The President of Planet Earth
2017, First Edition. Manchester : Carcanet. Near fine paperback copy; wrapper edges very slightly dulled. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Notes; Signed proof copy. Item #465425
Physical description; 168 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. Contents; A Bee-Hive -- Making Strange -- On the Death of a Poet -- In Glenmalure -- Iolar/Ouler -- Table-Talk of John Joly, FTCD, on the Geological Unification of Ireland -- Approach to the City -- Tunnels Through the Head -- Colmcille's Farewell -- Dry Dock -- Dark Water -- Rag and Bone Man's Mild -- Interview with a Binman -- Air Street Fugue -- The Wandering Islands -- Klangfarbenmelodie -- A Bittering -- [Untitled] -- Remnant Land -- Death on the Breeze -- X -- Memorial -- According to Lucretius -- In Marrakesh -- Adultery -- In the Medina -- Shorts -- The Night Ship -- The Firecrest -- Avoca Red -- ROYGBIV -- A Shrike -- Paradox Elegy -- Tale of a Horse -- The President of Planet Earth -- Oblivia -- The Illustrated Version -- According to Lucretius -- For Claude Debussy -- Self-Portrait as Woman Reading a Letter -- For Tereza Limanova, Painter -- For Piero di Cosimo -- An Execration -- Biographia Literaria -- The Rumoured Existence of Elsewheres -- Keen -- Warm Front -- Unpacking a Library -- Low Flier -- A Pseudocouple -- Bennachie to Clachnaben -- Brock -- Tree to Treecreeper -- Crossbill -- At Footdee -- Rounds -- Eclogue -- Sir Thomas Urquhart Considers The Tongues Of Men, And Whether One Might Not Be Fashioned Above All Others Perfect -- Roger Hilton, November '64 -- Three Things -- Elegy for Any Occasion -- Memory -- Desire Path -- Altitude Migrants -- White Nights -- Bennachie Red -- Beithe-Luis-Nin/Birch-Rowan-Ash -- The Porch-Light -- The Quarry-Pond -- Letter to Joseph Massey -- Dip -- Hyperion Drees His Weird -- Sonnets to Robert Fergusson -- The King O'er the Water -- To Gavin Douglas, Translator, by the Don -- The Hoops -- Tides -- The Reed Bunting Unseen: A Camouflage Garden for Ian Hamilton Finlay. Subjects; English poetry. Irish authors. Scottish authors. 21st century. Contemporary poetry. Nature poetry. Landscape. Ireland. Scotland.
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