Passing Measures Selected Poems

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Pub. Date: 2001-03-01
Publisher(s): Carcanet Press Ltd.
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Summary

Peter Riley is chiefly interested in making a poetry that is “available” rather than “accessible.” The poem offers the reader entry into an experience of the world mediated by the passionate needs of the shaping spirit, while seeking to avoid a reductive or confirming complicity.

Table of Contents

King's Field
Material Soul
13(1)
Prelude
14(1)
Wandering Voices
14(1)
Patina
15(1)
Ballad of the Broken Bridge
15(3)
Pause at Harecops
18(1)
Driving down the Wye and Stopping
18(1)
Driving up the Erewash and Arriving
19(1)
Cavendish Cottages
20(1)
No Sweet Dream
21(1)
Distant Point
22(1)
Greenwich Marshes and All the Way Home
22(1)
Tumulus
23(1)
Paws at Harecops
24(1)
from Thirty Poems of Ten Lines
24(7)
Sea Watches
31(26)
Sea Watch Elegies
47(5)
Between Harbours
52(5)
Ospita
57(66)
from Noon Province
Arriving at Dawn
67(1)
Market Day
67(1)
Roofwatch
68(1)
Meditations in the Fields
69(1)
Lines at the Pool above St.-Saturnin
70(1)
Escape from our Uncaring
71(1)
Lacoste
72(1)
Recalling Lacoste
72(1)
Counting the Cost (Syllables at Night)
73(1)
Up the Big Hill and Back by Ten
74(1)
Resolution and Interdependence
75(1)
Real Number
75(1)
Just a Song
76(1)
Stating the Case
77(1)
The Telephone Box on the Edge of the Cornfield
77(1)
Last Night
78(3)
Orange to Chartres
81(1)
Slow Meditation
82(5)
Selected Poems 1966-1996
1966-1970
Urizon
87(1)
A Column of Air
88(1)
Valley of the Moon
89(1)
from The Linear Journal
89(3)
In a German Car-park
92(1)
Bunker Hotel
93(1)
Is This Dusseldorf or Kiel?
94(1)
Four Night Pacts
95(1)
Folded Message
96(1)
Grassy Lenses
96(1)
1976-1990
Clouds and Birds over Wolfscote
97(1)
Boletus Under Narrowdale
97(1)
Prelude
98(1)
Further Education
98(1)
Poem Beginning with a Line
99(1)
Nicholas Moore
Bole Hill
99(1)
Little Bolehill
100(1)
Midsummer Common
100(1)
Dublin
101(1)
Loft
101(1)
Hackney Loft
102(1)
Parker's Piece
102(1)
Three Roman Churches
S. Cecilia in Trastevere
103(1)
S. Maria in Trastevere
103(1)
S. Pietro in Montorio
104(1)
Three Poems in Tunisia
Djebel Bou Dabbous
104(1)
Djebel Bou Dabbous
105(1)
Ghar El Melh
106(1)
Three Parts of Paris
Saint Severin's Maze
107(1)
Causeway
107(1)
Pascal's Corner
108(1)
Poems from the trilogy Reader - Lecture - Author
Reader
Bolehill
109(1)
Hastings
109(1)
Irish Drones
110(1)
Golden Slumbers
110(1)
Lecture
Vallee de la Vezere
111(1)
Glow Worm True Worm
112(1)
Heinrich Biber
112(1)
Magdelanian
113(1)
Author
In Manus Tuas
113(1)
`Voiced consonants...'
114(1)
Do It Again
115(1)
Bar Carol
116(1)
`And love alone...'
116(1)
Poems to Paintings
Jack B. Yeats
Prelude: Night Shift
117(1)
Oh My Beauty!
118(1)
Men of Destiny
119(1)
The Stolen Picture
119(1)
The Little Watercolour at Sligo
120(1)
That Grand Conversation Was Under the Rose
120(3)
Bibliography 123

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