John Temple

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Biographical note:  John Temple was born in 1942 in Stockton-on-Tees and grew up in the East Midlands and the Northeast. After reading English at Caius College, Cambridge (1961-64) he spent two years of postgraduate study and teaching in the USA. Since 1970 he has lived in Flanders, Belgium, teaching at the University of Ghent (1970-90) and Erasmushogeschool, Brussels (1990-98).

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EAN13:  9781876857561
ISBN-10:  1876857560
ISBN-13:  9781876857561
Author:  John Temple
Title:  Collected Poems
Series:  Salt Modern Poets
Product class:  BC
Language:  eng
Audience:  General/trade
BIC subject category:  CTCH1
Publisher:  Salt Publishing
Pub date:  25-Feb-03
Extent:  196pp
Height:  216 mm
Width:  140 mm
Thickness:  11 mm
Weight:  294 gms
Supplier:   Gardners Books
Supplier:   Ingram Book Group
Supplier:   Inbooks (James Bennett)
Availability:  IP
Price:  GBP 11.99
Price:  USD 18.95
Rights:  World

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Table of contents:
Rothschild’s Lapwing (1968)
Cat
Wherever He Goes, the Same Way, Always
Poem
Sunday Morning, Albuquerque
Poem
Call it ‘Margaret’
Meditation on a Landscape
The Wide Sidewalks of Cortez
The Wish Comes
In Rememberance of John Dillinger, d 22 July, 1934
To a Friend on Receiving a Postcard Reproduction of the Map of Britain by Matthew Paris, Monk of St Albans
Poem
Song
An Evening Walk
August Evening
Relief
Witton park
The Ridge (1973)
W. that Pro/Visor: on the Train
Song
Firebase Bastogne
For Mary Clarke
Tibetan Joe
The Minister Speaks
Euphemes His England
South
Pilgrim’s Dresden
We Have Lingered in the Chambers of the
sweetheart remember …
Ben Kod in his Offstage Serious Voice Says Freud
For A. L.
The War Changed Me
The Crocodile
Lest We Forget
The Sisterhood
There’s only one answer …
A dream within a dream …
The Aniseed Trail
St. Pietersplein
poems 1963-1969
Cambridge 1963-4
England, perhaps, for you anyway
For Tom Clark
Grandda …
Albuquerque 1964-5
Tijeras Canyon
To someone else
Route 66
a lovely girl who sings
Buffalo 1965-6
For Joan Gilbert
A Poem
35th & Dearborn
A Vision
I want there to be time …
How close that freight sounds
As I walked home last night
Sunderland 1966-9
Niagara
The Thought
For Merry
The palaces of my life …
Cleopatra
Shiney Row
Poems 1970s
A Dream
The Doors
Durham Your Iron rails
The Very Idea
The Lesion
Flanders
The Guests
Facing
Playtime
Feathered lightness of voice …
Global View Centred On
Varieties of Ruin
The Times, 14/7/74
‘years in the … we shall never
The boy in the red pullover
sow sew naaien screw
Let us assume that tommie has 13
D day
Travel too far in one day example
The Stolen Vermeer
Inflation hits human body
In One a Gang Were Beating Someone to Death
I’ll Be Dead
I Hear you Make Verses Sd My Future Mother-in-Law
Sunset reflected down east
Poems 1980s
First Throw
First Day
Close the eye of love …
Clay
Hard to Forget That
Essay on Extreme Statements
Dixit Richard Watt
4 Welshman pay 2s 4d
140 Days from Birth
Miles
Friday 2/9/88
Loughborough
Cardiadultery
Poems 1990s
I would be a Wordsworthian …
For Andrew
Let Him Have It
Talkinbout
Mobutu’s Son is Being called Saddam Hussein
My Railwayman Grandfather Dying
Entries: For John James
King Saud’s Address, 9 Aug 1990
Second Amendment
Gloss
Poloney
Too Many Issues …
SP
Take Your Pick
Past Each: 5/1/97
12/10/98
21 Poems (2002)
My New Home
The Private is Still up for Grabs
For Jack
Attila’s Movements after the Conclusion of Peace in the Autumn of 443 are Unknown
Without a Paddle / the Case for Archives
For Bob
‘The Difference of the Scales Makes This Vacancy’
Divorce
I’ve been on the mainland …
Too far back …
Meditation on Wild
The Federation of Middlesex &
The Loss Lieder
Loopbaan
Haunted by the eyes …
Thus We Lay Whilst a Voluptuous Languor
In the Lovely Park
To My Kids
Seven years out …
Pevensey Levels
To Caress
A Tension (2001)
For Allen
The Dream
No Beauty Like the melody and Words
Sunderland Summers
For Donald Davie, unsent
Counting
Or the plastic table …
The Other Night
Maelstrom

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Relief

There is comfort
in the reversing
(help me of a
coal late
in the night as the fire
dies. What becomes
of the brokenhearted (of the
piece, of fire that
follows, the guttering
down. It can
happen the 18th
C. arbitrary man
ipulator of humanity can
reverse the in
evitable process
          (open the
envelope who was
the nightmare of such
men Soame
Jenyns i remember as if
that mattered. As
flies to
wanton boys are we
          to the
Gods they kill
us for their
sport. The reversing
again as the
principle
is grasped

Unpublished endorsement :  John Temple’s poems stay in mind the way some songs do. He handles language with a nervous care (like someone handling a mine) as both a means to, and a trace of, knowledge, affection, social ties. For those of us who go to poems at least in part because things are known differently there—because the knowledge has this modality and no other—this collection is both source and outcome.

John Hall

Unpublished endorsement :  John Temple is one of our finest reporters of the instant, and the bright snap of his copy unflinchingly attests to the tactility of life, to the joys and terrors of—as John Wieners put it—having to be there all the time. How right it is that his work, which does take ‘the world as a starting point’, is now back in the world again.

Miles Champion