New Selected Poems of W. S. Graham

W.S. Graham, Matthew Francis

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Year: 2018
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9780571348459
• Subtopic: European Poetry
• Index: Literature

One hundred years after his birth, W. S. Graham's words seem more awake than ever. His subtle exploration of the paradoxes of language, his passionate conviction of the importance of art and the love he expresses for the people and landscapes of his native Clydeside and adopted home of Cornwall attract more readers each year. In startlingly original poems, he celebrates family and friendship and probes the limits of our understanding of the world and our place in it. Graham's New Collected Poems (2004) marked a crucial point in the growth of his reputation, bringing together for the first time all the poems of his seven collections as well as some of the unpublished material that had come to light since his death in 1986. Now, as we honour his centenary, this New Selected Poems presents his best and most characteristic: from his epic seafaring masterpiece 'The Nightfishing' to the quirky metaphysics of 'Implements in their Places', as well as a selection of his early neo-romantic poems, which Graham himself believed were essential to a full understanding of his oeuvre, and some remarkable uncollected work. There is no better way to make the acquaintance of one of the greatest British poets of the twentieth century.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Landing Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• Introduction
• Over the Apparatus of the Spring is Drawn
• O Gentle Queen of the Afternoon
• Here next the Chair I was when Winter Went
• My Glass Word Tells of Itself
• Since All My Steps Taken
• Listen. Put on Morning
• Shian Bay
• Gigha
• The Nightfishing
• from Seven Letters
• from Two Ballads
• The Dark Intention
• Malcolm Mooney’s Land
• The Beast in the Space
• The Constructed Space
• The Thermal Stair
• I Leave This at Your Ear
• The Dark Dialogues
• Approaches to How They Behave
• Clusters Travelling Out
• The Greenock Dialogues
• What is the Language Using Us for?
• Imagine a Forest
• Enter a Cloud
• Greenock at Night I Find You
• Loch Thom
• To Alexander Graham
• Johann Joachim Quantz’s Five Lessons
• Lines on Roger Hilton’s Watch
• Implements in Their Places
• Dear Bryan Wynter
• To My Wife at Midnight
• A Walk to the Gulvas
• An Entertainment for W. S. Graham for Him Having Reached Sixty-five
• About the Authors
• By the Same Author
• Copyright