
- 88 pages
- English
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Invitation to View
About this book
The poems in Invitation to View, Peter Scupham's hugely welcome new book, which he was dissuaded from calling 'Curtain Call, ' often guess and puzzle, offering possible and impossible interpretations. Some respond to fragments of the past, personal and historical, which haunt the present. All business is unfinished business: one can be caught out by a sudden phrase, or the look back of a landscape once seen sporting a different disguise. Invitation to View is framed by poems considering possible visitors to the poet's 400-year-old house long after he and his partner have left it behind; it is haunted by the variety of the efforts and gestures they have made in bringing house and garden alive. Time will do its best to modify and forget all that they leave. Many gestures were theatrical: poetry picnics, productions of Shakespeare... the dead welcomed with the living. Tom Stoppard's words from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead can provide an absent epigraph: 'Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.'
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Contents
- When
- Nature
- Sticking it out
- Dr Gauss
- Winter Words
- Out of Reach
- For God, King and Country
- Mynheer Wouwermans
- Goodman’s Garden
- The Cutting Edge
- Leonies Garden
- Advent
- Invitation to View
- Three Night Songs
- Walking the Walk
- Summer 1954
- Take Your Bow
- Cat Ice
- Cyclist
- A Six Spot Burnet
- Cinnabars
- En Plein Air
- Coronation
- Winter Farmhouse
- Monsieur Clermont
- Riders to the Sea
- Black Forest
- The Poker-Work Owl: 1944
- Mrs Wright’s Bungalow
- Epithalamion
- Martinsell
- The Enchanted Places
- Strange Meeting
- Lux in Tenebris
- Seasonal
- House Work
- Paint and Paper
- The Cold Spot
- Attic Salt
- Chimney Shoe
- This Dark Season
- Garden Shakespeare
- ‘Why, this is Sestina, Lady!’
- A Door
- The Shimmering Cat
- The Kiosk
- Catch
- Reflection
- Indian Summer
- For Anne Stevenson (1933–2020)
- The Heart of Things
- Searchlights
- Walter de la Mare: A Landscape
- Evidence
- Every line is guaranteed to have been written by William Shakespeare
- Edmund Blunden: A Vagrom Man (1966)
- A Basket Cat
- Church in Winter
- Gifts
- About the Author
- Copyright