Ox-Eye

Anne Rouse

• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9781780376080
• eBook ISBN:
  9781780376097
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: American Poetry
• Index: Literature

Anne Rouse is a keenly observant writer of spiky satirical portraits and shapely lyrics of the ordinary and the bizarre. Her perspective in Ox-Eye – the term for a small cloud presaging a storm – is one of apprehension in poems relating to personal and social change. Ranging from her native east coast of America to her adopted home on the south coast of England, these incisive but often amused poems question how we view past and present, dismantling obsolete nostalgia, and casting a critical eye on what we wish for and what may happen instead. Ox-Eye is her fifth collection from Bloodaxe, appearing 14 years after her previous book, The Upshot: New & Selected Poems, which included the new poems of The Divided (2008), along with selections from her first three critically acclaimed earlier collections, Sunset Grill (1993) and Timing (1997) – both Poetry Book Society Recommendations – and The School of Night (2004).

CONTENTS

1. TITLE PAGE
2. DEDICATION
4. Polaroid
5. Moonrise 2021
6. Landfill
7. Feeny’s Yard
8. Finish Line
9. Seyton
10. Night of the Monkey Puzzle Tree
11. The Town
12. To the Night Market
13. Ballad of the She
14. Haymaking
15. Late Swim
16. Greetings from Hastings Pier
17. Change
18. Request to a Neighbour
19. The Builder’s Mates
20. Inconsequence
21. Fling
22. Cyclops in Cythera
23. The Waves, and a Bang
24. It Greens Again
25. Uncertain Ode
26. A Thank You Note
27. The Morvoren
28. Morvoren (Variation)
29. Ode to a Puritan
30. From the Dark Tower Came
31. Man Ironing
32. Monterey
33. The Scholars’ Hos...

Table of contents

• Description
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Polaroid
• Moonrise 2021
• Landfill
• Feeny’s Yard
• Finish Line
• Seyton
• Night of the Monkey Puzzle Tree
• The Town
• To the Night Market
• Ballad of the She
• Haymaking
• Late Swim
• Greetings from Hastings Pier
• Change
• Request to a Neighbour
• The Builder’s Mates
• Inconsequence
• Fling
• Cyclops in Cythera
• The Waves, and a Bang
• It Greens Again
• Uncertain Ode
• A Thank You Note
• The Morvoren
• Morvoren (Variation)
• Ode to a Puritan
• From the Dark Tower Came
• Man Ironing
• Monterey
• The Scholars’ Hostel
• Before I Left on Friday
• High Wall
• Graffiti
• Heel
• Again
• Notes from a Moon Station
• Oil
• Speech Act
• Ildeth at Bela
• Warriors
• A Calenture
• A Lothario
• Obits
• Domestic Animal
• Report on Local Damage
• Clematis
• Found Poem for Beryl Markham
• Louse
• Suburban Pastoral
• The Beat
• At Chincoteague
• Return to Sender
• The Maying
• Grotto
• Acknowledgements
• About the Author
• Copyright