Poems 1955-2005

by Stevenson, Anne

• ISBN13: 9781852247218
• ISBN10: 1852247215
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-01-30
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Summary

Poetry from the UK

Table of Contents

Prologue
Making Poetry	p. 17
Saying the World	p. 18
The Sun Appears in November	p. 18
From an Unfinished Poem	p. 19
The Fiction Makers	p. 20
Gannets Diving	p. 22
North Sea off Carnoustie	p. 22
Moonrise	p. 23
If I Could Paint Essences	p. 24
Swifts	p. 25
In the Tunnel of Summers	p. 26
A Report from the Border	p. 27
Small Philosophical Poem	p. 28
Vertigo	p. 28
The Way You Say the World
Living in America	p. 30
Sierra Nevada	p. 30
Still Life in Utah	p. 32
Ann Arbor	p. 32
Going Back	p. 33
The Dear Ladies of Cincinnati	p. 36
Harvard	p. 37
Nightmare in North Carolina	p. 38
A Summer Place	p. 38
Ruin	p. 40
New York	p. 41
A Hot Night in New York	p. 41
Journal Entry: Ward's Island	p. 42
England	p. 44
The Women	p. 46
Fen People	p. 47
A River	p. 47
In Middle England	p. 48
Travelling Behind Glass	p. 50
From the Motorway	p. 56
Branch Line	p. 57
A Tourist Guide to the Fens	p. 58
Coming Back to Cambridge	p. 59
Temporarily in Oxford	p. 61
Lockkeeper's Island	p. 62
By the Boat House, Oxford	p. 63
Walking Early by the Wye	p. 64
Burnished	p. 65
Himalayan Balsam	p. 66
Whose Goat?	p. 67
Earth Station	p. 68
The Wrekin	p. 69
Poems From CWM Nantcol
Binoculars in Ardudwy	p. 71
The Unaccommodated	p. 72
Phoenicurus phoenicurus	p. 73
Pity the Birds	p. 74
A Present	p. 75
The Wind, the Sun and the Moon	p. 76
Under Moelfre	p. 77
Attacking the Waterfall	p. 77
Why Take Against Mythology (1)	p. 78
Why Take Against Mythology (2)	p. 79
Spring Poem	p. 80
Without Me	p. 80
May Bluebells, Coed Aber Artro	p. 81
Leaving	p. 82
Pennine	p. 83
Shale	p. 83
A Prayer to Live with Real People	p. 84
Household Gods	p. 85
Forgotten of the Foot	p. 86
Demolition	p. 88
Spring Song	p. 88
November	p. 89
From My Study	p. 90
Winter Time	p. 96
Salter's Gate	p. 97
Claude Glass	p. 98
Jarrow	p. 99
North Easter	p. 100
Skills	p. 101
Night Walking with Shadows	p. 102
Spring Again	p. 103
17.14 Out of Newcastle	p. 104
American Rhetoric for Scotland	p. 106
East Coast	p. 108
Fire and the Tide	p. 108
Summer	p. 108
The Bench	p. 108
Boating Pool at Night	p. 108
Winter Flowers	p. 109
The Lighthouse	p. 109
Night Wind, Dundee	p. 110
Aberdeen	p. 110
The Mudtower	p. 110
The Fish Are All Sick	p. 111
The Man in the Wind	p. 111
Cramond	p. 112
Inverkirkaig	p. 113
Buzzard and Alder	p. 114
Cold	p. 114
Path	p. 115
Resurrection	p. 116
Enough of Green	p. 117
In the Weather of Deciduous Souls	p. 118
Seven Ages
Epigraph from Reversals	p. 121
The Spirit Is Too Blunt an Instrument	p. 122
The Victory	p. 123
Stabilities	p. 123
Poem for a Daughter	p. 124
To My Daughter in a Red Coat	p. 124
In March	p. 125
With My Sons at Boarhills	p. 125
In the Nursery	p. 127
To Phoebe	p. 127
Little Paul and the Sea	p. 128
Four and a Half Dancing Men	p. 128
The Holly and the Ivy	p. 130
The Doctor	p. 131
A Surprise on the First Day of School	p. 131
Innocence and Experience	p. 132
At Thirteen	p. 133
Incident	p. 134
Suicide	p. 134
Transparencies	p. 135
Sous-entendu	p. 137
Love	p. 137
Politesse	p. 138
Aubade	p. 139
Reversals	p. 140
Two Love Poems	p. 140
Wanted	p. 141
Posted	p. 141
Drought	p. 142
After the End of It	p. 142
An Impenitent Ghost	p. 143
'All Canal Boat Cruises Start Here'	p. 144
This	p. 145
In the House	p. 146
Night Thoughts and False Confessions	p. 147
The Suburb	p. 148
The Takeover	p. 149
The Mother	p. 150
Generations	p. 150
Five Poems of Innocence and Experience	p. 151
The Crush	p. 151
The Marriage	p. 151
The Affair	p. 152
The Demolition	p. 152
Old Scholars	p. 153
The Other House	p. 153
Old Wife's Tale	p. 155
Eros	p. 155
Questionable	p. 156
False Flowers	p. 156
On Watching a Cold Woman Wade into a Cold Sea	p. 158
Musician's Widow	p. 159
The Professor's Tale	p. 160
Stone Fig	p. 161
Visits to the Cemetery of the Long Alive
Hadrian's	p. 162
A Sepia Garden	p. 162
Bloody Bloody	p. 165
Black Hole	p. 167
Lost	p. 168
A Tricksy June	p. 168
Granny Scarecrow	p. 169
To witness pain is different form of pain	p. 170
Who's Joking with the Photographer	p. 170
After Her Death	p. 172
Apology	p. 172
The Loss	p. 173
Hands	p. 173
The Minister	p. 175
Siskin	p. 176
The White Room	p. 177
Elegy	p. 178
When the camel is dust it goes through the needle's eye	p. 179
A Marriage	p. 180
Haunted	p. 181
Green Mountain, Black Mountain	p. 182
Correspondences: A Family History in Letters	p. 189
Problematica
The Garden	p. 260
The Unhappened	p. 261
The Grey Land	p. 261
On Not Being Able to Look at the Moon	p. 262
About Crying	p. 263
The Three	p. 264
The Sirens Are Virtuous	p. 265
Icon	p. 266
Respectable House	p. 266
Meniscus	p. 267
Thales and Li Po	p. 268
Cain	p. 268
He and It	p. 269
And even then	p. 270
Inquit Deus	p. 270
Cloven hoof's-bane	p. 271
The Garden of Intellect	p. 272
Trinity at Low Tide	p. 273
Negatives	p. 273
Love Stories and a Bed of Sand	p. 275
A Love Sequence	p. 276
Calendar	p. 277
Washing the Clocks	p. 278
An Angel	p. 279
Washing My Hair	p. 281
Naming the Flowers	p. 282
The Art of Making
Morning	p. 285
Theme with Variations	p. 286
To Write It	p. 287
The Price	p. 287
In Passing	p. 288
Ah Babel	p. 289
From the Men of Letters	p. 289
The Figure in the Carpet	p. 290
A Riddle for Peter Scupham	p. 291
The Morden Angel	p. 291
Re-reading Jane	p. 293
John Keats, 1821-1950	p. 294
At the Grave of Ezra Pound	p. 295
Dreaming of Immortality in a Thatched Hut	p. 296
The Exhibition	p. 296
The Blue Pool	p. 298
Seven Poems after Frances Bacon	p. 299
Study for a Portrait on a Folding Bed	p. 299
Study of a Dog	p. 299
Three Figures and Portrait	p. 299
Seated Figure	p. 300
Portrait of a Lady	p. 301
Triptych	p. 301
Study for a portrait of Van Gogh	p. 302
Brueghel's Snow	p. 303
Hans Memling's Sibylla Sambetha	p. 304
In the Museum of Floating Bodies and Flammable Souls	p. 304
Whistler's Gentleman by the Sea	p. 305
Painting It In	p. 306
After you left	p. 307
Red Hot Sex	p. 308
The Miracle of Camp 60	p. 310
Journal Entry: Impromptu in C Minor	p. 313
Kosovo Surprised by Mozart	p. 316
Hearing with My Fingers	p. 317
Arioso Dolente	p. 318
Post Scriptum	p. 320
Verses
The Traveller	p. 323
In Winter	p. 324
Opera Piece	p. 325
Two Quatrains	p. 325
Lesson	p. 325
Television	p. 325
Ailanthus with Ghosts	p. 326
A Ballad for Apothecaries	p. 327
After the Fall	p. 330
At Kilpeck Church	p. 330
The Parson and the Romany	p. 332
The Theologian's Confession	p. 333
Carol of the Birds	p. 334
Celebrity	p. 335
A Quest	p. 336
Ballad of the Made Maid	p. 337
Oysters	p. 338
Cashpoint Charlie	p. 339
Skin Deep	p. 340
Fool's Gold	p. 341
Prophylactic Sonnets	p. 341
Four Grim Fairy Tales	p. 343
Rapunzel	p. 343
Sleeping Beauty	p. 343
Was Cinderella Ever Happy?	p. 344
If Wishes Were Fishes	p. 344
Giving Rabbit to My Cat, Bonnie	p. 345
Epitaph for a Good Mouser	p. 346
Clydie Is Dead!	p. 346
Where the Animals Go	p. 348
Border Crossings
Talking Sense to My Senses	p. 351
On Going Deaf	p. 351
What I Miss	p. 352
In the Orchard	p. 353
Melon meaning melon	p. 353
Terrorist	p. 354
Late	p. 355
A Luxury	p. 356
Christmas Comfort and the Green Man	p. 358
It looks so simple from a distance...	p. 359
Graves with Children	p. 359
Two Countries	p. 360
The Watchers	p. 361
From the Primrose Path	p. 362
A Cradle of Fist	p. 363
New York Is Crying	p. 364
Toy	p. 365
Killing Spiders	p. 366
As I Lay Sleeping	p. 367
Photographing Change	p. 368
In Memoriam
Sonnets for Five Seasons	p. 371
This House	p. 371
Complaint	p. 371
Between	p. 372
Stasis	p. 372
The Circle	p. 373
Dreaming of the Dead	p. 374
Waving to Elizabeth	p. 375
A Dream of Stones	p. 376
Two Poems for Frances Horovitz
Red Rock Fault	p. 377
Willow Song	p. 378
Two Poems for John Cole
Dinghy	p. 380
Cambrian	p. 381
Poem for Harry Fainlight	p. 382
Three Poems for Sylvia Plath
Nightmare, Daymoths	p. 383
Letter to Sylvia Plath	p. 384
Hot Wind, Hard Rain	p. 387
The Name of the Worm	p. 388
Invocation and Interruption	p. 389
A Parable for Norman	p. 391
Comet	p. 394
Freeing Lizzie	p. 395
The Writer in the Corner	p. 397
Passifloraceae	p. 398
Two Poems for Nerys Johnson
Portrait of the Artist in an Orthopaedic Halo Crowned with Flowers	p. 399
Passing Her House	p. 399
Variations on a Line by Peter Redgrove	p. 401
Index of Titles and First Lines	p. 403
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