The poems that make up Castaly: Poems 1973?77 have been selected by the poet from work completed over the course of four years. Ian Wedde writes: The poems in this book represent my attempts to remain alert in the world between 1973 and 1977. . . ....
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The poems that make up Castaly: Poems 1973?77 have been selected by the poet from work completed over the course of four years. Ian Wedde writes: The poems in this book represent my attempts to remain alert in the world between 1973 and 1977. . . . Nevertheless my main obsessions (sometimes called 'themes') have remained the same, though not habitual I hope. They are few, and if they don't come across in these poems, well, I did the best I could. (That's all I am telling.) Last night I had a comical dream in which all the typists from the typing pool of a large insurance company hurled their t
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Acknowledgements; Content; Lyric 1; Grit; Pathway to the Sea; Aluminium Smelter; Cardrona Valley; Power Cut; Spring Bouquet; After Blake; Lyric 2; The First Days; Beautiful Poultry; Castaly; Child Sleeping; Dark Wood; Angel; Kali Yuga; Shaduf; Three Little Songs for Proserpine Queen; Lyric 3; The 1976 Bullet Mchale Winter Lectures; Lyric 4; Don't Listen; Somnambulist; Chophouse Log; Bad Breath; The Air You Breathe; Joseph Conrad Eyes; Lyric 5; Signs of the Times; Index; Also by Ian Wedde; Back Cover