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Goose Music Andy Brown

Goose Music By Andy Brown

Goose Music by Andy Brown


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Goose Music is a co-written by two notable poets Andy Brown and John Burnside. The poems are intense lyrics paying close attention to natural detail, and explore ideas of identity, self, myth, landscape and place in these times of great environmental change.

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Goose Music by Andy Brown

Goose Music is a collection of new poems co-authored by Andy Brown and John Burnside, two writers with backgrounds in ecology and notable for their lyric poetry. John Burnside won the Whitbread Prize for poetry in 2000. Characterised by their formal variety, lyric intensity and their attention to natural detail, the poems in Goose Music are Ecopoetic, asking questions of how we might dwell on the earth in these times of great environmental change, exploring lyric ideas of identity, self, myth, landscape and place.

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Mystery, luminosity and forgetting the maps - that thrilling space between sense data and faith.

-- Paul Farley

Mystery, luminosity and forgetting the maps - that thrilling space between sense data and faith.

-- Paul Farley

About Andy Brown

Andy Brown is Director of the Centre for Creative Writing at Exeter University. His recent books include Hunting the Kinnayas (Stride, 2004), From a Cliff (Arc, 2002) and of Science (Worple, 2001, with David Morley). Andy Brown studied Ecology, a discipline that informs both his poetry and his criticism, which appears in The Salt Companion to the Works of Lee Harwood (Salt, 2006). He was previously a Centre Director for the Arvon Foundation's creative writing courses, and has been a recording musician. John Burnside was born in 1955 in Dunfermline, Scotland. He studied English and European Languages at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology. A former computer software engineer, he has been a freelance writer since 1996. His first collection of poetry, The Hoop, was published in 1988 and won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award. Other poetry collections include Common Knowledge (1991), Feast Days (1992), winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and The Asylum Dance (2000), winner of the Whitbread Poetry Award and shortlisted for both the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year) and the T. S. Eliot Prize. The Light Trap (2001) was also shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Part One

Goose Music

Some Notes on a Theory of Emergence

Nature Corner

Atavism

Insomnia

The Other Garden

Ganders in the Gardens

A Horse's Skull

On Hollow Moor

Eleven Gift Songs

Small Voices

Pine Trees at Five Ways

Los angeles mohosos

Three Enquiries Concerning Angels

The Ice Pool Under the Church Tower

Prayer

Prayer / Why I am Happy to be in the City this Spring

Castor / Pollux

Fiat Nox

Janus?--?Li Po Sonnets

Orange

Part Two

Two Essays on the Folk Story

The Breaking of Waves

Persephone

Eurydice

Mules at Ystradginlais

Narcissus (Einzelgaenger)

Part Three

Poems of the Father

The Blue Hour

The Promise of Home

Homage to Henri Bergson

The Other Brother

Towards a Book of Common Prayer

On the Road to the Eye Hospital

Dedications

Additional information

GOR006678042
9781844712847
1844712842
Goose Music by Andy Brown
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Salt Publishing
20080806
144
N/A
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