The Song Atlas A Book of World Poetry

by Gallas, John

• ISBN13: 9781857546149
• ISBN10: 1857546148
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-04-28
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.

Summary

"This global poetry collection gives every nation from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe a poetic hue. Topography, plants and animals, language and history, love, and regret and hope combine in the luminous poetic spectrum of a world. Here 196 nations speak, their voices distinct, complementary, converging. Latitude and longitude are lines of poems, climate a thought; commerce deals in sense and the six senses. Celebrating difference, in the common language of English, these poems gather the voices of three millennia."

Table of Contents

I came out of the unmade ...	p. 1
Exiles	p. 2
Hello	p. 3
Museum	p. 4
Monangamba Estate	p. 5
Plantain	p. 7
What Would They Say?	p. 8
In the Sevan Mountains	p. 9
Thunder floats ...	p. 10
Grodek	p. 11
To my Son, Abbas	p. 12
Chickcharnies	p. 13
Poet to a Poet	p. 14
The Strike	p. 15
Doodle durdle	p. 17
Yelling-alive	p. 18
Spade	p. 21
When a fish ...	p. 23
Elephant	p. 24
Dad is busy ...	p. 26
Night-time	p. 27
Nostalgia	p. 28
Bushwoman stands here ...	p. 29
Orchid	p. 30
A twist of hair ...	p. 31
Snow	p. 32
Cattle-count	p. 33
The Match that Darkened the Sun	p. 34
Phnom Penh Morning	p. 35
An Hour of Life	p. 36
'City-Hotel'	p. 37
Island	p. 38
2 Termite Skyscrapers	p. 39
The Parts of a Thornbush	p. 40
Country Funeral	p. 41
Man	p. 43
Art	p. 44
Night 1; Night 9	p. 45
Man-Myth: Puberty	p. 46
Lone Tree	p. 47
Green branch with a sadness of yellow fruit	p. 48
I grow a white rose ...	p. 49
Hopeless Eveningsong	p. 50
Winter Night	p. 51
The Poet's Poem	p. 52
My birthplace is the brown heather-land ...	p. 53
Between clackstones and sun-rule ...	p. 54
In the Woods	p. 56
A Silence of Eyes	p. 57
The Mauberes	p. 58
The Abandoned House	p. 60
Brightlines	p. 61
Sweet Pale Girl	p. 63
Riddle	p. 64
Clothes	p. 65
My wide eyes watch ...	p. 66
You Never Ask	p. 67
The Coffee Rancher	p. 68
Kadavu	p. 69
Bridge	p. 71
Pierrot Says	p. 72
The Wind	p. 73
Sun	p. 74
Sleep-song	p. 75
Suliko	p. 76
Legacy	p. 77
This song explodes	p. 78
Wild Creeper	p. 79
The candy-throated Carib flaps ...	p. 80
Opaque Copper	p. 81
And it's morning ...	p. 82
To me, your beauty ...	p. 83
Mango	p. 84
Hot Ports	p. 87
A Workwoman's Death	p. 88
Who'll Bear Love	p. 89
Corpsebeach	p. 90
Ghazal 13: 'Where are your woo-trysts ...'	p. 91
Light Leaving a Small Harbour	p. 92
Prayers	p. 93
The Party's Over	p. 94
Copier	p. 95
Dancer	p. 96
O my Dear Animals	p. 98
The Death of Old Men	p. 99
Work's end	p. 100
A Polite Debate	p. 102
More than love	p. 103
Summer	p. 104
Smalltown Yala	p. 106
I funnel up ...	p. 108
I thought for ten years ...	p. 109
The sky-geese have gone ...	p. 110
Come - go ...	p. 111
Mother, and Given Girl	p. 112
Soul Call	p. 113
Goodbye to a Spaceman	p. 114
Ah, Mr. Businessman!	p. 116
Peace, Rain, Plenty	p. 117
Bird and man	p. 118
Not Quiet	p. 119
The Quince	p. 120
Prelude to 'Blood & Ash'	p. 121
Flow	p. 123
Tobacco Pickers	p. 124
Cactuses	p. 126
He is handsome ...	p. 127
Love's footprints	p. 128
The Muiveyo Cow	p. 129
God Knows Why	p. 132
Polestar	p. 133
The First Coconut Tree	p. 134
Seen to be Done	p. 136
It was / so hot ...	p. 137
World! why do you hound me?	p. 138
Paddle-song	p. 139
Goodbye	p. 140
A wee bird sang in the wasteland ...	p. 142
My Country	p. 143
In Time	p. 145
3D	p. 146
Lullaby	p. 147
I have to go ...	p. 148
Arere, Eiroworowin & Eomakan	p. 149
Stride On	p. 151
City Evening	p. 152
Treeback	p. 154
Tropic Afternoon	p. 155
The Mouse	p. 156
Bloom-Girl	p. 157
Two Poems	p. 158
Truth	p. 159
Poem	p. 160
The Bungle-man ...	p. 161
Young once ...	p. 162
O Myland Woman	p. 163
Sent	p. 165
Forced Labour	p. 166
People tell me ...	p. 167
Polish Colours	p. 168
My smalltown bell ...	p. 169
Unspent	p. 170
Mechanical-landscape-poem	p. 171
The Worker	p. 172
Visitors	p. 173
Safe, here, now ...	p. 174
The Death of Saint Marinus	p. 175
To Tania	p. 176
Tie up my bones ...	p. 177
The piddling ant has its bibble of gall ...	p. 178
Nightstart	p. 179
Sea-palms	p. 180
Careful!	p. 181
Day's End	p. 182
December	p. 183
Where?	p. 185
This johnny ...	p. 186
Camel	p. 187
Dance of Sister Rain	p. 188
Song of the Sterile Orange Tree	p. 189
The Hunters Ask God	p. 190
Makeme	p. 191
Sea	p. 192
The monkey knows ...	p. 193
Loveshock	p. 194
I want a heart ...	p. 195
You	p. 196
That profound waiting time ...	p. 198
Blackshadow Chestnut	p. 199
Give me ... I'll give you	p. 200
My horse thickens ...	p. 201
I've worked so hard ...	p. 202
The Ten-Day Visitor	p. 203
Goodland	p. 205
Night Roof	p. 206
The Story of Kepa Falekaono	p. 207
Silk Cotton Tree	p. 209
A shot of sunlight lasts just too long ...	p. 211
Moonstruck Storks	p. 212
Pick a pomegranate ...	p. 213
I wish ...	p. 214
The Eyeshop	p. 215
Lonely	p. 216
A B C D	p. 217
Siesta	p. 218
Like always ...	p. 219
Today I dreamed all day ...	p. 220
And then night fell	p. 221
The Wall	p. 225
Hallucinatory Sunset, with Sons	p. 226
Autumn End	p. 227
Silk-spread Blackbird	p. 229
Ox	p. 230
The Cell	p. 231
My dugout flibbles ...	p. 232
Loveburn	p. 233
Acknowledgements	p. 235
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