| Other author/creator | Glover, Jon, editor. |
| Other author/creator | Jenner, Kathryn, editor. |
| Other author/creator | Northern House, publisher. |
| Other author/creator | Carcanet Press (Manchester, England) publisher. |
| Uniform title | Poems |
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Machine generated contents note: The Portrait -- Bath -- Seen -- Six Stanzas -- Awakening -- Vox Ultima Crucis -- County Song -- The Trap -- The Author Addresses his Razor -- Arniel -- Night -- Destination -- The Necessity -- Pointe de Flamme (Grave Light) -- 'Gentile, Mohhamedan' -- Sonnet: Inside -- 'Once I put to that root' -- Lyric -- Standing Still -- Manley's Hands -- The Legend -- Ballad of Bored Ships -- The Exiles -- For a mad child among mad children (The Fountain Hospital, 1953) -- Prologue -- The Cunning of an Age -- No Land Like It -- Carved -- A Death to Us -- Deeply Gone -- The Three Birds Who Were Saints -- This Dreaming Everywhere -- A Space in the Air -- Death of a Son -- First it was Singing -- Caring for Animals -- Hunger -- Never Any Dying -- For David Emmanuel -- To Come Out Singing -- Epilogue -- To My Son -- 'And on the ground rests like' -- 'She is a milk-tender beauty' -- White -- The Link -- 'A shirt, shirt or night-dress flaps on the line' |
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Relationship -- Lives in Sand -- 'Do you see this park again' -- The Confidence Trick -- Easter Day: Victim -- Speaking to the Conqueror -- Kierkegaard the cripple, addressing his God, asks to be an ordinary human being -- Rock -- The Forests -- War Song to an Ocean Headland -- 'By that house where we met' -- 'No tree spreads in this garden' -- Park -- Blossom -- Things -- The Two Freedoms -- Furnished Lives -- Baited -- The Third Death -- And I turned from the inner heart -- Hymn to the Solid World -- This Resurrection -- The Return -- Bronze Noon -- Bowl -- Loving -- The Dark Drinkard -- For Two Children -- For a Deaf Girl -- Someone I Lost -- From... The Animal Dark -- Death of a Bird -- Narcissus -- The Fool -- The Shirt -- The Betrayal -- Meeting Publicly -- Light -- To Michael Riviere, for his Second Son, Thomas -- A Ballad -- Poem -- The House -- Again -- The Victims -- A Walk in the Sun -- A handkerchief -- Palinurus -- The Making Act -- For the disestablishing of Authority -- For the Poor: Poem on the City of Leeds Rubbish Tip |
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Tip -- Conversion to Stone -- 'The choked bird twitters in the organ pipe' -- A Friend -- No civilized music here -- Passing -- Painting of a Woman -- 'Walking, starved and avid' -- 'I have not the purity' -- From the inside of the wilderness -- When First I Saw -- Separation -- Speech for a Politician -- Europe -- A New Country -- Going Away -- A Space Together -- 'Listen to that sensual muse or paraclete' -- 'An image conceives in its meaning' -- Living -- The Area of Conflict -- The Measure -- Astringencies -- 1. The Coldness -- 2. Asleep? -- Three Critics -- Respectabilities -- The Liberals -- The Book-Purchasers -- Culpabilities -- Genocide -- Deficient -- The Centre -- 1. Warrior -- 2. Drowned -- The Wall -- The Breaking of Rock -- Black Sand -- Bonfire -- Mother and Daughter, and Huntsman -- Depths -- Savings -- Sacred -- For a Child, on his being pronounced Mentally Defective by a Committee of the LCC -- Dedications -- 1. To Tamasin, aged six -- 2. To My Friends -- The Possibility -- The Wholeness -- Great! |
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'Much did you think' -- Why We Are All Socialists -- What Each Person Wants -- Reality, and other places -- 'The poems of Clare's madness' -- Some Changes -- 'I am angry, which means little' -- Circus -- For the Dead Woman's Husband -- 'A girl danced, and she seemed' -- The Landlord -- The Bugs -- Choosing -- This Man in Pain -- At Durham -- The Expulsion of Pain -- Lindisfarne -- Which Kind do we Belong To? -- Going On -- An Age of Copper -- The Island -- Warriors -- Ruthlessly -- The Terms -- 'Was it, you say, because' -- Two Women and a Man -- Hatred -- Crocus -- Sparrow -- Our Country -- The System, or what it said last -- Nature with Man -- A Kind of Nature -- Soon -- The Distraction -- The Religious West -- Defence -- Community -- Processes -- Evening -- Death Pain -- Watch -- Rivers -- No More Crying Out -- The Child's Life -- Burying -- The Child -- The Continuance -- Something has been Teased from Me -- Dandelion -- A Bluebell -- Lilies of the Valley -- Peonies -- The Strawberry Plant -- A Daisy |
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The Violet -- Milkmaids -- Moss -- White Geranium -- Crowfoot (in water) -- Small Celandine -- Goat's Beard and Daisy -- Iris -- Harebell -- Note on, 'Flower' Poems -- Water Dispute -- Seeds of Lead -- A Forest Tale -- 'Concrete' -- 'Kevin, can you remember' -- Sea Anemone -- Snake -- Waste -- Amana Grass (1971) Six Cemetery Poems -- Brought Up With Grass -- Amana Grass -- A Word About Freedom and Identity in Tel-Aviv -- Reclaimed Area -- Jaffa, and Other Places -- What Are the Lights... -- Conditions -- Ayalon -- Bull-God -- Divisions -- Snow Drop -- Worm -- Creatures -- Flatfish -- Poem -- Northumberland, for instance -- Meetings -- Tree -- Opened -- Our Selves -- Lovers -- 'My marriage day dressed' -- Wanting better -- The Clay Image -- 'Beneath the hedgerows' -- 'The forehead rises a distance' -- Life in the field -- 'All-eying moon, fury' -- A Strand from Caedmon -- Killhope Wheel Tree -- (Untitled) 'Small hills, among the fells...' -- Centering -- Killhope Wheel, 1860, County Durham -- Strike -- Spade -- (Untitled) 'Concerning strength...' -- Platelayer -- 'The bird is ligamented...' -- The People Onirique |
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I. Growing -- II. History -- III. Testing -- IV. The Chair -- V. Camps -- VI. Some Growth -- A Shetland Poem -- Three Shetland Poems -- Some Work -- Three Poems about a Settlement -- The Malabestia -- It Says -- There are Four of These -- Isaiah's Thread -- 'Where much grass drinks from its side' -- 'The map hovers open' -- Gifts Against Time -- Four Poems, One Northumbrian, and Three of the Hebrides -- Borrowing Light -- In the Place of Absence -- The Hungers of Commerce -- Weighing Out Loss -- Australian Poems -- Tolstoy's Brother Plants a Green Stick in their Estate at Yasnaya Polyana. It Has Happened Before -- Jarapiri -- Honey and Tobacco -- South Africa's Bird of Paradise Flower -- The Excellence of an Animal -- The Excellence of an Animal -- Alive -- The Polish Girl -- We Use the Language -- Again -- Yes -- The Plum-tree -- Two Images of Continuing -- Trouble Fountains Abbey -- A Prayer Cup -- Untitled Poem -- We Want to Survive -- The Little Time-keeper -- Entropy at Hartbum -- The Holy Island of St. Aidan -- Riga, or the North Sea's Berwick -- At Nightfall -- Shadowing -- Shades -- The Marches -- For Some Time Yet |
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Jesmond's Well -- Centre of Absence -- Breaking Us -- First to Last -- What Can We Mean? -- The Church is Getting Short of Breath -- Late Poem -- Note to The Little Time-keeper -- Bird -- In Mary's reign Justice Barton convicts George Marsh of Protestantism at Smithills -- Samson's Hair -- Six Poems from Metoula -- Else Lasker-Schiiler in Jerusalem -- 'A black sun streams its fresh medicinal' -- 'The tram runs, and the soft flesh spills itself' -- 'The back of the heart empties' -- Condemned -- The Cathedral Chair -- A man, a woman and a fan -- Resting Place -- Jerusalem -- Into Praising -- Acids -- Going on -- Love in War -- Meaning Something -- Wife and man -- The Old Version -- When you leave she said -- I write to you -- Making it -- Leafgold -- The uses of man and the uses of poetry -- The Lapidary Poems The chisel grows heavy -- Lapidary words -- The Lapidary Style -- I in another place -- The Barbarians Ohio's field -- The far kingdom -- Water -- The separations of grief -- The presences -- The deformation -- Finished |
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Urban Psalms Here is my watch -- Homed -- Armouring -- Restaurant -- Pain and innocence -- Lamp -- Psalm 23 -- Joy, lined with metal Seeing all the movements of hesitation -- The bleary stream -- A question asked about love -- Hearing oneself -- A meeting-place -- A peaceable kingdom -- How pity was first made -- A posthumous life -- Sharing out the maundy farthings -- Of lace and stanchions -- Something that silence can't be -- Wildness makes a form -- Filaments of the plain -- 'The broad Ohio' -- Imprint -- Opposed to death -- The father -- Tenderness -- The achievers -- A paradigm -- 'A little naked son' -- The governments comic -- Under a lamp -- Autobiographical Stanzas -- For a man's head -- Acetylene: evacuated to a house in Wales, lit by gas -- 'We were evacuated in the war' -- Anxious with gifts -- Romano-British -- Leaving -- The armed -- 'Given a night's kip' -- A hand -- 'At Hardknott Pass the startled road' -- Absence and light -- Given a Flower -- Winter bees -- The Wanderer -- Leaving The Free Trade |
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Poems concerning Salome and Herod Salome's life -- Salome's Herod -- Salome's self -- Herod's life -- Salome's John the Baptist -- Herodias -- Three Poems about Grief and Fear -- A socket of plain water -- Innocence barbs the lake -- The sun's body, resting -- Envy of God -- Climbing to Jerusalem -- Footsteps on the downcast path -- Communal -- A man from the shipyards -- The Makers -- What we have held -- Crossing a river -- Ajuga -- Four Poems from the Chinese -- The garden grows darker -- Unused to -- The heights of Wu mountain -- The passes -- Crossing to Europe -- Naming souls -- Before Mundheim -- From GURNEY: Gurney's poem -- The lamps of home |
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Civil War grave, Richmond -- Trying to hide Treblinka -- Juniper and forgiveness -- 'Through leaves and fragmented light' -- In two spaces -- Moses Harris and the butterflies -- Cherokee -- Inside the gentian -- Famine -- Energy is the basis of morals -- Thirst -- 1. Gratitude -- 2. Praising -- 3. We are cared for -- 4. Green wind -- 5. Good chance -- 6. The way we choose to live -- 7. King Hezekiah, the spring, and a water-tunnel -- rass called barren, not barren -- 'if before' -- Flowering in winter -- A psalm concerning absence -- Fidelities -- Translated from the Gaelic -- In Norfolk -- Amber -- Woman and her bread -- Durham bread -- The levels -- A man and a plant in a house -- Psalmists -- Apparition -- Damage -- A man with unclenched fist -- Douglas of Sorbie and the adder -- Galloway's religious killings, and the lonely language of Gaelic -- The silence -- Gifts -- Semite -- Polish fragments of dust -- Tangled in war |
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Linked by their acts -- Jews without Arabs -- Secret Service -- The hand's black hymns -- Mr Lloyd's life -- To a lighthouse -- Lens-breakers -- Honouring the father -- Cleaning the light -- Tenderness -- Fathers -- Arum Lily -- The Mimulus Showing Itself -- ditor's Note -- The Soul Never Has Enough -- Permission to Weep -- Lament -- The Inheritor -- Fire -- Tasogare -- The Offering -- My Father's Mother -- The Fathers -- Father, a Son -- In my Father's Books -- A Gentle Hare -- In the Lithuanian Forest -- His Cat -- Are They Both Dead? -- Printing Radio Stations on Glass at Lee Green -- A Noiseless Place -- The Fireflies of Minsk -- Two Poems Concerning Jews in England -- The Jews of England -- The Jews in England -- The Life of a Poet -- The Poem -- The Pain is There -- Primate -- Gift -- If There Will Be Hope -- Printer -- Suburbs -- The Silesian Weavers -- Respectful Question -- A Short Poem for Hiroshima -- Country Water |
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Taking Ourselves to Heart -- Snow Flies (the Yuki Mushi) -- Three Poems to do with Healing -- Paternity -- The Horses -- Orion and the Spiders -- Orion -- The City Being Us -- For They Are Beautiful, in Many Languages -- Sylvia -- Visit for Ever -- Elain -- Endomorphic -- Watersmeet -- Holywell -- Shaping a Republic -- At the Wayside -- A Woman from Japan -- I -- 1. Blaming the Photographer -- 2. Meeting in the Temple of Refreshment -- 3. Conversations with the Hebrew God -- 4. One More Try -- II -- 1. Shinto -- 2. Your Parents' House -- 3. The Father ' -- 4. Forage -- 5. The Passions of Exile -- Two women -- 1. The silk-machine -- 2. A Quaker's death -- Jubilate -- Into the triangular yard -- Useful poem -- Japan, exposure -- Three poems -- I. Opening the voice of the hungry -- II. Travel by the night-train -- III. Moon snow -- I love this creature despite all -- Aggression -- Where will you find her? -- 'The soul is ghosted from its flesh' |
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Father, and the switch -- Sally sally -- 'God said, "in this lifting rim of your life..."' -- Relations -- A self-directing psalm -- The line -- The basics of fire -- How fire may find its gentleness -- Fireball -- The sub-text of sadness -- This is the kingdom -- The life of tenderness -- A horse in the pasture -- Stay where you are -- The pain of your breast -- Choosing -- A wild cherry tree -- Dark -- Cathars -- Female God -- In fear of loss -- Innocent crime -- Against depression -- Motherland -- Smiling, you enter -- Will -- 'I see it coming' -- A room in the Moorish kingdom -- 'To Jerusalem' -- Good opportunity -- Los Borrachos (the drinkers) -- Wales of the Welsh -- Living -- A good farmer -- Air that Pricks Earth with Life -- Emmanuel -- Poems published in The Ship's Pasture -- Salome -- Formations -- The Jews in England -- An Editorial Quandary Black-eye bean -- On glass -- The originals -- The conduits -- Policeman's holiday. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Genre/form | Poetry. |
| ISBN | 9781847772404 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 1847772404 (pbk.) |
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