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Collected Poems
Christopher Middleton is celebrated on both sides of the Atlantic as a pioneering and individual voice in modern poetry, and has also won praise for his translations from the German. This book collects forty years' work, and includes previously unpublished poems.
Palavers
Middleton was one of Britain's finest poets. He wrote his 'Nocturnal Journal' during the two years prior to his retirement. The journal appears here in conjunction with conversations tape-recorded by Marius Kociejowski in London.
The Balcony Tree
Increasingly sought after by contrary poets on both sides of the Atlantic, Christopher Middleton's work develops fresh aspects in The Balcony Tree. There is a grief for time as history pulverizing the very structures of belief it articulates; there is a celebration of the lyrical cogito as a subversive agentcook, angel or clown - in the ceremonies of imagination. Pointedly counterthematic as they are, these poems turn upon varieties of feeling clarified otherwise than in more cryptic earlier work. The art consists in the modelling, fusion or collision of images born from feeling and eruptive when, for all it is worth, imagination splits waves of time into sensuous particles, and so may rightly mistake an instantaneous fiction for some still distant truth. If 'self' as an instrument of feeling is 'put on the line', still it rules no roost. At most a voice abides, murmurous, observing the imperative long ago divined by Julie de Lespinasse: 'Glide, mortals, don't push it.'. Equally apposite might be the words of Edward Lear about to leave Corfu: 'Goodbye, my last furniture is going: - I shall sit upon an eggcup and eat my breakfast with a pen.'.
Collected Later Poems
August Kleinzahler says, Christopher Middleton is, and remains, a shocking man. 'One hardly knows where to begin...' There are few risks Middleton will not take in his poems. For six decades and more he has uncovered new dimensions in language. The last decade has been one of continuous discovery and extension. His English is an open medium, responding to Arabic, German, Spanish, French and other media. And English is eloquent in its nonsense as much as in its sense. His poems do not linger in the dank alleyways of self: he is always a maker and a shaper, of things that become durable resources for the reader, that refine and extend how we think, see and feel through formed language.
In the Mirror of the Eighth King
A collection of essays by the British poet and translator.
Christopher Nibble
Christopher Nibble loves munching dandelion leaves. And he's not alone. All the guinea pigs in Dandeville eat dandelion leaves for breakfast, lunch and dinner. But no-one seems to do anything when the dandelions begin to dwindle. They just carry on munching. In fact the guinea pigs of Dandeville are heading for eco-disaster . . . But that's where Christopher Nibble steps in. He discovers the last dandelion growing outside his bedroom window and, rather than eat it, he does his horticultural research in the library and then nurtures the dandelion patiently until it has produced a perfect head of tiny seeds. Then he blows the seeds from a hill high over Dandeville so that each dandelion seedling takes root and grows into a new plant. Charlotte Middleton has illustrated her witty, quirky story with charming collage illustrations and her guinea pigs are the most endearing, funky little characters you are ever likely to meet.
Intimate Chronicles
Middleton is one of the most extraordinary and extraordinarily neglected English poets. -- T.J.C. Harris.
The Student's Companion to Sociology
This superlative Companion provides a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the discipline of Sociology.
Poems 2006-2009
Christopher Middleton's new collection consists-as its page-count suggests-of three separate volumes under one set of covers, and marks his first publication since the appearance in 2008 of his magnificent Collected Poems (Carcanet Press, Manchester, and Sheep Meadow Press, Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY).
