Staying Alive by Astley, Neil -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Description Title Page Epigraph Contents Poets on poetry Introduction Wild Geese 1: Body and soul

Living Orkney / This Life A Northern Morning Happiness My Father’s Irish Setters Legs Homage to My Hips Naked Vision The Hug The Hug Chemin de Fer He Sits Down on the Floor of a School for the Retarded An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow A Prayer Prayer Encounter FROM The Tenth Duino Elegy Variation on a Theme by Rilke FROM A Gilded Lapse of Time Dark Angel Temptation Poppies in October ‘Eyesight of Wasps’ The Wasps The Old World Watering the Horse Saint Animal Jarrow Where We Are

2: Roads

The Road Not Taken The Bay Tyranny of Choice Not Waving but Drowning Poem Choose Meeting in a Lift ‘i thank You God for most this amazing’ You Begin Entirely Integrity The Bear The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me FROM Dream Songs FROM Some mangled dream songs for Henry Window The door The Door Directive The Road Home Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Snow History History Snow The Cablecar That Silent Evening The Journey When You’ve Got Yes Happiness Machines Alone Couplings Traveling through the Dark Penitence Slow Animals Crossing The Moose Wife Hits Moose

3: Dead or alive

‘To eat a pie and to have it…’ Trillium ‘I saw the daughter of the sun…’ Stonepicker The arrow Be Not Too Hard Modern Sorcery Tonight of Yesterday Sonnet Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota Missing Dates Villanelle Signs FROM When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone My Dark Fathers Hoping It Might Be So Clear Night Defeated The Waking Mirages How to kill a living thing FROM Sublimation Horse Swineherd The way we live Apologia Addiction to an Old Mattress Things Thoughts After Ruskin Themes for women What Every Woman Should Carry Handbag Warning Dolor One Art Lamium A Glass of Water Sadness Sweetness The Execution A Note Left in Jimmy Leonard’s Shack Epistle on suicide Harold’s Leap Her Kind Anne Sexton’s Last Letter to God My November Guest She Dotes The Cry The Leaden-Eyed And the Days Are Not Full Enough A Removal from Terry Street

4: Bittersweet

Tube Ride to Martha’s FROM Ukulele Music Against the grain The One Twenty Pub Luck in Sarajevo All of These People Waking This Morning I Am a Cameraman FROM The Wasting Game Brinkwomanship Here The Unprofessionals Visiting Hour FROM Changing the Subject The Cure Past-Lives Therapy Diving into the Wreck April 5, 1974 At Poll Salach Thaw Thaw Kissing How my true love and I lay without touching ‘You idiot!…’ 90 North Listening to Collared Doves Watching for Dolphins Goat The Drainage Three Ways of Recovering a Body Bride and Groom Lie Hidden for Three Days Mushrooms A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford Unwittingly

5: Growing up

Being the third song of Urias White Asparagus It’s Good To Be Here Ultrasound Safe period IVF Miscarriage Freight First Birth Her First Week The Spirit is too Blunt an Instrument Sonnet: How Life Too Is Sentimental Poem for a Daughter Daughter Beattie Is Three FROM Heart’s Needle Supernatural Love Poem from a Three Year Old Cinders A Sword in a Cloud of Light On the Back of a Photograph The Video Young Girls A Puppy Called Puberty A Dog Called Elderly Cuba My Flu ‘We were so poor…’ Those Winter Sundays The Back Seat of My Mother’s Car Mirror Image Mirror Father’s Old Blue Cardigan This Be the Verse Possession A Night with Lions FROM A Part of Speech Old Man Thinking of the Lost World Quoof Forgetfulness Forgetfulness Unknown Forebear Groundsmen

6: Man and beast

Pigs Experimental Animals Weakness Spiritual Chickens The Heaven of Animals Sacrilege Remembrance of Strange Hospitality Federal Case Animals ‘The city had fallen…’ The stone curlew My Life with Horses Switch A Blessing The Horses The Skunk Considering the Snail For a Five-Year-Old Full Moon and Little Frieda Birds The Trout Night Toad A Bird Emu Hunt Night Parrot The Thought-Fox Swans Mating The Strange Case Cow Seven Silences Lies Glow Worm Salmon Seals at High Island Of Love, Death and the Sea-Squirt Octopus Fable of the mermaid and the drunks The Mermaid Tank The Loch Ness Monster’s Song The Death of the Loch Ness Monster Oysters

7: In and out of love

My Belovèd Compares Herself to a Pint of Stout Finney’s Bar Bite Desire’s a Desire Raisin Pumpernickel Love: Beginnings The Honeycomb The Linen Industry Last Night Definition of Your Attraction The Cinnamon Peeler True Love Lullaby In Defence of Adultery The Did-You-Come-Yets of the Western World The Mistress Ecstasy New Year’s Eve Only if Love Should Pierce You Muse Life Distances ‘As our bloods separate’ Woman to Man Snow Melting August The Room Don’t Let’s Talk About Being in Love Yearn On Bitch Bitcherel This Dead Relationship Each from Different Heights Badly-Chosen Lover After the End of It Relationship Hesitate to Call Lady of Miracles Advice to a Discarded Lover The All Purpose Country and Western Self Pity Song Because Cross The Quarrel And they were both right Between When You Are Old Spell Conch ‘O tell me the truth about love’ Lightness In Paris with You

8: My people

‘The East-West border…’ My People Our Own Land A Summer Morning The Heron A Letter to Dennis Turns The Door FROM Going On In Britain England Nil Barton in the Beans The Reason Charged Landscape: Uffington The Combe Windscale The Green Man’s Last Will and Testament Kith passage An Outlying Station FROM Evagatory After Mr Mayhew’s visit The Nation Everyone Hates the English A song for England The Voyeur The King and Queen of Dumfriesshire Reservoirs Synopsis of the Great Welsh Novel Westering Home Overheard in County Sligo Inniskeen Road: July Evening The Language Issue Break The Toome Road The Sightseers Dream Avenue ‘“next to of course god america i”’ I, Too Making America Strong They’ll say, ‘She must be from another country’ In my country Modern Secrets Exile Exile Emigrants Epilogue In Your Mind Homeland Motherland ‘That city that I have loved’ FROM What the Light Teaches My Faithful Mother Tongue Betrayal We Billion Cheered Waiting for the Barbarians Gare du Midi The Coming of the Plague Death by Meteor Ancient History

9: War and peace

War Poetry Grass The fly Anthem for Doomed Youth For Wilfred Owen Everyone Sang Returning, we hear the Larks As the team’s head brass Ceasefire The Bloomsday Murders, 16 June 1997 FROM The T.E. Lawrence Poems Vergissmeinnicht The Old Naval Airfield September Song There is no greater crime than leaving September 1, 1939 On the Anniversary of Her Grace Selective Service Cambodia Phrase Book The Persian Version Initial Illumination Every Day FROM Spain, take away this cup from me The End and the Beginning The People of the Other Village

10: Disappearing acts

Rain – Birdoswald Björn Olinder’s Pictures Now Light Congeals Psalm Someone Aubade ‘Death does not come from outside…’ ‘Good creatures…’ Thrall Book Ends (I) For My Mother Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night ‘Do not stand at my grave and weep’ Funeral Blues Death of an Irishwoman Water-burn The dead Death’s Secret Death in October ‘Pity the drunks’ Scattering Ashes The Gas-poker Boy finds tramp dead On a Dark Night Four Years Metamorphosis Sorting Through This Is What I Wanted to Sign Off With Wake About Death The Vacuum Inside Our Dreams The Reassurance She A Glimpse of Starlings Dead Woman Yes Close Inscription ‘Buffalo Bill ’s’ The Dead Proofs On Walking Backwards Cemetery Nights Father, Mother, Robert Henley who hanged himself in the ninth grade, et al Resurrection Eden Rock When I Died All Souls’ FROM Lessons Where Souls Go A Mosquito The Wild Iris Antarctica Why Brownlee Left Sleep with a Suitcase As It Should Be How to Disappear Folderol Robinson Night and the House Distant howling

11: Me, the Earth, the Universe

Homage to Isaac Newton New Gravity Moment Morning The Other Room Brief reflection on accuracy Zoom! FROM Lightenings On the Uncountable Nature of Things The Sun Underfoot among the Sundews ‘I stretch my arms’ A Downward Look I Am the Song FROM Games Earth Waking Places We Love Moorland Three Ways of Looking at God The Avatar Sacrament Journey of the Magi The Snow Man Sanctity Via Negativa To the One Upstairs Tracks Delay Summer farm Tinily a star goes down Star Whisper FROM Zero Gravity Rent Full Moon Preparation for the big emptiness The Shampoo Mountains The Other Side of the Mountain

12: The art of poetry

FROM Songs from Below Ars Poetica The Beast in the Space An Exchange of Gifts Note to the reader: this is not a poem Meditation at Lagunitas ‘Once I got a postcard…’ From March 1979 Animal Languages The Story of a Story Not Ideas about the Thing but the Thing Itself Detail Ö Eating Poetry The Painter Dreaming in the Scholar’s House Epilogue Oatmeal Consider the Grass Growing Note Postscript Late Fragment

The Sound of Poetry Glossary Further reading Acknowledgements Index of writers Index of titles and first lines Copyright

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