My Eightieth Year to Heaven

by Cox, Dr. Brian

• ISBN13: 9781857549317
• ISBN10: 1857549317
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-04-01
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.

Summary

This soothing poetry collection honors the simple pleasures associated with home, holidays, friends, and much-loved places. Lucid and carefully honed language carries these poems straight to the heart, creating a sense of hope and optimism.

Author Biography

Brian Cox is the author of Cox on Cox and the founding editor and current associate poetry editor of Critical Quarterly. He is a former John Edward Taylor professor of English literature, former dean of the faculty arts, and pro-vice chancellor at Manchester University.

Table of Contents

Shakespeare's dream	p. 13
Fox	p. 14
Aboard the Anacoluthe	p. 15
Moselle to the Rhine	p. 17
La Villa Romaine Hotel, Carsac	p. 18
Talmont on the Gironde	p. 20
Canoe for two	p. 21
Canoe again	p. 23
Chatel-Guyon	p. 24
Okefenokee	p. 25
St. Paul's Bay, Malta	p. 27
Ephesus	p. 28
Hermit	p. 29
Doves	p. 31
Jester	p. 32
Ullswater pastoral	p. 33
Goblet	p. 34
Cantaloupe	p. 35
Old people waking	p. 36
Borges and Wordsworth	p. 37
Darwin's The formation of vegetable mould through the action of worms (1881)	p. 38
English Fowler	p. 39
The path to Rome	p. 40
Louis de Bernieres : Birds without wings	p. 42
Great expectations	p. 44
Dickens's fool and saint	p. 45
Tolstoy's Levin	p. 46
Tolstoy's Oak	p. 47
Seth's Two lives	p. 48
Pride and prejudice : the film	p. 49
Privacy	p. 50
Hospital	p. 51
Prostate	p. 52
Cheshire walks	p. 53
Reservoir	p. 54
The edge	p. 55
Lake District	p. 56
Flushes	p. 57
Manchester United	p. 58
Old Trafford	p. 59
Sensation	p. 60
Photographs	p. 61
Jane Eyre in Derbyshire	p. 62
End game	p. 63
Orhan Pamuk : My name is Red	p. 64
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