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Book SynopsisThese are tough poems, full of love and harm, good and damage, rage and compassion. They show us dealing well and also very badly with our kind and with the rest of the living planet. They are made of the rough substance of real lives. Their hallmark is loyalty: a steadfast, clear-sighted, unsentimental loyalty. Their truth is a 'being true to'. And they are a beautiful answering back against the worst. Maureen Duffy reminds us how funny people are, how vulnerable, lovable, bizarre and heroic. Her own voice is umistakeable in every line. And every poem is a sort of fighting between two lines: 'Mortality's at best a dodgy state' and 'It's not over yet; rejoice.'
Table of ContentsBlues Underground Revenant Reserved Occupation Imprint Progress A New Christmas Carol Salvage Eirlys Knickers Game Birds Revenant III Paternity Easter 1998 60th Remembering: June 14th 2005 Keys Veneziana A Sunday Outing Cows Crossing Phaeton Quickstep Wassail Voices Still Life with Pomegranates (1963) by Elizabeth Blackadder The Stories of Old On Reading Charles Simic' My Weariness of Epic Proportions Legend II A Wessex Farmer Waiting for the Barbarian Fur Christoph Lament for the Scribblers Nightingales Family Values: Homage to Francois Villon Silkie Anniversaries Monitors Fashioned Natural Selection In Novia Scotia Ogres and Augurs Tourist Talk Naming
