Gold from the Stone : New and Selected Poems.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sissay, Lemn.

Series:

Canons

Canons ; v.70

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Canongate Books, 2016.

Summary:

Lemn Sissay was seventeen when he wrote his first poetry book, which he hand-sold to the miners and millworkers of Wigan. Since then his poems have become landmarks, sculpted in granite and built from concrete, recorded on era-defining albums and declaimed in over thirty countries. He has performed to thousands of football fans at the FA Cup Final, to hundreds of thousands as the poet of the London Olympics, and to millions across our TV screens and the airwaves of BBC Radio. He has become one of the nation's best-loved voices.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Introduction

From Perceptions of the Pen (1985)

Well 'I'

Mother

Ain't No

Scream

So Near and yet So Near

As Is Life

From Tender Fingers in a Clenched Fist (1988)

African Metaphor

Listening

Nursery Rhyme

Some Quotes from Neatherton Man found in Deepest England Somewhere between 1974 and 1980

Negotiations

Englabetween

What Have We Got

Moods of Rain

Wasita

Sing a Song of Sick Penance

The Black Writers' Workshop

Understanding Difference

The Day Will Come

The Invasion of the Mancunoids

The Red Death of Edgar Allan Poe

Trying Me

Dead Wood Poetry

Fell Off and Fell Out

Bad Trip - L.S.D.

Burn My Book (Burn In Illusion)

Tense Tattered Tortured Tried Tested and Torn

Mother Thatcher

Today Will Pass

Spell Bound

Gold from the Stone

Everything Is Rhythmical

Sleep Is a Songbird

Director's Notes (For the Daily Shun and Daily Killer)

She Read as She Cradled

City Sigh

Spell Me Freedom

Interim and Cost

Ace Under My Sleeve

Traces

The Show Goes On

From Rebel without Applause (1992)

Bearing Witness

Remember How We Forgot

Fingerprints

Occupations

Boiling Up

Instant Consciousness

Airmail to a Dictionary

The Customs Men

Mind-Walking

For My Headstone

Love Poem

Flowers in the Kitchen

Suitcases and Muddy Parks

The Nest

Pass It On

Going Places

Gil Scott-Heron

Godsell

Flushed

I Hate You

Professional Black

Pretoria Pit

Uncle Tom and the 1990s

Clear as Day Storms

My Brother

Children and Company

Writer's Blockocks

The Black Moon

Brinkley Park

Rage

From Morning Breaks in the Elevator (1999)

The Waitress and the Nights of the Round Table

Colour Blind

Charlie's Playing Blackjack.

Invisible Kisses

Slipping

Murdering Bill

Immigration R.S.V.P.

Fair

The Repossession: Lot 67

Baptism in Mire

Controlled Explosions

Children's Home

Walking in Circles

My Dad Is a Pilot

Guilt

Sandwich Love

The Elevator

A Flock of Sound

The Graduate and Her Secret Thesis

The Bruise

Quiet Places

Mourning Breaks

From Listener (2008)

Let There Be Peace

Rain

The Actor's Voice

Patterns

Laying the Table

Perfect

Gambian Holiday Maker

Listener

Ricochet

Email

Elephant in the Room

Architecture

Moving Mountains

Manchester Piccadilly

Some Things I Like

**** This

The Lost Key

Magpie

Before We Get Into This

Advice for the Living

The Battle of Adwa, 1896

The Gilt of Cain

Applecart Art

I Will Not Speak Ill of the Dead

Transistor

This Train (Sing Along)

Spring: Mayday Mayday

Barley Field

The Boxer

Torch

New Poems

What If

Whale Translation

The Spark Catchers

Shipping Good

Open Up

Night Mails

Lock and Quay

Listening Post

Fallen

Belong

Rest

Adventure Flight

Endnotes

Index of Titles

Index of First Lines.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781782119104

1782119108

OCLC:

1255235430