Cyclone
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Cyclone

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eBook - ePub

Cyclone

About this book

Robert Peake's second full collection of poems is about weathering storms—personal, political, psychological—in our present-day climate of chaos. These are matters of life or death, and Cyclone urges us to consider what the ill wind may bring, and how we will survive it.

Peake's acutely tuned poems bring eloquence and urgency to matters of profound devastation. With shattering delicacy, he writes of personal loss, of grief and the long aftermath; "whenever the wind sprays into my face, I taste salt of your absence".

These poems also hazard an eye at the global weather and find a world in turmoil, wild with unreliable news and terrible forecasts. Manifesting between the storms is the man with the kindest face. Is he here to save us or warn us? A guide or a harbinger? As these brilliantly-visioned poems suggest, nothing is certain in the eye of the storm. Nevertheless, there is some form of consolation and rescue: "He seems at home in this tempest. He seems happy".

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Information

Publisher
Nine Arches Press
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9781911027447
eBook ISBN
9781911027669
Topic
Letteratura
Subtopic
Poesia

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Epigraph
  7. The Man with the Kindest Face
  8. Nomansland Common
  9. The man with the kindest face has change for a twenty
  10. Village Panto
  11. Why I Should Be Over It By Now
  12. Cognates of Grief
  13. Cyclone
  14. End of the Meeting
  15. The man with the kindest face in time of revolution
  16. The Opposite of Sleepwalking
  17. The Mothra of Equanimity
  18. Abduction
  19. The man with the kindest face pumps up your bicycle tyre
  20. Due Date
  21. Getting On With It
  22. To The Black Dog’s Master
  23. Mood Diary
  24. The man with the kindest face runs for political office
  25. Homesickness
  26. Intermediate Sword Swallowing
  27. Stockholm
  28. Selfie Smile
  29. Technological Advancements
  30. With Two
  31. Delusion, California
  32. Free Will
  33. Confirmation Bias
  34. Patient Refused Dental Anaesthesia
  35. The low-price leader heads the parade
  36. “Confident Middle-Aged Man Sitting and Smiling Against White Background”
  37. Inventions
  38. The man with the kindest face helps you rearrange your wardrobe
  39. What Will Survive Us
  40. Magpie
  41. Waking Up to the Last Winter on Earth
  42. Letter to the Last Megafauna
  43. Insults for Trees
  44. Collective
  45. Reading Dostoevsky in the John Lewis Café Welwyn Garden City
  46. Berry-Coloured Scarf
  47. Failure to Thrive
  48. The man with the kindest face checks your passport
  49. Horse Optimism
  50. Acknowledgements and thanks
  51. About the author & this book
  52. About the Author: