Poems 1955-2005

by Stevenson, Anne

• ISBN13: 9781852246990
• ISBN10: 1852246995
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-10-15
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Summary

Poetry from the UK

Table of Contents

Prologue
Making Poetry	17	(1)
Saying the World	18	(1)
The Sun Appears in November	18	(1)
From an Unfinished Poem	19	(1)
The Fiction Makers	20	(2)
Gannets Diving	22	(1)
North Sea off Carnoustie	22	(1)
Moonrise	23	(1)
If I Could Paint Essences	24	(1)
Swifts	25	(1)
In the Tunnel of Summers	26	(1)
A Report from the Border	27	(1)
Small Philosophical Poem	28	(1)
Vertigo	28	(2)
I The Way You Say the World
Living in America	30	(1)
Sierra Nevada	30	(2)
Still Life in Utah	32	(1)
Ann Arbor	32	(1)
Going Back	33	(3)
The Dear Ladies of Cincinnati	36	(1)
Harvard	37	(1)
Nightmare in North Carolina	38	(1)
A Summer Place	38	(2)
Ruin	40	(1)
New York	41	(1)
A Hot Night in New York	41	(1)
Journal Entry: Ward's Island	42	(2)
England	44	(2)
The Women	46	(1)
Fen People	47	(1)
A River	47	(1)
In Middle England	48	(2)
Travelling Behind Glass	50	(6)
From the Motorway	56	(1)
Branch Line	57	(1)
A Tourist Guide to the Fens	58	(1)
Coming Back to Cambridge	59	(2)
Temporarily in Oxford	61	(1)
Lockkeeper's Island	62	(1)
By the Boat House, Oxford	63	(1)
Walking Early by the Wye	64	(1)
Burnished	65	(1)
Himalayan Balsam	66	(1)
Whose Goat?	67	(1)
Earth Station	68	(1)
The Wrekin	68	(3)
POEMS FROM CWM NANTCOL
Binoculars in Ardudwy	71	(1)
The Unaccommodated	72	(1)
Phoenicurus phoenicurus	73	(1)
Pity the Birds	74	(1)
A Present	75	(1)
The Wind, the Sun and the Moon	76	(1)
Under Moelfre	77	(1)
Attacking the Waterfall	77	(1)
Why Take Against Mythology (1)	78	(1)
Why Take Against Mythology (2)	79	(1)
Spring Poem	80	(1)
Without Me	80	(1)
May Bluebells, Coed Aber Artro	81	(1)
Leaving	82	(1)
Pennine	83	(1)
Shale	83	(1)
A Prayer to Live with Real People	84	(1)
Household Gods	85	(1)
Forgotten of the Foot	86	(2)
Demolition	88	(1)
Spring Song	88	(1)
November	89	(1)
From My Study	90	(6)
Winter Time	96	(1)
Salter's Gate	97	(1)
Claude Glass	98	(1)
Jarrow	99	(1)
North Easter	100	(1)
Skills	101	(1)
Night Walking with Shadows	102	(1)
Spring Again	103	(1)
17.14 Out of Newcastle	104	(2)
American Rhetoric for Scotland	106	(2)
East Coast	108	(3)
Fire and the Tide	108	(1)
Summer	108	(1)
The Bench	108	(1)
Boating Pool at Night	108	(1)
Winter Flowers	109	(1)
The Lighthouse	109	(1)
Night Wind, Dundee	110	(1)
Aberdeen	110	(1)
The Mudtower	111	(1)
The Fish Are All Sick	111	(1)
The Man in the Wind	111	(1)
Cramond	112	(1)
Inverkirkaig	113	(1)
Buzzard and Alder	114	(1)
Cold	114	(1)
Path	115	(1)
Resurrection	116	(1)
Enough of Green	117	(1)
In the Weather of Deciduous Souls	118	(3)
II Seven Ages
Epigraph from Reversals	121	(1)
The Spirit Is Too Blunt an Instrument	122	(1)
The Victory	123	(1)
Stabilities	123	(1)
Poem for a Daughter	124	(1)
To My Daughter in a Red Coat	124	(1)
In March	125	(1)
With My Sons at Boarhills	125	(2)
In the Nursery	127	(1)
To Phoebe	127	(1)
Little Paul and the Sea	128	(1)
Four and a Half Dancing Men	128	(2)
The Holly and the Ivy	130	(1)
The Doctor	131	(1)
A Surprise on the First Day of School	131	(1)
Innocence and Experience	132	(1)
At Thirteen	133	(1)
Incident	134	(1)
Suicide	134	(1)
Transparencies	135	(2)
Sous-entendu	137	(1)
Love	137	(1)
Politesse	138	(1)
Aubade	139	(1)
Reversals	140	(1)
Two Love Poems	140	(1)
Wanted	141	(1)
Posted	141	(1)
Drought	142	(1)
After the End of It	142	(1)
An Impenitent Ghost	143	(1)
'All Canal Boat Cruises Start Here'	144	(1)
This	145	(1)
In the House	146	(1)
Night Thoughts and False Confessions	147	(1)
The Suburb	148	(1)
The Takeover	149	(1)
The Mother	150	(1)
Generations	150	(1)
Five Poems of Innocence and Experience	151	(2)
The Crush	151	(1)
The Marriage	151	(1)
The Affair	152	(1)
The Demolition	152	(1)
Old Scholars	153	(1)
The Other House	153	(2)
Old Wife's Tale	155	(1)
Eros	155	(1)
Questionable	156	(1)
False Flowers	156	(2)
On Watching a Cold Woman Wade into a Cold Sea	158	(1)
Musician's Widow	159	(1)
The Professor's Tale	160	(1)
Stone Fig	161	(1)
VISITS TO THE CEMETERY OF THE LONG ALIVE
Hadrian's	162	(1)
A Sepia Garden	162	(3)
Bloody Bloods	165	(2)
Black Hole	167	(1)
Lost	168	(1)
A Tricksy June	168	(1)
Granny Scarecrow	169	(1)
To witness pain is different form of pain	170	(1)
Who's joking with the Photographer	170	(2)
After Her Death	172	(1)
Apology	172	(1)
The Loss	173	(1)
Hands	173	(2)
The Minister	175	(1)
Siskin	176	(1)
The White Room	177	(1)
Elegy	178	(1)
When the camel is dust it goes through the needle's eye	179	(1)
A Marriage	180	(1)
III
Haunted	181	(1)
Green Mountain, Black Mountain	182	(7)
Correspondences: A Family History in Letters	189	(71)
IV Problematica
The Garden	260	(1)
The Unhappened	261	(1)
The Grey Land	261	(1)
On Not Being Able to Look at the Moon	262	(1)
About Crying	263	(1)
The Three	264	(1)
The Sirens Are Virtuous	265	(1)
Icon	266	(1)
Respectable House	266	(1)
Meniscus	267	(1)
Thales and Li Po	268	(1)
Cain	268	(1)
He and It	269	(1)
And even then	270	(1)
Inquit Deus	270	(1)
Cloven hoof's-bane	271	(1)
The Garden of Intellect	272	(1)
Trinity at Low Tide	273	(1)
Negatives	273	(2)
Love Stories and a Bed of Sand	275	(1)
A Love Sequence	276	(1)
Calendar	277	(1)
Washing the Clocks	278	(1)
An Angel	279	(2)
Washing My Hair	281	(1)
Naming the Flowers	282	(3)
V The Art of Making
Morning	285	(1)
Theme with Variations	286	(1)
To Write It	287	(1)
The Price	287	(1)
In Passing	288	(1)
Ah Babel	289	(1)
From the Men of Letters	289	(1)
The Figure in the Carpet	290	(1)
A Riddle for Peter Scupham	291	(1)
The Morden Angel	291	(2)
Re-reading Jane	293	(1)
John Keats, 1821-1950	294	(1)
At the Grave of Ezra Pound	295	(1)
Dreaming of Immortality in a Thatched Hut	296	(1)
The Exhibition	296	(2)
The Blue Pool	298	(1)
Seven Poems after Frances Bacon	299	(4)
1 Study for a Portrait on a Folding Bed	299	(1)
2 Study of a Dog	299	(1)
3 Three Figures and Portrait	299	(1)
4 Seated Figure	300	(1)
5 Portrait of a Lady	301	(1)
6 Triptych	301	(1)
7 Study for a portrait of Van Gogh	302	(1)
Brueghel's Snow	303	(1)
Hans Memling's Sibylla Sambetha	304	(1)
In the Museum of Floating Bodies and Flammable Souls	304	(1)
Whistler's Gentleman by the Sea	305	(1)
Painting It In	306	(1)
After you left	307	(1)
Red Hot Sex	308	(2)
The Miracle of Camp 60	310	(3)
Journal Entry: Impromptu in C Minor	313	(3)
Kosovo Surprised by Mozart	316	(1)
Hearing with My Fingers	317	(1)
Arioso Dolente	318	(2)
Post Scriptum	320	(3)
VI Verses
The Traveller	323	(1)
In Winter	324	(1)
Opera Piece	325	(1)
Two Quatrains	325	(1)
Lesson	325	(1)
Television	325	(1)
Ailanthus with Ghosts	326	(1)
A Ballad for Apothecaries	327	(3)
After the Fall	330	(1)
At Kilpeck Church	330	(2)
The Parson and the Romany	332	(1)
The Theologian's Confession	333	(1)
Carol of the Birds	334	(1)
Celebrity	335	(1)
A Quest	336	(1)
Ballad of the Made Maid	337	(1)
Oysters	338	(1)
Cashpoint Charlie	339	(1)
Skin Deep	340	(1)
Fool's Gold	341	(1)
Prophylactic Sonnets	341	(2)
Four Grim Fairy Tales	343	(2)
1 Rupunzel	343	(1)
2 Sleeping Beauty	343	(1)
3 Was Cinderella Ever Happy?	344	(1)
4 If Wishes Were Fishes	344	(1)
Giving Rabbit to My Cat, Bonnie	345	(1)
Epitaph for a Good Mouser	346	(1)
Clydie Is Dead!	346	(2)
Where the Animals Go	348	(3)
VII Border Crossings
Talking Sense to My Senses	351	(1)
On Going Deaf	351	(1)
What I Miss	352	(1)
In the Orchard	353	(1)
Melon meaning melon	353	(1)
Terrorist	354	(1)
Late	355	(1)
A Luxury	356	(2)
Christmas Comfort and the Green Man	358	(1)
It looks so simple from a distance...	359	(1)
Graves with Children	359	(1)
Two Countries	360	(1)
The Watchers	361	(1)
From the Primrose Path	362	(1)
A Cradle of Fist	363	(1)
New York Is Crying	364	(1)
Toy	365	(1)
Killing Spiders	366	(1)
As I Lay Sleeping	367	(1)
Photographing Change	368	(3)
VIII In Memoriam
Sonnets for Five Seasons	371	(3)
This House	371	(1)
Complaint	371	(1)
Between	372	(1)
Stasis	372	(1)
The Circle	373	(1)
Dreaming of the Dead	374	(1)
Waving to Elizabeth	375	(1)
A Dream of Stones	376	(1)
TWO POEMS FOR FRANCES HOROVITZ
Red Rock Fault	377	(1)
Willow Song	378	(2)
TWO POEMS FOR JOHN COLE
Dinghy	380	(1)
Cambrian	381	(1)
Poem for Harry Fainlight	382	(1)
THREE POEMS FOR SYLVIA PLATH
Nightmare, Daymoths	383	(1)
Letter to Sylvia Plath	384	(3)
Hot Wind, Hard Rain	387	(1)
The Name of the Worm	388	(1)
Invocation and Interruption	389	(2)
A Parable for Norman	391	(3)
Comet	394	(1)
Freeing Lizzie	395	(2)
The Writer in the Corner	397	(1)
Passifloraceae	398	(1)
TWO POEMS FOR NERYS JOHNSON
Portrait of the Artist in an Orthopaedic Halo Crowned with Flowers	399	(1)
Passing Her House	399	(2)
Variations on a Line by Peter Redgrove	401	(2)
INDEX OF TITLES AND FIRST LINES	403