Inside the Wave
eBook - ePub

Inside the Wave

COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017

  1. 63 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Inside the Wave

COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017

About this book

COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017

Winner of the 2017 Costa Poetry Award.

To be alive is to be inside the wave, always travelling until it breaks and is gone. These poems are concerned with the borderline between the living and the dead – the underworld and the human living world – and the exquisitely intense being of both. They possess a spare, eloquent lyricism as they explore the bliss and anguish of the voyage. Inside the Wave, Helen Dunmore's tenth and final book of poetry, followed The Malarkey (2012), whose title-poem won the National Poetry Competition. Her other books include Glad of These Times (2007), and Out of the Blue: Poems 1975-2001 (2001), a comprehensive selection drawing on seven previous collections.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Description
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Contents
  7. Counting Backwards
  8. The Underworld
  9. Shutting the Gate
  10. In Praise of the Piano
  11. Re-opening the old mines
  12. Inside the Wave
  13. Odysseus to Elpenor
  14. Plane tree outside Ward 78
  15. The shaft
  16. Leave the door open
  17. My life’s stem was cut
  18. The Bare Leg
  19. The Place of Ordinary Souls
  20. My daughter as Penelope
  21. The Lamplighter
  22. The Halt
  23. Bluebell Hollows
  24. A Loose Curl
  25. Hornsea, 1952
  26. Festival of stone
  27. A Bit of Love
  28. Winter Balcony with Dunnocks
  29. Mimosa
  30. Nightfall in the IKEA Kitchen
  31. The Duration
  32. At the Spit
  33. Terra Incognita
  34. Four cormorants, one swan
  35. Girl in the Blue Pool
  36. February 12th 1994
  37. What shall I do for my sister in the day she shall be spoken for?
  38. In Secret
  39. All the breaths of your life
  40. Her children look for her
  41. Little papoose
  42. Cliffs of Fall
  43. Five Versions from Catullus
  44. Rim
  45. On looking through the handle of a cup
  46. Ten Books
  47. Subtraction
  48. My people
  49. September Rain
  50. Hold out your arms
  51. About the Author
  52. Copyright