Lucky Day

by Price, Richard

• ISBN13: 9781857547610
• ISBN10: 1857547616
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-04-01
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.

Summary

Natural landscapes through which love and lyricism flicker and flare are the backdrop for these poems. The sparrows, pigeons, and magpies of the urban periphery lighten the atmosphere as they edge the collection toward the city in the humorous elegy "Bird List," while "Hand Held," a personal and vulnerable piece, delicately celebrates the author's experience of fathering a child with severe learning difficulties. The collection is filled out with pieces of love and memory, affirming in the end the luck intrinsic to survival.

Author Biography

Richard Price is the youngest of the Informationist group of poets, and a founder of the magazines associated with them, Gairfish and Southfields. He is the head of Modern British Collections at the British Library in London.

Table of Contents

'All the days'	p. 11
'They were your letters yesterday'	p. 11
Dual sculls	p. 12
'Supper will keep'	p. 12
'The broad bellies'	p. 13
Pylons	p. 13
The frame	p. 14
'Rare calm on the rattled moor'	p. 15
Three oasthouses	p. 16
A world without earth	p. 18
Net results	p. 19
Dogger	p. 19
Motorcruisers -	p. 20
Better trees	p. 21
The white horse	p. 21
The organised forest	p. 22
For December	p. 23
Hedge sparrows	p. 27
Coot	p. 27
Mandarin duck	p. 27
Great crested grebe	p. 28
Cormorants	p. 28
Mallards	p. 28
Heron	p. 28
Swans	p. 29
Swan	p. 29
Cuckoo	p. 29
Pigeons	p. 29
Song thrush	p. 29
Ring necked parakeet	p. 30
Carrion crow	p. 30
Jay	p. 30
Domestic geese	p. 31
Moorhen	p. 31
Magpie	p. 31
Kingfisher	p. 31
Lick and stick	p. 35
Cleaners	p. 41
Save? / send? / delete?	p. 42
As a	p. 44
Fishbones of aerials	p. 47
Kids	p. 47
Wasps	p. 48
Separate again	p. 48
Wrong again	p. 48
Margin	p. 49
Holiday romance	p. 50
Cadets	p. 51
Careless	p. 52
Helpline	p. 52
Twigs	p. 53
Tensioned frame	p. 53
Less said	p. 54
Shoosh	p. 55
I wish	p. 56
Passenger side	p. 56
'Skirt'	p. 57
Behind you	p. 57
Marks and sparks	p. 58
As, as	p. 59
Then, again	p. 59
Deli	p. 60
Fitted sheet	p. 60
Engagement / strike	p. 61
On, off, over	p. 62
I bet	p. 62
Odi et amo	p. 63
Think for thinking	p. 63
Art lover	p. 64
A new establishment	p. 65
Scare	p. 66
Lucky day	p. 67
Call	p. 67
As if	p. 68
A dash	p. 71
Lifer	p. 71
Than we are	p. 72
Anne and the royal	p. 72
Flightpaths	p. 73
Taps	p. 74
Victory in Europe	p. 75
'Speech absent'	p. 75
Dopey has angelman's syndrome	p. 76
Thanks	p. 76
Nothing promised	p. 77
So the palm faces	p. 78
See, touch on the baby gym	p. 78
Gallery / zoo	p. 79
Receipt	p. 80
Little bear	p. 80
The clutter back	p. 81
Abacus	p. 82
The grip	p. 83
Only child	p. 83
Logger's leap	p. 84
R for Robert	p. 85
Blue, quilted	p. 86
Eureka	p. 87
Fob	p. 88
The taps just flow hot and cold	p. 89
For Katie's toes	p. 89
The world is busy, Katie	p. 90
The late show	p. 91
Air miles	p. 92
That song	p. 92
Wake up and play	p. 93
Sleeper	p. 94
The price-dream ratio	p. 95
Surely the certainties	p. 96
Fast	p. 97
'I have two daughters'	p. 97
The twins	p. 98
A bow-tie pattern	p. 99
Please	p. 99
121	p. 100
Hand held	p. 100
A news	p. 103
The truants will be suspended	p. 104
An authority	p. 104
Deportment / deportation	p. 105
Slow films	p. 105
Softened, bright	p. 106
Big bang research	p. 107
All light	p. 111
In your generous hours	p. 112
Farewell remembering a goodbye	p. 113
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