This Life, This Life: New & Selected Poems 1970 - 2006
by Greig, AndrewFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-02-15
Publisher(s): Bloodaxe Books Ltd
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Summary
Wildly diverse, affirmative, openhearted poems on the contours of life; childhood, adolescence, sex, love, marriage, break-ups and breakdowns, increased awareness of mortality, And The precious moments left.
Table of Contents
| Night shift | p. 13 |
| Return of Venture | p. 14 |
| Maxwell | p. 15 |
| After the affair | p. 16 |
| Dido | p. 17 |
| Evening sketch | p. 18 |
| Captain Zen? | p. 20 |
| Poet's tale | p. 24 |
| Axe-man's confession | p. 27 |
| On falling | p. 29 |
| Grimpeur's explanation | p. 30 |
| Praising the woman | p. 31 |
| Zen on poetry | p. 32 |
| Hoof | p. 33 |
| Next morning | p. 37 |
| To get higher | p. 39 |
| Poet's night song & benediction | p. 41 |
| In the tool-shed | p. 44 |
| Confessions of an airman | p. 45 |
| A man is driving | p. 46 |
| Time, out for the night | p. 47 |
| The elephants | p. 48 |
| from Dissenting passages | p. 50 |
| Wordscape : elegy for angus | p. 51 |
| Melissa | p. 52 |
| The glove | p. 53 |
| A night journey | p. 54 |
| In galloway | p. 57 |
| Portobello beach | p. 58 |
| Bus to Izmir | p. 63 |
| We spoke of falling | p. 64 |
| 'One by one they will return' | p. 66 |
| 'Then we heard the guns around Gravesend' | p. 67 |
| 'The past blooms anywhere' | p. 69 |
| 'May you go your rounds' | p. 70 |
| 'A summer seen through perspex' | p. 71 |
| 'I wanted excitement' | p. 72 |
| 'Shaken awake in the dark' | p. 73 |
| 'He was mine, no doubt about it' | p. 74 |
| 'I went to visit Tim last night' | p. 75 |
| 'I watch my tracers arc and seed' | p. 76 |
| 'Say it straight, then' | p. 77 |
| 'Billy - shell splinter nicked his optic nerve' | p. 78 |
| 'Mercifully you never see them coming' | p. 79 |
| 'In an airless living-room on the new estate' | p. 80 |
| Back again | p. 82 |
| Interlude on Mustagh tower | p. 83 |
| Sandy, topping out | p. 84 |
| Entering askole | p. 86 |
| The winter climbing | p. 87 |
| Three above Namche Bazaar | p. 88 |
| Shetland | p. 89 |
| About Tess | p. 90 |
| Still | p. 91 |
| Annie, in spring | p. 92 |
| Treaty | p. 93 |
| Gulf | p. 94 |
| Annie, in November | p. 95 |
| Covert action | p. 96 |
| Young American | p. 97 |
| D, in a checked shirt | p. 98 |
| D, riding | p. 99 |
| Heart & Irish | p. 100 |
| Up the Baobab | p. 101 |
| The maid & I | p. 102 |
| The house-builder variations | p. 103 |
| Mexico | p. 104 |
| from Part I: the quest & the company | p. 109 |
| Prologue | p. 109 |
| Lights up dim | p. 111 |
| Stella writes from hospital | p. 114 |
| Stella, escaping | p. 118 |
| Cut to | p. 119 |
| from Part II : at the up & down disco | p. 121 |
| Inside the voodoo | p. 123 |
| Conversations on a flying carpet | p. 126 |
| Intermission | p. 129 |
| from Part III : travails in the high atlas | p. 130 |
| To resume the resume | p. 130 |
| Into the drylands | p. 131 |
| Tourists & terrorists | p. 134 |
| In the last village | p. 136 |
| A carry-out episode | p. 139 |
| A munelicht flittin | p. 141 |
| A graduation and a surprise | p. 144 |
| from Part IV : in Marrakech (narratives of desire) | p. 146 |
| In the Djemma el Fna | p. 146 |
| A debate on karma | p. 146 |
| Interlude in Essaouira | p. 150 |
| from Part V : bringing it all back home | p. 151 |
| The wanderer returns | p. 151 |
| A parting song | p. 154 |
| The return of the heretical Buddha | p. 155 |
| Vow | p. 163 |
| A shuttered lantern | p. 164 |
| Lucky | p. 165 |
| Tales of the flood | p. 166 |
| D, swimming | p. 168 |
| Ripe | p. 169 |
| A night rose | p. 170 |
| A woman in fife | p. 171 |
| Into you | p. 172 |
| That summer | p. 173 |
| In the frozen nursery | p. 175 |
| A pre-breakfast rant | p. 176 |
| Their last bow | p. 177 |
| Glider | p. 178 |
| Norman's goodnight | p. 179 |
| Scotland | p. 180 |
| Stromness evening | p. 182 |
| Above North Ronaldsay | p. 183 |
| Pappay | p. 184 |
| Last walk in Tayinloan, Kintyre | p. 185 |
| Orkney / this life | p. 186 |
| Walking the dog round stromness | p. 188 |
| Best thing a dream | p. 189 |
| The embroidered curtain | p. 190 |
| The natural order | p. 191 |
| A game of marbles / Gemme o toolies | p. 192 |
| Park Mill | p. 193 |
| In Endcliffe park | p. 194 |
| A long shot | p. 195 |
| The Edinburgh coliseum | p. 196 |
| From the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh | p. 198 |
| A resurrection of a kind | p. 199 |
| From the shelter hut | p. 200 |
| From the mother of all parties | p. 201 |
| A simple evening | p. 202 |
| From a marriage bed | p. 203 |
| This pilgrimage | p. 204 |
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