Horse Music
eBook - ePub

Horse Music

  1. 93 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Horse Music

About this book

Matthew Sweeney's tenth collection of poems is as sinister as its dark forebears, but the notes he hits in Horse Music are lyrical and touching as well as disturbing and disquieting. Confronting him in these imaginative riffs are not just the perplexing animals and folklorish crows familiar from his earlier books, but also magical horses, ghosts, dwarfs and gnomes. Central to the book are a group of Berlin poems -introducing us to, among things, the birds of Chamissoplatz who warn of coming ecological disaster, or the horses who swim across the Wannsee to pay homage to Heinrich von Kleist in his grave. Many poems in the book range freely across the borders of realism into an alternative realism, while others stay within what Elizabeth Bishop called 'the surrealism of everyday life' -such as a tale about Romanian gypsies removing bit by bit an abandoned car. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

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Information

Publisher
Bloodaxe Books
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9781852249670
eBook ISBN
9781780370668
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Description
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Contents
  7. Epigraph
  8. The Emperor’s Dwarves
  9. The Vintner’s Boat
  10. The Village of Scarecrows
  11. Confiscated
  12. Ghost
  13. The Photos on the Wall
  14. The Tunnel
  15. The Poison Dwarfs
  16. The Warning
  17. A Song about a Crow
  18. The Alchemist
  19. A History of Glassblowing
  20. The Blue Hammock
  21. Fish and Chips
  22. Horse Music
  23. Communiqué
  24. Haiku for My Father
  25. In the Garden
  26. The Glass Chess Set
  27. Lunch in Alfama
  28. Sunday Morning
  29. Snow, Ice
  30. Revenant
  31. The Bomb
  32. The Rising
  33. The Suckling Pig
  34. Sausages
  35. Pan on the Pink Bridge
  36. Ballad of the Horse and Wine
  37. The White Peacock at Schloß Eggenberg
  38. The Twit
  39. Dr Quincy’s Pleasure Emporium
  40. Other Worlds
  41. How I Was Made 20 Years Younger
  42. The Sleepwalker
  43. Nil
  44. To Ash Again
  45. Inside
  46. The Key of Blue
  47. Domestic
  48. Sleeping
  49. The Glass Eye
  50. The Sick Cow
  51. The Lost Gold Medal
  52. The Naming of Horses
  53. Burning
  54. Waiting
  55. The Lake
  56. The Last Day of Summer
  57. On the Way to Potsdam
  58. The Fall
  59. Heckewald
  60. A Pig in God’s Ear
  61. That Meal
  62. A Princess
  63. Chop Suey
  64. Doodle Doo
  65. Little Flower
  66. Autumn
  67. The Deserter
  68. His Crows
  69. Saxophone Man
  70. The Slow Story of No
  71. Stone
  72. The Piper’s Cave
  73. Fans
  74. The Birds of Chamissoplatz
  75. Eternity Strand
  76. Booty
  77. The Yellow Golf Ball on the Lawn
  78. About the Author
  79. Copyright