To wit:
Charles Causley: Collected Poems
Maurice Lindsay: Collected Poems 1940-1990
Chris Wallace-Crabbe: I’m Deadly Serious
Ian Crockatt: Flood Alert
Kathleen Jamie: The Queen of Sheba
Douglas Brooks-Davies (ed): Jane Austen: Poems and Favourite Poems
Hugo Williams: Billy’s Rain
Geoffrey Hill: Canaan
Robert Crawford: Spirit Machines
Donald Davie: Poems and Melodramas
Tom Bryan: North East Passage
Maura Dooley: Explaining Magnetism
Keki Daruwalla: Crossing of Rivers and Keeper of the Dead
Peter Redgrove: Assembling a Ghost
Tony Lopez: Data Shadow
Thom Gunn: Shelf Life
Alan Riach (ed.): Hugh MacDiarmid: Selected Prose
Christopher Isherwood: Exhumations: Stories, Articles, Verses
Bruce King: Derek Walcott and West Indian Drama
Clive James: Brilliant Creatures
And two E.F. Benson books (Cat, wonder if you've read him).
* The exciting part was in turning up early enough so as to avoid lines and then realise that I'd forgotten my library card (having transferred everything but that to the bag I was carrying); then attempting to charm the staff to let me in without it; failing; making a mad dash back home - thank god it was a Sunday - getting the wretched card and returning with two minutes to spare and to take my place in a long, snaking line.
PS: I must be the last person in the world to realise this, but staying away from the blog - and everyone else's blogs - makes for some astonishing increase in productivity. I think I shall stick with this.
5 comments:
I think I shall stick with this.
Whaaaat? naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahin. no no, cannot be. will NOT accept. We will all start writing such brilliant stuff, you won't be able to let go.
Whoa, that's quite a poetry stash you're building there. I wish libraries in India stacked more American poetry, though...
Benson's a delight. I did read most of the Lucia and Mapp books when I was in high school, and am now beginning to rediscover them on Gutenberg. The one I really want is "David Blaize and the Blue Door"; it seems hard to find. Which ones did you get?
??!: Aargh! No! Don't do that!
Cheshire Cat: I know. Heck - I wish they stacked more Indian poetry, in translation especially.
I got Miss Mapp (and that short story that goes with it) and Lucia's Progress (also known by another title that now escapes me). They're great fun...finished one.
Haven't read David Blaize and the Blue Door. IS it by Benson?
Yes, David Blaize is kind of a Benson alter-ego. The other two books about him are about his life at school and college - reminiscent of early Wodehouse. The one I mentioned is supposed to be an "Alice in Wonderland" rip-off, which is obviously why I want it.
Ah, yes. (I clearly did not read the wiki entry beyond the Lucia entry!)
You know what would be a good list for you to make? Authors who had well-developed aliases. Cecil Day-Lewis as Nicholas Blake, Philip Larkin as Brunette Coleman.
Like that.
Post a Comment