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The Well in the Rain Tony Curtis

The Well in the Rain By Tony Curtis

The Well in the Rain by Tony Curtis


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A collection of poems, which reveal bicycles, famine, ghosts, grannies, Tibetan Buddhists, Beckettian sighs and Lucian Freud's nudes with a loving, simplicity.

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The Well in the Rain: New and Selected Poems by Tony Curtis

The Well in the Rain brings together work from Tony Curtis' six previous books. Bicycles, famine, ghosts, grannies, Tibetan Buddhists, Beckettian sighs and Lucian Freud's nudes are all revealed with a rare, and loving, simplicity. His award winning poetry has always been characterised by its compassion and humour: full of Gods but empty of forgiveness. In a closing selection of new poems, gathered here as 'Tossing the Feathers', Curtis' wit and heartache surface in a long poem that faces the loss of his father. This poem - The Well in the Rain - is a prayer, a cry, a whisper that sings in the dark. This is life-giving, life-affirming poetry, full of loss, love and longing.

About Tony Curtis

Tony Curtis was born in Dublin in 1955. He is the author of six warmly-received collections of poetry, the most recent of which - 'What Darkness Covers' - was published by Arc in 2003. In that year also he was the recipient of the Varuna House Exchange Fellowship to Australia. Curtis has been awarded the Irish National Poetry Prize and is a member of Aosdana, the Irish academy of the arts.

Table of Contents

from The Shifting of Stones (1986): Home Thoughts, The Shifting of Stones, The Morning After Eden, The Suitcase, The Disturbance, Cold as the Irish Sea, Gilhaney's Nightmare;from Behind the Green Curtain (1988): The Touch, Rowing to the Island, Behind the Green Curtain, Homage, Siren Off Inisheer, A Winter's Tale, On a Mountain Road;from This Far North (1993): Penance, Passion, Preferences, The Dreaming, A Postcard from a Brothel in Singapore, These Hills, Island Man in Paris, When Sometimes all I Can Imagine are Hands, Maddening Relations, Staying at the Big House, Unveiling, The Dowser and the Child, I am the Night Watch, Tea, The Coat, Northern Haiku, From a Famine Journal, First Impression, Passing Through, Wasted Misery, Terrible Dead, Wretched Cargo, Ruined Christmas, Big Houses, Victoria Visits, New Australians;from Three Songs of Home (1998): Redeemed, All the Mountains, Still Life, In Darjeeling, Air, Prayer Guide, Hat, The Damned, The Journey Home, Now that I am Almost Dead, A Habitable Place, The Crossing, Lobsang's Wife, Blue Bowl, Bread, Lobsang's Last Wish, Ch'a, Stillness, The Voyage, A Quiet House;from What Darkness Covers (2003): 'Tonight my love's eyes...', Blind, What Darkness Covers, Another Room, Juliet Sleeping, Masterplan, Still Life with Books, Nude, The Long Rest, Baffled, Found Poem, Jimmy, Currach; from Poems After Painting by Lucian Freud: Portrait, Nude with Legs, Dark Chocolate, Big, The Bateman Sisters, Naked Girl with Egg, Petrarch's Wife, Mountain Woman, Olympians, The Boat, Now Winter's Over; from The Magical Book of Winter Cures: The Cure for a Broken Heart, The Cure for Melancholia, The Cure for Loneliness;New Poems: Tossing the Feathers (2006): Foraging, The Dead Time of the Year, Odd, The Sad Daughter's Tale, Sheltering, The Master Weaver, Beckettian Clerihews, Self Portrait, The Knot, Seven Haiku for Sahoko's Drawing, Dublin - The New Year, Seventeen Bridges, The Poet and the Mouse, Six Twenty-five a.m , The Well in the Rain,And when the Heart, Hymn to Life, Close, Anniversary, Coming Home After Watching Dancers, The Family Tree.Biographical Note.

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CIN1904614655VG
9781904614654
1904614655
The Well in the Rain: New and Selected Poems by Tony Curtis
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Arc Publications
20061205
202
N/A
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