With poems culled from a period of 20 years, this compilation brings together the works of English poet Peter Sansom. Having made the local and familiar his own resonant territory, Sansom explores the common ground of modern life, such as supermarkets, darts matches, life with teenagers, and family funerals. Including revised versions of previously published poems, this collection is sure to enthrall poetry lovers as well as fans of Sansom.
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Selected Poems: Peter Sansom
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Table of 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 Cézanne
- 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, 1957–2007
- Croft Juniors
- Instead of going to work
- My Town
- The Night Is Young
- Index of Titles and First Lines
- About the Author
- Also by Peter Sansom from Carcanet
- Copyright
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