Anvil New Poets 3

by Ironside, Hamish; Lumsden, Roddy

• ISBN13: 9780856462832
• ISBN10: 0856462837
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-06-01
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.

Summary

The Anvil New Poets series has built up a reputation for introducing ground-breaking work from the best new poets. The first two volumes featured the first work published in book form by poets such as Kate Clanchy, Colette Bryce, Alice Oswald, Richard Price and Mimi Khalvati. For the third in the series, Ironside and Lumsden present ten poets who look set to emulate the acclaim of their predecessors. Picked from the several hundred manuscripts considered over a period of over six months, these are the poets who will be producing the best new collections of the next ten years. This is your chance to read them now.

Author Biography

Hamish Ironside has published his poems in magazines such as PN Review, Poetry Review and Parnassus. He works for Anvil Press. Roddy Lumsden has published three volumes of poems: 'Yeah, Yeah, Yeah' (1997), 'The Book of Love' (2000) and 'Roddy Lumsden is Dead' (2001). He was born in Scotland and now lives in Bristol, England.

Table of Contents

Preface
by Roddy Lumsden	9	(1)
by Hamish Ironside	10	(3)
Richard Aronowitz
Prelude	13	(1)
Foetal Position	14	(1)
Gastroenterology	15	(1)
Ramblers	16	(1)
Snowstorm Souvenir	17	(1)
Anatomy of a Liar	18	(1)
New York, Fourth of July	19	(1)
Free Divers Off Sardinia	20	(1)
Midnight in Midwinter on Midsummer Common	21	(1)
The Sower of Provence	22	(1)
The Cathedral Grimaces	23	(4)
Ros Barber
Well	27	(1)
Pronoun	28	(2)
Pearls	30	(1)
Old School Friends	31	(1)
Endnote	32	(1)
The Dancer	33	(1)
Eve's Hobby	34	(2)
He'd Push my Hands Together	36	(2)
Airtight	38	(3)
Kathryn Gray
Aim	41	(1)
Sign	42	(1)
Friend	43	(1)
Ceremonies	44	(1)
Gideon	45	(1)
Driver	46	(1)
The Book of Numbers	47	(1)
A Voyeur's Volume	48	(1)
The Italians in the Rain	49	(1)
Projectiles	50	(1)
Alibi	51	(4)
Sian Hughes
Romance	55	(1)
Rabbit Skin	56	(1)
Taxi	57	(1)
Fidelity	58	(1)
Soap	59	(1)
The Sacking Offence	60	(1)
Saltpetre	61	(1)
The Double	62	(1)
The Girl Upstairs	63	(1)
Chaucer	64	(1)
Secret Lives	65	(1)
Map-Reading	66	(3)
A.B. Jackson
Rewind: 1965	69	(1)
A Ring	70	(2)
The Christmas Pet	72	(1)
Stammer	73	(1)
In Memory of R.D. Laing	74	(3)
Journey	77	(1)
Missing	78	(1)
The Temptation of Saint Anthony	79	(3)
Filing	82	(3)
Tabish Khair
Nurse's Tales, Retold	85	(1)
Mango Recipes	86	(1)
Arm	87	(1)
Distances	88	(1)
No Theorems	89	(1)
The Maidservant, Now Married	90	(1)
South Delhi Murder	91	(2)
Almost a Ghazal for my Grandfather's Garden	93	(1)
Kites of Another Kind	94	(2)
Milk	96	(1)
1.15 a.m.	97	(4)
Kona Macphee
Paul's Epiphany	101	(1)
Terminus	102	(1)
Waltz	103	(1)
Year Nine	104	(1)
Last Night at the Conference	105	(2)
Melbourne, evening, summertime	107	(1)
from Three Poems: Ice	108	(2)
Hugh's Boomerang	110	(1)
Hortus Botanicus	111	(1)
My People	112	(3)
Robert Seatter
Learning Happiness	115	(1)
Water Tank	116	(1)
Penelope	117	(1)
Travelling to the Fish Orchards	118	(1)
On Reseeing Jules et Jim	119	(1)
Pumpkins	120	(1)
Hipsters	121	(1)
Boy Blue	122	(1)
Pumpkin Summer	123	(1)
Family Affair	124	(1)
First Marriage	125	(1)
At Central Station, Milan	126	(3)
Julian Turner
Schubert	129	(1)
Against Flowers	130	(1)
Bert Haines Yard	131	(1)
Reportage	132	(2)
Penalty of Stroke and Distance	134	(1)
The Director's Cut	135	(1)
Kintaro Grows Old	136	(2)
The Magnificent History of the English	138	(2)
Tennis Ball	140	(1)
Leg the Dentist	141	(4)
Sarah Wardle
Arcadia	145	(1)
To the Reader	146	(1)
Young Man in Bronze	147	(1)
Word Hill	148	(1)
Age of Awareness	149	(1)
Sceptic's Song	150	(1)
Reading Room Requiem	151	(1)
Buridan's Ass	152	(1)
In the National Palace Museum, Taiwan	153	(1)
The Close	154