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Selected PoemsRoy FullerEdited by John Fuller![]() 10% off eBook (EPUB)
Categories: 20th Century, British, War writings
Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: eBook (EPUB) Needs ADE! (Pub. Nov 2012) 9781847776532 £12.95 £11.65 Paperback (256 pages) (Pub. Feb 2012) 9781847771216 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.
But there is much to be said for a summer
Without alarms. The plum crop is modest, The monarch has remained unchanged, Small differences only in one’s teeth and hair and verse-forms. from ‘The Unremarkable Year’
From his first wartime collection evoking a generation’s experience of a country made strange by blackouts and air raids, the ‘vivid allegorical / Reality of gun and hangar’, to the consolatory wisdom of the Last Poems of 1993, Roy Fuller was a poet of the familiar and ordinary made extraordinary. Mundane details, observed with Fuller’s tolerant humour and acute eye, reveal depths and dissonances from which a civilised life may be created: the unremarkable year ‘of painting the shed ... Is also that of harmonies / That have made one’s life and art for evermore off-key’.
On the centenary of Fuller’s birth, this generous selection, introduced by John Fuller, the poet’s son, and with an afterword by Neil Powell, Fuller’s biographer, brings to a new generation of readers the work of one of the essential twentieth-century poets. With an afterword by Neil Powell COVER PHOTOGRAPH Roy Fuller, February 1943. Annotated by Roy Fuller, ‘On the way up – Uganda somewhere’. Reproduced by permission of John Fuller.
A Note on the Text
Preface by John Fuller 1 1938–1944 from Poems (1939) and As From the Thirties (1983) To M.S., Killed in Spain August 1938 After the Spanish Civil War To My Brother from The Middle of a War (1942) Autumn 1939 The Barber First Winter of War To My Wife Autumn 1940 Soliloquy in an Air Raid Epitaph on a Bombing Victim ABC of a Naval Trainee Defending the Harbour Royal Naval Air Station The End of a Leave The Middle of a War Another War Spring 1942 Harbour Ferry Goodbye for a Long Time Troopship from A Lost Season (1944) The Photographs The Green Hills of Africa The Giraffes The Plains Askari’s Song The White Conscript and the Black Conscript Convicts Working on the Aerodrome The Tribes Sadness, Theory, Glass Shore Leave Lorry The Coast The Petty Officer’s Mess Today and Tomorrow The Emotion of Fiction The Statue Epitaphs for Soldiers Winter in Camp 2 1945–1962 from Epitaphs and Occasions (1949) During a Bombardment by V-Weapons Schwere Gustav Meditation To My Son The Gaze Obituary of R. Fuller from Counterparts (1954) Rhetoric of a Journey Youth Revisited The Image Translation The Meeting from Brutus’s Orchard (1957) Autobiography of a Lungworm On Grazing a Finger The Day The Ides of March The Perturbations of Uranus Mythological Sonnets from Collected Poems (1962) Monologue in Autumn On the Mountain from Faustian Sketches Questions to MephistophelesThe Hittites Versions of Love from Meredithian Sonnets from Buff (1965) Love and Murder The Historian 3 1963–1977 from New Poems (1968) The Symphonist Chinoiserie Reading The Bostonians in Algeciras Bay The Map Ambiguities of Travel In Memory of my Cat, Domino: 1951–66 Orders The Visitors Disasters Those of Pure Origin Afternoons Windows Departures Last Sheet from Tiny Tears (1973) Deficiencies Tiny Tears The Unremarkable Year Georgic from From the Joke Shop (1975) The Card Table Shakespeare and Co Elephants, Ants, Doves The Voyage Essential Memory Late November Strange Meeting From the Joke Shop The Future Being from The Reign of Sparrows (1980) Two Muses Ghost Voice Hedge-Sparrows and House-Sparrows 1935–75 The Old Toy from In His Sixty-Fifth Year 1976 Draws to a Closefrom Quatrains of an Elderly Man In the Night 4 from New and Collected Poems (1985)1977-1989 Years Autumn 1981 On the 160th Anniversary of the Discovery of the First Quarto of Hamlet Old Themes from Mianserin Sonnets Dreams and Art from Subsequent to Summer (1985) Symphonic Dances Death on the Heath Dimensions In God a Mathematician? In the Park The Powers Anatomy of a Cat from Consolations (1987) Down Kaunda Street Questions of Entropy The Scale Touching Booloo The Marcellus Version from Literary Footnotes FelicityAmatory Dreaming in Old Age Preserving Ward 1G from Available for Dreams (1989) Another Art Lessons of the Summer Teatimes Past and Present The Hairbrush The Elderly Husband Bird of Passage Oneself Nature Programme Dans un Omnibus de Londres News of the World from The Cancer Hospital Your Absence from Last Poems (1993) Minor KeysSummer Laughter Nasty Weather Ahead Metaphors Advice to the Elderly The Envious Poet Triangles The Letter Venus, Mars and Cupid My Life Later Sonnets from the Portuguese The Story Afterword by Neil Powell Index of Titles and First lines
'For all his self-deprecation, he had an unquenchable impulse to marvel at things - to rejoice in the merely human, and to let the sense of approaching death feel part of life.'
Andrew Motion
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