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Selected Poems

Dawson Jackson

Edited by Nicola Simpson

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Imprint: Carcanet Poetry
Publisher: Carcanet Press
Available as:
Paperback (194 pages)
(Pub. Aug 2002)
9781857546156
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  • Europeans,
    For some reason, do not
    As a rule
    Ride bicycles - travel

    In public buses, or
    Go third class on trains. they seem to want

    To be as far as possible
    Away from India
    While they're there: the car
    Or taxi window is
    Safe, like a television screen. 'Look -

    A man with a python! ...An elephant!...
    Did you see, that
    Man we just passed
    Was handcuffed, to two others!'
    They turn round
    And stare out of the window.
    Wonderful!...Lost is all

    Sense of reality, as one turns
    Over the pages of the coloured magazine
    Called India. They close it
    Even
    Genuinely moved...

    from Exposed

    Selected Poems is a comprehensive selection of poetry written over seven decades. His unique style emphasises belief in a unity between inner and outer worlds, between subjective and objective, between the poetry, the philosophy and the private life of the poet. This celebration of this world in verse has a clarity and purity with an uninsistent but subtle drama.
    Dawson Jackson
    James Dawson Jackson was born in Wallasey in 1910. He read Modern History at Christ Church, Oxford. As well as writing poetry, he travelled extensively, working as a part-time translator for various international organisations until he died in 1994.     ... read more
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