
New & Collected Poems
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Ruth Fainlight's collections of short stories include Daylife and Nightlife (Andre Deutsch, 1971) and Dr Clock's Last Case and Other Stories (Virago, 1994). As a poet, short-story writer and translator, she has contributed to many anthologies. Her own work has been translated into Portuguese, French, Spanish, Italian and Romanian, and she has herself published translations from the Portuguese of the poetry of Sophia de Mello Breyner, and from the Spanish of several Latin American poets represented in her New & Collected Poems. She has also written four libretti: The Dancer Hotoke (1991), a chamber opera with music by Erika Fox, performed as part of the Royal Opera's 'Garden Venture' in 1991 and shortlisted for the Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera; The European Story (based on her poem of the same title, 1993), also commissioned by the Royal Opera House; and Bedlam Britannica, which was commissioned by Channel 4 Television for the series War Cries in 1995; and The Bride in Her Grave. Her translation (with Robert J. Littman) of The Theban Plays by Sophocles (Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone) was published in 2009 in the Johns Hopkins University Press's New Translations from Antiquity series. She lives in London, and was married to the late Alan Sillitoe for over 50 years. She collaborated with him on an adaptation of Lope de Vega's play Fuenteovejuna, commissioned by the National Theatre and published as All Citizens Are Soldiers.
Content
- Cover
- Description
- Title Page
- Dedication
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- Table of Contents
- New Poems
- The Empty Lot
- Midland Contemporary
- Diversion
- Dawn Blue
- Windows
- Insomniac's Moon
- Their Story
- Ageing
- A Different Form
- Borrowed Time
- The Wedding Chapel
- Facts About Ants
- Pain Figure
- Dixit Dominus
- Nacre
- Before the Fall
- An Ancient Ritual
- Last Year's Sicknesses
- Slow Wet Flakes
- The Shower
- Triptych
- Collateral Damage
- Water, Fire, Blood
- Tongue-tied
- Cages
- Dawn Chorus
- The Angels
- Cages
- Equinox
- The Brothers
- Self-confessed
- Hope
- The Ante-room
- A Child Asleep
- The Screaming Baby
- The Infanticide
- The Shriving
- Stones
- Autumn Stirring
- The Chain
- The Ghost
- The Arab Fluter
- Some Thoughts on Death
- White Nights
- New Moon and Full Moon
- Mooncity
- Ashy Moon
- One Phase of the Moon
- Song
- The Old Bear
- Old Man in Love
- The Black Goddess
- A Painting
- Time Theory
- The Night Flower
- A Fable
- Everyone Dies
- Four Verses
- To See the Matter Clearly
- Gloria
- The Muse
- The Chain
- Unseemly
- Sleep-learning
- Fever Hospital
- Water
- The Spirit Moving on the Face of the Water
- Fire
- Wide-eyed
- Love and Justice
- The Midas Touch
- To See the Matter Clearly
- Bacchante
- The Weather
- Night Mare
- Uncertain
- Paradise
- Air
- Old Man, Old Woman
- A Missing Word
- The Hero's Mother
- Seven Sevens
- Definitions
- The Region's Violence
- The Climber
- snow poem
- God's Language
- Lilith
- The Dolphins
- Isolates
- Neighbour
- Sleepers
- Lake and Island
- Two Blue Dresses
- My Grandparents
- My Hands
- My Eyes
- Fire Queen
- Pigeons at Villa Belmonte
- The Betrothal
- Silence
- Disguise
- Last Chance, Last Hope
- Velázquez' Christ in the House of Martha and Mary
- Beardsley's St Rose of Lima
- Tanya
- The Ox
- Self-conquest, Heroes and Dragons
- Rapture
- Then
- On the Moon
- Falling
- A Fairy Story
- Progress
- The Field
- The Lambs
- The White Bird
- Freedom Defined
- Words and Letters
- Poem
- Grace-notes
- Another Full Moon
- Vertical
- The Other
- The Lace-wing
- The Usual Poem
- August Full Moon
- Another Full Moon
- Dinner-table Conversation
- Last Days
- The Spider and the Fly
- The End of July
- The Demonstration
- At the Horizon
- Afterwards
- Souvenir
- The Fall
- The Boat
- Hair
- Other Rooms
- My Thoughts
- Burnt Paper
- Traces
- Waking
- Appearance
- Pompeian Dreams
- The Preserver
- Realising My Solitude
- Breath
- Glass-thoughts
- My Position in the History of the Twentieth Century
- Bergamo Collage
- Drunk Moon
- Moon
- Words
- Sibyls and Others
- I. SIBYLS
- A Sibyl
- Aeneas' Meeting with the Sibyl
- A Desert Sibyl
- The Cumaean Sibyl I
- The Cumaean Sibyl II
- From The Sibylline Books
- The Hebrew Sibyl
- Sibyl of the Waters
- The Delphic Sibyl
- Destruction of a Sibyl
- Herophile
- Sibyl on the Run
- Hallucinating Sibyl
- The Cimmerian Sibyl
- Sick Sibyl
- Blocked Sibyl
- Rescue of the Sibyl
- The Persian Sibyl
- The Sibyls in Amiens Cathedral
- The Sibila
- The Libyan Sibyl
- The Phrygian Sibyl
- The Shinto Sibyl
- The Tiburtine Sibyl
- The Oracle at Dodona
- A Young Sibyl
- Introspection of a Sibyl
- II. OTHERS
- Only the Magpie
- Time's Metaphors
- Danger Areas
- Driving Northward
- The Route Napoleon
- Trees
- Deadheading the Roses
- The New Tree
- New Year in England
- The First of October
- With David in the Nimrud Galleries
- Childhood
- The Message
- A Child Crying
- Almost-full Moon
- That Smile
- Unsuitable
- It Must
- Anja's Poem
- Divination by Hair
- Satellite
- Always Time
- Meeting
- Again
- Animal Tamer
- Going Back
- The Function of Tears
- Suddenly
- Grief
- Not Well-mapped as Heaven
- The Thorn
- My Rings
- Questions
- Not Grief but Fear
- Too Late
- Time Come
- Terra Incognita
- That Coming Mystery
- Fire
- All Those Victorian Paintings
- Belief
- Summer Storm
- Midsummer Night
- Squirrel in Holland Park
- Hospital Flowers
- Dreaming
- House-guest
- The Gambler
- Meat
- Aftermath
- The King Must Die
- The New Science of Strong Materials
- Usually Dry-eyed
- To Somehow Manage a Poem
- The Dancing Floor
- Poems from Chapbooks
- from TWENTY-ONE POEMS (1973)
- Today
- A Midland Goddess
- Moon Landing
- The Atlantic Beaches
- Fragments of a Dream
- CLIMATES (1983)
- Further.Closer
- While Summer Runs Its Course
- The Distant View
- Like shadows on the lawn -
- Another Variation
- Angel from the North
- Vanguards
- An Unmarked Ship
- Red Sky at Night.
- Anticipated
- To Break This Silence
- Fifteen to Infinity
- Passenger
- Stubborn
- Here
- Outside the Mansion
- Author! Author!
- The Journey
- Launching
- After Fifteen
- Love-feast
- Handbag
- War Time
- Or Her Soft Breast
- Lost Drawing
- Crystal Pleating
- The Storm
- In Memoriam H.P.F.
- As Though She Were a Sister
- Spring in Ladbroke Square
- Marvellous Toys
- Titian's Venus and Adonis
- Susannah and the Elders
- The Noonday Devil
- Ulysses, Troilus and Cressida
- The Song of Matho-Talen
- Miriam's Well
- Archive Film Material
- The Mount of Olives
- Leonard Baskin's Death Drawings
- Trompe l'Oeil
- The Angel
- Silk Kimonos
- Sediments
- The Prism
- Red Message
- Entries
- Observations of the Tower Block
- Spring in the City
- Spring Light
- Calcutta
- Valleys and Mountains
- Passions
- Natural History
- The Music
- Death's Love-bite
- Acrobatic Full Moon
- Products of the Pig
- The Power Source
- The Circle
- Judgement at Marble Arch
- The Barrier
- Difficult Reward
- The Knot
- The Knot
- The European Story
- On the Theme of Artifice
- The Yellow Plate
- Flower Feet
- Poppies
- Flies
- Early Rivers
- August
- The Neville Brothers
- Rock Island
- In Tuscaloosa -
- Out on the Porch
- Off the Interstate
- Rand McNally
- Between the Canyons
- Survival of the Cult
- Bouzigues
- The Garden
- Blossom and Technology
- The Japanese Bath
- Japanese Syllabics
- Incense
- Keeper
- Learning About Him
- 'Softly Awakes My Heart.'
- Those Photographs
- Towards My Waiting Mother
- Station Road
- My Fuchsia
- The Crescent
- The Fabric
- A Discussion with Patrick Kavanagh
- Like Manet's Olympe
- Ovid Among the Scythians
- Unique Forms
- Driving I
- Driving II
- Driving III
- The Dead Sea
- The Planetarium
- Rosebay Willow-herb
- String
- Cartography
- High Pressure Zone
- Sister, Sister
- Cup and Sword
- Evil Enters
- A Room
- The Restlessness of Sunset
- The Limitations of Tiredness
- That Presence
- Autumn Garden Poem
- The Wittersham Sibyl
- The Same Power
- The Same Ease
- The Novelty
- In Drummond's Room
- The Poet -
- This Time of Year
- I.
- This Time of Year
- The Coptic Wedding
- Lineage
- Choosing
- Nails and Spiders and Jacks
- The X-Ray Machine
- Tosca
- II.
- Mottoes
- Out to Lunch
- A Couple
- Warped Toward the North
- The Author
- My Lucky Star
- A Village Story
- A Saga
- Galatea
- Phallic Sapphics
- The Necklace
- Romance
- Homage
- A Mourner
- Lark
- Until You Read It
- III.
- Bird and Worm
- The Old Dog
- The Fish
- Visitation
- Reflection
- Part of the Crowd -
- The Law
- To Whom It Pertains
- The Plastic Bag
- The Problem
- IV.
- Newborn
- The Cranes
- Late Low Sun
- Flowing Stream
- Thunder
- Buds
- Solstice
- Privacy on Lake Ochrid
- On the Coast Road
- Veronica's Napkin, or 'Nick's Lament'
- Art
- Chardin's Jar of Apricots
- Arshile Gorky's Mother
- Twelve Sibyls
- Squatting at the Womb's Mouth
- Sibyl Hands
- Facts About the Sibyl
- After Possession
- Profiles
- His Face
- Dreamy
- Weighty
- Inward
- What Greater God.
- Elegant Sibyl
- The Egg Mother
- Sugar-Paper Blue
- I.
- Agua de Colonia
- The Bowl
- Pomegranate
- The Lizard
- The Same
- The Old Typewriter
- Friends' Photos
- Young Men
- Maenad
- Silly
- Whatever
- Eyeliner
- Milky Way
- Chained Angel
- II.
- The Mercury Vapour Moth Trap
- Hendon Central
- Nature
- Horns
- Evacuee
- Dinah (Genesis 34)
- Fatima
- Two Pictures by Judith Rothchild
- Vendange
- Ancient Egyptian Couples
- Woodman
- III.
- The Corset Lady
- Hand Shoes
- The Tooth Fairy
- Bruises
- Pain
- Jade
- IV.
- Signs and Wonders
- Spider Plant
- Black Plastic and Poplars
- Driving IV
- Somerset August
- Autumn Crocus
- Morpho
- His Things
- The Bench
- Those Trees
- Whatever It Was
- Where and There and Here
- The Gates
- The Point of It All
- Poetry
- V.
- Sugar-Paper Blue
- Sugar-Paper Blue
- Burning Wire
- Burning Wire
- In the Dream
- Song
- Transience
- Ephemeral Lives
- Beetle
- What
- Thankful
- The Tree Surgeon
- Ordinary Sorrow
- Potatoes
- Prosody
- This Visitor
- Footprint
- Insistence
- Black
- La Chaise Bleue
- Feathers
- Our Song
- Primrose Cottage
- Sunday Afternoon
- Four Pheasants
- The Drive Back
- The English Country Cottage
- Green Tomatoes
- An Encounter Near Ladbroke Square
- In Ladbroke Square
- The Begonias
- Lisbon Faces
- Peruvian Views
- Montevideo
- Shocked
- The Clarinettist
- Opera in Holland Park
- La Traviata in 2001
- Spiralling
- Shawl
- The Constellation of the Jacket
- Feathers and Jug
- The Second Page
- The Screen Door
- My Mother's Eyes
- Even Captain Marvel
- December Moon
- Cousins
- Those Days
- Prescience
- Brush and Comb
- Essential Equipment
- Knives
- Stranger
- The Mechanism
- In Illo Tempore
- SHEBA AND SOLOMON
- Moon Wheels
- Apogee
- Moon Wheels
- Moving
- Blankets
- A Bowl of Apples
- What You See
- Almost Immortality
- A Lost Painting by Balthus
- Lovely Hands
- Gothick Fingernails
- Never Again
- The Nest
- Those Short Seasons
- Crocuses
- Memorials
- A New Book
- Mosaic
- Deletion
- Powder Mountain
- Sinking
- The Fourth Dimension
- The Pool-hall Theory
- The Jester's Legs
- Robbery
- A Border Incident
- The Anxiety of Airports
- Plans
- An Ichneumon Wasp
- Doom of Kings
- A Postcard from Tunis
- The Threshold
- Fabulous Beings
- The Garden of Eden
- War Moon
- Translations
- SOPHIA DE MELLO BREYNER
- Midday
- One Day
- Day of the Sea
- Sibyls
- Listen
- Beach
- Torpid Shores
- In the Poem
- Muse
- Twilight of the Gods
- The Small Square
- Cyclades
- The Islands
- Writing
- VICTOR MANUEL MENDIOLA
- Your Hand, My Mouth
- SOPHOCLES
- I Jocasta's death
- II Oedipus enters the Underworld
- III The deaths of Antigone and Haemon
- A, B, C
- INDEX
- D, E, F
- G, H, I
- J, K, L
- M, N, O
- P, Q, R
- S, T, U
- V, W, X
- Y, Z
- About the Author
- Copyright
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