Getting There
Published on 1. March 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-0-85323-957-4 (ISBN)
Description
Matt Simpson's poetry has among its principal themes one of coming to terms with the past as a way of understanding the present. In the present collection Simpson continues his journey into his family history. He has also been on other travels: there are poems about Japan, Tasmania, Ireland and the Greek islands of Aegina and Leros. Simpson is not shy of big themes. Here are poems about identity, love, death, illness, friendship. Simpson can be tenderly elegiac as well as celebratory, meditative and also humorous.
Reviews / Votes
... delightful... full of vigour and humour and a good deal of romantic restraint that gives a fine effect of deep feeling intelligently reined in.Anne Stevenson
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Language
English
Place of publication
Liverpool
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-85323-957-4 (9780853239574)
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Content
Another Look
A Great-Grandfather
A Great-Grandmother
Grandfathers
Grandmothers
Birthplace
My Mother and her Two Brothers
Their Wedding Photograph
Sticks and Stones
Hickory Dickory
Jolson Sings
First Day at the Grammar School
Catching an Old Film on Television
Days of TEFL
Snap
May 1997
Emma at Seven Months
Somewhere Down the Line
No Joke
For the Man I Used to Go Fishing With
Fishing in the Grounds of a Therapeutic Community
Not at his Best
Dead of Winter
'Committal'
The Dovecote
The Idea of Order at Hunts Cross
Jupiter Optimus Maximus
Squeezing a Poem out of Me
Fragment
Something for Gael Turnbull on his Seventieth Birthday
Making an Arrangement
An Invitiation to Breakfast from Sydney Smith
Hiroshima
Sez I Sez I in Stephen's Green
Seventh Heaven
At Drumcliff in 1997
Getting There
Mnemosynon
Moonlight on Leros
Olives
The Quality of Greek Light
Scottish Water Bringing Squid
Funerary Monuments, Aegina
Taking the Hexameter a Walk
Moonlight on Aegina
Whalewatching - Vancouver Island
Seventh-Storey Heaven
Sarah Biffin
Ancestors
In the Dock Canteen
On Tape at the Old People's Home
Winter Solstice 2001
A Long Way from Home
A Great-Grandfather
A Great-Grandmother
Grandfathers
Grandmothers
Birthplace
My Mother and her Two Brothers
Their Wedding Photograph
Sticks and Stones
Hickory Dickory
Jolson Sings
First Day at the Grammar School
Catching an Old Film on Television
Days of TEFL
Snap
May 1997
Emma at Seven Months
Somewhere Down the Line
No Joke
For the Man I Used to Go Fishing With
Fishing in the Grounds of a Therapeutic Community
Not at his Best
Dead of Winter
'Committal'
The Dovecote
The Idea of Order at Hunts Cross
Jupiter Optimus Maximus
Squeezing a Poem out of Me
Fragment
Something for Gael Turnbull on his Seventieth Birthday
Making an Arrangement
An Invitiation to Breakfast from Sydney Smith
Hiroshima
Sez I Sez I in Stephen's Green
Seventh Heaven
At Drumcliff in 1997
Getting There
Mnemosynon
Moonlight on Leros
Olives
The Quality of Greek Light
Scottish Water Bringing Squid
Funerary Monuments, Aegina
Taking the Hexameter a Walk
Moonlight on Aegina
Whalewatching - Vancouver Island
Seventh-Storey Heaven
Sarah Biffin
Ancestors
In the Dock Canteen
On Tape at the Old People's Home
Winter Solstice 2001
A Long Way from Home