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Issue Details: First known date: 2001... 2001 Grass Script : Selected Earlier Poems.
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AbstractHistoryArchive Description

The poems in this representative collection were written between 1968 and 1987 and are drawn from Creek Water Journal (1974), Grass Script (1978), The Skylight (1983) and Piano (1988).

Contents

* Contents derived from the Manchester,
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Western Europe, Europe,:Carcanet , 2001 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Journey : The North Coasti"Next thing, I wake up in a swaying bunk,", Robert Gray , single work poetry (p. 7-8)
The Farm Woman Speaksi"Winter has arrived, the winds scour this place.", Robert Gray , single work poetry (p. 8-9)
The Thiefi"Not the man dying for so short a time, and for such", Robert Gray , single work poetry (p. 9-10)
Morningi"Feeding chickens, pollard scattered like wet sand.", Robert Gray , single work poetry (p. 10-11)
Back Therei"Farmer in a brittle morning", Robert Gray , single work poetry (p. 12-13)
On Climbing the Stone Gate Peak (Hsieh Ling-yun, AD 385-433)i"In a floating gown, I have come among these promontories alone;", Robert Gray , single work poetry (p. 13-14)
Note:
  • With title: On Cimbing the Stone Gate Peak
  • With epigraph: As if by a poet of the T'ang Dynasty
Within the Traveller's Eyei"A late afternoon. From this passing train", Robert Gray , single work poetry (p. 14-16)
The Pinei"With a snow-cap", Robert Gray , single work poetry (p. 16)
A Laboureri"He has to go out early, before work, half asleep", Robert Gray , single work poetry (p. 17)
`The Single Principle of Forms'i"All day a storm has fermented. Now the clouds are huge above the mountains.", Robert Gray , single work poetry (p. 17-18)
11 Poems [Short Poems]i"Sanding the floorboards;", Robert Gray , single work poetry (p. 18-19)
The Meat Works The Meatworksi"Most of them worked around the slaughtering", Robert Gray , single work poetry (p. 19-20)
To the Master Dogen Zenji (1200-1253 AD)i"Dogen came in and sat on the wood platform;", Robert Gray , single work poetry (p. 21-23)
Bright Dayi"The fantail is tying", Robert Gray , single work poetry (p. 24)
10 Poems "I'm getting up later" [Short Poems], Robert Gray , single work poetry (p. 25-26)
The Sawmill Shacksi"The shacks are overgrown on the mountainside", Robert Gray , single work poetry (p. 26-30)
North Coast Towni"Out beside the highway, first thing in the morning,", Robert Gray , single work poetry (p. 31)
Late Ferryi"The late ferry is leaving now;", Robert Gray , single work poetry (p. 33-34)
Poem to Kristinai"Remembering a time, on sandy wheel tracks,", Robert Gray , single work poetry (p. 34-36)
Note: With first line: I remember a time on sandy wheel tracks
In the Busi"In the back of an old country bus, down a bitumen side road", Robert Gray , single work poetry (p. 36)
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Works about this Work

In the Light : The Poetry of Robert Gray Jeffrey Wainwright , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: PN Review , January/February vol. 38 no. 3 2012; (p. 60-64) 'Prefacing his fine memoir, The Land I Came Through Last (2008), Robert Gray writes that his original intention was to write about his parents but that in the writing the book shaded into an autobiography. It certainly presents fascinating portraits of his family and of their contexts and times but finally it is indeed an autobiography, and quite selfconsciously a poet's autobiography, even one firmly in the Romantic tradition.' (Author's introduction)
Far-Fetched but Exact Ivor Indyk , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 16 November no. 5146 2001; (p. 33)
— Review of Grass Script : Selected Earlier Poems. Robert Gray , 2001 selected work poetry
Leaves of Grass Ian Pople , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: PN Review , July-August vol. 27 no. 6 2001; (p. 60-61)
— Review of Lineations Robert Gray , 1996 selected work poetry ; Grass Script : Selected Earlier Poems. Robert Gray , 2001 selected work poetry
Leaves of Grass Ian Pople , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: PN Review , July-August vol. 27 no. 6 2001; (p. 60-61)
— Review of Lineations Robert Gray , 1996 selected work poetry ; Grass Script : Selected Earlier Poems. Robert Gray , 2001 selected work poetry
Far-Fetched but Exact Ivor Indyk , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 16 November no. 5146 2001; (p. 33)
— Review of Grass Script : Selected Earlier Poems. Robert Gray , 2001 selected work poetry
In the Light : The Poetry of Robert Gray Jeffrey Wainwright , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: PN Review , January/February vol. 38 no. 3 2012; (p. 60-64) 'Prefacing his fine memoir, The Land I Came Through Last (2008), Robert Gray writes that his original intention was to write about his parents but that in the writing the book shaded into an autobiography. It certainly presents fascinating portraits of his family and of their contexts and times but finally it is indeed an autobiography, and quite selfconsciously a poet's autobiography, even one firmly in the Romantic tradition.' (Author's introduction)
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