The Face of It

Visual art, French film, Shakespeare, natural history, and weather are all put under a unique microscope in this selection of poems. Originally based upon a series of notebook observations, the poemspresented in a late modernist stylerange in subject from Palladian architecture to Rauschenberg's pop art, from Bresson's cinematography to Bottom's dream. Demonstrating a nostalgic affection for rural English and European landscapes, these poems uncover surprise and truth in the most ordinary of moments.

R. F. Langley is a retired English and art history teacher. He is the author of Collected Poems, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Prize and was an honored recommendation by the Poetry Book Society.

Cakes and ale	p. 7
Cook Ting	p. 9
Experiment with a hand lens	p. 10
Sixpence a day	p. 11
Still life with wineglass	p. 14
No great shakes	p. 18
After the funeral	p. 19
Depending on the weather	p. 21
Blues for Titania	p. 25
My moth : my song	p. 29
Cash point	p. 31
Touchstone	p. 34
Brute conflict	p. 37
Skrymir's glove	p. 39
At Sotterley	p. 41
The Bellini in San Giovanni Crisostomo	p. 44
Birdwatching poem	p. 46
Il Redentore	p. 48
The wall tomb of Giacomo Surian	p. 50
Achilles	p. 52
Spoken soon	p. 55
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