Local Honey

by Saxton, Robert

• ISBN13: 9781903039908
• ISBN10: 1903039908
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-09-01
• Publisher: Oxford Poets
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Summary

Juggling its opposites with panacheheart and intellect, melancholy and zest, derangement and perspicacitythis varied poetry collection is a poignant meditation on love, memory, travel, and homecoming. Beginning with early stirrings of logical thought in a Paleolithic cave, the focus ranges through different times, places, and viewpoints before homing close in the last poems to recent personal family predicaments that are universal in their resonance. Restless in its craftsmanship, responsive in its moods, with graceful notes of wit and meaningful play, this book delights with the music of words, insights, and ideas.

Author Biography

Robert Saxton is the author of The Promise Clinic, and has been anthologized in Faber's Poetry Introduction 7 and Carcanet's Oxford Poets 2001, for which he was awarded the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association's poetry prize.

Table of Contents

Half-lives	p. 11
Black holes	p. 13
Bishop's rock	p. 14
Paradise lost	p. 15
Voyaging	p. 17
The fair maid of Kent	p. 18
Why I never write on my hand	p. 19
Groundhuggers	p. 21
The song of situations	p. 22
The flute player	p. 23
Tanging the swarm	p. 24
On Luneberg heath	p. 27
Calluna, Calluna	p. 27
Alone with Angie's macaw	p. 31
Vertigo	p. 32
The blues and the abstract truth	p. 33
Cloud nine	p. 34
November wedding	p. 36
Spring motor tour	p. 37
Bialowieza honeymoon	p. 38
Strangers on a train	p. 39
Clementine	p. 41
Bird song	p. 42
Magpie minstrel valentine	p. 43
The new life	p. 45
Jason and the Argonauts	p. 47
Breakfast spell	p. 51
Supper spell	p. 51
Lost manuscripts of Dublin	p. 53
A beer hat at Ascot	p. 54
Scouting for lovers	p. 55
The passion	p. 56
The quilting bee	p. 57
The queen's reader	p. 58
Fireman's lift	p. 59
His piano the sea	p. 60
Toy story	p. 61
Devil's judge and jury	p. 62
Xanadu	p. 63
Middle Earth	p. 63
Laputa	p. 64
The ox truck prospectus	p. 66
Worpington Hall	p. 69
Vesuvius	p. 73
Prague	p. 74
Lovers of lanes	p. 75
Camping on the moon	p. 76
Iceland	p. 77
Liberty hall	p. 79
Warren lodges	p. 80
Double trouble	p. 81
The firebird	p. 82
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