Night Watch

by Scupham, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780856463198
• ISBN10: 0856463191
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-05-01
• Publisher: Anvil Pr Poetry Ltd

Summary

Scupham brings his customary elegance and skill to bear on themes as diverse as Kilvert's Diary to an unexpected encounter with his parents on holiday from the underworld. The central piece is a long sequence in which the poet takes a journey by ghost train through the 1950s. All of Peter Scupham's previous works, from Prehistories (1975) to The Ark (1994), were published by Oxford University Press.

Author Biography

Peter Scupham founded The Mandeville Press and now lectures, writes, and runs Mermaid Books, a second-hand book business in Norfolk.

Table of Contents

It's Good to Talk	11	(1)
A Victorian Way of Death, 1998	12	(1)
Arras: Easter 1998	13	(2)
Midi	15	(1)
Quick-Quick-Slow	16	(1)
Falling Downstairs	17	(1)
Uncle Walt	18	(1)
A Slice of Cake	19	(1)
Family Reunion	20	(3)
Parting	23	(1)
Crossing the Peak	24	(12)
The Northern Line
Boarding	25	(1)
Under Way	26	(1)
Junction	27	(1)
Off Again	28	(1)
Back	29	(1)
ST Pancras	30	(1)
Underground	31	(1)
Waterloo	32	(1)
Encounter	33	(1)
South	34	(1)
Terminus	35	(1)
Night Watch	36	(1)
Night Kitchen	37	(2)
In the Picture	39	(1)
Nothing at All	40	(1)
A Trunk of Letters	41	(1)
In Camera	42	(2)
The Old Home	44	(2)
Lunch Out	46	(2)
The Letter	48	(3)
Trevail: Four Children & Summer	51	(1)
Kippford: A View from the Bridge	52	(1)
Lea Valley: My Son, My Father	53	(1)
Epithalamion	54	(2)
Song for Sophie	56	(1)
The Christmas Owl	57	(3)
Riches Heures du Duc de Berry	60	(2)
Kilvert's Winter: 1871	62	(3)
The Chairs	65	(2)
A.C. Benson Has a Restless Night	67	(2)
Augustus Hare Considers Another Ghost Story	69	(2)
The Healer of Sick Pearls	71	(3)
Name and Nature	74	(1)
This Late Tempest	75