The Sound of Light

by Heath-Stubbs, John

• ISBN13: 9781857543537
• ISBN10: 185754353X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.

Summary

In The Sound of Light John Heath-Stubbs gives us a coherent, shaped collection on an antique model and scale, revealing once more how inexhaustible and adaptable formstraditional and free verse - can be when handled with tact and mastery.
Fable, fairy tale and fun serve to heighten the serious concerns which underlie his vital work.

Table of Contents

Apple Gripe	p. 9
The Colour of Sound. The Sound of Light	p. 10
The Brain-Fever Bird	p. 11
At St. Pancras Station	p. 12
Gaetano Donizetti Enters the Mental Hospital	p. 13
The Young Orestes	p. 15
Cinna the Poet	p. 16
Florus and Hadrian	p. 17
If Antonio	p. 18
A Country Minuet	p. 19
Variations on a Popular Song	p. 20
A Fisherman's Tale	p. 21
The Yellow Bird	p. 22
Letter to Dannie Abse	p. 23
At the Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea	p. 24
The Chucking-Out Bells of Soho in the Forties and Fifties	p. 25
An East-End Romance	p. 28
A Ballad of Trafalgar Square	p. 29
Madame Blavatsky in Oxford	p. 30
Yogic Flying	p. 31
The Dandelion and the Daisy, a Fable	p. 32
Senecio	p. 33
Hansel and Gretel	p. 34
To a Photographer on his Fiftieth Birthday	p. 35
Ten Kinds of Birds	p. 36
The Conversation at Pisa	p. 37
Geoffrey Chaucer in Tuscany	p. 38
To the Oriole	p. 39
Alpine Swifts at Chamonix	p. 40
Rafflesia	p. 41
Rotifer	p. 42
Basilisk	p. 43
Uncle Jim	p. 44
The Amphisboena	p. 45
Dialogue of Bees	p. 46
The Crab Spiders' Wedding	p. 47
Poem for the End of the World	p. 48
A Romantic Adventure	p. 49
A Toby Jug	p. 50
The Visiting Angel	p. 51
Sonnet	p. 52
Fitz and the Mouse	p. 53
To the Dormouse	p. 54
Hurrah for Pachyderms	p. 55
The Giant Squirrels	p. 56
A Clutch of Dinosaur's Eggs	p. 57
Variations on a Theme by Tom Moore	p. 58
Goose Flesh	p. 59
November	p. 60
For the Millennium	p. 61
Not Actaeon	p. 62
News from Turcmania	p. 62
Mothers of Great Men	p. 63
The Great God Pan	p. 64
The Winter Birds	p. 65
Ockham's Razor	p. 66
St. Martin's Day	p. 67
Poem for St. Bridget's Day	p. 68
Saint Anthony Preaches to the Fishes	p. 69
Saint Christopher or Anubis	p. 70
A Poem of Welcome	p. 71
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