Carcanet Press - Deceiving Wild Creatures

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I have no acquaintance at present among the gentlemen of the Navy.
I have no friend left now at Sunbury.

What you mention with regard to reclaimed toads
raises my curiosity.

from 'The enlargement of the boundaries'

The naturalist Gilbert White is at the heart of this collection. Like him, Jeremy Over explores an ecology with meticulous acuity. His poems are 'found in the field': the beauty and oddity of the language of others is brought into sharp focus.

Robert Herrick's 'sweet disorder in the dress' is subjected to a series of disrobings; a guidebook, instruction manual and catalogue become occasions to celebrate the pleasures of language. Setting out from White's Natural History of Selborne, Over embarks on a sequence of poems that, in White's words, lend 'an helping hand towards the enlargement of the boundaries' of natural history. A deep seam of Englishness - Stanley Spencer, Samuel Palmer, Henry Purcell - runs parallel to an American dimension, and further off in time and space are traces of Tristan Tzara, Rumi and Wang Wei. The reasonable language with which we try to contain the unreasonableness of things here trips, spins and flies into new figurations.

Cover photograph: Shouldering the imitation ox from 'Deceiving Wild Creatures' in Richard Kearton, Wild Nature's Ways (1909). Cover design by StephenRaw.com.

Contents

Epithalamium
...and they lived happily until they died.
Moustachioed
Museum for Myself
A Theory of Grasp
A New Kind of Kiss
Love is not a talent
Badly Charred
Delight in      order
Killer in the Rain
A Common Pitfall
Poetry should be made by all (i)
The Lambent Itch of Innuendo
Whip Tim Kelly
Last Gasp, At the
The Waterfall Illusion
The Negatives
Tree/Bush
Blue
American Experimental Music

*

Tring
The enlargement of the boundaries
Not but now and then
The exhibition of the fishes
Mingles with the forest
I only know that
Cursu undoso
My female moose corresponds
of roads.
Hard references

*

Your Awful Voice
Pastoral
And some
Poem beginning with a suggestion by Bengt Af Klintberg
Being big
The Call of the Drum and the Slap of Glory
Kabir says
A Man in the Wings
The Yellow Orioles are equals now
Birthday Haibun
Several Senryu
The North Cumbrian Coast
Noses and Feet
Leaving me
Poetry should be made by all (ii)
Pendolino

Jeremy Over was born in Leeds in 1961. He now lives on a hill near Llanidloes in the middle of Wales. His poetry was first published in New Poetries II in 1999 and he has had three subsequent collections with Carcanet: A Little Bit of Bread and No Cheese (2001), Deceiving ... read more

Awards won by Jeremy Over Short-listed, 2020 The Wales Poetry Book of the Year (Fur Coats in Tahiti)

'A restless experimenter and game-player with language'
Ian McMillan, The Reader Praise for Jeremy Over 'What I love about Jeremy Over's amazing writing is that everything, and I mean everything, seems to be available for him to work with and shape into memorable, challenging, and ultimately very human narratives, abstractions, meetings and diversions. Nobody else writes like him.'
Ian McMillan

'A beautifully orchestrated hot-stepping set of riffs between the poet and the world ... Jeremy Over's Fourth and Walnut makes you want to stand up and read portions out to passersby, just for the sheer joy of what he brings to the speaking mind.'
Sampurna Chattarji
'Fourth and Walnut takes in minimalism, citation, erasure, drawing, linguistics and philosophy to create a book of gentle profundity and quiet magic. Under its spell, the question isn't why monk and mystic Thomas Merton and TV weatherman Tomasz Schafernaker appear in the same poem, but why they haven't before. Over discusses the rhinoceros as a symbol of surprise. After reading his poems, it would take more than a rhinoceros to surprise me, although I would be worried about the linoleum.'
Tom Jenks
'It is this nothing offered that makes Fur Coats in Tahiti such a rewarding read, because it leads to destinations unknown, a restless, constantly moving walk after not knowledge, but illumination, the unexpected relationship between word and word that opens a window to the world. It is, I realise as I write, a kind of Dada Zen book; what more can I say?'
Billy Mills
'They also seem magical. Like magic words, or Latin mass: more powerful for all its uncertainty.'
Joe Darlington, Manchester Review of Books
'Joyous panoplies of alphabets warble, blossom and assemble into word songs made simultaneously stately and playful here in Fur Coats in Tahiti. Folklore and plainsong play with Stein and then Whitman comes over, inviting so many alphabetic others to join in: Wordsworth via Jandl via Atkins via Ono via You makes something entirely new! Over's marvelous word worlds mesh and refresh all our delights in loving thinking musics of sound, sense and nonce. Slip on this luxurious garment of a book where the language weather is always perfect.'
Lee Ann Brown 'In Fur Coats in Tahiti, Jeremy Over exuberantly defies expectations. These poems rollick as they explore relationships between sound and sense, interweave the surreal and the mundane, and conduct whimsical, unpredictable journeys. The work teems with intelligence and delight.'
Carrie Etter
'I am in love with the new collection by Jeremy Over, building as it does on the work of his first two books with so much style and grace. The poems are in thrall to the magic of the image, exquisite timing and exuberant ambivalence. Which latter, for me, articulates exactly why dull certainties and conciliatory platitudes tend to sail over my head. Over's is a poetry of endless curiosity and intellectual generosity, inviting us to wander and wonder with the writer. The long poems and sequences capture a quality of musical improvisation, but the attention is pulled back, again and again, by unexpected lyrical detail; as if distraction (by beauty, by stupidity, by wonder) were the only true method. And it is.'
Luke Kennard

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Deceiving Wild Creatures Jeremy Over 10% off eBook (EPUB) Categories: 21st Century, British, Humour Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: eBook (EPUB) Needs ADE! (Pub. Jan 2012) 9781847778093 £9.95 £8.96 Paperback (76 pages) (Pub. Sep 2009) 9781847770042 Out of Stock To use the EPUB version, you will need to have Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) installed on your device. You can find out more at https://www.adobe.com/uk/solutions/ebook/digital-editions.html. Please do not purchase this version if you do not have and are not prepared to install, Adobe Digital Editions. Description Excerpt Author Contents Awards Reviews I have no acquaintance at present among the gentlemen of the Navy. I have no friend left now at Sunbury. What you mention with regard to reclaimed toads raises my curiosity. from 'The enlargement of the boundaries' The naturalist Gilbert White is at the heart of this collection. Like him, Jeremy Over explores an ecology with meticulous acuity. His poems are 'found in the field': the beauty and oddity of the language of others is brought into sharp focus. Robert Herrick's 'sweet disorder in the dress' is subjected to a series of disrobings; a guidebook, instruction manual and catalogue become occasions to celebrate the pleasures of language. Setting out from White's Natural History of Selborne, Over embarks on a sequence of poems that, in White's words, lend 'an helping hand towards the enlargement of the boundaries' of natural history. A deep seam of Englishness - Stanley Spencer, Samuel Palmer, Henry Purcell - runs parallel to an American dimension, and further off in time and space are traces of Tristan Tzara, Rumi and Wang Wei. The reasonable language with which we try to contain the unreasonableness of things here trips, spins and flies into new figurations. Cover photograph: Shouldering the imitation ox from 'Deceiving Wild Creatures' in Richard Kearton, Wild Nature's Ways (1909). Cover design by StephenRaw.com. Contents Epithalamium ...and they lived happily until they died. Moustachioed Museum for Myself A Theory of Grasp A New Kind of Kiss Love is not a talent Badly Charred Delight in order Killer in the Rain A Common Pitfall Poetry should be made by all (i) The Lambent Itch of Innuendo Whip Tim Kelly Last Gasp, At the The Waterfall Illusion The Negatives Tree/Bush Blue American Experimental Music * Tring The enlargement of the boundaries Not but now and then The exhibition of the fishes Mingles with the forest I only know that Cursu undoso My female moose corresponds of roads. Hard references * Your Awful Voice Pastoral And some Poem beginning with a suggestion by Bengt Af Klintberg Being big The Call of the Drum and the Slap of Glory Kabir says A Man in the Wings The Yellow Orioles are equals now Birthday Haibun Several Senryu The North Cumbrian Coast Noses and Feet Leaving me Poetry should be made by all (ii) Pendolino Jeremy Over was born in Leeds in 1961. He now lives on a hill near Llanidloes in the middle of Wales. His poetry was first published in New Poetries II in 1999 and he has had three subsequent collections with Carcanet: A Little Bit of Bread and No Cheese (2001), Deceiving ... read more Awards won by Jeremy Over Short-listed, 2020 The Wales Poetry Book of the Year (Fur Coats in Tahiti) 'A restless experimenter and game-player with language' Ian McMillan, The Reader Praise for Jeremy Over 'What I love about Jeremy Over's amazing writing is that everything, and I mean everything, seems to be available for him to work with and shape into memorable, challenging, and ultimately very human narratives, abstractions, meetings and diversions. Nobody else writes like him.' Ian McMillan 'A beautifully orchestrated hot-stepping set of riffs between the poet and the world ... Jeremy Over's Fourth and Walnut makes you want to stand up and read portions out to passersby, just for the sheer joy of what he brings to the speaking mind.' Sampurna Chattarji 'Fourth and Walnut takes in minimalism, citation, erasure, drawing, linguistics and philosophy to create a book of gentle profundity and quiet magic. Under its spell, the question isn't why monk and mystic Thomas Merton and TV weatherman Tomasz Schafernaker appear in the same poem, but why they haven't before. Over discusses the rhinoceros as a symbol of surprise. After reading his poems, it would take more than a rhinoceros to surprise me, although I would be worried about the linoleum.' Tom Jenks 'It is this nothing offered that makes Fur Coats in Tahiti such a rewarding read, because it leads to destinations unknown, a restless, constantly moving walk after not knowledge, but illumination, the unexpected relationship between word and word that opens a window to the world. It is, I realise as I write, a kind of Dada Zen book; what more can I say?' Billy Mills 'They also seem magical. Like magic words, or Latin mass: more powerful for all its uncertainty.' Joe Darlington, Manchester Review of Books 'Joyous panoplies of alphabets warble, blossom and assemble into word songs made simultaneously stately and playful here in Fur Coats in Tahiti. Folklore and plainsong play with Stein and then Whitman comes over, inviting so many alphabetic others to join in: Wordsworth via Jandl via Atkins via Ono via You makes something entirely new! Over's marvelous word worlds mesh and refresh all our delights in loving thinking musics of sound, sense and nonce. Slip on this luxurious garment of a book where the language weather is always perfect.' Lee Ann Brown 'In Fur Coats in Tahiti, Jeremy Over exuberantly defies expectations. These poems rollick as they explore relationships between sound and sense, interweave the surreal and the mundane, and conduct whimsical, unpredictable journeys. The work teems with intelligence and delight.' Carrie Etter 'I am in love with the new collection by Jeremy Over, building as it does on the work of his first two books with so much style and grace. The poems are in thrall to the magic of the image, exquisite timing and exuberant ambivalence. Which latter, for me, articulates exactly why dull certainties and conciliatory platitudes tend to sail over my head. Over's is a poetry of endless curiosity and intellectual generosity, inviting us to wander and wonder with the writer. The long poems and sequences capture a quality of musical improvisation, but the attention is pulled back, again and again, by unexpected lyrical detail; as if distraction (by beauty, by stupidity, by wonder) were the only true method. And it is.' Luke Kennard	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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