Research Catalog

Title

Selected poems / Christopher Reid.

Author

Reid, Christopher, 1949-

Publication

London : Faber and Faber, 2011.

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Holdings

Details

Description

151 pages; 20 cm

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Alternative Title

Poems.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

From Arcadia (1979): Arcadia -- A whole school of bourgeois primitives -- A valve against fornication -- A holiday from strict reality -- Utopian farming -- Balanders -- H. Vernon -- Our commune -- from Pea soup (1982): Our host speaks -- Three sacred place in Japan -- The ambassador -- Bathos -- The traveller -- At the wrong door -- from Katerina Brac (!985): Pale-blue butterflies -- A tune -- Annals -- The oriental gallery -- An angel -- Realism -- What the uneducated old woman told me -- A box -- The sea -- Like a mirror -- from In the Echoey tunnel (1991): Amphibiology -- Contretemps -- Hotels -- Tyger -- Consulting the oracle -- Romanesque -- Memres of Alfred Stoker -- from Expanded universes (1996): Fetish -- From information received -- Stone and bones -- By the by -- Nature -- Scenes from Kafka's marriage -- Featehrs -- Fly -- Cycle -- Insofar -- One for the footnotes -- The thing and the book -- Two dogs on a pub roof -- from For and after (2003): While -- Palace floor -- The sirens -- Smoking and drinking -- Memoirs of a publisher -- A city that Marco Polo missed -- Thirty-three paroxysms -- The phone-fox -- Bollockshire -- North London sonnet -- from Mr Mouth (2006): The myth of the mouth -- Oracle -- Recital -- Venus fly-trap dream song -- The hole in Victorian literature -- The Rev. Mr Mouth's controversial sermon -- Adam and Eve -- Regime change in Utopia -- Om -- Dying words -- Obol -- from A scattering (2009): The unfinished -- A scattering -- Late -- Afterlife.

ISBN

• 9780571273270
• 0571273270

LCCN

^^2011535582

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library