New & Collected Poems by Szirtes, George -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Description Title Page Dedication Epigraph ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Table of Contents PREFACE POETRY INTRODUCTION 4

In Memoriam Busby Berkeley At Colwick Park At the Dressing-table Mirror Village Politicians Salon des Independants The Birdcage 1851 At the Circus Three Dreams The Past Order News for Signor Mouse The Fish A Windblown Hat Nils The Domino Players The Drowned Girl

THE SLANT DOOR

Virius and Generalic The Town Flattened Dwellings The Slant Door Group Portrait with Pets Glass Summer Landscape Recovering Sleeping Bones Anthropomorphosis Pastoral Fog Snow Background Noises In Suspense Picnic Two Men in a Boat Silver Age The Swimming Pool in the House An Illustrated Alphabet

NOVEMBER AND MAY

A Girl Visits Rembrandt’s House The Icy Neighbour Of Grass The Phylactery House in Sunlight Half Light The Car Sheep-shearing at Ayot St Lawrence The Birdsnesters MISERICORDS The Silver Tree Dancing Bears The Fitting The Shared Bath Concert Girl Dressing Herself Song of the Shirt Apples The Girls Education North Wembley Piano The Outhouse THE DISSECTING TABLE The Dissecting Table Daddy-Long-Legs The Artichoke Brimstone Yellow Discovery of a Boy Floating The Weather Gift The Object of Desire Nightsong May Wind The Dead Mouse Necromancy The Museum A Donnée Mare Street

SHORT WAVE

THE SLEEPWALKER The Sleepwalker Lilac, Laylock Abundance Hand Dance Against Dullness A Girl Sewing Attachments An Old Woman Walks Home Dialogue for Christmas SEEING IS BELIEVING Seeing Is Believing Goya’s Chamber of Horrors John Aubrey’s Antique Shop Redcurrants Sea Horse Skeleton Crew Assassins Foresters Short Wave In the Cabbage Grove THE KISSING PLACE The Dog Carla Brief Sunlight Early Rising Flemish Rain The Claude Glass Morning in the Square Walls Porch The End of Captain Haddock As I Was Going Up the Stair The Moving Floor Attic The Design of Windows The Impotence of Chimneys Turn Again Postscript: A Reply to the Angel at Blythburgh

THE PHOTOGRAPHER IN WINTER

THE PHOTOGRAPHER IN WINTER The Photographer in Winter The Button Maker’s Tale The Swimmers Notes of a Submariner TRAINS The Courtyards Level Crossing North China Ghost Train Windows, Shadows The Green Mare’s Advice to the Cows BUDAPEST POSTCARDS Rebuilding the Cathedrals Balloon Adrift, City Park Attendants of the Metro Museum In the Puppet Theatre Tenement The Child I Never Was A Small Girl Swinging Meeting, 1944 Boys Watching an Aeroplane Drop Leaflets Cultural Directives After Attila The Birds Complain Cruse Glass Meetings

METRO

The Lukács Baths The House Dream A Card Skull in Atlantis Grandfather in Green On a Winding Staircase METRO EN ROUTE My Name The Love of Windows Guards Pigeon Chests and Alarm Clocks Father in America A Soldier Border Crossing A Greek Musée The Old Newspapers Preludes

BRIDGE PASSAGES

Night Ferry Recording BRIDGE PASSAGES 1 Drawing the Curtain A Domestic Faust The Flies The Coolest Room in the City The Comfort of Rooms BRIDGE PASSAGES 2 A Woman with a Rug A Sea Change In a Strong Light The Lost Money BRIDGE PASSAGES 3 Nachtmusik Bridge Passage The Service of Remembrance APPROPRIATIONS English Words Salt Bodies Mr Reason Miss Pickering Seaside Postcard A Picture of My Parents with Their First Television Losing BRIDGE PASSAGES 4 A Game of Statues Street Entertainment National Anthem The Chairs BRIDGE PASSAGES 5 Rain Chinese White Funeral Oration A Walk Across Fields BRIDGE PASSAGES 6 Burning Stubble at Szigliget Wild Garden In Memoriam Sándor Weöres Two Rondeaux

BLIND FIELD

BLIND FIELD An Accident Inuit Elegy for a Blind Woman Window FOR ANDRÉ KERTÉSZ Two Aunts Appearing The Accordionist Hortus Conclusus The Voyeurs Voluptuousness Passenger FOR DIANE ARBUS Paragons On a Young Lady’s Photograph Album The Baths on Monroe Street Bichonnade THREE CHANDLERESQUES The Big Sleep The High Window The Lady in the Lake TRANSYLVANA TRANSYLVANA Virgil’s Georgics BLINDFOLD Dancing with Mountains For Graham Cable’s Funeral At Table, 1964 Eat Good Bread Dear Father Grandfather’s Dog Variations on Angela Carter The Word House Soil Threnody István Vas

PORTRAIT OF MY FATHER IN AN ENGLISH LANDSCAPE

Rabbits Golden Bream Daffodils Mouth Music Gunsmith Tinseltown The First, Second, Third and Fourth Circles The House Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even The Idea of Order at the József Attila Estate The Manchurian Candidate Variations on Radnóti: Postcards 1989 Busby Berkeley in the Soviet Union Four Villonesques on Desire THREE SONGS FOR ANA MARIA PACHECO Whispers Porcupine Cat in the Bag Directing an Edward Hopper Day of the Dead, Budapest Sap Green: Old School Prussian Blue: Dead Planets Chalk White: The Moon in the Pool Cerulean Blue: Footnote on Wim Wenders Romanian Brown Lemon Yellow: A Twist of Lemon Flesh Pink: The Face in the Coat The Looking-Glass Dictionary Travel Book Portrait of My Father in an English Landscape

THE BUDAPEST FILE

The Yellow House at Eszterháza Black as in Coffee The Lost Scouts Bruno Schultz in Amber: The Demons A Pink Face

AN ENGLISH APOCALYPSE

History Acclimatisation Pearl Grey The yellow dress my father fell in love with VDU Triptych for Music The boys who beat up my brother Solferino Violet All In The Umbrellas White Hart Lane Spring Green The Ropes Sepia: The Light Brigade Copper Brown In the Greek Restaurant Coolidge in Indigo Kayenta Black Azure Figures at the Baths Dog-Latin Golden Boy War Is Over Visitations Cromer Green at the Regency Café Great Yarmouth Punctuation Backwaters: Norfolk Fields Haydn Gone Fishing Flash Viridian

AN ENGLISH APOCALYPSE

Prologue: The Fire Film 1 PASTORALS 2 YORKSHIRE BITTER 3 THE PICKETS 4 ENTERTAINMENTS 5 THE APOCALYPSES

REEL

Dedication Reel Meeting Austerlitz Noir Sheringham FLESH: AN EARLY FAMILY HISTORY 1. Forgetting ECLOGUE: HOSPITAL SCENE 2. First Things First ECLOGUE: FAIR DAY 3. Secret Languages ECLOGUE: AT THE STATION 4. Her Adult Occupations ECLOGUE: MIRROR 5. My Fathers ECLOGUE: SHOES

THE DREAM HOTEL

The Dream Hotel The Gods of Tiepolo Naples Yellow Pompeian Red Purple Passage after Nolde Romantic Love Rough Guide Silver Age Terre Verte Turquoise Venice The Breasts Comical Roses in a Cubic Vase Licorne Black Sea Sonnets The Matrix Cities Three Separations Shoulder

ACCOUNTS

Retro-futuristic Climate Decades Three Poems for Sebastião Salgado Account Arrival Tent The Morpheus Annotations Charon Three Pieces for Puppetry Elephant Wasp Endragoblins Winter Wings

NEW POEMS

America The Child as Metaphor Plunge Fire Horse Painter Geneva Clear Checkout How Long Are Your Hours? asks Penelope Shuttle Cards in the Garden Flight Snowfield Beckmann’s Carnival Say Esprit d’Escalier Song Happiness The Street in Movement Exhortation Lilac in the rain One Summer Night Heat Clouds Chairs Rochdale 1990 Running man blues Dust skin glove bowl Silk Questions for Stan Laurel Apology for a Broken Glass Six Airs for William Diaper Fish Smoke Known Them Geometry In the Pizza Parlour Secret The Old Mirrors Sestina: Hullaballoo New Year Canticles A Poster of Marlene, 1937: After Brassaï Wedding Photographer with Wedding, Budapest

INDEX 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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