowl

Wooden Lady

My own volition

Time in the World

Blues

Solo

Who's down there

Sermon of the Crayfish Christ, or The Latitudes

When and If

Blessing

Goodbye

Notes

New Lamps For Old

Cup of Evenings

What is the air made of?

New lamps for old

husband

home

Dusk coming on

sevenfold

fly-by-night

Some Strange hour of night

Swarthmoor Hall, Ulverston

My House

St Olave's Church

Village of La Baleine

As Long as the thorn tree stands

Kandinsky at the Tate

Hell

Longing is part of it

The Train is

Ruby Loftus screwing a breech ring for a Bofors Anti-Aircraft Gun

Break of day/this one evening

glance

Other elements

Love letters

May time

Ann Boleyn's Music Book

May evening

Under Ragged Stone Hill

Clouds in the sky

Wild rose

Malvern Link

The four queens find Lancelot sleeping

Found poem: Swarthmoor Hall

Three Years

In the mirror.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

ISBN:

1780375549

9781780375540

OCLC:

1191164212

Publisher Number:

99989365298