In a hot Spanish kitchen a little boy's mouth waters as he daydreams about the citrus tang of freshly-squeezed juice; in the weak sunlight outside a Russian Orthodox church, splinters of wood 'dance' like so many motes of dust; and in a camp in Germany three prisoners of war look upwards and marvel at the near-weightless liberty of the birds they see. These are some of the exquisite moments – almost visual in their vibrancy – that are captured in the pages of Still Life. In this rich and textured anthology, the mundane is transfigured as poets attempt to answer – or at least to establish – the 'big' questions of life. In being recalled and recorded in poetry, 'still lives' are endowed both with vitality and with a particular kind of immortality, too.
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Table of contents
- Front cover
- Title pages
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- The contributors
- Foreword
- Rita Ray - Still life with oranges and walnuts (Luis Melendez)
- Philip Williams - Diptych
- Jennifer Anne Durban - The cupboard under the stairs
- Heather Freckleton - Hide and seek
- Haiku moments - Sheila Powell
- Anna Mackenzie - Furniture complex
- George Horsman - Worms
- Clive McWilliam - Spellbound
- Clive McWilliam - Ada in the garden
- Frances Sackett - Burning the clothes
- Frances Sackett - Shoreline
- Linda Houlton - Twelve men and a cheeseboard
- James Phillips - Threads
- Simon Gotts - The careers master
- Jean Page - Grasshopper girl
- Jean Page - Cotton atlas
- Angela Topping - Paper patterns
- Frances Sackett - Moonwalk
- Philip Watts - Amaryllis
- Liz Loxley - Early sparrow-grass
- Pontoon
- Liz Loxley - Sloe gin
- Rob Blaney - Darwin's finches
- Angi Holden - The migrant
- Richard Hughes - Rook and jackdaw migrations observed in Germany 1942-1945
- Caroline Hawkridge - The lure
- Joy Winkler - Wings, planes and weather vanes
- Ruth Symes - Grandparents
- Anne-Marie Biggs - The history department
- Barbara Holliday - An orphan at thirty six
- Peter Branson - Icon
- Rob Blaney - Jazz on nine eleven
- George Horsman - Massage
- Jonathan Musgrove - Temple garden
- Russell Morris - Crossing: 1946
- Ellis Lloyd - Crosby Sands - an iron man speaks
- Ellis Lloyd - Helsby in winter sun
- David Selzer - At Jodrell Bank
- Catherine Bruton - Warrington Bank Quay
- Philip Williams - Quarry
- Angela Topping - Duke's Clough
- Peter Howard - Fog
- Andrew Bailey - Salt
- Alison Leonard - A fourth dimension
- Sheila Powell - Sheep
- Angi Holden - Recall
- Robbie Burton - Horeb
- Jonny Reid - Dodo
- John Davies - Mending your guitar
- Yeats exhibition
- Jake Campbell - My granddad at Souter Lighthouse
- Judy Ugonna - Lunet (Friction Drum)
- Judy Ogonna - Slit Drum
- Jonny Reid - Jake
- Vikki Littlemore - Teenagers in love
- Michael Scully - Snagging
- Helen Clare - Gerris lacustris (common pond skater)
- Anax imperator (emperor dragonfly)
- Back cover
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