Uncollected Poems
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Uncollected Poems

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Uncollected Poems

About this book

R.S. Thomas (1913-2000) is a major writer of our time, one of the finest religious poets in the English language and one of Wales's greatest poets. His output was prolific: over six decades he published some 25 individual collections of poems, as well as several volumes of prose. A substantial number of his poems, however, have hitherto remained uncollected, and often elusive -poems published in newspapers, magazines and journals (many of them obscure), as well as in private or limited editions. Uncollected Poems -published to mark the centenary of Thomas's birth -brings together for the first time a rigorous selection of the best of these. The fruit of several years' research by Tony Brown and Jason Walford Davies, the volume makes available work which spans the whole of Thomas's career -from an early sonnet to his first wife, M.E. Eldridge (included in his first, unpublished, collection Spindrift in the late 1930s) and previously uncollected Iago Prytherch poems, to other poems which are powerful expressions of the metaphysical meditations of his later years. Uncollected Poems is a companion volume to R.S. Thomas's Collected Later Poems 1988-2000 (Bloodaxe Books, 2004), the sequel to Collected Poems 1945-1990 (Dent, 1993; Phoenix Press, 2000), which only covers his collections up to Experimenting with an Amen (1986). Collected Later Poems 1988-2000 reprints in full the contents of R.S. Thomas's last five collections, The Echoes Return Slow (Macmillan, 1988: unavailable for many years), and Bloodaxe's Counterpoint (1990), Mass for Hard Times (1992), No Truce with the Furies (1995) and the posthumously published Residues (2002). There is no overlap between the two Bloodaxe editions: none of the poems in Residues, uncollected at the time of his death in 2000, is included in Uncollected Poems.

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Information

Publisher
Bloodaxe Books
Year
2014
eBook ISBN
9781780370644
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Description
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Contents
  7. Introduction
  8. The Bat
  9. ‘I never thought’
  10. July 5 1940
  11. Confessions of an Anglo-Welshman
  12. Gideon Pugh
  13. Llanddewi Brefi
  14. Song
  15. Lines for Taliesin
  16. Three Countries
  17. Welsh Shepherd
  18. Y Gwladwr
  19. The Peasant
  20. The Two Sisters
  21. Auguries
  22. Darlington
  23. No Answer
  24. Peasant Girl Weeping
  25. Original Sin
  26. Proportions
  27. Somersby Brook
  28. A Welsh Ballad Singer
  29. Commission
  30. Farm Wives
  31. Growing Up
  32. Midnight on the Farm
  33. Not So
  34. Question
  35. Indoors
  36. The Meeting
  37. Hiker
  38. Brochure
  39. Exile
  40. Frontiers
  41. Work To Do
  42. Yesterday’s Farm
  43. Half-past Five
  44. Two Versions of a Theme
  45. An Old Flame
  46. Images
  47. The Reader
  48. The Return
  49. The Need
  50. Song
  51. Thoughts by the Sea
  52. Aye, aye –
  53. The Grave
  54. Old Man
  55. Shame
  56. Some Place
  57. Symbols
  58. The Wisdom of Eliaser
  59. Ynys Enlli
  60. The Bank Clerk
  61. Farm-hand
  62. Nobodies
  63. Somebody
  64. Vocation
  65. Chat
  66. Dimensions
  67. Now
  68. Autobiography
  69. Inferno
  70. Sonata in X
  71. Hamlet
  72. Richard Hughes
  73. Where?
  74. The Climber
  75. Dedication
  76. Pension
  77. The Source
  78. Staying
  79. Coming of Age
  80. Progressions
  81. Appointments
  82. Cancellation
  83. Codex
  84. Coming True
  85. Converse
  86. General X
  87. Quest
  88. Sister Non
  89. Stop Press
  90. Excursion
  91. Grass Platforms
  92. The New Noah
  93. Predicaments
  94. The Tree
  95. The Big Preachers
  96. Cybi and Seiriol
  97. Feminine Gender
  98. Poets’ Meeting
  99. Repertory
  100. The Undying
  101. The Cry
  102. Caught
  103. The View from Europe
  104. A Wish
  105. A1
  106. Epilogue
  107. Gwallter Mechain
  108. Insularities
  109. Cymru (Wales)
  110. Wings
  111. Process
  112. Sick Child
  113. Born Lost
  114. The Lesson
  115. Plas yn Rhiw
  116. A Species
  117. Abaty Cwm Hir
  118. Calling
  119. Elders
  120. Filming
  121. The Gallery
  122. In Memory of James and Frances Williams
  123. Oil
  124. Story
  125. Tourney
  126. The Hummingbird Never Came
  127. Pharpar
  128. Blackbird
  129. Diary
  130. Dreams
  131. Everywhere
  132. Island Boatman
  133. Talk
  134. ‘Waiting for the tale to begin’
  135. Birthday
  136. The Father Dies
  137. Luminary
  138. The Hill
  139. In Memory of Ted Hughes
  140. ‘The computer is unable’
  141. ‘Easter. I approach’
  142. ‘One drop of blood’
  143. ‘A bird’s prayer’
  144. ‘Language has run its course’
  145. The Orphan
  146. Pact
  147. Bibliography
  148. About the Author
  149. Copyright