Time to Get Here

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	Ian Patterson Time to Get Here Selected Poems 1969–2002
	Search for a word or phrase in this book … Biographical note: Ian Patterson was born in 1948 and grew up in Cheshire and London. After a variety of jobs, he now teaches English at Queens’ College, Cambridge. He has published numerous translations, most recently Finding Time Again, the final volume of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time from Penguin. He lives in Cambridge with the writer Jenny Diski. BIC Basic EAN13: 9781876857929 ISBN-10: 1876857927 ISBN-13: 9781876857929 Author: Ian Patterson Title: Time to Get Here Series: Salt Modern Poets Product class: BC Language: eng Audience: General/trade BIC subject category: CTCH1 Publisher: Salt Publishing Pub date: 15-Apr-03 Extent: 200pp Height: 216 mm Width: 140 mm Thickness: 12 mm Weight: 300 gms Supplier: Gardners Books Supplier: Ingram Book Group Supplier: Inbooks (James Bennett) Availability: IP Price: GBP 11.99 Price: USD 18.95 Rights: World	See larger image PAPERBACK 20% off at the UK Bookstore! ~~£11.99~~ £9.59 20% off at the US Bookstore! ~~$18.95~~ $15.16	Short description/annotation: These are poems which welcome distraction and seem to have a lasting interest in registering and reproducing a sense of the uncanny. The strategies adopted veer between lyric mannerism and reconstructed second-hand words and, taken together, chart a form of investigative political thinking through the last three decades of the twentieth century. Main description: ‘There is always a history to the shape of the mind’, wrote Jacqueline Rose recently, and one of the continuing preoccupations of these poems has been both to create a sense of the many forms of that shape and to register the history of the worlds which shape it and to which it responds with pleasure, guilt, anger, irony, hatred or love. These are poems which welcome distraction, in various forms, and which seem to have a lasting interest in registering and reproducing a sense of the uncanny. The strategies adopted veer between lyric mannerism and reconstructed second-hand words and, taken together, the poems chart a lazy form of investigative political thinking through the last three decades of the twentieth century and their phenomena. Table of contents: Section One 1969–1979 Poem The Elegy for Spring Kara Chach Quiet Arriving Summing It Up One of These Days A Happy New Year Waking Up: 2.10 pm Politics Night Ministry Lullaby Ritual Slips Polly Fortune Red Breath Hold the Child, Father Sunlight A Thing of Reason Pencil Fatal Congeries As We Run Out of the Wet Man Bound to a Time Japan is Sad Sentinel Requiem for a Brain Notes Sparkling Fruit Salts Kino Lino Nino Rhino Vino The Yurt: Day One Tatlin’s Dream Curiously Strong Cover Design After the Event Any Old Iron Why Motoring Costs Have Soared Some Comfort “the audience” ‘Life Dreamed is now Life Lived’ (David Gascoyne) Derry The Political Economy of Art Underground Looking at Henry Endless Demands Intro Talking ’Bout Things Things Reply Apprehension Hardly Yippee We Must Tighten Our Belts Nothing in my head . . . Light Determines a State of Absolute Rest Out of Date It Was a Long Lane I Felt a Hand Grip My Elbow In Your Face Endless Demands In 1938 Section Two Roughly SpeakingPoems from the 1980s All Our Ends Still Life Without Rhyme or Reason It Had to Be You The Origins of Love and Hate Late Capital Irreducible Blue So to Speak Speaking of Life After Breakfast Prattle You Never Said Time How Short Red Priest Interference Matter and Memory A Propos Time How Short Far and Away No Resolution The Night The Postcards to Spain 1986 1. A Note on Air and Motives 2. Coda 3. Point Blank Future 4. Wish You Were Here Postcard to Italy A Reading L’Histoire Small Changes Guinea on China High Time The First Intervention Solo Wherever a Head The Name of Day Say Nothing Section Three 1991–2002 Sestina Tense Fodder The Garden Party No Contact These Days The Wire Less and Less Sleep This and That Lino Cut A Bit Apart Look Back Facing Page Drying Out New York Some Title Much More Pronounced Oh Snooty Oh, To Be in England Pastoral After Pope Laugh Like a Piano Basic White Hardihood Quite Right A World of Love Death of Dance In the Train North Living Here Now Mulch Tumult View excerpt as PDF: Click here to view a sample (68 KB) Excerpt from book: Night Ministry I glow like a berry fire about my head night putting a porcelain white seal on the grass the mouth nibbles a pudding and the teeth snarl enlarged in the sponge the nostril splendid as grapes suspended over me woolly fleecy as wool field of the brain fire about the head smoke between pricking the eyes Review quote: The questions of war, civic space, and the surreal quality of everyday life command the view in this singular and eloquent work. Moreover the keen intonation of each poem via the handled delicacies of accent and stress deploys language to work some ethical discernment which is far from inconsequential. D.S. Marriott