Selected Poems

W.S. Graham

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Year: 2015
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9780571262496
• Subtopic: Poetry
• Index: Literature

When T.S. Eliot wrote of W.S. Graham's collection, The Nightfishing, that 'some of these poems - by their sustained power, their emotional depth and maturity and their superb technical skill - may well be among the more important poetical achievements of our time', he could not have stated the truth more clearly.

Graham's career, which ended with his death in 1986, followed a pattern of steady refinement of vision and ever-deepening enquiry. In Selected Poems, taken from both the publications of his lifetime and posthumous volumes, and containing at least one major poem never collected before, the full stature of this still insufficiently appreciated genius is revealed.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Landing Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• Listen. Put on Morning
• The Hill of Intrusion
• The Children of Greenock
• Gigha
• As Brilliance Fell
• The Nightfishing
• from Seven Letters
• Malcolm Mooney’s Land
• The Beast in the Space
• The Constructed Space
• The Thermal Stair
• I Leave This at Your Ear
• The Dark Dialogues
• The Greenock Dialogues
• Hilton Abstract
• Approaches to How They Behave
• The Fifteen Devices
• Clusters Travelling Out
• Slaughterhouse
• The Conscript Goes
• Imagine a Forest
• A Note to the Difficult One
• The Night City
• Enter a Cloud
• Loch Thom
• To Alexander Graham
• Johann Joachim Quantz’s Five Lessons
• Lines on Roger Hilton’s Watch
• The Found Picture
• Dear Bryan Wynter
• Falling into the Sea
• The Visit
• I Will Lend You Malcolm
• O Why Am I So Bright
• To My Wife at Midnight
• About the Author
• By the Same Author
• Copyright