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Congratulations to Carcanet for paying equal attention to new poets and to modern classics. The Collected H.D., Mina Loy, William Carlos Williams, and Yvor Winters are all essential books, and Carcanet is doing a public service keeping them in print.
Thom Gunn
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Midnight in the City of Clocks
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New Verses for Clock City Magpies
Eight for black, nine for white.
Ten for a step and its echo at night.
Eleven for credit, twelve for cash.
Thirteen for pickpockets milling the crush.
Fourteen for blackmail, fifteen for tax.
Sixteen for passion in cul-de-sacs.
Seventeen steps from the porch to the car.
Eighteen for life, with good behaviour.
Nineteen pounds ninety-nine pence-ful of lager.
Twenty plus tips for a blow and a popper.
Twenty-one faces pressed flat to the window.
Twenty-two magpies half-lost in shadow.
One for white, two for black.
Three chances left to guess why they attack.
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This lively second collection from a young, much-travelled writer falls into two parts. 'Transit' includes poems of travel and transport, especially Japan, where Tobias Hill lived for two years. 'Back to the City' is about London, from hangover to Underground; Hiroshima; and the 'City of Clocks', a fusion of cities and ages.
They are poems crammed with a young man's curiosity and eye for detail, and show his great ability for storytelling.
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Title Information:
Imprint: OxfordPoets
ISBN-10: 1 903039 76 2
ISBN-13: 978 1 903039 76 2
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Published: September 1989
Dimensions: 216x135mm
Pages: 56pp
Publisher: Carcanet Press
RRP: GBP£ 8.95
Discount: 10%
You Save: GBP£ 0.89
Price: GBP£ 8.05
Status: Available
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Table of Contents
I TRANSIT
The City of Clocks
Transit
Prisons in a Departure Lounge at Midnight
One Day in Hiroshima
from A YEAR IN JAPAN
May
August
October
Homesickness
Playing Japanese Chess with the Elder Mrs Uchida
Sumo Wrestler in Sushi Bar
Earthquake, Osaka
Green Tea Cooling
The Barber's Daughter
Waiting
The Secret of Burning Diamonds
Rio in Carnival
Jael
Three Wishes in a Small Town
The Mule and the Rain
How to Light Dynamite
Flora and the Admiral
II BACK TO THE CITY
London Pastoral
New Verses for Clock City Magpies
North-West London
Love Song
Broken Bone
Playground at 2 am
Sheep's Clothing
Xenophobia
The Woman who talks to Ezra Pound in Tesco
Life Savings
Today the House is Full of Dishcloths
Reasons Why
Meat
July 14th, 10 pm
The Beekeepers
Midnight in the City of Clocks
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