
Rosemary for Remembrance
Rosemary Anne Sisson(Author)
Radcliffe Press
Published on 31. December 1995
Book
Hardback
104 pages
978-1-86064-017-9 (ISBN)
Description
A collection of poems ranging from the serious to the lighthearted, reflecting the events and emotions in the poet's life.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Illustrations
21 b&w halftones
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-86064-017-9 (9781860640179)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Country matters: privilege; love song; michaelmas daisy; usually we know our place; blackbird, Lyminster; requiem for a baby, Parsons Green; the blackbird's tragedy; fair's fair; golden wedding. A long war ago: a long war ago; epitaph 1940; aircraft recognition; family pride and the Morrison shelter; Aberystwyth 1942; Beacon 30/5/42; canteen dance, initial training wing, Aberystwyth; fighter pilot's wife; commonplace 1943; epitaph on an airman; routine flight, mosquito 1945; goodbye to London 1949; return to Aberystwyth; Stratford sonnet; Shakespeare at Coventry; prologue to "As You like It" played before Queen Elizabeth II at Stratford 1957; In celebration of #100 prize offered for a new play in memory of William Shakespeare; first rehearsal "The Queen and the Welshman"; the vagrant heart; the royal captivity; M.C.; liberation. Sing a song of Galilee: Good Friday; Fred + Hoyle = ?; Easter 1946; New Year 1948; New Year's Eve 1955; New Year's Eve 1960; twelfth man; Galilee; low churchmen; the mountain; the true miracle; Christmas in Parson's Green. At the drop of a hat: not on the agenda 1,2; Boris Pasternak; Ithaca; Lady Chatterley replies; Jamestown 1619; Normandy, Surrey; Fulbright seminar - staying in University College, Oxford; Tristan da Cunha - no more; Agammemnon, King of Greece; from M.J.P. - perfectionist; Edenbridge; for the Lacasfilm Fourth of July picnic; V.K.S. - 100th birthday. That old familiar - death: Quia impossible; Beau 1939-1948; go cheerful; Mr Pullen dying; the death of Irwin Edman; what's wrong with Lemmings?; gently into the night; lines on a dying father; uninvited death; death of a friend; timor mortis conturbat me; in memoriam Ted Willis; familiar things; Lyminster churchyard.