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Lucky Day Richard Price

Lucky Day By Richard Price

Lucky Day by Richard Price

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Summary

Humorous, poignant and elegant poems

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Lucky Day by Richard Price

Lucky Day begins with natural landscapes through which love and lyric flicker and flare. The sparrows, pigeons and magpies of the urban periphery lighten the atmosphere, edging the collection towards the city in the funny elegy 'Bird List'. The sequence that follows, 'Hand Held', is personal and vulnerable, a finally celebratory exploration of his experience as the father of a child with severe learning difficulties. The collection concludes with poems of love and memory, affirming in the end the luck of survival.

Lucky Day Reviews

'Richard Price retains an individual voice in which intense feelings of love, or dislocation, are packed into often short, complex lyrics. There is a tension in reading his poems which is created by his care for words, by the integrity of his distillation.' Carol Ann Duffy 'A recurrent theme is relationships of family and sex, where, as in life, what is not said, or half said, is as important as what is actually said, and the gaps, the repetitions, the phrases skating off into silence, the catspaw punctuation are deployed with great skill to keep a reader's mind active in tracing the tingly cataclysmic moves of love and anxiety.' Edwin Morgan

About Richard Price

RICHARD PRICE was born in 1966 and grew up in Scotland. He trained as a journalist at Napier College, Edinburgh, before studying English at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. The youngest of the Informationist group of poets, he was a founder of the magazines associated with them, Gairfish and Southfields. He is also the co-founder of Vennel Press, the imprint which brought many of the earlier Informationist collections to a wider audience. He is Head of Modern British Collections at the British Library, London.

Table of Contents

SCAPE 'All the days' 11 'They were your letters yesterday' 11 Dual sculls 12 'Supper will keep' 12 'the broad bellies' 13 Pylons 13 the frame 14 'Rare calm on the rattled moor' 15 Three oasthouses 16 A world without earth 18 Net results 19 Dogger 19 Motorcruisers - 20 Better trees 21 the white horse 21 The organised forest 22 For December 23. A SPELTHORNE BIRD LIST Hedge Sparrows 27 Coot 27 Mandarin Duck 27 Great Crested Grebe 28 Cormorants 28 Mallards 28 Heron 28 Swans 29 Swan 29 Cuckoo 29 Pigeons 29 Song Thrush 29 Ring Necked Parakeet 30 Carrion Crow 30 Jay 30 Domestic geese 31 Moorhen 31 Magpie 31 Kingfisher 31. LICK AND STICK Lick and stick 35. OFFICES Cleaners 41 Save? / Send? / Delete? 42 As a 44. MARKS & SPARKS Fishbones of aerials 47 Kids 47 Wasps 48 Separate again 48 Wrong again 48 Margin 49 Holiday romance 50 Cadets 51 Careless 52 Helpline 52 Twigs 53 Tensioned frame 53 Less said 54 Shoosh 55 I wish 56 Passenger side 56 'Skirt' 57 Behind you 57 Marks and Sparks 58 As, as 59 Then, again 59 Deli 60 Fitted sheet 60 Engagement / Strike 61 On, off, over 62 I bet 62 Odi et amo 63 Think for thinking 63 Art lover 64 A new establishment 65 Scare 66 Lucky day 67 Call 67 As if 68 HAND HELD A dash 71 Lifer 71 Than we are 72 Anne and the Royal 72 Flightpaths 73 Taps 74 Victory in Europe 75 'Speech absent' 75 Dopey has Angelman's Syndrome 76 Thanks 76 Nothing promised 77 So the palm faces 78 See, touch on the baby gym 78 Gallery / zoo 79 Receipt 80 Little bear 80 The clutter back 81 Abacus 82 The grip 83 Only child 83 Logger's Leap 84 R for Robert 85 blue, quilted 86 Eureka 87 Fob 88 The taps just flow hot and cold 89 For Katie's toes 89 The world is busy, Katie 90 The late show 91 Air miles 92 That song 92 Wake up and play 93 Sleeper 94 The price-dream ratio 95 Surely the certainties 96 Fast 97 'I have two daughters' 97 The twins 98 A bow-tie pattern 99Please 99 121 100 Hand held 100 A NEWS A news 103 The truants will be suspended 104 An authority 104 Deportment / Deportation 105 Slow films 105 Softened, bright 106 Big Bang research 107. ALL LIGHT All light 111 In your generous hours 112 Farewell remembering a goodbye 113

Additional information

GOR004825694
9781857547610
1857547616
Lucky Day by Richard Price
Richard Price
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Carcanet Press Ltd
2005-02-24
128
Short-listed for Whitbread Book Awards: Poetry Category 2005 Short-listed for Felix Dennis Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection 2005
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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