The Anzac sonata : new and selected poems / by Jon Stallworthy
1986, 1st edition. London : Chatto & Windus. Publisher's review copy with their promotional material loosely inserted. Near fine paperback; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Item #398203
ISBN: 0701130504
Physical description; 143 pages ; 20 cm. Contents; From The astronomy of l0ove (Romance ; The master-mariner's epithalamion ; Poem upon the quincentenary of Magdalen College ; Still life) -- from Out of bounds (Miss Lavender ; First blood ; No ordinary Sunday ; War story ; After an amputation ; Toulouse Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge ; The assault ; The trap ; Sindhi woman ; In the street of the fruit stalls ; The face ; Here comes Sir George ; The Peshawar vale hunt) -- from Root and branch (For Margaret and Geoffrey Keynes ; The postman ; An evening walk ; False alarm ; The stone ; The fall of a sparrow ; By rule of thumb ; A letter from Berlin ; A poem about poems about Vietnam ; Elm end ; A word with the baas ; Epilogue to an Empire) -- from Hand in hand (Elegy for a mis-spent youth ; Walking against the wind ; Positives ; Daybreak with horses ; After 'La desserte' ; Pour commencer ; The source ; Breakfast in bed ; Message received ; Homecoming ; Picnic ; Willow-pattern blues ; In the zoological section ; Again ; The beginning of the end ; Making an end ; In the park ; At bedtime ; This morning) -- A familiar tree (At the church of St. John Baptist, Preston Bissett ; England ; The Marquesas ; New Zealand ; England ; Notes ; The bare bones of the tree) -- The Anzac sonata : new poems (Counter-attack ; One day ; The rooms ; Defying gravity ; The blackthorn spray ; Mother tongue ; The Anzac sonata ; At half past three in the afternoon ; Frozen poem ; Winter was a white page ; Windfalls ; Making a bed ; Making a table ; For Zhenia Yevtushenko ; For Margaret Keynes ; In memory of Geoffrey Keynes Kt. ; Goodbye to Wilfred Owen ; Wiedersehen ; At St. Gennys ; Great Britain. Subjects; 1900-1999. English poetry 20th century. English poetry. Stallworthy, Jon, 1935- English literature 1945- Individual works.
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