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Body LanguageJon Stallworthy10% off
Imprint: Carcanet Poetry
Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (64 pages) (Pub. Sep 2004) 9781857547467 £9.95 £8.96
... I tasted what the eyes said, heard
hands that were strangers talk as twins with no word spoken. Incandescent, the word was flesh, no longer the shadow of what it signified. from 'A Foreign Tongue'
Body language and the body of language - from the first words in the first garden to the last words of last night's lovers - are the entwined themes of Jon Stallworthy's new collection of poems, his first since 1995. The centrepiece is 'Skyhorse', an ambitious poem for voices that finds in the White Horse on the Berkshire Downs an enduring presence through the turbulence of three millennia of English history. The book's second part is a candid, passionate sequence of elegies and love poems.
Table of Contents
Language In the Beginning Skyhorse 1 The first priest of the White Horse, c.1000 BC 2 Priest and poet, c.970 BC 3 Poet of the shield-wall, AD 871 4 Wandering Scholar, 13th century 5 Antiquary, 18th century 6 Rifleman (discharged), 52nd Regiment, 18 June 1832 7 Mother, 1899 8 Colonel and others, 1905 9 Homeguard, 1940 lOEx-homeguard, 1946 11 Wandering Scholar, 1999/2000 Dreamhorse Body Before Setting Out A Ferry for Bishop Jim The White Cloud Handiwork The Motor Vessel Anichka Le Violon D'Ingres A Foreign Tongue Lioness Taking Breath Libation Hers Clasp What's in a Name? Exorcism Hunting the Lark Osip Mandelstam Proposes a Toast A Word with History A Round Edward Thomas's Fob Watch In the House of the Poet Notes |
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