Donald Davie: Collected Poems

by Davie, Donald; Powell, Neil

• ISBN13: 9781857545791
• ISBN10: 1857545796
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-05-01
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.

Summary

Political and protesting, these poems explore concepts of modernity, English identity, and historicity. Influenced by the Russians and Ezra Pound, Davie reinterprets Modernism for a 1940s world. Obsessed with the tonalities and vernacular of language, Davie works in the mediums of essay-poem, love lyric, satire, translation, epistle, eclogue, and other forms.

Table of Contents

Changes	p. 15
Petition to Release	p. 16
A Folly	p. 18
A Man	p. 19
Bulletin	p. 20
The Nuns at the Medical Lecture	p. 21
Eight Frontiers Distant	p. 23
The River	p. 24
Field-Work	p. 25
Travel Notes	p. 26
Malaga	p. 27
Tomar	p. 28
Fireworks in Cordoba	p. 29
Ruben Dario in the Paseo Sagrera	p. 30
Hermance	p. 31
'Indian Lemon Linen ... '	p. 32
Be Born a Saint	p. 34
Driscoll in Paris	p. 36
This Country	p. 37
Korea	p. 39
Speaking for Some	p. 40
Look, No Hands	p. 41
A Tree Absolving	p. 42
Fleadh Cheoil	p. 43
Refusals	p. 46
A True Story of the Class War	p. 48
Stephen's Green	p. 50
Ballad	p. 51
Men's Mission	p. 52
Phrases from Isaac of Nineveh	p. 54
Perfection	p. 55
Friday in a Branch Post-Office	p. 56
Texte etabli	p. 58
Sermon	p. 60
Spring	p. 61
Scour-proof	p. 62
Distortions	p. 63
Power	p. 64
Freakspiel	p. 65
Dear Gods	p. 67
From One Lover to Another	p. 69
Clear Flowers	p. 71
Making Progress	p. 72
Chore	p. 73
The Ba's up the Slates	p. 75
Spain 67	p. 77
Noise and Wind	p. 79
Speaking to Some	p. 80
Questions	p. 82
Song for David White to Sing	p. 85
A True Story of the Civil War	p. 87
Prose	p. 89
Nine Lines	p. 90
Ringing the changes on Mistral	p. 91
Gaeltacht	p. 92
Quinze juillet, early morning	p. 94
Sean O'Sullivan	p. 95
Secret	p. 97
Lyde	p. 98
Sadlers Farm	p. 100
Cotswold Nightflower	p. 101
Poem with Justin for Paul and Nessa	p. 102
Into their true gentleness	p. 105
Geneva	p. 106
Mama Poule	p. 107
Not Clegs but Nightmares	p. 108
Ireland 1970 Bolivia Year of Our Lords the Colonels Glasses Glinting	p. 109
Pub Song	p. 111
Belfry-Hunting	p. 113
The Jailing of Devlin	p. 115
Ageing	p. 116
I stole a march and you stole a coaster; black to a bright room	p. 117
A True Story	p. 119
Like Trees, like Islands	p. 120
Connemara	p. 121
Sometimes Feel	p. 123
Homage to Jose Marti	p. 124
A Rose and a Book for Sant Jordi	p. 125
Ode to the Future	p. 126
The black and white of this world	p. 128
Bright after Dark	p. 129
Lovers	p. 130
It still happens	p. 131
Jasmine or Basalt or Bread	p. 132
Inter-Crevice Memo	p. 134
Near Adrigole	p. 135
Syde	p. 136
Boxing the Fox	p. 138
Burns's Nicht	p. 140
All the Old Gems	p. 141
Copper-beech and butter-fingers	p. 146
To bring Posada back from the grave; or Let me be the skeleton in your cupboard	p. 147
Clearing	p. 148
Fountains Ankle-High	p. 150
Eight Lines	p. 151
Sauvetage	p. 152
Knife-Day	p. 153
Monastic Luxury	p. 154
Movement	p. 156
A True Story of Art and Friendship	p. 157
European Prayer	p. 158
Lament	p. 160
Slave-Chains	p. 162
Mozarabic Wine	p. 163
According to Bigotry	p. 165
Driscoll in Dublin	p. 166
Driscoll Rides Again	p. 167
The Slaves Come Back to Haunt Him as He Reads	p. 168
Flyting	p. 169
Achnasheen	p. 170
The Frost is All Over	p. 172
Pibroch	p. 174
Cat Rua	p. 175
The Cap	p. 176
Brown with No Whites	p. 177
She Made her False Name Real	p. 179
The Flames are False: Only the Hell is Real	p. 181
The Kid on the Mountain	p. 182
Amhran na mBreag	p. 185
Driscoll 5: Glories Clear	p. 186
Flames	p. 188
Miracles	p. 189
Findrum	p. 190
To Maria Spiridonovna on Her Keeping	p. 191
Dream	p. 193
Leper-slit	p. 194
Orgy	p. 196
The Poet Rides on Horseback through the Night	p. 197
Affection	p. 200
Burnham Deepdale	p. 201
Clear the Stove in the Morning	p. 203
Flowering Stump	p. 205
Bright Red Berries	p. 207
Bad Milk	p. 208
A True Story Ending in False Hope	p. 209
Traffic-lights are Dangerous	p. 210
Manifest Destiny	p. 211
Climbing High	p. 213
The Lost Garden	p. 214
Andalusia	p. 215
A Colour Photo	p. 216
A Memory of Belfast in 1974	p. 217
The Right to Love	p. 219
She Fell Asleep in the Sun	p. 220
Let's Hope	p. 221
Until	p. 222
Snowflake	p. 223
An Empty House	p. 224
Saturnino	p. 225
Deprivation, Luxury, Envy	p. 227
Odessa	p. 228
Ostfriesland	p. 231
Winters	p. 234
Barnsley Main Seam	p. 235
The Ghost of a Kiss	p. 238
British Justice	p. 239
Koan	p. 240
Legend	p. 241
Wouldn't I?	p. 242
Next Time I'll Measure Your Waist	p. 243
Wooden Hoops for Iron	p. 244
But when the Sun was Shining	p. 245
Sparrowthorn	p. 246
The Vale of Clara	p. 247
A Wooden Stile	p. 249
Font Romeu	p. 250
Pulcherrima Paradigmata	p. 252
Yet Another Reason for Writing in Irish	p. 253
An Early Fifties Contrast between the Giudecca and Wexford Street	p. 254
Enriqueta Bru	p. 256
A Girl in Jerez de la Frontra, in the Autumn of 1982	p. 260
Pilgrim	p. 261
Judengasse	p. 262
The Most Beautiful Dog	p. 264
In Praise of Owls	p. 265
A First Time	p. 266
Benediction	p. 267
Nelly Doody	p. 268
The Miracle of Bread and Fiddles	p. 269
Kent in Sussex	p. 270
Eel	p. 272
Vincent de Paul, Dublin 1946	p. 273
Manifesto	p. 274
A Findrum Blackbird	p. 275
For Alan	p. 276
Ten Months Later	p. 277
Two Young Men	p. 278
Fear	p. 279
One of the Finest Things	p. 280
River	p. 281
Notes and Acknowledgements	p. 283
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