Environmental Studies

Maureen Duffy

• Publisher: Enitharmon Press
• Year: 2014
• Edition: 0
• eBook ISBN:
  9781907587061
• Topic: Literature
• Index: Literature

Centred on environments - human, insect and animal - some experienced personally, some observed, some imagined. Though strictly contemporary in her concerns, she reaches back in her poetry to childhood, and beyond that in her imagination to cultural figures of the past - John Donne, Edward Elgar, Ralph Vaughan Williams, bringing them lucidly and vividly to life. There is a strong sense of compassion and fair play in her poems, reflecting Duffy's lifelong support for progressive social and political movements, and a beautiful lyricism and technical skill derived from her love of the classical world and Old and Mediaeval English. As so often in her work, London past and present provides the backdrop to her real and imagined life stories: of love and loss, forebears and friends, the humorous and sometimes painful experiences of old age.

Table of contents

• CRAFTY
• MAMMICKS
• 'WHAT'S FOR TEA?'
• WOODLOUSE
• PARAKEETS
• HAYWAIN
• SATURDAY, FLYING WESTWARD
• MIROIR DE L'HOMME
• OBIT
• 'THAT TIME OF YEAR THOU MAYST IN ME BEHOLD . . .' Poets don’t grow old gracefully: recall old lusts with Hardyor clamour like Yeats for new.
• ADDRESS BOOK
• THE DEVIL AND ALL HIS WORKS
• THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE . . .
• USES OF A CLASSICAL EDUCATION
• PORTRAIT
• THE NEW METAPHYSIC
• LATE STYLE
• FIGURINE
• SUB SPECIE
• SLUGGISH
• ELEGY
• FONTVIVE
• AT THE WELCOME
• TRAVELLERS
• PERFECTION
• IN ST PAUL'S – FOR JACK DONNE
• LARK ASCENDING: FOR R.V.W
• CITS
• PIGEON DANCING
• THE BOOK OF THE DEAD
• NOWADAYS (T. H.)
• BRITAIN IN PICTURES
• TILLYA TEPE
• LIFE WRITING
• TOOLS
• LEX INNOCENTIS 697
• TECHNOLITHIC
• LATE SONG
• SMILE
• THISTLEDOWN
• ROMANTICS
• FOUNDLINGS
• MARGINAL GLOSSES