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Barefoot: The Collected Poems of Alastair Reid
Born in the small community of Whithorn in Galloway, Scotland, Alastair Reid (1926-2014) became one of the most international figures in post-war Scottish literature. A staff writer on The New Yorker for many years, he was widely admired as an essayist and as a translator of Latin American writers, including Neruda and Borges. He also spent time in Mallorca working with Robert Graves in the 1950's. This is the first ever collected poems of a man Jay Parini described as “among the finest poets of his generation, it's time his work found the audience it deserves”.
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Barefoot: The Collected Poems of Alastair Reid
Born in the small community of Whithorn in Galloway, Scotland, Alastair Reid (1926-2014) became one of the most international figures in post-war Scottish literature. A staff writer on The New Yorker for many years, he was widely admired as an essayist and as a translator of Latin American writers, including Neruda and Borges. He also spent time in Mallorca working with Robert Graves in the 1950's. This is the first ever collected poems of a man Jay Parini described as “among the finest poets of his generation, it's time his work found the audience it deserves”.
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Barefoot: The Collected Poems of Alastair Reid

Barefoot: The Collected Poems of Alastair Reid

Barefoot: The Collected Poems of Alastair Reid

Barefoot: The Collected Poems of Alastair Reid

Overview

Born in the small community of Whithorn in Galloway, Scotland, Alastair Reid (1926-2014) became one of the most international figures in post-war Scottish literature. A staff writer on The New Yorker for many years, he was widely admired as an essayist and as a translator of Latin American writers, including Neruda and Borges. He also spent time in Mallorca working with Robert Graves in the 1950's. This is the first ever collected poems of a man Jay Parini described as “among the finest poets of his generation, it's time his work found the audience it deserves”.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781903385814
Publisher: Galileo Publishers
Publication date: 02/28/2019
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Major poet of 60's and 70's.

Tom Pow is the author of twelve poetry collections, including At the Well of Love (2016) and A Wild Adventure (2014), a poetic biography of forger Thomas Watling. He was a close friend of Alastair Reid.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 1

Abbreviations 3

Introduction 5

Call Back The Days (Early Poems) 1943-49 (?)

Call Up 19

The New Way 20

Legacy 21

Hospital Afternoon 22

Travellers' Tales 23

Call Back The Days 24

Torchlight Procession 25

Tomb 26

And When The Sun… 27

Nocturne 28

To Lighten my House (1953)

I

Poem Without Ends 29

Poem for my Father 30

Lay for New Lovers 32

My One High Morning 33

Boyhood 34

To Look in the Heart 35

Grandfather 36

The Village 37

Autobiography 38

Not Now for my Sins' Sake 39

The Day the Weather Broke 40

Song for Four Seasons 41

II

Spell for Five Fingers 42

The Question in the Cobweb 44

Music Box 46

Saturday Park 47

Designs for Three Dancers 48

Nursery Songs 50

Three Sides of a Penny 51

New Hampshire 52

III

Four Figures for the Sea 54

Underworld 57

The Seasons of the Sea 58

The Waterglass 61

Directions for a Map 63

Maine Coast 69

Isle of Arran 70

To Lighten My House 71

Oddments, Inklings, Omens, Moments (1959)

Was, Is, Will Be 73

A Game of Glass 75

Ghosts 76

Once at Piertarvit 77

The Rain in Spain 80

Poet with Sea Horse 82

Cat-Faith 83

Who Am I? 85

An Instance 86

Growing, Flying, Happening 87

At First Sight 89

Calenture 91

In Such a Poise Is Love 93

For Ring-Givers 94

In Memory of My Uncle Timothy 95

Ghosts' Stories 96

The Tale the Hermit Told 97

Oddments, Inklings, Omens, Moments 100

For Her Sake 102

A Lesson for Beautiful Women 104

Small Sad Song 106

Old Painter to Young Model 108

Two Weathers 109

Casa d'Amunt 110

Living in Time 112

A Leavetaking 114

A Homecoming 115

Childhood Landscape 116

Spain, Morning 117

A Note from the Coast 118

L'Amour de Moi 119

Pigeons 120

What's What 122

From Passwords (1963)

Foreigners 125

Disguises 127

Speaking a Foreign Language 128

The Syntax of Seasons 129

The Figures on the Frieze 130

Outlook, Uncertain 132

Me to You 133

The O-filler 134

Curiosity 136

Propinquity 138

Frog Dream 140

Wishes 141

What Bones Say 143

A Lesson in Music 145

The Spiral 146

From Weathering (1978)

The Manse 149

Aunt Elsie* 151

My Father, Dying 153

A Day for the Book 155

Me To You (parts 1 and 2) 157

Quarrels 160

March* 162

Scotland 163

Galilea 164

New York Surprised 165

In Mexico* 167

Isla Negra, Chile 168

T'iree 169

Chelsea Reach 170

Geneva 171

Where Truth Lies* 173

Flying Time 174

Daedalus 175

The Colour of Herring 177

Making Soup* 178

Weathering 179

James Bottle's Year 181

Old (1973) 183

New (1974) * 184

That Dying 185

Stalemate 186

Black Holes 188

The Fall 189

Querida Mañana 190

Visiting Lecturer 192

The Academy 194

A Lesson in Handwriting 196

Translator to Poet 198

What Gets Lost 199

Take It From Here* 201

* Previously unpublished or uncollected

And Finally

High Treason by José Emilio Pacheco 203

Three Poems by Judas Roquín 204

Whithorn Manse 205

Notes 207

Index of Titles 223

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