Oxford Poets 2004

by Constantine, David; O'Donoghue, Bernard

• ISBN13: 9781903039663
• ISBN10: 1903039665
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-10-01
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.

Summary

The work of both new and established poets is introduced to a wider readership in this fourth anthology in the Oxford Poets series. The poets featured represent the rich variety of concerns, voices, and strategies in current writing, including Karen Annesen, Joseph Butler, Margaret Easton, Helen Farish, Kelly Grovier, John Mason, Ann Phillips, Christopher Southgate, Julian Stannard, and Greg Sweetnam. All of these poets share the candor and invention that are hallmarks of the series.

Author Biography

David Constantine is an authority on Holderlin, as well as a poet and translator. He is the author of Something for the Ghosts. Bernard O'Donoghue teaches medieval English at Wadham College–Oxford and has published four collections of poetry, including Here nor There.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
Karen Annesen
Unsteady	3	(1)
Bridesmaid	3	(1)
Into the Woods	4	(1)
Cornmarket Street, Oxford	4	(1)
An Error of Timing	5	(1)
Bridge	5	(1)
Wishing	6	(3)
Joseph Butler
Opening Up	9	(1)
Moonlight	10	(1)
Wilfred	11	(1)
Shoeing Shed	11	(1)
Gifthorse	12	(1)
Dead Men	13	(1)
Ammonite	14	(1)
Drawing Down	15	(4)
Margaret Easton
Laughing in Caves	19	(1)
Sheltered	20	(1)
Tiggy's Tea	20	(1)
Confirmation Day	21	(1)
Blood	22	(1)
Exposures	22	(5)
Helen Farish
Look at These	27	(1)
Here is a Leopard	27	(1)
Auto Reply	28	(1)
Alcyone and Ceyx	29	(1)
What Held Us There	29	(1)
Feathered Coyote	30	(1)
Mount Mirtagh and Back	31	(1)
Newly Born Twins	32	(1)
Surgery	32	(1)
Mesoplodon Pacificus	33	(1)
China Days	34	(1)
The Old King's Gardens	34	(1)
Plum Island	35	(4)
Kelly Grovier
The Recipe	39	(1)
Camping Out	40	(1)
The Metal Clasp	40	(1)
The Ancient of Days	41	(1)
The Ledger	42	(3)
John Mason
The Last Elm in England	45	(1)
The Last of the Islanders	46	(1)
The Merchant Tailor	47	(4)
Ann Phillips
Raindance	51	(1)
Company	52	(2)
Rose Petals	54	(1)
Wings	54	(1)
Depths	55	(4)
Christopher Southgate
A Month after her Death	59	(1)
Taboo	59	(3)
Marilyn and Joe DiMaggio	62	(1)
Artist of the Island Sun	63	(1)
Riddle	64	(1)
Reweaving the Rainbow	65	(1)
In Front of Chagall's `Americas Window'	65	(4)
Julian Stannard
The Red Zone	69	(1)
Peace	69	(1)
A Box of Cigars	70	(1)
Blue Shoe	70	(1)
The Mill at Tidmarsh	71	(1)
Tuesday	71	(4)
Greg Sweetnam
Sculptor's Child	75	(1)
Mother is always there	75	(1)
Terrestrial	76	(1)
The Cape of Good Hope	77	(2)
Sketch	79	(1)
The Mermaid	80	(1)
Aeolian Harp Player	81	(1)
Forest of Memory	82	(1)
Summoning the Seals	83