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	Andy Brown Fall of the Rebel Angels Poems 1996-2006
	Search for a word or phrase in this book … Biographical note: Andy Brown is Director of the Centre for Creative Writing at Exeter University. His recent books include Hunting the Kinnayas (Stride, 2004), From a Cliff (Arc, 2002) and of Science (Worple, 2001, with David Morley). He edited The Allotment: new lyric poets (Stride, 2006) and Binary Myths: Volumes 1 & 2 (2nd edition, Stride, 2004). He writes short fiction and is also co-writing a book of poems with John Burnside. Andy Brown studied Ecology, a discipline that informs both his poetry and his criticism, which appears in The Salt Companion to the Works of Lee Harwood (Salt, 2006). He was previously a Centre Director for the Arvon Foundation’s creative writing courses, and has been a recording musician. BIC Basic EAN13: 9781844712809 ISBN-10: 184471280X ISBN-13: 9781844712809 Author: Andy Brown Title: Fall of the Rebel Angels Series: Salt Modern Poets Product class: BC Language: eng Audience: General/trade BIC subject category: CTCH1 Publisher: Salt Publishing Pub date: 15-Sep-06 Extent: 128pp Height: 216 mm Width: 140 mm Thickness: 8 mm Weight: 192 gms Supplier: Gardners Books Supplier: Ingram Book Group Supplier: Inbooks (James Bennett) Availability: IP Price: GBP 9.99 Price: USD 15.95 Rights: World	See larger image PAPERBACK 20% off at the UK Bookstore! ~~£9.99~~ £7.99 20% off at the US Bookstore! ~~$15.95~~ $12.76	Short description/annotation: This selected poems drawn from over a decade of writing confirms Brown’s place as one of Britain’s most interesting and exciting younger lyric poets. Notable for its ecological concerns and fascination with the natural world, Brown’s work is both innovative and accessible. He is also a notable teacher of creative writing and holds a prestigious Senior Lectureship at the University of Exeter. Main description: Fall of the Rebel Angels: Poems 1996-2006 brings together the best of Andy Brown’s poems from the first ten years of his publications. Through his light-touch exploration of our sense of selves, public and private, Brown’s work explores ideas of ‘relationship’ in its widest senses – the ecology of the natural world and our relationship to it the intimacy and intricacies of personal relationships the relationships between language and experience, memory, imagination and reality Informed by philosophies of Critical Realism, Brown’s poetry explores pertinent environmental and philosophic ideas, combining ontological inquiry with accessible lyric language and form, subtle humour, and a direct engagement with the ‘thing-ness’ of the world. Table of contents: I. The Thread The River and the Cathedral City Bus Ride Crossing the Sound Stes-Maries-de-la-Mer The Water Cycle From a Cliff Littoral Vertigo Some Kind of Sea Light Cavatina The Lute Girl's Lament Shakkei from The Wanderer's Prayer: The Footsteps of God The morning's open … Voices ascend … A squad of uniformed shy girls … 'What We Think of as Home' Autumn, Mount Fuji II. A Poem of Gifts The Bee Charmer Colour Theory Verres Luisantes Slippage The Trust Territory: If I tell you … I imagine you've changed little … Koi Carp Waking in Manhattan da capo December Daybreak A Breath from the Wood I stood before you … Song for the Siren The Vanishing At the River Odet, on Max Jacob Bridge Winter Into Spring Roadkill Chess Moves The Broken Mould An Old Cartoon III. A Life Story The Wedding / The Elegant Rooftops Triptych: An Ill Wind Japonica. Arum The Covenant Life in Ultima Thule The Year Before we Were Healed The Hydroaktylopichharmonica Shooting the Sun Blue-Tits from Field Notes from The Diary of an Ugly Human Being Events Seem Clear Enough, but … The Sleep Switch Some Improvements IV. Blindfold Birds To All You Squabbling Poets Three Poems After OuLiPo: In This House, On This Morning Quote It's a Man's World Unquote What is Poetry? A Miscellany of Birds An Abecedary A Mythology of Birds At Sizewell Burning Down the House Heavenward Devon Apples Audubon Becomes Obsessed with Birds Fall of the Rebel Angels View excerpt as PDF: Click here to view a sample (464 KB) Excerpt from book: Fall of the Rebel Angels Life used to be a string of lazy Sundays, but the heyday doesn’t last long, does it? We sit drink wine and talk to fill the void now the subtle differences between solitude & loneliness have vanished. We have become as strangers to ourselves, wearing our opinions & beliefs; grand theories slung across the shoulders like wings. But they can be frail, as if hung with a peg on a line—a tissue covering— to distract us from the task of listening. Life is so tentative a proposition, it bears away the little that we know, like winds tearing off a clutch of leaves; a blossom. Previous review quote: Andy Brown is one of our most interesting and exciting younger poets. With its love of ideas and language, his work demonstrates that there need be no barriers in poetry; that the philosophical, the lyrical and the playful can be combined in work of assured and generous vision. John Burnside Previous review quote: Andy Brown’s poems pull the reader into a series of exchanges, questionings, back and forth, writer to reader, reader to writer. Vivid and tangible, there is a real wit that at times makes me laugh out loud, a true learning, and a gentle humanity to these tender-hearted poems that is genuinely moving. Lee Harwood Previous review quote: These are poems which are, in every way, suffused with light.W_MainDescription 2 Deryn Rees-Jones Previous review quote: Smilingly human … for Brown the world is not what we construct with the aid of our experiential and ideological building blocks, but is in front of us all the time if we would only see it. A gentle humour pervades, almost Eastern, imbuing the work with humanity and warmth. Shearsman Previous review quote: Brown moves from the lyrical to the analytical with an apparent seamlessness. The work here is full of quietly startling moments. Poetry Quarterly Review