Selected Poems
Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2003
This Selected Poems contains some revised versions of early poems only previously available in the the limited edition pamphlet A Part of Rosemary Laxton (1979) and the long unavailable Overdrawn Account (1980). Most of these poems have been carefully revised and one, 'Some Hope' is published for the first time in a three-part version. The central sections are composed of thematic sequences from my four Carcanet collections to date. The book ends with a section of newer poems, part of a book called Ghost Characters, including 'Pasta-Making' written in 2001.
Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2003
Critical Responses and Reviews
Home for memories: Jules Smith on Selected Poems: Read
Includes
:
- 'A Homage'
- 'A September Night'
- 'An Air': Adam Piette on ‘An Air’
- 'Animal Sendai'
- 'Autobiography'
- 'Cleaning': Eric Griffiths on 'Cleaning'
- 'Dirty Language'
- 'From a Memory'
- 'How He Changes'
- 'In the Background Details'
- 'Living in the Workroom'
- 'Looking Up'
- 'Lost Objects'
- 'More About the Weather'
- 'Overdrawn Account'
- 'Pasta-Making'
- 'Plain Money'
- 'Pressure Cooker Noise'
- 'Some Hope'
- 'The Benefit Forms'
- 'The Interrupted Views'
- 'The Relapses'
- 'The Woman in the Photograph': Mark Ford on 'The Woman in the Photograph'
- 'The Yellow Tank'
- 'Their Inventory'
- 'Tokens of Affection'
- 'Worlds Apart'