The Sea Cabinet

by O'Reilly, Caitriona

• ISBN13: 9781852247058
• ISBN10: 1852247053
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-09-15
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Summary

The title-poem conjures the vanished world of the whaling industry, and serves as a starting-point for other acute meditations on natural and cultural obsolescence.

Table of Contents

Poliomyelitis	p. 11
Lag	p. 12
Gravitations	p. 13
Persona	p. 14
The maze	p. 15
X-ray	p. 16
Diffraction	p. 17
Floater	p. 19
Duets	p. 20
To the muse	p. 21
Hierophant	p. 22
A Qing dish	p. 23
Netsuke	p. 24
Shortcut to Northwind	p. 26
In the deaf man's house	p. 28
Who are these coming to the sacrifice?	p. 28
Yo lo vi	p. 28
The sleep of reason	p. 28
Sabbath-Asmodeus	p. 29
Palimpsest	p. 29
Six landscapes	p. 30
The river	p. 30
Littoral	p. 31
Uggool	p. 33
The avenues	p. 34
On Beverley Common	p. 35
In Aragon	p. 36
A deserted house	p. 37
The sea cabinet	p. 38
The ship	p. 38
The mermaid	p. 40
The esquimaux	p. 41
The unicorn	p. 43
The whale	p. 44
But to the girdle to the gods inherit	p. 45
Stalker	p. 46
A equals B : B equals C	p. 47
Bempton Cliffs	p. 49
A quartet for the falcon	p. 50
The mews	p. 50
Opus Contra Naturam	p. 51
The lure	p. 52
The curee	p. 53
Now or when	p. 54
Calculus	p. 55
Heliotrope	p. 56
Electrical storm	p. 57
Pollen	p. 59
An ending	p. 60
Envoi	p. 61
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