1829 / Alison Brackenbury
1995, First Edition. Manchester [England] : Carcanet. SIGNED letter from the author to Peter Porter loosely inserted. Fine paperback copy. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright and clean. Item #398409
ISBN: 1857541227
Physical description; 68 pages ; 22 cm. Contents; March pigeons -- Brockhampton -- Gulf -- Entrenched -- Tewkesbury -- The postscript -- And the legend -- On Wistley Hill -- Talk -- Unexpurgated -- The Queen's funeral -- A winter in Majorca -- A Chinese wedding -- Manchuria -- Overnight -- Without -- Not a nursery rhyme -- The wardrobe -- In Bulawayo -- Near Kariba -- Odysseus -- Phil and the peacock -- Agenda -- Going out -- Comb honey -- Courting -- Outside the circle -- At the lion gate -- Holst thought -- Dawn run -- The Welsh cob show -- Telling -- Dealing -- Asking -- Hay fever -- After the x-ray -- After the end -- Linum -- Diggers -- The boy in Ross -- Needlehole -- The players come to the castle -- Rearing -- Captain Lord -- Sub aqua -- Your father -- Hewlett Road -- The spring at Chedworth -- In the small shop -- Katya -- `Now we go to the British cemetery' -- On the Northern line -- 1829 -- Frost. Subjects; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. Nijinsky, Vaslav Fomich. Natural world. Russia, 1991-. Tewkesbury. Classical mythology. Nature in literature. Railroad travel. Travel. English poetry.
Price: €85.00