Collected Poems by Smith, Ken -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover DESCRIPTION TITLE PAGE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS CONTENTS ROGER GARFITT: Ken Smith: The Poet Reclining – LIFE & WORK, 1: 1938–1986 JON GLOVER: Ken Smith: Terra to Shed – LIFE & WORK, 2: 1986–2003 from THE PITY (1967)

Fossil Grass Means Both harvests Family group Country: Keld to Reeth The pity The Humanities, Dept of Literature Lorca Translation Train Between us The hunter Water Europe: The street The past Leaving A fragment

from WORK, DISTANCES / POEMS (1972)

Poems 1967–1969 Exiles Suburb She speaks The child’s version Age Bitter The boss The son* Gravedigger* A good fox Beyond breath Persistent narrative Skull Somewhere else Old mill, Newton St Cyres The Amana Colonies Inventory/Itinerary Farmer Figures at daybreak Going L.A. Poem 1 Poem 2 The stone poems (1971) The stone poems* Death Songs / Death Dances Dream journeys From the Nahua On the north coast, Barnstaple Where winter begins Abandoned village Song for the whites The Sioux cleared from Minnesota Here Crying woman Ghost songs Ghost dances In this place Where did I learn such quiet In Pennsylvania, winter’s end Little notes After a journey The Eli Poems The marsh The third month Eli’s poem The rooming house His lament The obsession What was done The door Half songs, 1790* The Wild Turkey Wild Turkey One Wild Turkey Two Living in the Danelaw The author, a teacher of petomania, reflects on the shortcomings of his students The visit Wild Turkey Six Another part of his childhood A description of the Lichway or corpse-road across Dartmoor A farewell to the city of Exeter in south-west England In the Americas, so the tale goes A journey through part of western Pennsylvania Wild Turkey Twelve Wild Turkey Thirteen The dream

from THE POET RECLINING: SELECTED POEMS 1962-1980 (1982)

Wolf vision Hawk vision Remembering when he was a wolf Another night of muttering Tales of Urias the shape-shifter My father fading out Valley Childhood in the lowlands Sunk Island, that winter Old postcards of the river The swan Playing field observations The Tivoli Bar Federico Maria the thief Caesar Caesar Reports from the east To survive Bowl Wants The veterans Peasant Duck at Haldon Ponds Fly Lake Crocus From the southern river Winter occasions At the Western Beacon, the second of the songs of Urias Moiré effect Tristan Crazy (1978) One for sorrow Two for nobody Three: tales of the hunter Four, being a prayer to the western wind Five, which is here by the river Six: the wife’s complaint Seven: when he can’t sleep for thinking Eight. The singer Nine: Shorty’s advice to the players Ten: the tale unfinished Fun City Winter (1977) A red carnation The town, a general description The stone gatherer By the northern sea, a farewell to one woman Apocrypha from the Western Kingdom 1 Six items heard in three locations in Leeds and Exeter 2 At the collège des beaux arts Escanceaster six further items imagined 3 Surprised again beside the river 4 Some unfinished movements 5 Old business: the drowned bride 6 A right curse on the enemy The clearing The clearing Fox Running (1980) Fox Running The Poet Reclining Spartan communiqué From the Vale of White Horse: some news Being the third song of Urias In transit Hunéus the shoemaker Operations undertaken at or near the surface Shallow dreaming Old movies Transcription of the crying woman Planting aloes Mouth Tongue The Ubi Sunt variations The poet reclining The night music Fox in October

from BURNED BOOKS (1981)

Recitation at the burned books San Quixote of the cinders Some notes on Perdu Lost letter to Didot A survivor Fragment: memo to Milto Nicholson’s advice Hunter’s piece The discovery of metal From Belmont, a ghetto song From the plain From the book of changes A note to his landlady Towards a coda Perdu: his last appearance in history

from ABEL BAKER CHARLIE DELTA (1981)

the pussy willow song without lime that is abel baker ashore supposing it’s friday his appearance in the white hart remember young squire now there’s a subject and as for you lot charlie delta adrift sight of the enemy then there’s my publications nice one where francis drake did drink the one you got three days for in achiltibue charlie growing old no reply to that and finally

from TERRA (1986)

Hawkwood Colden Valley Roads in the north between two seas Commercial break: RSK Porsche Communiqué from desk 19 Lilith Het achterhuis Letters from a lost uncle Bogart in the dumb waiter Three from the freak house

1 The Tattooed Woman 2 Tiger Lill 3 Tom Peeper

Hatred of barbers The ballad of Eddie Linden at Earl’s Court The London Poems

After Mr Mayhew’s visit Encounter at St Martin’s The meridian at Greenwich Movies after midnight In Silvertown, chasing the dragon Beyond hope and the Lea River Clipper service Message on the machine Unfinished portrait Out West Leaving the Angel At the Barbican The talk at the big house Dosser Slow dancer’s epitaph The house of the androgynes Of things past Tube talk Nobody’s apartment Your friend the drifter Talking with God The window of vulnerability A bad day at HQ Drinking at Dirty Dick’s The soldier’s tale A case of medals Absolutely no selling The Botanic Garden Oath Not talking on the Circle Line Person to person transatlantic

The John poems Ignore previous telegram

The Olympic Year Aggie’s advice The actor Eva’s story Autumn with full summer Old Westerns How to get a job Two parts haiku The Russians The program At the rostrum The 1984 Tour of Britain Visiting Americans The previous telegram Message from the Basque country The black report Bonnie over the ocean Conditions in the west Nielsen’s visit Living with the boss The space salesman Snobby Roberts’ message Remembering the Fifties Graffiti in the hall of athletes Long distances The relay runner Disco dancing in Streatham To exorcise a blackbird Gone for gold Suburb city Departure’s speech

from WORMWOOD (1987)

For Nicki in December Airport silences From my American period Fun City encore The rope Serbian letters A theme of razors The wanderer Yakob As it happens

On the swings Wormwood For the lost boys, sleepless: in the house of green ginger the remembered city in the flats, flat voices Elsewhere, the same night: As it happens you owe me it happens Talking with the censor My father with two knives Towards daylight: The bee dance

Cain’s songs For the boys on the wing What the righteous don’t know Bodies Timekeeper At the solstice The night whispers Carteret plage

from THE HEART, THE BORDER (1990)

In the Evangelical Cemetery, San Michele, Venice: Dorothea Extempore Writing in prison Greetings from the Winter Palace Jack’s postcards The pornographer Figures in three landscapes

One: Brady at Saddleworth Moor Two: Hungerford nights Three: Murder at White House Farm

Against the grain Three Docklands fragments

1 The Enterprise Zone 2 Of things to come 3 Yuppy love

The New Management Running on empty Imaginary confrontations Intercepted letters: Harry inside Intercepted letters: Harry on the road Back from Leah’s country The spectator’s terrace, Gatwick Then the heart First echo Braille transcripts The furniture game Epitaph for a gardener The annunciation Venetian pieces

The Chamber of Torment Casanova in the room of the Inquisitors Sinistra The baron regrets

Neapolitan interiors

Views around the bay Ercolano’s message A traveller’s question Postscript: nunc pro tunc

The magic of Poland

One: Two, the waitresses in Old Town Three, the music of the Emperor Four, the photograph

Monument Zoo Station midnight Katja’s message: The Wall Passing through Chinese whisper After Brecht

from TENDER TO THE QUEEN OF SPAIN (1993)

Tender to the Queen of Spain Milly’s end The other elegy The painter Mannfred Otto Jack remembering Brother Scratchwood One of Milly’s gifts Three in a play Woman without a name Part of something else Later in the tea-room The blue time Accounts Brief encounter on the Yellowdog The bad news Film noir Beginning again with a line heard in the street Another day another dollar Scenes from metropolitan life The lives of the saints The maker of fakes Johannes from Dresden Insomnia 1, 2, 3 The emigrant Filmclip: Leningrad, October 1935 A survivor’s memoir By the Master of Jakabfalva, 1480 No reply from the East His epistle to the Tatars Poem ending in frogs Essential Serbo-Croat Lovesong for Kate Adie The fat man’s movie Task 17 Task 18: The unmasking procedure Positive identification The Chicken Variations Her mirror The road to Henrietta’s house In praise of vodka The carpenter’s confession The man who ran away from the circus Interrogating the egg-timer Unaccompanied singing

from WILD ROOT (1998)

Eddie’s Other Lives

Absent Country music Chief When that cop come Joy #1 In the next street Joy #2 Poem to which the answer is no More stick Joy #3 Joy #4 The geography of clouds East of here, west of here Noises off Joy #5 Speech A dream of disaster Dead trousers The theft Joy #6 The telephone is in the key of C

Before the Lisbon Tribunal Poem without a title Part of the crowd that day With a name like Spratt Suspicion of reporters White noise Body Cakes Archive footage First and last, Alderney Poem for translation For Julia, 1910-1996 Looking for the constant No one Countryside Around Dixton Manor, circa 1715 The Great Hat Project Go tell the honey ant Columbus to Isabella Days on Dog Hill Here Night at the Blind Beggar The gracenote Narrow Road, Deep North Blue Prague: the worst you can say in Czech Journey without maps

1 Night train 2 September distance 3 What Feri said 4 Glimpse 5 Flatlands 6 Closed border, Slavonia 7 TV in the East 8 Waking in Heroes’ Park

Moscow dogs Georgia, Georgia Hungarian quartets

The night anywhere Sándor the poet Misi’s song Dmitri’s song

The Shadow of God Wire through the heart

Where the scythe has been Signed sealed & delivered The Secret Police Intermezzo, Sub-Carpathia, May 97 In any case Hucul Heaven’s dust Border theatre Malenki robot

SHED (2001)

Trillium The Millennium near Barking The other shadow The land of Cockaigne

South Paperwork for the Consul Little lost poem Bodega de carne From Lorca Coda: Montezuma’s Revenge

The Watch

El Pacifico The wife’s sister So be it Midnight Angst Asleep The story so far Reflections, shaving The neighbour The shed in question After the storm Mail from the Campania The afternoon Midday, Anna Interim Evening primrose

Wall dreams Transit Thé dansant Fast forward Just one of you The Donegal Liar

YOU AGAIN (2004)

Late night call Ancient Lights You again The 72 virgins question Bin Laden is Ken Smith From semtex to anthrax The Ring Almost

IM Izet Sarajlić Everything, almost Begins like this Nema problema Nightbird Listening Split interlude at deadmouse.com Night coming Things Seafarer On the other hand Old man’s advice For Jan Morris A night of many dreams Almost not a sonnet I rest my case

Poverty’s prayer The white chair

APPENDICES SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY COLLECTED POEMS INDEX OF TITLES & SUB-TITLES BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE COPYRIGHT

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