New and Collected Poems by Wilmer, Clive -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Dedication Epigraph CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS from THE DWELLING-PLACE (1977)

I The Exile Chiaroscuro The Invalid Storyteller The Sparking of the Forge East Anglian Churchyard Genealogy: The Portrait Victorian Gothic The Ruined Abbey The Long Climb The Well II The Dedication The Rector Arthur Dead In Malignant Times Likeness The Goldsmith Sanctuary The Disenchanted Bird Watcher Saxon Buckle

from DEVOTIONS (1982)

I The Advent Carols Narcissus, Echo My Great Aunt, Nearing Death On the Demolition of the ‘Kite’ District Il Palazzo della Ragione Pony and Boy Two Cambridge Images Beyond Recall II from Air and Earth Migrant Beside the Autobahn Aerial Songs On the Devil’s Dyke III The Natural History of the Rook Near Walsingham Home Homecoming For the Fly-Leaf of a King James Bible Antiphonal Sonnets Gothic Polyphony To Nicholas Hawksmoor Venice A Woodland Scene The Parable of the Sower The Peaceable Kingdom Chinoiserie: The Porcelain Garden Prayer for my Children

OF EARTHLY PARADISE (1992)

I Invocation Three Brueghel Paintings St Francis Preaching to the Birds The San Damiano Crucifix The Coat of Many Colours Cattle Market Birdsong and Polyphony The Infinite Variety The Thirst To Robert Wells II A Catalogue of Flowers Wild Flowers Bindweed Song An Autumn Vision Post-war Childhoods Conservancy Alkanet To Paint a Salt Marsh III Work The Law of the House At the Grave of Ezra Pound At the Grave of William Morris Fonte Branda in Siena A Plaque To a Poet from Eastern Europe, 1988 To Haydn and Mozart The Kitchen Table IV Charon’s Bark Two Journals The Temple of Aphrodite Amores Re-reading my Poem ‘Saxon Buckle’ Transference The Dream In the Greenwood The Garden Oasis The Earth Rising V Caedmon of Whitby

KING ALFRED’S BOOK & OTHER POEMS (1992–2000)

I King Alfred’s Book Lindisfarne Sacked House-martin The River in Springtime The Manor House Anthem Psalm Grace The Pig Man Kaspar Hauser II Three Epistles To Thom Gunn, on his Sixtieth Birthday Letter to J.A. Cuddon In Memoriam Graham Davies, Psychotherapist (1937–1993) III Visitation The Heron Vacations To Pyrrha Soft and Hard Porn Fin de Siècle The New Era IV Epitaph At a Friend’s Funeral Fernando Pessoa’s Lisbon Wood Work Stone Work A Baroque Concerto Casa Natal de Borges The Translator’s Apology Olivier Messiaen

THE MYSTERY OF THINGS (2006)

I Bottom’s Dream Dog Rose in June Wonderwoman Greensleeves In the Library The Ruin Much Ado about Nothing The Holy of Holies Recorded Message A Vision The Ladder Bethel The Architect at his Mountain Villa For my Daughter’s Wedding Overnight Snow Plenty Chutney The Apple Trees At Great Coxwell Behold, the Fowls of the Air In the Beginning W.S. Graham Reading To George Herbert The Source The Falls II Ghostliness Stigmata The Need for Angels

REPORT FROM NOWHERE & OTHER POEMS (2006–2011)

I To One who Accused Him of Writing Hate-mail Meditation To a Buddhist The Nice and the Nasty The Language of Flowers Message To his Muse II Learning to Read In the Conservatory A Blue Tit’s Egg Gregoire, 60 Cinnabar Moth A Curse Gaudier-Brzeska in the Trenches A Farmhouse near Modena, c.1980 III Remembering John Heath-Stubbs Shakespeare Brook’s ‘Lear’ In Hospital Fragment A Far-off Country Civitas Report from Nowhere

POEMS WRITTEN FOR SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE (2009–10)

A Valedictory Ode The Sidney Carol

SELECTED POEMS FROM THE HUNGARIAN

JENŐ DSIDA (1907–1938) MIKLÓS RADNÓTI (1909–1944) ISTVÁN VAS (1910–1991) JÁNOS PILINSZKY (1921–1981) GYÖRGY GÖMÖRI (b. 1934) DOMOKOS SZILÁGYI (1938–1976) GYÖRGY PETRI (1943–2000) ANNA T. SZABÓ (b. 1972)

OTHER TRANSLATIONS

FROM THE LATIN OF CATULLUS (c.84–c.54 BC) FROM THE ITALIAN OF ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI (1181?–1226) FROM THE ITALIAN OF DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265–1321) FROM THE ITALIAN OF GUIDO CAVALCANTI (c.1255–1300) FROM THE GERMAN OF RAINER MARIA RILKE (1875–1926) FROM THE PORTUGUESE OF FERNANDO PESSOA (1888–1935) FROM THE POLISH OF CZESŁAW MIŁOSZ (1911–2004) FROM THE BULGARIAN OF LYUBOMIR NIKOLOV (b. 1954) FROM THE RUSSIAN OF OSIP MANDELSTAM (1891–1938)

NOTES INDEX OF TITLES AND FIRST LINES Copyright

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