The Noise of a Fly
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The Noise of a Fly

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The Noise of a Fly

About this book

The Noise of a Fly is the first collection from Douglas Dunn in sixteen years, and the first since he was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2013. It is a book brimming with warmth, mischief and a self-deprecating humour, as well as with a charming, 'Larkinesque' crankiness: a quarrel with ageing, an impatience with youth, the grievousness of losing friends and colleagues. But for all its intimate, hearthside rumination, this is a volume of poems that looks outward in equal measure: at Scottish independence, British politics and an international refugee crisis, and reflects unflinchingly on what it is to consider oneself a contributor to society. Penned with a dexterous wit and a steady nerve, The Noise of a Fly is a mesmeric imagining of our later years by one of this country's most senior and celebrated writers.

'It is hard to think of many poets who can equal his combination of imaginative ambition, formal resource and range of tone . . . Written on these terms, poetry is a matter of permanent urgency.' Sean O'Brien

'The most respected Scottish poet of his generation.' Nicholas Wroe

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2017
Topic
Literature
eBook ISBN
9780571333837
Subtopic
European Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Landing Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Epigraph
  5. Contents
  6. Idleness
  7. ‘Wondrous Strange’
  8. Cognitive Disorders
  9. A Teacher’s Notes
  10. The Wash
  11. The Nothing-But
  12. The Glove Compartment
  13. Remembering Friends Who Feared Old Age and Dementia More than Death
  14. Recipes and Refugees
  15. Thursday
  16. Leaving the Office
  17. Senex on Market Street
  18. Poem for a Birthday
  19. Botanics
  20. Rookery
  21. Bluebottles
  22. Garden Didactics
  23. An Actor Takes up Gardening
  24. A Basket of Apples
  25. An Alternative Map of Scotland
  26. Belfast to Edinburgh
  27. Robert Fergusson
  28. Night-Walk
  29. The House of the Blind
  30. The Monocle of Professor J. Norton-Smith
  31. Near Myths
  32. Provence
  33. Self-Portraits
  34. How to Write Verse without Anyone Knowing
  35. Fragility
  36. Bon Voyage
  37. Class Photograph
  38. At Lake Balaton
  39. Blue Day
  40. English (a Scottish Essay)
  41. Ripe Bananas
  42. Acknowledgements
  43. About the Author
  44. By the Same Author
  45. Copyright

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