Collected Poems by Constantine, David -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Description Title Page Acknowledgements Contents A BRIGHTNESS TO CAST SHADOWS

‘As our bloods separate’ Birdsong ‘Daffodils in vases’ ‘But most you are like’ A Brightness to Cast Shadows The Fool ‘Eyes wide with the moon’ ‘You are distant, you are already leaving’ ‘In the meantime, in the waiting time’ Eurydice The Damned ‘All wraiths in Hell are single’ Streams Lamb Near Zennor The Lane The Journey ‘Pitiless wind’ ‘The wind has bared the stars’ ‘Trewernick’ ‘Suddenly she is radiant again’ ‘For years now’ Waiting Hands In Memoriam 8571 Private J.W. Gleave Coltsfoot Coltsfoot and Larches Hyacinth Johnny Jimmy Billy Stuart ‘But with a history of ECT’ ‘Dennis Jubb is dead’ ‘I suppose you know this isn’t a merry-go-round’

WATCHING FOR DOLPHINS

Mary Magdalene and the Sun Lazarus to Christ Christ to Lazarus Minos, Daedalos and Pasiphaë Priapics ‘Misshapen women’ The Door ‘Pity the drunks’ Boy finds tramp dead Elegy Swans Watching for Dolphins Islands Journey Bluebells Autumn Lady’s Tresses Autumn Crocuses Sunflowers Tree in the Sun Song of a Woman at the Year’s Turning Atlantis Chronicle Sunium Lasithi The Diktaean Cave A Relief of Pan Perdita Talitha Cumi Love of the Dark Moon Red Figure Vase

MADDER

Note Adam confesses an infidelity to Eve Orpheus Siesta Yseut Ignis Martyr Oh, Jemima… Don’t jump off the roof, Dad… The Meeting of God and Michael Finnegan in South Park Don Giovanni: Six Sonnets Confessional Thoughts of the Commandant of the Fortress of St Vaast-la-Hougue Pillbox Nestor encourages the troops Garden with red-hot pokers and agapanthus ‘Looking for nothing’ Sunset Shells Oranges Sols Cold Night ‘As though on a mountain’ At Dinas Local Story Mynydd Mawr Swimmer Butterfly ‘Then comes this fool’ Mistress ‘Wet lilac, drifts of hail’ Poplar Apples Pictures Amber Seahorse Eldon Hole Sunken Cities Landscape with friends At Kirtlington Quarry Tea-time Burning ‘We visit the house’ Mother and Daughter The quick and the dead at Pompeii Fogou Christmas Hyacinths Mappa Mundi

SELECTED POEMS

Local Historian A two-seater privy over a stream The Pitman’s Garden The Vicar’s Firework Show A calvary on the Somme ‘He arrived, towing a crowd’ The Saint observed at his Vigil Man on his holidays Mandeville remembered Mandeville The Scaffolders Clare leaves High Beach ‘Under that bag of soot’ ‘There used to be forests’ The Forest Miranda on the Tube A blind elephant man in the underground Jailed for Life Quay The Island of Curieuse Lilith ‘I should not be dreaming of you like this’ ‘In the ocean room’ Swimmer and Plum Tree ‘I am inconsolable’ Emblem

CASPAR HAUSER A poem in nine cantos

NOTE First Canto Second Canto Third Canto Fourth Canto Fifth Canto Sixth Canto Seventh Canto Eighth Canto Ninth Canto

SLEEPER

Sleeper

THE PELT OF WASPS

Piers Returns The Mirror The Apple Tree Peacock The Wasps Musicians in the Underground Angels Poppies Mistletoe On Oxford Station, 15 February 1997 Ground Elder ‘We say the dead depart’ Quaker Memorial Meeting Bonfires Above West Shore, Llandudno Soldiering On Kaluga ‘Stuck fast’ ‘Eyeballs of quartz’ Lamb Endangered Species Warming Athens Master and Man ‘Figures on the silver’ Kinder Bombscare Don Giovanni and the Women A Meeting in the Library Llyn Conach Comfort me with Apples ‘You make the rules’ Sleep With ‘That place again’ Cycladic Idols ‘All night the rain’ ‘The lakes, their stepping down’ ‘Mid-afternoon in another narrow bed’ Honey from Palaiochora

SOMETHING FOR THE GHOSTS

Nude Something for the Ghosts Dear Reader The House Sleepwalker Man and Wife On the Cliffs, Boscastle Monologue or The Five Lost Géricaults Dramatis Personae Mosaics in the Imperial Palace Dominion The Llandudno Town Band Encouragements Drunk Locked in Music Room Wrecks Grand Catacombs, Paris Town Centre Mel J Legger The Immortals of Landevennec The Senator The Grief Coming Out The Porthleven Man Room Facing Cythera Shabbesgoy The Hoist Aphasia Common and Particular The Anemones The Crem House Clearance Shoes in the Charity Shop New Year Behind the Asylum Ashes and Roses Visiting Fine Soil Riddling the Strata Shed The Dark Room Streets Fields Girls in the East School Parties in the Museum Jazz on the Charles Bridge ‘Hölderlin’ Hallowe’en Skylight over the Bed Skylight over the Bath Gorse Fulmars Orangery

A POETRY PRIMER

Pleasure Simile Metaphor Metre and Rhythm Form and Content Res/Verba Inventio (i) Inventio (ii&iii) Periphrasis Poetry and Rhetoric (i) Poetry and Rhetoric (ii) Personae (i) Personae (ii) Orphic Mnemosyne

NEW & UNCOLLECTED POEMS

Chapel of Rest Before the Lidding The One Left Water At the Time Absence ‘Go visiting, Memory…’ Teacher Photo Legend Simile ‘More like today…’ Foxgloves Asphodels, White Foxgloves, Red Foxgloves Submerged Site Wrecking Northwesterly Pisces Moon Not Only But Also ‘There is nothing I can tell you…’ Love Feast Rowing Phenomena ‘So slim you are…’ Earrings in the Forest Dreamer Crossing How It Is Inquisitor and Sinner At the Frost Fair Lover Epstein’s Lazarus Porlock The Second Mrs Hardy Off Lerici Keats at Lulworth Under the Gunnery Enclave Treptow. Deserted Funfair. Corpse Body Parts and the Rapture Deer on the Street Outlook Remembrance Sunday Stroke On Conwy Mountain Visiting Estuarine Cave Dale Head of a Kore in a Marble Mine on Paros Mother and Child Trilobite in the Wenlock Shales Obolus

Index of titles and first lines

A, B, C D, E, F G, H, I J, K, L M, N, O P, Q, R S, T, U V, W, X Y, Z

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