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Selected PoemsPeter Sansom10% off eBook (EPUB)
Categories: 20th Century, 21st Century, British
Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: eBook (EPUB) Needs ADE! (Pub. Sep 2010) 9781847779298 £9.95 £8.96 Paperback (72 pages) (Pub. Sep 2010) 9781847770646 Out of Stock To use the EPUB version, you will need to have Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) installed on your device. You can find out more at https://www.adobe.com/uk/solutions/ebook/digital-editions.html. Please do not purchase this version if you do not have and are not prepared to install, Adobe Digital Editions.
The stationary train that pulls out of the station.
A harbour and island getting underway across an estuary and out to open sea. A church moving, as you walk, on the horizon. The ceiling turning round a single, drunken lightbulb; or from a spin in an office chair watching the room like a rubber band unwind to bring the world back to where you were.
Peter Sansom’s Selected Poems brings together twenty years of quintessential Sansom, a poet who has made the local and familiar his own resonant territory. Supermarkets and darts matches, life with teenagers and family funerals, the common ground of modern life, make up the fabric of poems that capture the distinctiveness of the ordinary with a robust and sharp-eyed tenderness.
Selected Poems includes revised versions of poems from Peter Sansom’s four Carcanet collections, with poems from his 2009 pamphlet The Night is Young. Cover painting: Mary Sansom (aged six)
Contents
House Snookered Bingo The Folklore of Plants Vacuum One Night Funeral Morning Living Room 5th September 1989, Small Hours Language The fox in the writing class Agony Borrowdale Morning * January Lake At Blea Tarn A Stone in a Drystone Wall A Walk What the Eye Doesn’t See A Dream Mistaking a Person for What He Has Come to Represent Aldeburgh Bliss At the End of Here Whitby Sitcom Some night by chance Clinical Depression Death Cap Summer Evening Baker Street: Poet in Residence (Day 1) To Autumn Words for Paul Cézanne Top Withens You’ll Like This Beard About Time Teeth My Mother on a Seat Outside a Hospital * Crich Stand That was the day it snowed Ted Savoury Breakfast in the Dunblane Hilton Anyone for Tennis? Ironing Sheffield by Night On Not Being George W. Bush L.O.V.E. I’d heard about the man, who, drunk On the Road Born-again bikers, The Wife of Bath’s Tale Joss Bluebell Wood The Day He Met His Wife * Stepladder My Brother’s Vespa Autumn Term Keymarkets I used to faint Moon Petar K, 1957–2847 Croft Juniors Instead of going to work My Town The Night is Young Index of Titles and First Lines
Praise for Peter Sansom
'Long-suppressed anger morphs into characteristic deadpan humour, a difficult trick to accomplish without appearing trite - while he's no formalist, Sansom is as highly-skilled as any contemporary poet. Peter Sansom's poetry... is full of gentle, bittersweet and funny moments, the work of a poet and person whose outlook on life is immensely engaging, engaged and likeable.'
Matthew Paul, The Friday Poem 'A serious intelligence only lightly disguised as self-mockery and expressed via devastatingly clear-sighted observation.' Yorkshire Post 'His writing gains its vitality from the tension between the desire to remember and the necessity of moving on.' Poetry Review 'A congenial writer, whose usually informal metrical sense is, nevertheless, decisive and intuitively informed.' Times Literary Supplement 'Personal, political, powerful' Morning Star
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