Playing With Fire

by Lindop, Grevel

• ISBN13: 9781857547900
• ISBN10: 185754790X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-04-28
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.

Summary

A dazzling blend of intellectualism and eroticism, this poetry collection employs sumptuous, sensory language to explore a wide range of subjectsincluding a blood-drinking Tibetan deity, lemons in Robert Graves' garden, and an East London strip club. By boldly traversing the boundary between the erotic and the sexual, these love poems are both passionate and strikingly original.

Author Biography

Grevel Lindop is the author of five collections of poetry, including Fools' Paradise and Tourists. He is a frequent contributor to PN Review, Poetry London, and the Times Literary Supplement.

Table of Contents

I
Lighting the First Fire of Autumn	11	(1)
Sicilienne	12	(1)
Five Lemons	13	(1)
Mystery	14	(1)
At Humphrey Head	15	(1)
Tintagel	16	(1)
Green	17	(1)
Renaissance	18	(2)
Cards from Paris	20	(1)
The Cypress Trees	21	(1)
Hen Felin	22	(1)
How Long Is the Coast of Britain?	23	(3)
Taking Down Cavafy	26	(3)
II
To Circe	29	(1)
The Snowball	30	(2)
Maison de Jouir	32	(1)
Perfume	33	(1)
Myth	34	(1)
Nights When You Wake	35	(1)
Pearls	36	(1)
Closure	37	(1)
Glossolalia	38	(1)
A Dozen Red Roses	39	(2)
That Month	41	(2)
The Mirror	43	(1)
To Ekazati	44	(3)
III
Ars Poetica	47	(2)
Table Dance	49	(1)
The Net	50	(2)
Afterwards	52	(1)
Brazilian	53	(1)
Watching	54	(1)
The New Girl	55	(1)
Shoes	56	(1)
Remembering the Griffin	57	(1)
The Cat in the Axe	58	(1)
The Cave of the Nymphs	59	(1)
Private Dance	60	(15)
IV
Scattering the Ashes	75	(1)
Amanita Muscaria	76	(2)
The Blue Room	78	(1)
From the Hexagon: Yndooroopilly, NSW	79	(1)
Toward Michaelmas	80	(1)
Total Eclipse	81	(1)
The Peacock	82	(1)
After Christmas	83	(1)
Genius Loci	84	(1)
A Fortuitous Event	85	(2)
Untitled	87	(2)
A Dog at the Threshold	89	(3)
Night	92