Carcanet Press - Oxford Poets 2010: An Anthology

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Excerpt
Editors
Contents
Awards
Reviews

Including poetry by:

Robert Black

Jim Carruth

Ellen Cranitch

Philip Hancock

Pippa Little

Kathryn Maris

M.R. Peacocke

David Shook

Ryan Van Winkle

The first OxfordPoets anthology established as an editorial principal ‘no programme beyond a desire to represent the best’. The series has unfolded as a record of contemporary poetry, and this sixth collection maintains the qualities of lively eclecticism, inventiveness and intelligence that have made the anthologies one of the most engaging samplers of current writing.

The poets here include new writers and those who have become more widely known; writers whose imaginative and linguistic worlds span decades and continents; those who remake traditional forms and those who experiment beyond them. Their individual voices are distinctive; they share a commitment to the possibilities of poetry to explore and translate the world.

Contents

Introduction

Robert Ray Black
Measures
Life Like Green
Nothing Unknown
Untitled
Glosses
Briseis’ Daddy
What is argued
Growing Bones
Dick Gamble
Saturday’s Child

Jim Carruth
Signing for the Deaf
Picking up the Song (in a break in the harvest)
Black Cart
The Progressive Canadian Barn Dance
Prince of Tinkers
Old Ploughman
Farm Sale

Ellen Cranitch
Dying Time
The Aftermath
Ghost Bikes
Valentine’s Day, Regent’s Park
Deep Blue
My Mother’s Hair
The Suicide’s Defence
The New Cemetery, Killarney

Philip Hancock
Double Art
Applied Physics
Woodruff & Sons
Caravans
Over 21s
Payday
Demolition of the Power Station
To Carry a Ladder
Footnotes

Pippa Little
The Only of Himself
Beijing Flight, Thursday Morning
Riddling
The Flowering
Stella Maris
The Captain Plays Shostakovich on an Upright Piano,
Field Hospital, Helmand Province
This was the year
The Night-Flying Bees
Newala
Spending One Day with Patrick Kavanagh

Kathryn Maris
Knowledge Is a Good Thing
Hilary Has Left the Building, Unless She Hasn’t
If You Relive a Moment You Cannot Outlive It
The Tall Thin Tenor
On Returning a Child to Her Mother at the Natural History Museum
Doubting Thomas
This Is a Confessional Poem

M.R. Peacocke
Les Pompes Funèbres
Seaside Stories
Child’s Play
Shall We Dance?
Thirteenth Night
Jug

David Shook
Postcard from Weslaco
Four Ash Fall Questions
Silvestre Adán
Postcard from El Paso: Night Shift at the Hotdog Factory
Offerings to Tule
The Rest of the Cow
Peluqueria Poema

Ryan Van Winkle
It Is Summer and in Connecticut the Grill Is Grilling
Falling #71
Knots
They Tore the Bridge Down a Year Later
Gasoline
Ode for a Rain from Death Row
Discreet
My 100-year-old ghost
The day he went to war

David Constantine

David Constantine is a novelist, poet and translator of Hoelderlin, Goethe, Faust and Brecht. He is also an editor of Oxford Poets, an imprint of Carcanet Press, and of the magazine Modern Poetry in Translation . Born in Salford, Lancashire, in 1944, he is a Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford, ... read more

Robyn Marsack

Robyn Marsack began her long association with Carcanet Press by editing the first edition of Edmund Blunden’s Selected Poems in 1982, and worked as a publishers’ editor until she became Director of the Scottish Poetry Library 2000–2016. She was a Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at the University of Glasgow 2016–2018. ... read more

Bernard O'Donoghue

Bernard O'Donoghue teaches Medieval English at Wadham College, Oxford,and has published seven books of poems, including Gunpowder, which won the Whitbread Prize for Poetry in 1995, and his Selected Poems (Faber, 2008). His verse translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was published by Penguin Classics in 2006. ... read more

Awards won by David Constantine Short-listed, 2010 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award (The Shieling) Winner, 2013 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Prize
(Tea at the Midland) Winner, 2010 BBC National Short Story Award
(Tea at the Midland)

Praise for David Constantine 'I started reading these stories quietly, and then became obsessed, read them all fast, and started re-reading them again and again. They are gripping tales, but what is startling is the quality of the writing. Every sentence is both unpredictable and exactly what it should be. Reading them is a series of short shocks of (agreeably envious) pleasure...'
AS Byatt, Book of the Week, The Guardian 'Flawless and unsettling.'
Boyd Tonkin, Books of the Year 2005, The Independent
'Touched at times with humour and infused with compassion, these complex, nuanced stories speak repeatedly of lives lived in some form of exile, yet manage to keep in play the possibility that exile is not, contrary to appearances, our true condition.'
New Welsh Review 'A. S. Byatt has described reading a previous collection of Constantine's short fiction as akin to experiencing ''a series of short shocks of (agreeably envious) pleasure''. Tea at the Midland shows the author to be on equally sparkling form again.'
The TLS
'The excellence of the collection is fractal: the whole book is excellent, and every story is excellent, and every paragraph is excellent, and every sentence is excellent. And, unlike some literary fiction, it's effortless to read.'
The Independent on Sunday Praise for Robyn Marsack 'Readers will be drawn to this book for the poets' letters, but what really dominates is the personality of Schmidt; at the end we are left with a prevailing sense of his editorial vision and an appreciation of his influence and accomplishment in the world of contemporary poetry publishing and criticism... Fifty Fifty is full of energy and play, and not a few crossed swords.'

Kevin Gardner, Wild Court

'A window into the award-winning world of Carcanet'
Tristram Fane Saunders, The Telegraph
'In celebration of the Manchester-based press' 50th anniversary, a fascinating collection of letters... tracing the eventful history of this small, ambitious and excellent press.'
The Bookseller

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Oxford Poets 2010: An Anthology Edited by David Constantine, Robyn Marsack and Bernard O'Donoghue Categories: 21st Century, Anthologies Imprint: OxfordPoets Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Digital access available through Exact Editions Description Excerpt Editors Contents Awards Reviews Including poetry by: Robert Black Jim Carruth Ellen Cranitch Philip Hancock Pippa Little Kathryn Maris M.R. Peacocke David Shook Ryan Van Winkle The first OxfordPoets anthology established as an editorial principal ‘no programme beyond a desire to represent the best’. The series has unfolded as a record of contemporary poetry, and this sixth collection maintains the qualities of lively eclecticism, inventiveness and intelligence that have made the anthologies one of the most engaging samplers of current writing. The poets here include new writers and those who have become more widely known; writers whose imaginative and linguistic worlds span decades and continents; those who remake traditional forms and those who experiment beyond them. Their individual voices are distinctive; they share a commitment to the possibilities of poetry to explore and translate the world. Cover photograph: copyright © StephenRaw.com Contents Introduction Robert Ray Black Measures Life Like Green Nothing Unknown Untitled Glosses Briseis’ Daddy What is argued Growing Bones Dick Gamble Saturday’s Child Jim Carruth Signing for the Deaf Picking up the Song (in a break in the harvest) Black Cart The Progressive Canadian Barn Dance Prince of Tinkers Old Ploughman Farm Sale Ellen Cranitch Dying Time The Aftermath Ghost Bikes Valentine’s Day, Regent’s Park Deep Blue My Mother’s Hair The Suicide’s Defence The New Cemetery, Killarney Philip Hancock Double Art Applied Physics Woodruff & Sons Caravans Over 21s Payday Demolition of the Power Station To Carry a Ladder Footnotes Pippa Little The Only of Himself Beijing Flight, Thursday Morning Riddling The Flowering Stella Maris The Captain Plays Shostakovich on an Upright Piano, Field Hospital, Helmand Province This was the year The Night-Flying Bees Newala Spending One Day with Patrick Kavanagh Kathryn Maris Knowledge Is a Good Thing Hilary Has Left the Building, Unless She Hasn’t If You Relive a Moment You Cannot Outlive It The Tall Thin Tenor On Returning a Child to Her Mother at the Natural History Museum Doubting Thomas This Is a Confessional Poem M.R. Peacocke Les Pompes Funèbres Seaside Stories Child’s Play Shall We Dance? Thirteenth Night Jug David Shook Postcard from Weslaco Four Ash Fall Questions Silvestre Adán Postcard from El Paso: Night Shift at the Hotdog Factory Offerings to Tule The Rest of the Cow Peluqueria Poema Ryan Van Winkle It Is Summer and in Connecticut the Grill Is Grilling Falling #71 Knots They Tore the Bridge Down a Year Later Gasoline Ode for a Rain from Death Row Discreet My 100-year-old ghost The day he went to war David Constantine David Constantine is a novelist, poet and translator of Hoelderlin, Goethe, Faust and Brecht. He is also an editor of Oxford Poets, an imprint of Carcanet Press, and of the magazine Modern Poetry in Translation . Born in Salford, Lancashire, in 1944, he is a Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford, ... read more Robyn Marsack Robyn Marsack began her long association with Carcanet Press by editing the first edition of Edmund Blunden’s Selected Poems in 1982, and worked as a publishers’ editor until she became Director of the Scottish Poetry Library 2000–2016. She was a Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at the University of Glasgow 2016–2018. ... read more Bernard O'Donoghue Bernard O'Donoghue teaches Medieval English at Wadham College, Oxford,and has published seven books of poems, including Gunpowder, which won the Whitbread Prize for Poetry in 1995, and his Selected Poems (Faber, 2008). His verse translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was published by Penguin Classics in 2006. ... read more Awards won by David Constantine Short-listed, 2010 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award (The Shieling) Winner, 2013 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Prize (Tea at the Midland) Winner, 2010 BBC National Short Story Award (Tea at the Midland) Praise for David Constantine 'I started reading these stories quietly, and then became obsessed, read them all fast, and started re-reading them again and again. They are gripping tales, but what is startling is the quality of the writing. Every sentence is both unpredictable and exactly what it should be. Reading them is a series of short shocks of (agreeably envious) pleasure...' AS Byatt, Book of the Week, The Guardian 'Flawless and unsettling.' Boyd Tonkin, Books of the Year 2005, The Independent 'Touched at times with humour and infused with compassion, these complex, nuanced stories speak repeatedly of lives lived in some form of exile, yet manage to keep in play the possibility that exile is not, contrary to appearances, our true condition.' New Welsh Review 'A. S. Byatt has described reading a previous collection of Constantine's short fiction as akin to experiencing ''a series of short shocks of (agreeably envious) pleasure''. Tea at the Midland shows the author to be on equally sparkling form again.' The TLS 'The excellence of the collection is fractal: the whole book is excellent, and every story is excellent, and every paragraph is excellent, and every sentence is excellent. And, unlike some literary fiction, it's effortless to read.' The Independent on Sunday Praise for Robyn Marsack 'Readers will be drawn to this book for the poets' letters, but what really dominates is the personality of Schmidt; at the end we are left with a prevailing sense of his editorial vision and an appreciation of his influence and accomplishment in the world of contemporary poetry publishing and criticism... Fifty Fifty is full of energy and play, and not a few crossed swords.' Kevin Gardner, Wild Court 'A window into the award-winning world of Carcanet' Tristram Fane Saunders, The Telegraph 'In celebration of the Manchester-based press' 50th anniversary, a fascinating collection of letters... tracing the eventful history of this small, ambitious and excellent press.' *The Bookseller*	Share this... Quick Links Carcanet Poetry Carcanet Classics Carcanet Fiction Carcanet Film Lives and Letters PN Review Video Carcanet Celebrates 50 Years! 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Oxford Poets 2010: An Anthology

Edited by David Constantine, Robyn Marsack and Bernard O'Donoghue