When I Kiss The Sky
Published on 25. November 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
84 pages
978-1-905208-47-0 (ISBN)
Description
This collection follows Bowl from Worple and The Sound of Rain from Garlic Press. It explores the dynamics of presence and absence. There is lament but also affection and delight.
Reviews / Votes
Necessary, sustaining poems that brim with luminous insights and remind us time and time again that there is another world and it is in this one. Michael Laskey Such richness and movement, honesty, humour,;imagination, connectedness. Paul Mills;Elizabeth Cook can take an image (fruitfully) further than I would have thought possible. Helena NelsonMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Tonbridge
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 135 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-905208-47-0 (9781905208470)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Elizabeth Cook's work includes fiction, poetry, and libretti. Her novel, Lux (Scribe), connects the Biblical story of David and Bathsheba with the 16th century poet,Thomas Wyatt. She is the author of the fiction, Achilles (Methuen and Picador USA), the poetry collection, Bowl (Worple), and a pamphlet, The Sound of the Rain (The Garlic Press). She has created the libretti for Francis Grier's oratorios, The Passion of Jesus of Nazareth, and Before all Worlds, the latter a Nativity setting. She has been a Hawthornden Fellow and was St Edmundsbury Cathedral's first Writer in Residence. She is currently a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund. She grew up in Dorset and now lives in East London.
Content
Contents
Exemplum 1 Lupa 2 Thinking of Thomas Hardy 4
i.The Fieldfare
ii.The Biscuit Tin
Note on The Biscuit Tin
Orrery 6 The Elephant Tree 7 The Young Palaeontologist: Lyme Regis 1808 8 Up 10 Pesci diversi 12 The Bandstand by Day 14 The Bandstand by Night 15 Du?rer, 1514:Two Studies 16
i Melencolia 1 ii St. Jerome
Gust 18 Les Saintes Maries de la Mer 19 Rain 20 Edmund in Edmundsbury 21 Fox, you've changed 31 The Assignment 32 The Leopard Leapt 34 The Boy who Hurts Trees 36 Approximate 38 arrest 39 Memory House 40 Talking with Eric 42 As Told by Ramakrishna 43 pulse 44 A Whole Glade 45
Token 46 Lift 47 The Night Bus 48 At Dark-Break 50 'I am usually vigilant' 51 Stealth 52 The Candles 53 Peacock Season 54 Duck, just inches from the back door 55 The Ascent of Gulliver 56 Folds 58 in Rembrandt's studio 59 undress 60 If Jesus Came to My House 62 Quilt 63 Tent 64 Calf 65 at the churchyard 66 Can you see? 67 The Sea of Tears 68 It Takes so Little 70 He Rose Up 72 Pen 74 The New 75 AsaVestureShaltThouChangeThem(Ps. 102:27) 76 'the shag dips' 77 'At the School of the Tao they taught us' 78 Fusiform 79 Last Meal 80 when the stars threw down their spears 81 as chimney sweepers come to dust 82
Exemplum 1 Lupa 2 Thinking of Thomas Hardy 4
i.The Fieldfare
ii.The Biscuit Tin
Note on The Biscuit Tin
Orrery 6 The Elephant Tree 7 The Young Palaeontologist: Lyme Regis 1808 8 Up 10 Pesci diversi 12 The Bandstand by Day 14 The Bandstand by Night 15 Du?rer, 1514:Two Studies 16
i Melencolia 1 ii St. Jerome
Gust 18 Les Saintes Maries de la Mer 19 Rain 20 Edmund in Edmundsbury 21 Fox, you've changed 31 The Assignment 32 The Leopard Leapt 34 The Boy who Hurts Trees 36 Approximate 38 arrest 39 Memory House 40 Talking with Eric 42 As Told by Ramakrishna 43 pulse 44 A Whole Glade 45
Token 46 Lift 47 The Night Bus 48 At Dark-Break 50 'I am usually vigilant' 51 Stealth 52 The Candles 53 Peacock Season 54 Duck, just inches from the back door 55 The Ascent of Gulliver 56 Folds 58 in Rembrandt's studio 59 undress 60 If Jesus Came to My House 62 Quilt 63 Tent 64 Calf 65 at the churchyard 66 Can you see? 67 The Sea of Tears 68 It Takes so Little 70 He Rose Up 72 Pen 74 The New 75 AsaVestureShaltThouChangeThem(Ps. 102:27) 76 'the shag dips' 77 'At the School of the Tao they taught us' 78 Fusiform 79 Last Meal 80 when the stars threw down their spears 81 as chimney sweepers come to dust 82