Popeye in Belgrade

Set among places of recent upheaval, this striking collection of poetry skillfully documents the aftershock of moral and spiritual earthquakes, often within intimate contexts. Life in the Balkans, Eastern Europe, and elsewhere are juxtaposed with private experiences, combining both public and personal feeling. With a strong focus on how the social and political intrude into individual lives, this anthology also explores a strong thematic element in the presence of music, both as a unique level of meaning and an elusive otherness.

James Sutherland-Smith is a peacekeeping manager in the Balkans. He is the author of At the Skin Resort and In the Country of Birds. He was featured in New Poetries II.

The Seventies	p. 9
Popeye in Belgrade	p. 10
Off-Duty in Belgrade	p. 11
After a Funeral	p. 12
Incident in Novi Sad	p. 13
A Dream in Serbia	p. 15
Dubrovnik	p. 16
A Night of Demons	p. 17
The Clouds of Van Oort	p. 18
Red Poet	p. 20
The Little Fiddler
Ornamentation	p. 22
At Play	p. 22
A Game	p. 23
Invitation to a Pig-Killing	p. 24
A World of Music	p. 24
Fiddler with Card Players	p. 25
A Score Settled	p. 26
Giant Burdock	p. 27
A Dead Mouse	p. 27
Reaction	p. 28
Inspiration	p. 29
The First Snow of Christmas	p. 29
A Rite of Spring	p. 31
Blewits	p. 32
Comfrey	p. 33
Making Hay	p. 34
Watching the Weather	p. 35
In a Slovak Garden	p. 37
Spades and Roses	p. 38
A Slovak Christmas Tree	p. 39
Curlew	p. 40
Running	p. 42
Screech Owls	p. 45
On Not Reading L'Allegro	p. 46
The Silences	p. 48
Cats and Sparrows	p. 50
The Autumn Laundry	p. 52
Beyond the Glue Factory	p. 53
Killing a Sheep	p. 54
The Barbarian Invasions	p. 56
Sawston Hall	p. 58
The Perfect Haircut	p. 60
Stopover in Washington	p. 62
Canto for a Romantic Novelist
We Write the Last Chapter First	p. 63
We Meet the Norton Commander	p. 63
Places Generals Patton and Montgomery Never Reached	p. 63
Lorissa's Oriental Wiles	p. 64
Cathay or Camay?	p. 64
Lorissa Reads a Sura	p. 65
Room At the Top	p. 65
The Norton Commander Intervenes	p. 66
Sigman to the Rescue	p. 66
A Live Tradition	p. 67
Indian Lovesong	p. 67
We Look Up at the Heavens	p. 68
We Look Out to Sea	p. 68
We Look Elsewhere	p. 68
Ode from a Nightingale	p. 69
To Billie Holiday	p. 71
Nuages	p. 72
For the End of Time	p. 73
Three Sighs at the Guan Pass	p. 75
A Scarlatti Sonata and the Golden Mean	p. 76
A Middle Aged Person's Guide to the Orchestra
Piccolo	p. 77
Rainmakers	p. 77
Fate Theme	p. 78
Trombones	p. 79
A Violin Playing in Cairo	p. 80
Postcard from Alexandria	p. 82
Guitar	p. 83
Exile	p. 84
Oboe	p. 84
L' Instrument Aquatique	p. 85
View of a Double Bass	p. 86
Harp	p. 87
Epitaph for a Piano	p. 87
Obsolescence	p. 89
Muzak	p. 90
A Viola Solo	p. 90
To a Cello Player	p. 92
Voluntary for the Massacre of the Innocents	p. 92
Fantasia for Horns	p. 93
To an Eleven-Year-Old Boy Unable to Speak More
Than Two Words	p. 95
Notes	p. 97
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