Oxford Poets 2002

by Constantine, David; Berkeley, Anne; Lee, Hermione; O'Donoghue, Bernard

• ISBN13: 9781903039625
• ISBN10: 1903039622
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-04-01
• Publisher: Oxford Poets

Summary

This anthology, which follows the highly successful Oxford Poets anthologies of 2000 and 2001, introduces a number of new poets who are just beginning to make their names and also provides in-depth access to the ongoing work of some established writers. Incorporating a wide range of very distinct voices, the collection celebrates the rich diversity of the existing Oxford list (now an imprint of Carcanet Press in association with the English Faculty of the University of Oxford) while showcasing the very best of the new work submitted to the Oxford Board over the last twelve months. The editors have made their selection based on merit alone and the work printed here cannot be said to represent particular poetic principles. The poets are widely separated from one another by age and background and especially by their technical and thematic choices but all seven are writers well worth watching. First collections that have followed from previous Oxford anthologies include those of Rebecca Elson and Joe Sheerin. Book jacket.

Author Biography

David Constantine teaches German literature at St. Anne's College, Oxford, and is a poet, translator, and authority on Hölderlin. His most recent collection is The Pelt of Wasps. Anne Berkeley is the editor of A Responsibility to Awe. Hermione Lee is a professor of English literature at Oxford University and the author of Virginia Woolf. Bernard O'Donoghue is a teacher of medieval English at Wadham College and the author of Here nor There.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
Anne Berkeley
24 February	3	(1)
The Men from Praga	3	(1)
Gasometer	4	(1)
Matthew Crampton	5	(1)
They	6	(1)
Brian in the All-Night Cafe	7	(1)
River	8	(1)
After Seeberger	9	(1)
Pauahi Crater 10 am	10	(3)
Roy Blackman
Even though we don't wear Walkmans	13	(1)
Not long now	14	(1)
Turning the kitchen setts	15	(1)
Creating	15	(1)
The Watermen	16	(3)
Sasha Dugdale
On Kolomenskoe Embankment	19	(1)
For Akhmatova	19	(1)
'There is light streaming from an upstairs window'	20	(1)
'Under a shower'	20	(1)
Yalta	21	(1)
Madonna in the Meadow	22	(1)
Letters	23	(1)
'I breathed in at night'	24	(1)
'The wide glass sky'	25	(1)
'In a Chinese city'	25	(1)
Assuming human form	26	(1)
Corps de Ballet	27	(1)
Chalk and Cheese	28	(3)
Stuart Henson
The Train to Nowhere	31	(1)
The Cannonball	31	(1)
Under the Shadows	32	(1)
from Mountain Time
Up There	33	(1)
Cemetery of the Four Knolls	33	(6)
Martha Kapos
The Night Kitchen	39	(1)
An Angel Entered the Picture	40	(1)
Yes and No	41	(1)
Mute	42	(1)
Equator	43	(1)
Cosmology	43	(1)
A Child is the Sea	44	(2)
The Narrow Kiss	46	(1)
Pantomime	47	(2)
Tree-Poem for Apollo	49	(1)
The Origin of the Sexes According to Aristophanes	50	(1)
The Blackberry	50	(5)
Hugh McMillan
Wandered	55	(1)
My Mother's Dictionary	55	(1)
A Curse on Sister Owens	56	(1)
Old Photograph	57	(1)
Wildlife	58	(1)
Marked	59	(2)
A Very Short History of the Darien Scheme	61	(1)
Room 3	61	(1)
On the Coast of North West England	62	(1)
The Curse of Atreus	63	(1)
Remember	63	(4)
Richard Meier
Dreamlike	67	(1)
Phil	67	(1)
Ablutions	68	(1)
Adults	69	(1)
Solo	69	(1)
In Case of Fire	70	(1)
Tracing Paper	70	(1)
Relative	71