Stealing the Mona Lisa

by Greenhalgh, Chris

• ISBN13: 9781852242862
• ISBN10: 1852242868
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-10-01
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Summary

A characteristic lightness of touch and a restless comic energy are evident in Greenhalgh's first book where inner and outer worlds combine in poems that crackle with satire. His range is impressive. Sensuous love poems, a debunking of the Apollo moo

Author Biography

Chris Greenhalgh teaches English and Creative Writing in Kent.

Table of Contents

Mythologies	p. 9
Coffee-Break	p. 10
The Night I Met Marilyn	p. 11
As a Matter of Fact	p. 13
The Big No-No	p. 16
Enterprise	p. 17
Pentimento	p. 20
Sweetness and Light	p. 22
Gulf	p. 23
La Bocca	p. 24
Lachryma Christi '91	p. 25
A Song for Europe	p. 27
Jeux Sans Frontieres	p. 29
The Man Who Called Himself Jesus	p. 30
Mycology	p. 31
Arcadia	p. 32
Three Athenian Moments	p. 33
Islands	p. 35
Introducing 'Love'	p. 36
from Love Songs	p. 37
A Sunlit Miracle	p. 41
Sin	p. 43
A Game of Chess	p. 44
Blue Territory	p. 45
Colloquies	p. 46
Sunspots	p. 48
Moonshots	p. 49
Patrimony	p. 57
My Last Wife	p. 58
A Night to Remember	p. 59
Sea-Fret	p. 60
Tip-Toeing Around the Ego	p. 61
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