At the Garden's Dark Edge : Selected Poems.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thwaite, Anthony.

Contributor:

Gardner, Kevin J.

Frayn, Michael.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (187 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Waco : Baylor University Press, 2024.

Summary:

Anthony Thwaite (1930-2021) was one of the most formidable voices in postwar English letters. Deeply esteemed by fellow poets and critics for his original and technically controlled poetry, Thwaite composed in traditional forms, with orderly stanzas, rhyme schemes, and metrical lines that scan. His voice was highly personal, cautiously intimate, and often witty, and he wrote with a gratifying clarity and freedom from abstraction, making him among the most accessible of modern poets. At the Garden's Dark Edge is a collection of a hundred of Thwaite's poems, selected from a span of more than sixty years, exploring his major themes and recurring topics--among them, the consolations of domestic life, the pleasures of language and creativity, and the many humans and other animals in his life. He was inspired by travel and life abroad--most notably Libya, Japan, and the American South--and his poems deeply engage the individuals and cultures he encountered. A lifelong archaeologist, Thwaite also explored the ruins of the past and what we may recover by exploring it. Intriguingly, his work also faces life's most vexing questions from the perspective of a serious Christian faith. This volume contains several poems that have never been reprinted or collected, and one that has never before been published. By making his work more accessible than ever before, At the Garden's Dark Edge aims to introduce Anthony Thwaite to a new generation of readers and preserve his legacy for future generations. A preface by playwright and novelist Michael Frayn accompanies an editor's introduction.

Contents:

Cover

Endorsements, Title Page, Copyright

Contents

Preface

Introduction

I

At Birth

Sick Child

White Snow

A Sense of Property

Called For

Jack

September 3rd 1939: Bournemouth

Evacuation: 1940

Multiplied

Marriages

What Animal

The Cry

The Bonfire

Night Thoughts

Together, Apart

To the Waterfall

Summer of 2003

Silence

II

Things

Leavings

Boulder

Cleaning a Coin

Qasīda on the Track to Msus

The Return

Rescue Dig

Stereoscope: 1870

At Dunwich

By the City Wall

Sigma

The Dust of the World

III

Old South

Maryland

Coming Back from Kawau

Cicadas in Japan

Kanji

Above Ryotsu

Hiroshima: August 1985

At Asqefar

At the Italian Cemetery, Benghazi

The Stones of Emptiness

Imagine a City

Final Verdict Tours

IV

Monologue in the Valley of the Kings

Thomas

Retractions: Hippo

Entry

On Horseback through Hokkaido

The Rev. C. L. Dodgson

Mr Warrener

Ripon: April 1918

Heptonstall: New Cemetery

For Louis MacNeice

Philip Larkin in New Orleans

For Peter Porter

V

Nescit vox missa reverti

The Notebooks

Memoir

The Line

Gone

Potter

Arabic Script

The Kangaroo's Coff

Tongues

On Tharston Bridge

Note on the Blue Notebook

Simple Poem

VI

Death of a Rat

Hedgehog

The Pond

Buzzards Above Cyrene

Worm Within

A Portion for Foxes

For Kettle

The Mole at Kilpeck Church

Cockroach Story

In Nara Park

Snakes (Virginia, 1940)

Snake in Autumn

The Space Between

VII

Credo

After Church

Annunciation

Epiphany

Reformation

Eccles

Deus Absconditus

Psalmodics

Night Thoughts Revisited

Faith

VIII

Mr Cooper

Dead and Gone

The Fly

The Barrow

At Enoshima

Manhood End

In the Gravel Pit

My Father's Poems.

The Property of the Executors

Inscription: Everything Must Go

Going Out

Timeline

Notes on the Poems

Selected Bibliography

Index of Poems.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781481321860

1481321862

OCLC:

1442196990