The Fourth Sister

Laura Scott

• Publisher: Carcanet Poetry
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781800173057
• eBook ISBN: 9781800173064
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: European Poetry
• Index: Literature

Laura Scott's second collection, The Fourth Sister, is a book of unusual love poems. It features an assorted cast: lovers and sisters, but also parents and children, the living and the dead, birds and trees, painters, playwrights and their characters, a godfather who married the wrong man and a godmother who was surely a spy. The book's energy flows out into other lives, discovering vital connections and the gaps between them. Scott writes as a poet in Wordsworth's sense: 'an upholder and preserver, carrying everywhere relationship and love.'

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Contents
• Dedication
• Short Story
• The Sounds
• Still Life
• Jules et Jim
• Cover Photo
• To Be One of Them
• Joy
• Email
• Murmur
• The Bored Cowboy
• These Days
• For the Girl under the Tree
• The Boring King
• What I Should Have Said at My Father’s Funeral
• Last Words
• What the Trees Do
• The First Sister
• Time on their Hands
• The Fourth Sister
• In the Doorway
• The Wrong Man
• Dark Arts
• Pinturas Negras
• In Naples
• A Song for My Mother
• Poor Sea
• Natasha and Her Mother
• Rain and Sea
• The Mother and the Son
• In Pandora’s Box
• Restaurant Window
• The Line
• The Photographer’s Daughters
• Sad Tales Befit My Woe
• Lost Children Are Never Found (Continued)
• When Death Got Bored in the Hospital
• The Therapist
• Why Are You Silent?
• Cheekbones
• Your Eyes
• Hare
• Muse
• La Scaletta
• Rain
• Thinking of Tony Hoagland
• These Lines
• Acknowledgements
• About the Author
• Also by Laura Scott from Carcanet
• Copyright