Hollow palaces : an anthology of modern country house poems / edited and introduced by Kevin Gardner and John Greening ; illustrated by Rosie Greening.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gardner, Kevin J., editor.

Greening, John, 1954- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--20th century.

English poetry.

English poetry--21st century.

Country homes--England--Poetry.

Country homes.

England.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 407 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2021.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Poems

Insiders

Castle Howard / John Betjeman

Romance of a Youngest Daughter / John Crowe Ransom

Still-Life / Elizabeth Daryush

Sissinghurst / Vita Sackville-West

The Manor House / Clive Wilmer

Owlpen Manor / U. A. Fanthorpe

Dorothy Osborne in the Country / Peter Porter

Peter Wentworth in Heaven / Fleur Adcock

Twilight / Stuart Henson

Daisy at the Court / Robert Minhinnick

Plas Difancoll / R. S. Thomas

The Ballroom at Blaxter Hall / Peter Bennet

Sir Frederick / Charles Causley

The Grange / Stevie Smith

From Sir Osbert's Complaint / Gregory Woods

A Household / W. H. Auden

A Vacant Possession / James Fenton

Milgate / Robert Lowell

Coole Park, 1929 / W. B. Yeats

Song to Mark a Boundary / Anne Ridler

The Topiarist / Freda Downie

Mistress / Esther Morgan

Service / Philip Gross

Baize Doors / Craig Raine

Song of a Past Scullery-Maid / Sheila Wingfield

Servant Boy / Seamus Heaney

Ghosts & Echoes

Haunted House / U. A. Fanthorpe

The Pier-Glass / Robert Graves

While Reading a Ghost Story / Siegfried Sassoon

A Haunted House / Jane Griffiths

In the Castle / Jean Sprackland

The Ruined Garden / Neil Powell

Walmer Castle / P. J. Kavanagh

In Blenheim Park / Kieron Winn

Shrine for a Young Soldier, Castle Drogo / Rory Waterman

Soap Suds / Louis Macneice

Blown Hilcote Manor / John Masefield

That House / Brian Jones

Acton Burnell / Rennie Parker

The House that Was / Laurence Binyon

Prospect of Ditchley / Roland Mathias

Tapestries / C. Day Lewis

House-keeping / Esther Morgan

Houghton House / Robert Conquest

Blue Bedfordshire / Glen Cavaliero

At Mapledurham / Edmund Blunden

Canons Ashhy / David Wright

Penshurst Place / Derek Mahon

Wilton Park / Alison Brackenbury

Alfoxton / J. C. Hall

Elm End / Jon Stallworthy

A Country Mansion / Robert Graves

Colonel Fantock / Edith Sitwell

From Bolsover Castle / Sacheverell Sitwell

In Heytesbury Wood / Siegfried Sassoon

These Homes / Mimi Khalvati

From Burnt Norton / T. S. Eliot

Rites & Conversions

Tresham's Fancy / Rennie Parker

Lyveden New Bield / Jane Griffiths

At Colwick Park / George Szirtes

A Banquet at Middleton / Gillian Clarke

The Young Duchess Walks with Mr Brown To Discuss Improvements / Sarah Salway

County / John Betjeman

Great Edwardian / Tony Williams

Metamorphoses / Hilary Davies

Care-taking / Esther Morgan

Ripley Eels / Kit Fan

Wycoller Hall / Ted Hughes

The Changeling / Henry Reed

A Property of the National Trust / Debora Greger

Great Good House / Michael Vince

Corpus Christi / Elizabeth Bartlett

Family Seat / Richard Murphy

Revesby / Anne Berkeley

Flensby Hall Day Spa / Rory Waterman

At a Country-House Hotel / John Fowles

Ridge-Foot House / Herbert Lomas

The Space / Roger Garfitt

Name-Tag / Jamie Mckendrick

A Huntingdonshire Nocturne / John Greening

The Children and Sir Nameless / Thomas Hardy

October in Clowes Park / Tony Connor

Newstead Abbey / Roy Fuller

Rest on the Hunt / George Szirtes

Fixtures & Fittings

The National Trust / Laurence Lerner

Parson's Castle, Birr, Ireland / Bernardine Evaristo

Swarthmoor Hall, Cumbria / Penelope Shuttle

Enypnion / Peter Redgrove

53° 09'33.17" N, 0° 25'33.18" W / Rory Waterman

Late Elizabethan / Roger Caldwell

Cleaning the Candelabrum / Siegfried Sassoon

The Old Bell-board / Peter Scupham

The King's Bed / Penny Boxall

Tapestry / William Virgil Davis

The Gunroom / Penelope Shuttle

Aspects of a Novel / Grey Gowrie

A Valentine for John and Margaret / Kathleen Raine

Knole / Roy Fuller

Artemis Before a Prospect of Blaxter Hall / Peter Bennet

Real Estate / Michael Hamburger

Plumbing / Gillian Clarke

A Charm for Blagdon / Laurence Whistler

Greenhouses / John Gurney

Clough The Washstand / Elisabeth Sennitt

Mr Gradgrind's Country / Sylvia Townsend Warner

Eighteenth-Century Blocks / Harry Guest

The Laird's Lug / Penny Boxall

Guidelines / Lawrence Sail

Stately Home / Tony Harrison

Water-Gardens / Sean O'Brien

Fore-edge Painting / Peter Scupham

The Property of the Executors / Anthony Thwaite

Loyalties & Divisions

Gardeners / Douglas Dunn

Craxton / Dom Moraes

The Cedars at Highclere / John Greening

Conservatism Revisited / Michael Hamburger

Bone China / Esther Morgan

Emma / Bernardine Evaristo

Mappa Mundi / Peter Didsbury

Stately Home / Geoffrey Grigson

Unexpected Visit / Fleur Adcock

Stanzas on a Visit to Longleat House in Wiltshire, October 1953 / George Barker

Two Versions of Pastoral / Alan Jenkins

Landscape / C. Day Lewis

At a Warwickshire Mansion / Roy Fuller

Landscape Poem / Glyn Hughes

The Doll's House / Patience Agbabi

The Two of Us / Simon Armitage

Lord and Lady Romfort / Osbert Sitwell

The Jacobean Mansion / Hilary Davies

At Great Tew / Brian Jones

In Darley Abbey Park / Paul Wilkins

Coole and Ballylee, 1931 / W. B. Yeats

Swans / John Mcauliffe

Woodtown Manor / John Montague

A Visit to Castletown House / Michael Hartnett

The Owner Instructs the Master Mason / Juliet Aykroyd

A Man / Thomas Hardy

Elizabeth Sweyn, Widow, at Her Writing Desk in the Hall / George Mackay Brown

Ruins of a Great House / Derek Walcott

The Landscape Gardeners / Geoffrey Grigson

Arrivals & Departures

Death of King George V / John Betjeman

The Extreme Verge of the World / Ruth Padel Downe

Fall Weekend at Milgate (3) / Robert Lowell

The Mansion / Robert Minhinnick

A Stately Exterior / Siegfried Sassoon

An East Wind / Freda Downie

Effacements / Peter Scupham

The Woods / Derek Mahon

In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz / W. B. Yeats

Lissadell / Wendy Cope

Final Movement / Cahal Dallat

Order to View / Louis Macneice

Manor House / Ruth Bidgood

The Conjuror's Trick / Sarah Salway

The Lakes at Blenheim / Peter Levi

Somewhere / George Macbeth

The Laurel Axe / Geoffrey Hill

Letter of Notice to the Country House / Corinna McClanahan Schroeder

A Kind of Jericho / Robert Minhinnick

Warner The Old Squire / Sylvia Townsend

The Chaos / Philip Gross

The Library / Tamar Yoseloff

The Break-up of a Library in an Anglo-Irish House in Wexford: 1964 / Eavan Boland

The Old Workman / Thomas Hardy

After Mr Mayhew's Visit / Ken Smith

A Sad Story / Gillian Clarke

Orielton Empty / Roland Mathias

Interior at Petworth: From Turner / Rosanna Warren

View / Sheila Wingfield

St Botolph's / Robert Selby

The Ornamental Water / Edmund Blunden

Dreams & Secrets

The Belvedere / John Gurney

The Duke's Pagoda / John Fuller

Youth Revisited / Roy Fuller

Night-Scented Stock / Katherine Mansfield

Oxnead Hall, Norfolk / Pauline Stainer

The Dwelling-Place / Walter De La Mare

Erddig / John Greening

Osterley Park: Summertide Trees / Penelope Shuttle

Tapestry Moths / Peter Redgrove

Greenhallows / James Reeves

The English Sweats / James Brookes

Meteor / John Clegg

Three Riddles / Sarah Salway

Architectural Masks / Thomas Hardy

Up at the House / Jane Draycott

Send for Lord Timothy / John Heath-Stubbs

The Body in the Library / Jane Yeh

The Owl Writes a Detective Story / Gavin Ewart

The Uninvited / Glyn Maxwell

Greenway House / John Greening

The Hidden / Vicki Raymond

The Blickling Hall Poem / Robert Sheppard

Furlongs / Katharine Towers

From Shugborough Eclogues / Grevel Lindop

Lines on a Tudor Mansion / Alun Lewis

Felbrigg / Michael Riviere

Ha-Ha / Glen Cavaliero

Saltatorium / Lisa Kelly

The Manor / Simon Armitage

Ancestral Houses / W. B. Yeats

England / Toby Martinez De Las Rivas

Outsiders

Avington: The Avenue at Dawn / Jeremy Hooker

Knebworth Park / Katherine Gallagher

The Landowner / Alex Wong

Open Gardens Scheme / Jane Draycott

Open Day at Stancombe Park / David Ashbee

Open to the Public / Freda Downie

In the Grounds / Douglas Dunn

Our Weird Regiment / Martyn Crucefix

Haydn, in a Neo-Gothic Mansion of the National Trust / Geoffrey Grigson

Britannia / Anne Berkeley

Staying with Friends / Lachlan Mackinnon

After the Revolution / Emily Grosholz

End House / G. S. Fraser Brockham

Stourhead / Patricia Beer

At Burghley House / Lotte Kramer

The Inherited Estate / Thom Gunn

Domesday Book / Robert Lowell

Higham Hall / William Scammell

Inheritance / Charles Tomlinson

In the Formal Garden / Philip Gross

Ickworth / Rebecca Watts

Knole / Neil Powell

J.P. / Robert Minhinnick

Moonlight / Anne Berkeley

Breaking / Andrew Motion

The Manor Garden / Sylvia Plath

The Plain Sense of Things / Wallace Stevens

Asleep in the Orangery / Stuart Henson

To a Stately Home / David Clarke

To a Cedar Tree / Agatha Christie.

Notes:

Includes indexes.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

1800856741

9781800856745

OCLC:

1240771824