{"product_id":"collected-poems-9781876857400","title":"Collected Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"After Francis Amunategui\": The appearance of a hot sausage with its salad of potatoes in oil can leave nobody indifferent ...it is pure, it precludes all sentimentality, it is the Truth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eImpossibly romantic and optimistic, miraculously avoiding gloom and didacticism to achieve a continuously surprising and euphoric surface … related to … classic simplicity of line.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Andrew Duncan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is ‘out and about’ poetry, inhabiting Cambridge pubs and Eastern European streets, embracing non-sequiturs and apparently-random thoughts into the smooth thought-flow of event and image and speculation. There’s a libidinal energy which resists gloom (hatred of the meagre portion\/even the bars are closed when we leave the cinema) and the occasional break into what could almost be song lyric.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Steve Spence * Terrible work *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn James is an extremely enjoyable and charismatic poet. His work is like a vigorous breath of fresh air, full of variety, humour and surprise. It has a strong sense of lyricism and energy, a striking mixture of the experimental and the immediate that brings to mind the work of Mayakovsky or the New York poets of the 1950s and 60s.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Charles Bainbridge * The Guardian *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMmm … Ah Yes (1967)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShades in a Conversation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCool Evening\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlane Tree\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOn the Way Home\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChi è Questa Che Vien …\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6:00 p.m.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhile Listening to ‘Ah-leu-cha’\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHengrove\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn Open Letter to Jim Workman, Landlord, at the Rose \u0026amp; Crown, Withy Mills, North Somerset\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat Can You Do With a Bird Like That?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWalking on the Downs Near Avon Gorge\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFlowering Shrub\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTo Allen Ginsberg\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Lovers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTo a Young Art Student in London\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDanny’s Plaque\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBathampton Morrismen at the Rose \u0026amp; Crown\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Welsh Poems (1967)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExultation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSecond Exultation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHeredity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTrägheit (1968)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBlues \u0026amp; Reverie\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRunic\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Dream\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVariations from the Same Cramped Postcard\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDays Passing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInventory\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Small Henderson Room (1969)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e‘… or as we wheel’\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWith Regard the Matter of Falling\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOn Leaving the Footpath\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWritten on Beginning Georg Büchner’s Lenz \u0026amp; While Waiting a Return\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePoem of Inevitable September, or, I’m a City Boy at Heart\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e‘Whatever You’ve Got, Someone Somewhere Needs it’ – W.M.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWaiting\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCoda to the Immediately Preceding Poems\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSide Window\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e‘There is a very slight relief in’\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e‘Forsythia spatters the faint loops \u0026amp;’\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Public Self-address System\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e‘This to be done’\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTalking in Bed\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Postcard Sonata\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn the Grass\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLetters from Sarah (1973)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStriking the Pavilion of Zero (1975)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e‘for the snow’\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTalking in Bed\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e‘pointless …’\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e‘uuhhh? …’\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e‘a  complete innocence …’\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRough\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e‘the day writhes in an immense crater’\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e‘drawing my chair closer to the speaker’\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e27 October 1969\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Dragon House\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGood Old Harry\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Grace\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e‘the trees are pliant to the wind’\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e‘from the earth quite gratefully transmuted’\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGoing Back to Sleep 2:12 p.m.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e‘a dangerous wind \u0026amp; temptress to exalted nihilism …’\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProleptic\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMay Day Greetings 1971\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Theory of Poetry (1977)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWar (1978)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Former Boiling (1979)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eToasting (1979)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInaugural Address (1979)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBerlin Return (1983)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCraven Images\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVariations on ‘Today Backwards’\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwo Sonnets\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAfter Satie, a Concert, 13 June 1972, on the Beach, Aldeburgh\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Page\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKarol in Tunisia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAfter Francis Amunatégui\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBye Bye Blackbird\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSong\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWearing My Little Blue T-Shirt Again\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOne for Rolf\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNarrative Graffiti\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAfter Christopher Wood\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCambridge\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChute de Pierres\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSister Midnight\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShakin All Over\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePoem for Bruce McLean (1983)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLines for Richard Long (1988)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Ghost of Jimi Hendrix at Stokesay Castle (1988)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLocal (1990)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDreaming Flesh (1991)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFor the Safety of Lovers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Conversation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom Pass to Pass\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSong\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAfter Rilke: December\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Letter to Paul\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAfter Picasso\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePolka\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNocturnal\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOn Romsey Rec\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEugène Boudin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNijinsky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSleep\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStacking\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSong\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKinderlieder (1992)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAfter Thomas Hood\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSketches of a Day\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSong\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIsrael\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnglo-Irish Relations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnglo-Irish Relations (Slight Return)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConfession\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThat Old Piano\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Consciousness Raisers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom the Welsh\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eColonial Medley\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGnome\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSkip\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSkip\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGender\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe American President Addresses West Berlin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJanuary 1983\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Sandwich\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Bee Code of Hywel Dda\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSchlegel Eats a Bagel (1996)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFebruary\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRetro\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePoem\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBlue Scar Watch\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRune\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIdyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Salt Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771678392663,"sku":"9781876857400","price":17.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781876857400.jpg?v=1758728757","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/collected-poems-9781876857400","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}