Cargando…
Getting there /
Matt Simpson?s poetry has among its principal themes one of coming to terms with the past as a way of understanding the present. In the present collection Simpson continues his journey into his family history. He has also been on other travels: there are poems about Japan, Tasmania, Ireland and the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2001.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Another Look; A Great-Grandfather; A Great-Grandmother; Grandfathers; Grandmothers; Birthplace; My Mother and her Two Brothers; Their Wedding Photograph; Sticks and Stones; Hickory Dickory; Jolson Sings; First Day at the Grammar School; Catching an Old Film on Television; Days of TEFL; Snap; May 1997; Emma at Seven Months; Somewhere Down the Line; No Joke; For the Man I Used to Go Fishing With; Fishing in the Grounds of a Therapeutic Community; Not at his Best; Dead of Winter; 'Committal'; The Dovecote; The Idea of Order at Hunts Cross
- Jupiter Optimus Maximus Squeezing a Poem out of Me; Fragment; Something for Gael Turnbull on his Seventieth Birthday; Making an Arrangement; An Invitation to Breakfast from Sydney Smith; Hiroshima; Sez I Sez I in Stephen's Green; Seventh Heaven; At Drumcliff in 1997; Getting There; Mnemósynon; Moonlight on Leros; Olives; The Quality of Greek Light; Scottish Waiter Bringing Squid; Funerary Monuments, Aegina; Taking the Hexameter a Walk; Moonlight on Aegina; Whalewatching
- Vancouver Island; Seventh-Storey Heaven
- Richard le Gallienne (1866-1947); Sarah Biffin; Ancestors; In the Dock Canteen
- On Tape at the Old People's Home Winter Solstice 2001; A Long Way from Home; Publisher's note