Selected Poems
Published on 30. September 2010
72 pages
978-1-84777-929-8 (ISBN)
Description
Peter Sansom's Selected Poems brings together twenty years of quintessential Sansom, a poet who has made the local and familiar his own resonant territory. Supermarkets and darts matches, life with teenagers and family funerals, the common ground of modern life, make up the fabric of poems that capture the distinctiveness of the ordinary with a robust and sharp-eyed tenderness.
Selected Poems includes revised versions of poems from Peter Sansom's four Carcanet collections, with poems from his 2009 pamphlet The Night is Young.
Cover painting: Mary Sansom (aged six)
Selected Poems includes revised versions of poems from Peter Sansom's four Carcanet collections, with poems from his 2009 pamphlet The Night is Young.
Cover painting: Mary Sansom (aged six)
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Language
English
Place of publication
NYC
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Carcanet Press Ltd
File size
0,46 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-84777-929-8 (9781847779298)
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Person
Peter Sansom was born in 1958 in Nottinghamshire. Carcanet published his first book in 1990. Among more recent titles are Selected Poems and Careful What You Wish For, which won him a Cholmondeley Award in 2016. He has also published Writing Poems (Bloodaxe, 1994, new edition 2024). For ten years Peter taught the MA Poetry at Huddersfield University, and he has been Fellow in Poetry at Leeds and Manchester Universities and Company Poet with M&S and The Prudential. With Ann Sansom he is one of the directors of The Poetry Business in Sheffield and co-editor of The North and SmithDoorstop Books.
Content
Contents
House
Snookered
Bingo
The Folklore of Plants
Vacuum
One Night
Funeral Morning
Living Room
5th September 1989, Small Hours
Language
The fox in the writing class
Agony
Borrowdale Morning
*
January
Lake
At Blea Tarn
A Stone in a Drystone Wall
A Walk
What the Eye Doesn't See
A Dream Mistaking a Person for What He Has Come
to Represent
Aldeburgh
Bliss
At the End of Here
Whitby
Sitcom
Some night by chance
Clinical Depression
Death Cap
Summer Evening
Baker Street: Poet in Residence (Day 1)
To Autumn
Words for Paul Cezanne
Top Withens
You'll Like This
Beard
About Time
Teeth
My Mother on a Seat Outside a Hospital
*
Crich Stand
That was the day it snowed
Ted Savoury
Breakfast in the Dunblane Hilton
Anyone for Tennis?
Ironing
Sheffield by Night
On Not Being George W. Bush
L.O.V.E.
I'd heard about the man, who, drunk
On the Road
Born-again bikers,
The Wife of Bath's Tale
Joss
Bluebell Wood
The Day He Met His Wife
*
Stepladder
My Brother's Vespa
Autumn Term
Keymarkets
I used to faint
Moon
Petar K, 1957-2847
Croft Juniors
Instead of going to work
My Town
The Night is Young
Index of Titles and First Lines
House
Snookered
Bingo
The Folklore of Plants
Vacuum
One Night
Funeral Morning
Living Room
5th September 1989, Small Hours
Language
The fox in the writing class
Agony
Borrowdale Morning
*
January
Lake
At Blea Tarn
A Stone in a Drystone Wall
A Walk
What the Eye Doesn't See
A Dream Mistaking a Person for What He Has Come
to Represent
Aldeburgh
Bliss
At the End of Here
Whitby
Sitcom
Some night by chance
Clinical Depression
Death Cap
Summer Evening
Baker Street: Poet in Residence (Day 1)
To Autumn
Words for Paul Cezanne
Top Withens
You'll Like This
Beard
About Time
Teeth
My Mother on a Seat Outside a Hospital
*
Crich Stand
That was the day it snowed
Ted Savoury
Breakfast in the Dunblane Hilton
Anyone for Tennis?
Ironing
Sheffield by Night
On Not Being George W. Bush
L.O.V.E.
I'd heard about the man, who, drunk
On the Road
Born-again bikers,
The Wife of Bath's Tale
Joss
Bluebell Wood
The Day He Met His Wife
*
Stepladder
My Brother's Vespa
Autumn Term
Keymarkets
I used to faint
Moon
Petar K, 1957-2847
Croft Juniors
Instead of going to work
My Town
The Night is Young
Index of Titles and First Lines
