Selected Poems 1933-1988 - Softcover

Ewart, Gavin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811210553 ISBN 13: 9780811210553

Publisher: New Directions, 1988

Synopsis

Poems offer a satiric look at nature, childhood, school, mortality, women, business, poetry, love, movies, history, religion, ghosts, and war

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25a Norfolk Crescent
All For Love
All Souls
Ambition
The Animals In The Adelaide Zoo
Anthem
The Atheist's Handbook, Sels.
Autumn
The Back Streets Of Fulham
A Bad Moment
The Big Hand
Birds Have Their Feet In Air
The Blurb
Breaking Out
Brilliant Spy And Totally Inadequate Man
Businesslike
Cambridge 1987 - A Postlude
Clearing The Desk
Cruel And Unusual Punishments
The Cultural Ambassador
D.t
The Damsel-fly
The Deaths Of Poets
A Dialogue Between The Head And Heart
The Difference
The Dirtypot Decider
Divorced Women In Dormitory Towns
Dying
The Edge On Us
England At Christmas, 1982
Eternal Triangle
Eve And The Apple
The Ewart Organization
Exists
Feminist Hymn: War As The Wages Of Masculine Sin (1914ish)
For Translation Into Latin
For Whom The Bell Tolls
The Gentle Sex
Going To
The Great Exemplars
Haiku: A Japanese Dried Flower At A Poetry Reading
He Thought Of Being In A Single Room
High Potato Land
History
How To Write A Poem In The American Style
The Hut
If
In The Ninetieth Year
In The Old People's Home (1914)
Incoming Calls
The Indian Love Lyric
Ink
Insults To The Brain
Is There Life After Sex
The Last Journey
The Law Allows Cruel Experiments On Friendly Animals
The Life And The Work
Love And Fame
Love In A Valley
The Lover Complains
The Lover Reflects On Consolation Prizes
The Lover Reflects: Afterwards
Lovers In Pairs
Loving Unsuitable People
A Lyric Of Love
Martial And Domitian
The Masochism Of Martyrdom
The Mating Of Pseudoscorpions
The Meeting
Memory Man
The Mischievous Boy
Modest Proposal
Moving On
Mr. W.s
Musical Echoes
Nameless
The National Games
Not Peace But A Sword
Not Wavell But Browning
The Old Deaths
On The Author's Photograph
Only A Few Thousand Can Play
The Owl Writes A Detective Story
A Patient Of Dr. Rycroft's
People Will Say We're In Love
A Personal Footnote
A Piece Of Cake
Political Poem
The Poor Rich
The Premature Coronation
The Primal Stone Of The Sheep-walls Of Yorkshire
Pushing The Boat Out
The Reason Why (for Love Read Lust)
A Remarkable Thing
The Ruined Cemetery On Putney Common
S. F. (vienna, 1901)
Saints Of The Suburbs
A Scottish Psychiatrist Considers La Boheme
The Screen
Seamus Heaney
Seasonal Triple Haiku: The Tourist Season
The Second Coming
A Secular Saint
Semantic Limerick According To Dr. Johnson's Dictionary
Semantic Limerick According To The Shorted Oxford Dictionary
Sentimental Blues
Serious Matters
A Short History Of Renaissance Rome
Smells Of Autumn And Its Solemn Brown
Song: What We Are %were Sentimental About
Sonnet: Rarely, Rarely Comest Thou, Spirit Of Delight
Sonnet: Afterwards
Sonnet: British Poets
Sonnet: Carson Mccullers
Sonnet: Cat Logic
Sonnet: Children
Sonnet: Concert In Leighton House
Sonnet: Ghost Stories
Sonnet: Intermittent Claudication
Sonnet: Matriarchy
Sonnet: Nature
Sonnet: People Who Love Abstractions
Sonnet: Poetry Is The Dustbin Of The Emotions
Sonnet: Queering The Pitch
Sonnet: Suit Confessional
Sonnet: The Last Days
Sonnet: The Last Things
Sonnet: The Light And The Dark
Sonnet: The Only Emperor Is The Emperor Of Ice Cream
Sonnet: The Picture On The Packet
Sonnet: The Red Fairy Book
Sonnet: The Scene At 29 Radcliffe Higway In 1811
Sonnet: They May Not Mean To, But They Do
Sonnet: What Is Needed
Sons And Lovers: Part One
Spring Song
The Statements
Summer Time Ends Today
Sun Also Rises
The Surrealist Landscape
Thought About The Human Race
To The Gentle One
Towards The End Of A Novel Of 1910: A Passionate Outburst
Trafalgar Day, 1972
Transformation
Unhappiness Begins At Home
Variation On A Theme Of K. Amis
Variation On A Theme Of William Blake:
Venus
Violent Passions
War Death In A Low Key
We Who Were Together Shall Now Be Apart
What It Is
When A Beau Goes In
Writing The Poems Of Loss
Yeats And Shakespeare
Yorkshiremen In Pub Gardens
Young Blondes
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About this edition

• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0811210553
• ISBN 13: 9780811210553
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 117