Anthology of Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry Book

Preface
THOMAS HARDY (1840-1928)
Hap Neutral Tones The Subalterns The Darkling Thrush The Man He Killed Channel Firing
'I Found Her Out There'
After a Journey
from Satires of Circumstance II. In Church VI. In the Cemetery The Pity of It In Time of 'the Breaking of Nations'
Snow in the Suburbs The Harbour Bridge He Never Expected Much
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS (1844-1889)
God's Grandeur
"As kingfishers catch fire"
The Windhover Pied Beauty Spring and Fall Inversnaid
"I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day"
"No worst, there is none"
[Carrion Comfort]
Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the comfort of the Resurrection Justus quidem tu es, Domine
RUDYARD KIPLING (1865-1936)
Gunga Din Sestina of the Tramp-Royal
from Epitaphs of the War Common Form A Dead Statesman
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1865-1939)
To The Rose upon the Rood of Time The Lake Isle of Innisfree Who Goes with Fergus?
The Valley of the Black Pig September 1913
The Witch The Peacock The Dolls A Coat The Wild Swans at Coole Easter 1916
The Second Coming A Prayer for my Daughter Sailing to Byzantium The Tower Leda and the Swan Among School Children Byzantium Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop Lapis Lazuli Under Ben Bulben The Circus Animals' Desertion Politics
CHARLOTTE MEW (1869-1928)
The Farmer's Bride Fame Arracombe Wood On the Road to the Sea Monsieur Qui Passe
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956)
Miss Loo The Listeners The Old Summerhouse
FORD MADOX FORD (1873-1939)
The Starling
EDWARD THOMAS (1878-1917)
The Other Adlestrop The Wasp Trap A Cat Rain
HAROLD MONRO (1879-1932)
Bitter Sanctuary
MINA LOY (1882-1966)
Italian Pictures
from Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose English Rose Der Blinde Junge
T.E. HULME (1883-1917)
Autumn The Embankment Conversion
from Fragments As a Fowl
ANNA WICKHAM (1884-1947)
Divorce Self Analysis Meditation at Kew
D.H. LAWRENCE (1885-1930)
Under the Oak Pomegranate Snake Swan Willy Wet-Leg Andraitx.—Pomegranate Flowers Bavarian Gentians
SIEGFRIED SASSOON (1886-1967)
A Working Party The Rear-Guard The General
EDITH SITWELL (1887-1964)
from Facade
4. Ass-Face
6. The Bat
22. Fox Trot
37. Sir Beelzebub The Canticle of the Rose
ELIZABETH DARYUSH (1887-1977)
Still-life
"Children of wealth in your warm nursery"
News-reel
EDWIN MUIR (1887-1959)
The Old Gods The Three Mirrors The Horses
T.S. ELIOT (1888-1965)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Gerontion The Waste Land
from Four Quartets Little Gidding
MARY BUTTS (1890-1937)
Corfe
ISAAC ROSENBERG (1890-1918)
The Jew Break of Day in the Trenches Louse Hunting Dead Man's Dump
IVOR GURNEY (1890-1937)
First Time In La Gorgue Laventie The Bare Line of the Hill The Bohemians Sea-Marge
HUGH MACDIARMID (1892-1978)
from A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
[Sic Transit Gloria Scotiae]
[The Barren Fig]
[Yank Oot Your Orra Boughs]
On a Raised Beach
from In Memoriam James Joyce
SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER (1893-1978)
Nelly Trim East London Cemetery King Duffus Anne Donne
THOMAS MACGREEVY (1893-1967)
De Civitate Hominum The Six Who Were Hanged Homage to Hieronymus Bosch
WILFRED OWEN (1893-1918)
Dulce et Decorum Est Strange Meeting Arms and the Boy Disabled
JOHN RODKER (1894-1955)
A Slice of Life The Music Hall Hymn to Love I'd have loved you as you deserved had we been frogs
DAVID JONES (1895-1974)
from In Parenthesis
from Part 7: The five unmistakable marks
from The Anathemata
from I: Rite and Fore-Time III. Angle-Land A, a, a, Domine Deus
ROBERT GRAVES (1895-1985)
Warning to Children The Legs To Juan at the Winter Solstice The White Goddess
NANCY CUNARD (1896-1965)
from Parallax
AUSTIN CLARKE (1896-1974)
Forget Me Not
F.R. HIGGINS (1896-1941)
A Plea Auction!
BASIL BUNTING (1900-1985)
from First Book of Odes
3. "I am agog for foam"
8. "Loud intolerant bells"
15. "Nothing"
17. "Now that sea's over that island"
28. "You leave"
30. "The Orotava Road"
from Briggflatts: I, Coda
from Second Book of Odes:
11. "Boasts time mocks cumber Rome"
12. "Now we've no hope of going back"
STEVIE SMITH (1902-1971)
Souvenir de Monsieur Poop Not Waving but Drowning My Hat The Celts Pretty Black March
JOSEPH GORDON MACLEOD (1903-1984)
from The Ecliptic Cancer, or, The Crab
PATRICK KAVANAGH (1904-1967)
from The Great Hunger: I, IX Father Mat Canal Bank Walk
BRIAN COFFEY (1905-1995)
HEADROCK
from Advent: I
WILLIAM EMPSON (1906-1984)
Plenum and Vacuum Villanelle Reflection from Rochester Sonnet
SAMUEL BECKETT (1906-1989)
Enueg I Enueg II Ooftish
W.H. AUDEN (1907-1973)
"Bones wrenched, weak whimper, lids wrinkled..."
The Secret Agent The Watershed
"Consider this and in our time"
A Bride in the 30's Spain
from Sonnets from China: VI, VII Musée des Beaux Arts In Memory of W.B. Yeats September 1, 1939
In Memory of Sigmund Freud No Time At the Grave of Henry James In Praise of Limestone
from Horae Canonicae: Nones Ode to Terminus
LOUIS MACNEICE (1907-1963)
An Eclogue for Christmas Valediction Snow Carrickfergus
CLERE PARSONS (1908-1931)
Corybantic Photogravure Different Interruption
DENIS DEVLIN (1908-1959)
Lough Derg Obstacle Basilisk
LYNETTE ROBERTS (1909-1995)
from Gods with Stainless Ears: IV, V
NORMAN MACCAIG (1910-1996)
High Street, Edinburgh Nude in a fountain Celtic cross Intrusion
SORLEY MACLEAN/SOMHAIRLE MACGILL-EAIN (1911-1996)
The Island Going Westwards
F.T. PRINCE (b. 1912)
Strafford
CHARLES MADGE (1912-1996)
Obsessional Delusions I Delusions III Delusions V Delusions VII Countries of the Dead II
DYLAN THOMAS (1914-1953)
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Our eunuch dreams To-day, this insect Over Sir John's hill
C.H. SISSON (b. 1914)
A Letter to John Donne The Desert Au Clair de la Lune Place
DAVID GASCOYNE (b. 1916)
And the Seventh Dream is the Dream of Isis Baptism The Rites of Hysteria The Cubical Domes
NICHOLAS MOORE (1918-1986)
Song Ideas of Disorder at Torquay Portman Restaurant Leap Year
W.S. GRAHAM (1918-1986)
The Nightfishing A Note to the Difficult One Language Ah Now You Have Me
TOM SCOTT (1918-1995)
Johnie Raw Prays for His Lords and Maisters
KEITH DOUGLAS (1920-1944)
Simplify me when I'm dead These grasses, ancient enemies Mersa Dead Men Cairo Jag Aristocrats
Vergissmeinnicht
How to Kill
BOB COBBING (b. 1920)
[wan do tree]
[LION LENIN LEONORA]
[ALEVIN BARS CAUSAPSCAL]
PHILIP LARKIN (1922-1985)
Church Going Toads Nothing To Be Said Water The Whitsun Weddings An Arundel Tomb High Windows Going, Going Homage to a Government This Be The Verse The Explosion
DONALD DAVIE (1922-1995)
Hearing Russian Spoken Rejoinder to a Critic Rodez Out of East Anglia A Conditioned Air Inditing A Good Matter
JAMES BERRY (b. 1924)
Letter to My Father from London From Lucy: Englan a University
IAN HAMILTON FINLAY (b. 1925)
Orkney Lyrics Sea-Poppy I Sea-Poppy 2
ASA BENVENISTE (1925-1990)
First Words Georgic Bird Appeal Blue Crepe
ELIZABETH JENNINGS (b. 1926)
Choices Fountain On Its Own
CHRISTOPHER MIDDLETON (b. 1926)
Hearing Elgar Again The Prose of Walking Back to China
CHARLES TOMLINSON (b. 1927)
Aesthetic Distinctions Saving the Appearances Swimming Chenango Lake Prometheus Annunciation The Plaza The Garden
THOMAS KINSELLA (b. 1928)
Baggot Street Deserta Ritual of Departure
GAEL TURNBULL (b. 1928)
George Fox, from his Journals
from Twenty Words, Twenty Days: XVII-XX Thighs Gripping
JOHN MONTAGUE (b. 1929)
The Trout A Bright Day The Cage This Neutral Realm The Well Dreams
THOM GUNN (b. 1929)
The Unsettled Motorcyclist's Vision of his Death Confessions of the Life Artist Moly Seesaw A Sketch of the Great Dejection Lament
ELAINE FEINSTEIN (b. 1930)
Marriage Exile For Brighton, Old Bawd
TED HUGHES (1930-1998)
View of a Pig Pike Out Pibroch Wodwo Crow Hears Fate Knock on the Door
from Gaudete Flounders
ROY FISHER (b. 1930)
from City:
The Entertainment of War The Poplars
"Walking through the suburb at night____"
From an English Sensibility
from A Furnace:
Introit II. The Return
JON SILKIN (1930-1998)
Death of a Son First it was Singing Dandelion A Daisy A Word about Freedom and Identity in Tel-Aviv
ROSEMARY TONKS (b. 1932)
The Sofas, Fogs, and Cinemas The Little Cardboard Suitcase The Ice-cream Boom Towns
PETER REDGROVE (b. 1932)
Against Death Young Women with the Hair of Witches and No Modesty The British Museum Smile Mothers and Child
GEOFFREY HILL (b. 1932)
Genesis Ovid in the Third Reich September Song History as Poetry
from Mercian Hymns: I-XIII, XXVII-XXX
from The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Péguy: 4,5
Respublica
from The Triumph of Love: XXIII, XXV, XXXV, XXXIX-XLIV, LV, LXI-LXIV, CXLVII-CL
FLEUR ADCOCK (b. 1934)
Against Coupling The Ex-Queen Among the Astronomers Leaving the Tate
TONY HARRISON (b. 1937)
v.
JOHN RILEY (1937-1978)
Czargrad
TOM RAWORTH (b. 1938)
Wedding Day You've Ruined My Evening/You've Ruined My Life South America
from Logbook: pages 106, 453
from Sentenced to Death:
"sentenced he gives a shape"
"curiously the whole thing had begun"
"reversals of performance levels"
from Eternal Sections:
"in black tunics, middle-aged"
"brilliance of the orange lily"
"thoughts are in real time"
Out of the Picture
R.F. LANGLEY (b. 1938)
Saxon Landings Man Jack
CARLYLE REEDY (b. 1938)
The Slave Ship
E.A. MARKHAM (b. 1939)
The Sea Towards the End of a Century Grandmotherpoem The Mother's Tale
JOHN JAMES (b. 1939)
Good Old Harry Inaugural Address
LEE HARWOOD (b. 1939)
When the geography was fixed The Blue Mosque Salt Water
SEAMUS HEANEY (b. 1939)
Bogland North Singing School Oysters The Toome Road The Underground
from Station Island: VII, XII The Mud Vision
PETER RILEY (b. 1940)
from Lines on the Liver: 1, 2, 10, 11, 17
from Excavations, Part One:
from Book I: Distant Points:
"the body in its final commerce"
"folded in river clay"
"carefully dismembered"
from Book 2: This Carol They Began That Hour
"Sing to me"
"Meaning spills"
"Leaving a simple state"
from Book 3: Vacant Thrones:
"Ganesa dances"
"'I arrived at a place mute of light'"
DEREK MAHON (b. 1941)
The Snow Party A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford Courtyards in Delft A Garage in Co. Cork
ANDREW CROZIER (b. 1943)
The Veil Poem
TOM LEONARD (b. 1944)
Six Glasgow Poems A Priest Came on at Merkland Street
CRAIG RAINE (b. 1944)
An Enquiry into Two Inches of Ivory A Martian Sends a Postcard Home
EAVAN BOLAND (b. 1944)
The Woman Turns Herself into a Fish Listen. This is the Noise of Myth
from Outside History
9: In Exile
ALLEN FISHER (b. 1944)
from four novels:
1. African Mission defamiliarising________*: 38
Mummers' Strut
TOM PICKARD (b. 1946)
A History Lesson from My Son on Hadrian's Wall Energy The Double D Economy
PETER READING (b. 1946)
from Stet Thucydidean
VERONICA FORREST-THOMSON (1947-1975)
Cordelia: or, 'A Poem Should Not Mean, But Be'
LIZ LOCHHEAD (b. 1947)
Mirror's Song Bagpipe Muzak, Glasgow 1990
TREVOR JOYCE (b. 1947)
The Turlough Cry Help Tohu-bohu
DENISE RILEY (b. 1948)
Affections must not
Lure, 1963
When it's time to go Pastoral Wherever you are, be somewhere else Knowing in the real world
BARRY MACSWEENEY (b. 1948-2000)
from Hellhound Memos
BILL GRIFFITHS (b. 1948)
Reekie
BRIAN CATLING (b. 1948)
The Stumbling Block its Index
ALAN HALSEY (b. 1949)
Answering a New Year Letter, 1989
Self-Portrait in a '90s Bestiary An Essay on Translation
GRACE NICHOLS (b. 1950)
The Fat Black Woman Remembers The Fat Black Woman Versus Politics Shanking Englishmen Between Trains Long-Man
MEDBH MCGUCKIAN (b. 1950)
Tulips The Seed-Picture Slips Aviary The War Ending The Albert Chain
TONY LOPEZ (b. 1950)
Brought Forward
MAGGIE O'SULLIVAN (b. 1951)
Starlings Garb Hill Figures
PAUL MULDOON (b. 1951)
Quoof Meeting the British Incantata
FRANK KUPPNER (b. 1951)
Eclipsing Binaries
GERALDINE MONK (b. 1952)
La Quinta del Sordo Where?
LINTON KWESI JOHNSON (b. 1952)
Mi Revalueshanary Fren
MAURICE SCULLY (b. 1952)
from Steps:
Fire
JOHN WILKINSON (b. 1953)
from Sarn Helen:
"bayonetted"
"snap crackle & pop"
"You've got some lip"
JO SHAPCOTT (b. 1953)
Phrase Book The Mad Cow in Love Mad Cow Dance
MONIZA ALVI (b. 1954)
And If The Wedding Grand Hotel
CAROL ANN DUFFY (b. 1955)
Standing Female Nude And How Are We Today?
Psychopath Translating the English, 1989
Poet for Our Times
CRIS CREEK (b. 1955)
'stranger'
ROBERT SHEPPARD (b. 1955)
The Materialization of Soap 1947
Internal Exile I
DAVID DABYDEEN (b. 1955)
Coolie Odyssey
from Turner: I, II, XVIII, XX, XXIV, XXV
RANDOLPH HEALY (b. 1956)
Colonies of Belief
from Arbor Vitae: I
JEAN "BINTA" BREEZE (b. 1957)
Riddym Ravings (The Mad Woman's Poem)
Cherry Tree Garden
BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH (b. 1958)
Money The SUN
JACKIE KAY (b. 1961)
from The Adoption Papers Chapter 7: Black Bottom
W.N. HERBERT (b. 1961)
The Anxiety of Information The Postcards of Scotland
CAROLINE BERGVALL (b. 1962)
Les jets de le Poupee
DREW MILNE (b. 1964)
A Garden of Tears
CATHERINE WALSH (b. 1964)
from Pitch: Part Three
HELEN MACDONALD (b. 1970)
Taxonomy
Blackbird/Jackdaw/Turdus/corvus/merula/ monedula
Section VIII Poem
Index