Where the Angolans are Playing Football New and Selected Poems

by White, Landeg

• ISBN13: 9781902638300
• ISBN10: 1902638301
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Parthian Books

Summary

Containing selections from the poet's previous five publications, as well as new poetry, this volume is a comprehensive introduction to a poet who writes with humor, pathos, and a gift for observation.

Author Biography

Landeg White teaches at the Universidade Aberta (Open University).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Afternoons, Mozambique	p. 3
Tales of the Islands	p. 4
Briefs	p. 6
Dhow Crossing	p. 9
For Captain Stedman	p. 10
Sinking	p. 14
Gentler than Growth	p. 14
Correspondence	p. 15
Province of Freedom	p. 17
Lusaka Blues	p. 19
Spain	p. 20
Ministering	p. 21
After the Revolution	p. 22
Refugee	p. 24
Lark	p. 27
Bar Domino	p. 28
Incident at a Poetry Reading	p. 33
Living in the Delta	p. 34
Scribble	p. 36
From Robert Moffat's Journal, 1854	p. 37
Cotton, Rubber, Tobacco etc	p. 38
Chimwalira	p. 39
Words for Heroes' Day, perhaps	p. 40
The Accord	p. 41
Thief	p. 43
From Episode in a War: Mozambique 1972	p. 44
The View from the Stockade	p. 46
Joanna	p. 48
On the Train, Reading Dante	p. 49
On a Painting by William Etty	p. 50
For her Wedding She Wore her Breasts Bare	p. 51
From The Highjack: an Epithalamium	p. 52
Briefs	p. 54
Surfaces	p. 57
Do Tempo Perdido	p. 58
Antonio Rui	p. 59
Charcoal	p. 60
Immortal Diamond	p. 61
Prescript: Landfall	p. 65
1. The Hearing	p. 67
2. The First Man	p. 69
4. The Kindest of Fathers	p. 70
7. South	p. 71
9. Breadfruit	p. 72
10. Tahitohito	p. 72
12. Bligh	p. 73
17. Oro	p. 76
18. The Action	p. 77
Postscript: Landfall	p. 80
Poetry of Verandas	p. 85
Ruanda	p. 89
Red Alert	p. 90
The Instinct	p. 91
Massamba with the Brilliant Flowers	p. 95
War Poem	p. 99
Buddleia	p. 100
Obituaries: Up an' Under	p. 100
Blueprint	p. 102
Letter to My Son	p. 104
Self-Praises	p. 105
Bacalhau	p. 106
Update from a Distant Friend	p. 109
Xmas Dinner	p. 111
The Most Deceiving	p. 112
October's Sickle Moon	p. 114
Let me tell you, Jack ...	p. 117
Where the Land Ends and the Sea Begins	p. 121
The Trick	p. 124
The New Smiling Bwanas	p. 128
There	p. 132
Sinking Fund	p. 136
The Simplicity of Mountains	p. 139
Special Delivery	p. 143
Casa Uhuru	p. 149
Stanzas to the Slave, Barbara	p. 150
The Brown Girl	p. 151
Oldest Inhabitant	p. 153
Water	p. 154
Sunday Worship	p. 155
Praise Poem	p. 157
A Far Cry	p. 158
Neighbours	p. 159
The Platform	p. 161
Before the Oranges have Fallen	p. 163
Shepherd	p. 164
Dry Stone Walls	p. 165
Mightier than, etc	p. 166
With What I'm Burning	p. 167
Victor	p. 168
Literary Remains	p. 169
The Double Wake	p. 170
An Open Letter to Derek Walcott	p. 171
Roman Style	p. 174
The Exploding Gorse-Pods	p. 175
As Goldfinches are Stabbing the First Green Cones	p. 176
The Two Markers	p. 177
When Paul Celan Met Heidegger	p. 178
Index of Titles	p. 179
Index of First lines	p. 181
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