Out There
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Out There

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Out There

About this book

Jamie McKendrick's sixth collection starts from the far flung ('out there' is the nothing - or the something - of outer space), ascertaining the mood of an observer on Uranus, or the perils of medieval travel, or listening for the speech of alien landscapes. Closer to home, the poems adopt an outsiderish stance as they ponder the business of non-belonging and draw up wry inventories of marginality - finding room for those whom history has forgotten (the inhabitants of a drowned valley in Wales) or equally for the outcasts of natural history (the northern bald ibis, the hyena, the moa), whose skeleons are 'cairns to their own extinction'.

But the poems themselves are vivid and stubbornly realised individuals: they take short views, make canny distinctions and tread carefully. Invoking paintings and artefacts and facades, they also add to an ongoing portrait of the artist - caught for example amidst the patiently-observed flotsam of a repeatedly flooding house -which becomes more finely drawn with each of Jamie McKendrick's collections.

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2012
Topic
Literature
eBook ISBN
9780571289127
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Landing Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Epigraph
  5. Contents
  6. OUT THERE
  7. Out There
  8. On Nothing
  9. The Perils
  10. The Seventh Planet
  11. A Safe Distance
  12. From the Flood Plain
  13. Après
  14. Teazles
  15. Bark
  16. Oak
  17. The Owls
  18. Door
  19. The Gate
  20. The Literalist
  21. The Warning
  22. First and Last
  23. Rain
  24. The Carved Buddha
  25. The Meeting House
  26. Psychostasia
  27. The Judgement
  28. The Lepers’ Plot (1321)
  29. Odyssey
  30. Cofiwch Dryweryn
  31. Epithets
  32. El Puente de los Peligros, Murcia
  33. Ethics & Aesthetics
  34. Injury
  35. Toscanelli
  36. The Deadhouse
  37. Last Visit
  38. Mademoiselle Garde
  39. Squaring the Circle
  40. Natural History
  41. Azurite
  42. King Billy’s Nemesis
  43. ‘He “Digesteth Harde Yron”’
  44. The Fly Inventory
  45. The Possessors
  46. Guilt
  47. Micropoems
  48. Stricken Proverbs
  49. Entropy in Wiesbaden
  50. Outcast
  51. One Day
  52. Acknowledgements and Notes
  53. About the Author
  54. By the Same Author
  55. Copyright

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