Birmingham river
1994, First Edition. Oxford : Oxford University Press. Near fine paperback copy; slightly dust-dulled and edge-bumped. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #470348
ISBN: 0192823426
Physical description; viii, 53 pages. Contents; The Collection of Things -- The Sidings at Drebkau -- The House on the Border -- Our Own -- A Sign Illuminated -- Promenade On Down -- Photographers' Flowers -- The Host -- Going -- Six Texts for a Film -- 1. Talking to Cameras -- 2. Birmingham River -- 3. Town World -- 4. In the Repair Shop -- 5. First Terms -- 6. Abstracted Water -- The Poetry of Place -- Just Where to Draw the Line -- Poem Beginning with a Line by Josephine Clare -- Top Down, Bottom Up -- Seven Figures from Anansi Company -- 1. Dry Skull -- 2. Chicken-Hawk -- 3. Rabbit -- 4. Snake -- 5. Tiger -- 6. Parrot -- 7. Cat -- Every Man His Own Eyebright -- The Ticket-of-Leave Man -- Homage to Edwin Morgan -- Freelance -- English '88 -- In the Visitors' Book -- A Song -- A Working Devil for the Birthday of Coleman Hawkins -- Day In, Day Out -- The Mark -- Upright -- The Mouth of Shade -- Three Stone Lintels at Eleven Steps -- Hypnopaedia -- They Come Home -- Envoi. Subjects; Clare, Josephine. Morgan, Edwin 1920-2010. English poetry. 1980-1989. 1990-1999. Birmingham. England. Boredom. Buses. Cats. City and town life. Collectors and collecting. Cremation. Death. Dreams. Pollution. Motion pictures. Plants, Flowering of. Hawks. Memory in literature. Moral conditions. Night. Optimism. Painting. Parrots. Identity (Psychology). Photographs. Piano. Rabbits. Railroads. Rivers. Reptiles. Rocks. Tiger. Visitors. Writers' workshops. Trees.
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