Invitation to View
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Invitation to View

  1. 88 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

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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Information

Publisher
Carcanet Poetry
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9781800172104
eBook ISBN
9781800172111
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
European Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Contents
  3. When
  4. Nature
  5. Sticking it out
  6. Dr Gauss
  7. Winter Words
  8. Out of Reach
  9. For God, King and Country
  10. Mynheer Wouwermans
  11. Goodman’s Garden
  12. The Cutting Edge
  13. Leonies Garden
  14. Advent
  15. Invitation to View
  16. Three Night Songs
  17. Walking the Walk
  18. Summer 1954
  19. Take Your Bow
  20. Cat Ice
  21. Cyclist
  22. A Six Spot Burnet
  23. Cinnabars
  24. En Plein Air
  25. Coronation
  26. Winter Farmhouse
  27. Monsieur Clermont
  28. Riders to the Sea
  29. Black Forest
  30. The Poker-Work Owl: 1944
  31. Mrs Wright’s Bungalow
  32. Epithalamion
  33. Martinsell
  34. The Enchanted Places
  35. Strange Meeting
  36. Lux in Tenebris
  37. Seasonal
  38. House Work
  39. Paint and Paper
  40. The Cold Spot
  41. Attic Salt
  42. Chimney Shoe
  43. This Dark Season
  44. Garden Shakespeare
  45. ‘Why, this is Sestina, Lady!’
  46. A Door
  47. The Shimmering Cat
  48. The Kiosk
  49. Catch
  50. Reflection
  51. Indian Summer
  52. For Anne Stevenson (1933–2020)
  53. The Heart of Things
  54. Searchlights
  55. Walter de la Mare: A Landscape
  56. Evidence
  57. Every line is guaranteed to have been written by William Shakespeare
  58. Edmund Blunden: A Vagrom Man (1966)
  59. A Basket Cat
  60. Church in Winter
  61. Gifts
  62. About the Author
  63. Copyright

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