The Cinder Path
About this book
Andrew Motion's new collection (his first since Public Property in 2002) offers a ground-breaking variety of lyrics, love poems and elegies, in which private domains of feeling infer other lives and a shared humanity - exploring how people cope with threats to and in the world around them, as soldiers, lovers, artists, writers and citizens. The conversational tone and formal variety of these poems both shapes and diversifies their response to loss and its inevitabilities.
Here are poems about the last surviving veteran of the trenches; poems which work with found materials drawn from the contiguous worlds of prose; poems which elicit the parallel lives glimpsed in paintings, or the other lives of birds, trees and weather (as of an ordinariness just out of reach). An unemphatic evenness of handling, in the detailing of ordinary destinies, alternates with capacious panoramas of longing and summation, and the collection ends with a remarkable group of directly autobiographical poems about the life and times of the poet's father.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Contents
- On the Balcony
- Harry Patch
- The Feather Pole
- The Life of William Cowper
- My Masterpiece
- Migration
- Coming in to Land
- The Sin
- A Dutch Interior
- The Stone
- From the Journal of a Disappointed Man
- The English Line
- Bright Star
- Diagnosis
- London Plane
- The Benefit of the Doubt
- The Grave of Rupert Brooke
- The Cinder Path
- Geology
- A Goodnight Kiss
- Talk about Robert Frost
- A Garden in Japan
- The View from Here
- The Ancient Mariner
- Cecelia Tennyson
- The Old Head
- The Break
- Meeting at Night
- Raven
- What Have We Here?
- Veteran
- Passing On
- The Wish List
- All Possibilities
- The Mower
- About the Author
- Copyright
