The Movement of BodiesA strange assortment of characters inhabit these poems, including George Mackay Brown, Johnny Cash, William Dampier, a lion-keeper in wartime Afganistan, and a shipload of sailors in a Shetland churchyard. The long central work of the collection provides an elegiac meditation on the life and death of a young soldier who succumbed to hypothermia during the Napoleonic Wars. Finally, and quite unexpectedly, the poem "Googlisms" provides an outpouring of quirky definitions from a website that collects information from the search engine Google. |
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Atchgrad | 6 |
The Gold Sky of Venus | 12 |
The Navigator Loses the Sea | 18 |
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Adzio Aith Armée asleep Background of Flames Baliasta Best Jesus Blue Plaque Borodino breath burn cart and ferry Chiocchetti colours cross Curious Drawer curled dark dear Earl of Northumberland edge Ex-Poet Writes eyes face ferry and cart filigree flowers Flying Into Sunset Fuchsia garden gate glows gold Googlism Grande Armée hair hand harbour Henry Percy Hollanders Ness Hrossafield ice-field Jasio Jesus in Show John Thomson Karl Schlechter kirkyard kiss knew Last Nizam light Limning lived looking lost Lovesick Traveller meteor shower Movement of Bodies Murderers Grow Old never Nicola's Tree Nissen hut no-one North Sea numbers peat poem Poet the poet Poetry rabbits reader Robina rocks sang scenery Seli Geo Shetland Sky of Venus smile sonnet stone Strokestown sunlight velvet Vilnius vinyl voice walk wall warm watching Whale Ness wind Woodwick words