Very

by Austin, Annemarie

• ISBN13: 9781852247959
• ISBN10: 1852247959
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-05-15
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Summary

Annemarie Austin was born in Devon and grew up on the Somerset Levels and in Weston-super-Mare, where she has lived for most of her life. She won the Cheltenham Literature Festival Poetry Competition in 1980, and her first collection, The Weather Coming (1987) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. This book includes work from all her collections.

Table of Contents

Very (2008)
Seeing the Light	p. 12
On Trains	p. 12
Diva Station	p. 13
Mission	p. 14
Nicknack	p. 15
Nun	p. 16
Street	p. 17
The Found	p. 17
On Site	p. 18
Lording It	p. 19
Fallow	p. 20
Aphasic	p. 20
And ... So	p. 21
World	p. 22
Diagrammatic	p. 23
Macrocosm/Microcosm	p. 24
Stranger	p. 25
Orosia	p. 25
Spectacle	p. 26
Flyover	p. 27
The Parley	p. 28
From Very Far Away	p. 29
Surveillance Sestina	p. 30
Meanwhile	p. 31
Avoided Subject	p. 32
Perigee Moons	p. 33
Estrange	p. 33
Small Death	p. 34
That Malediction	p. 34
When the Music Stops	p. 35
In Another Country	p. 36
Attend	p. 37
World Enough	p. 37
In the Sticks	p. 38
Indigo	p. 39
Undone Decalogue	p. 40
Very	p. 41
Against Elegy	p. 42
From The Weather Coming (1987)
The Long Undressing	p. 45
Postcard of Rimbaud in a Dream of Africa	p. 45
Flasher	p. 46
Temporary Lodging	p. 47
The Bone Ship	p. 47
Beechey Island, 1850	p. 48
The Needle	p. 49
The Wool-room	p. 50
Persephone in Hades	p. 51
Dark Continent	p. 53
Night Bus	p. 53
Noonday, 1969	p. 54
Alice	p. 54
Camera Obscura	p. 55
Slavey	p. 55
Stepmother in a Balloon	p. 57
Nantucket Island Wife	p. 58
From On the Border (1993)
Back to Back	p. 60
Moon	p. 62
The Dresses	p. 62
Green Belt	p. 63
Innards	p. 64
Snowcase - Versions	p. 65
Against the Gentle Vanishing	p. 73
Shape-shifting	p. 74
Clothing	p. 75
Pen and Paper	p. 76
'They Say the Owl was a Baker's Daughter'	p. 77
On the Border	p. 82
Fingers	p. 83
Sunday Morning	p. 84
From the Flaying of Marsyas (1995)
The Flaying of Marsyas	p. 86
Here Are Candles	p. 86
Victorian	p. 87
Dynastic	p. 88
Babes	p. 92
The Mermaid Examined	p. 93
'Silos to Rent, Suitable for Growing Mushrooms'	p. 94
Goat Song	p. 95
Moonmen	p. 96
Moonless	p. 97
Penelope	p. 98
From Door Upon Door (1999)
The Indigo Bedspread	p. 100
Marriage	p. 101
The Sand Spring	p. 102
Hammershoi's Rooms	p. 103
The Painter's Wife	p. 103
The Statues	p. 104
Nineteen Fifty-Six	p. 105
Bystanding	p. 106
The Harpies	p. 107
Speech for Grendel's Mother	p. 108
Tiger-taming	p. 110
Chiaroscuro	p. 111
Swaddled	p. 111
Bedsides	p. 112
Language	p. 113
Century	p. 114
Lesson	p. 117
Heart's Delight	p. 118
From Back from the Moon (2003)
'Of a Middle Nature between Man and Angels'	p. 120
Endoscopy	p. 121
Haar	p. 122
Moon Pix	p. 122
Back from the Moon	p. 124
Pin	p. 125
Unreal Princesses	p. 126
At Home My Lord	p. 127
Isolation Hospital	p. 129
The Dancing Floor	p. 129
Skins	p. 130
Visiting Alfred	p. 131
Aftermath	p. 132
The Burning Book	p. 132
The Frozen Library	p. 133
Passage	p. 134
Brought Down and Taken Up	p. 134
Invocation	p. 135
Seen and Not Heard	p. 136
The Train Now Leaving	p. 136
Anatomy Theatre	p. 137
Miss Ladylike	p. 138
Keeping Life Still	p. 138
Blue	p. 140
'A Night in Russia When Nights Are Longest There'	p. 141
Salvage	p. 143
Galileo's Room	p. 144
Witch-Bottle	p. 145
Levels	p. 146
The Long Hair of Certain Men	p. 147
The Graininess of the Universe and Mata Hari's Luggage	p. 148
Debatable Land
I.
The Beach Again	p. 150
Spoon	p. 150
Spell	p. 151
Is This Thinking Cap	p. 151
On Wednesdays	p. 152
Country	p. 152
What My Double Will	p. 153
II.
Revision	p. 154
Closing Down	p. 155
Pillow Talk	p. 156
Confabulation	p. 156
Operation	p. 157
Alphabet Soup	p. 158
Cave	p. 158
Beginning with Sinyavsky	p. 159
Note	p. 160
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