Time to Get Here
Selected Poems 1969-2002
Will be published approx. on 15. April 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-1-876857-92-9 (ISBN)
Description
'There is always a history to the shape of the mind', wrote Jacqueline Rose recently, and one of the continuing preoccupations of these poems has been both to create a sense of the many forms of that shape and to register the history of the worlds which shape it and to which it responds with pleasure, guilt, anger, irony, hatred or love. These are poems which welcome distraction, in various forms, and which seem to have a lasting interest in registering and reproducing a sense of the uncanny. The strategies adopted veer between lyric mannerism and reconstructed second-hand words and, taken together, the poems chart a lazy form of investigative political thinking through the last three decades of the twentieth century and their phenomena.
Reviews / Votes
The questions of war, civic space, and the surreal quality of everyday life command the view in this singular and eloquent work. Moreover the keen intonation of each poem via the handled delicacies of accent and stress deploys language to work some ethical discernment which is far from inconsequential. -- D.S. MarriottMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Applecross, WA
Australia
Target group
US School Grade: From Third Grade to Eleventh Grade, Interest Age: From 13 to 21 years
Illustrations
Not illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-876857-92-9 (9781876857929)
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Person
Ian Patterson was born in 1948 and grew up in Cheshire and London. After a variety of jobs, he now teaches English at Queens' College, Cambridge. He has published numerous translations, most recently Finding Time Again, the final volume of Proust's In Search of Lost Time from Penguin. He lives in Cambridge with the writer Jenny Diski.
Content
Section One 1969-1979
Poem
The Elegy for Spring
Kara Chach
Quiet Arriving
Summing It Up One of These Days
A Happy New Year
Waking Up: 2.10 pm
Politics
Night Ministry
Lullaby
Ritual Slips
Polly Fortune
Red Breath
Hold the Child, Father Sunlight
A Thing of Reason
Pencil
Fatal Congeries
As We Run Out of the Wet
Man
Bound to a Time
Japan is Sad
Sentinel
Requiem for a Brain
Notes
Sparkling Fruit Salts
Kino
Lino
Nino
Rhino
Vino
The Yurt: Day One
Tatlin's Dream
Curiously Strong
Cover Design After the Event
Any Old Iron
Why Motoring Costs Have Soared
Some Comfort
"the audience"
'Life Dreamed is now Life Lived' (David Gascoyne)
Derry
The Political Economy of Art
Underground
Looking at Henry
Endless Demands
Intro
Talking 'Bout Things
Things Reply
Apprehension
Hardly Yippee
We Must Tighten Our Belts
Nothing in my head . . .
Light Determines a State of Absolute Rest
Out of Date
It Was a Long Lane
I Felt a Hand Grip My Elbow
In Your Face
Endless Demands
In 1938
Section Two Roughly SpeakingPoems from the 1980s
All Our Ends
Still Life
Without Rhyme or Reason
It Had to Be You
The Origins of Love and Hate
Late Capital
Irreducible Blue
So to Speak
Speaking of Life
After Breakfast
Prattle
You Never Said
Time How Short
Red Priest
Interference
Matter and Memory
A Propos
Time How Short
Far and Away
No Resolution
The Night The
Postcards to Spain 1986
1. A Note on Air and Motives
2. Coda
3. Point Blank Future
4. Wish You Were Here
Postcard to Italy
A Reading
L'Histoire
Small Changes
Guinea on China
High Time
The First Intervention
Solo
Wherever a Head
The Name of Day
Say Nothing
Section Three 1991-2002
Sestina
Tense Fodder
The Garden Party
No Contact
These Days
The Wire
Less and Less
Sleep
This and That
Lino Cut
A Bit Apart
Look Back
Facing Page
Drying Out
New York
Some Title
Much More Pronounced
Oh Snooty
Oh, To Be in England
Pastoral
After Pope
Laugh Like a Piano
Basic White
Hardihood
Quite Right
A World of Love
Death of Dance
In the Train
North
Living Here Now
Mulch Tumult
Poem
The Elegy for Spring
Kara Chach
Quiet Arriving
Summing It Up One of These Days
A Happy New Year
Waking Up: 2.10 pm
Politics
Night Ministry
Lullaby
Ritual Slips
Polly Fortune
Red Breath
Hold the Child, Father Sunlight
A Thing of Reason
Pencil
Fatal Congeries
As We Run Out of the Wet
Man
Bound to a Time
Japan is Sad
Sentinel
Requiem for a Brain
Notes
Sparkling Fruit Salts
Kino
Lino
Nino
Rhino
Vino
The Yurt: Day One
Tatlin's Dream
Curiously Strong
Cover Design After the Event
Any Old Iron
Why Motoring Costs Have Soared
Some Comfort
"the audience"
'Life Dreamed is now Life Lived' (David Gascoyne)
Derry
The Political Economy of Art
Underground
Looking at Henry
Endless Demands
Intro
Talking 'Bout Things
Things Reply
Apprehension
Hardly Yippee
We Must Tighten Our Belts
Nothing in my head . . .
Light Determines a State of Absolute Rest
Out of Date
It Was a Long Lane
I Felt a Hand Grip My Elbow
In Your Face
Endless Demands
In 1938
Section Two Roughly SpeakingPoems from the 1980s
All Our Ends
Still Life
Without Rhyme or Reason
It Had to Be You
The Origins of Love and Hate
Late Capital
Irreducible Blue
So to Speak
Speaking of Life
After Breakfast
Prattle
You Never Said
Time How Short
Red Priest
Interference
Matter and Memory
A Propos
Time How Short
Far and Away
No Resolution
The Night The
Postcards to Spain 1986
1. A Note on Air and Motives
2. Coda
3. Point Blank Future
4. Wish You Were Here
Postcard to Italy
A Reading
L'Histoire
Small Changes
Guinea on China
High Time
The First Intervention
Solo
Wherever a Head
The Name of Day
Say Nothing
Section Three 1991-2002
Sestina
Tense Fodder
The Garden Party
No Contact
These Days
The Wire
Less and Less
Sleep
This and That
Lino Cut
A Bit Apart
Look Back
Facing Page
Drying Out
New York
Some Title
Much More Pronounced
Oh Snooty
Oh, To Be in England
Pastoral
After Pope
Laugh Like a Piano
Basic White
Hardihood
Quite Right
A World of Love
Death of Dance
In the Train
North
Living Here Now
Mulch Tumult