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Schedule of Unrest
Schedule of Unrest selects from John Wilkinson’s collections of poetry published from 1974 to 2008. A growing readership is seeking ways into an impassioned and beautiful body of writing. The unfamiliarity of its surfaces and soundscapes have too long delayed its appreciation. This book, selected by a scholar of Wilkinson’s work, will further enlarge his readership, as well as providing a convenient resource for teachers. In one volume, both Wilkinson’s troubled internal lyric and the breadth of his social and political engagements are well represented.
Wood Circle
Poetry. "The pastoral has always been a civic genre: shepherds' songs written by city workers dreaming of release, of timely coincidence between feeling and nature. In WOOD CIRCLE, one of Wilkinson's most powerful poetic books, the green thought in a green shade perishes--wildfire destroys the canopy, the Calais jungle is cleared by immigration police. The pathetic fallacy is now literal, dawn chorus imitating car alarms. And yet, each line of this astonishing collection offers a new analysis of the earth's fever dreams. If 'None had loved enough what / they must find by losing,' in this book's moratorium we can find time to remember what we never loved enough. These poems sing for mortal creatures, some human, and collect their leavings: skin, bees, infants, fruits, tires. Seared by the world and everything in it, Wilkinson's poems are radiant, damaging, a consuming memorial fire."--Andrea Brady
The Lyric Touch
"The Lyric Touch" brings together essays by John Wilkinson on twentieth century British and American poetry, several now recognised as classic but hitherto hard to obtain. Throughout this book, writing previously seen as startlingly modern is reconnected with the English Romantic tradition. Formidable poetry is made to become irresistible.
Reckitt's Blue
An iconic work of Western art, Fragonard's 'L'escarpolette', or 'The Swing', is often reproduced and its famous foreground image of a young woman losing her slipper mid-swing is widely familiar. In 'Reckitt's Blue', John Wilkinson explores that well-known scene in a long poem that engages with the image of the flying slipper, and presents two other sequences of poems based on paintings.
Ghost Nets
The first US collection of the acclaimed British poet
Proud Flesh
Wilkinsonâe(tm)s searing classic, Proud Flesh, is a blistering journal of loveâe(tm)s intensities and convulsions. Panning across its characters like a camera, this is lyric poetry as film noire, filled with jealousy, violence and sexual obsession. Incandescent images and language play across the bodies of the lovers, each caught, frame by frame, in an intense act of surveillance.
The Following
The Following selects from John Wilkinson's essays of the last three decades, with a preference for what has come to be known as creative criticism, and adds a new essay on reflected boughs in poems by Shelley and a photograph by Sally Mann, and a poem in homage to Sean Bonney. The book's title is a broken reflection of the essay title 'Following the Poem'. '? through following a poem (not just any poem), a reader can become involved in the evocation and enactment of a radical hybridity, pulling together ways of thinking about the world modernity has categorically but falsely separated; but such reading takes place in time, so continuously a reader unpicks and reintegrates elements of the poem in a felt motion which can restore a healed and full being in the world, involving in its fullness and as a condition of it, the detours, the lapses, and the breaks in his or her journey.'
My Reef My Manifest Array
Nina Bogin's Thousandfold is a journey through seasons and landscapes, a journal of ordinary life punctuated by extra-ordinary people and moments - the births of grandchildren, the physical decline of a husband, relationships with family and friends. Her poems connect the unknowable past of ancestors to the equally unfathomable future of descendants, between which there fluctuates a present that is no less elusive, even as the poet gives it a structure in language. If life is full of uncertainties, our world at once threatened and threatening, then what brings constancy, hope, solace?
A Literary History of Cambridge
A new edition of the first full account of Cambridge's rich literary associations over five centuries.
