Castaly
Poems, 1973-77
Published on 1. November 2013
79 pages
978-1-77558-522-0 (ISBN)
Description
The poems that make up Castaly: Poems 1973-77 have been selected by the poet from work completed over the course of four years. Ian Wedde writes: The poems in this book represent my attempts to remain alert in the world between 1973 and 1977. . . . Nevertheless my main obsessions (sometimes called 'themes') have remained the same, though not habitual I hope. They are few, and if they don't come across in these poems, well, I did the best I could. (That's all I am telling.) Last night I had a comical dream in which all the typists from the typing pool of a large insurance company hurled their typewriters down the lift-shaft of the building. This odd vision is what I have to get on with now, it's still mine, whereas the poems in this book belong (with thanks) to whoever cares to read them. (I suspect the dream offered a metaphor for wasted emotions. I recognise another voice which says, 'Nothing is wasted' . . .
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Content
- Cover
- Acknowledgements
- Copyright
- CONTENT
- LYRIC 1
- GRIT
- PATHWAY TO THE SEA
- ALUMINIUM SMELTER
- CARDRONA VALLEY
- POWER CUT
- SPRING BOUQUET
- AFTER BLAKE
- LYRIC 2
- THE FIRST DAYS
- BEAUTIFUL POULTRY
- CASTALY
- CHILD SLEEPING
- DARK WOOD
- ANGEL
- KALI YUGA
- SHADUF
- THREE LITTLE SONGS FOR PROSERPINE QUEEN
- LYRIC 3
- THE 1976 BULLET McHALE WINTER LECTURES
- LYRIC 4
- DON'T LISTEN
- SOMNAMBULIST
- CHOPHOUSE LOG
- BAD BREATH
- THE AIR YOU BREATHE
- JOSEPH CONRAD EYES
- LYRIC 5
- SIGNS OF THE TIMES
- INDEX
