Villon in Millerton

Three sequences of verse come together in this poetry collection that ranges in tone from meditative to satirical. The title sequence imagines the 14th-century French poet Francois Villon stranded in the isolated and semideserted coal-mining town of Millerton; another vividly evokes the mysteries of the Indian rope trick; and the final one turns its focus on Samuel Marsden, the 19th-century missionary whose character is intriguingly contradictory.

James Norcliffe is the author of five poetry collections including Along Blueskin Road, Letters to Dr. Dee, and A Kind of Kingdom. He is currently the poetry editor at both Takahe Magazine and Christchurch Press.

Villon in Millerton	p. 1
How to talk to a peacock	p. 6
Festive lentils	p. 7
Fish salad at Latinos	p. 9
Antigone in the hot pool	p. 11
Up in the valley	p. 12
A field guide to the wild flowers of the moon	p. 13
Inamorata	p. 15
Finches in the snow	p. 17
The attack on Baghdad	p. 18
March days	p. 19
How to dress for peace	p. 20
Les haricots sont pas sales	p. 21
Red admiral on the rocks at Sugarloaf	p. 22
My mad wife in the attic	p. 24
Tchaikovsky enters a new and darker period of his life	p. 25
Towards devotion	p. 26
Five Dark Rhymes: 1. Eros in the garden	p. 27
Five Dark Rhymes: 2. The song of the belly button man	p. 29
Five Dark Rhymes: 3. The great tortoise of the Galapagos	p. 30
Five Dark Rhymes: 4. By the banks of the mighty goulash	p. 31
Five Dark Rhymes: 5. I love blood donors	p. 32
Stall	p. 34
The albatrosses	p. 35
A bevy of fine gallinaceous birds	p. 36
The blind sheep of Argentina	p. 37
Omoto Road	p. 38
Boiled sweets	p. 39
Sarsaparilla in the car park	p. 40
My history of the coronation	p. 41
Confetti	p. 43
The issue of euthanasia	p. 44
Love in the jam-maker's mansion	p. 45
Schadenfreude	p. 46
The gentle art of manipulation	p. 47
Kant's dove	p. 48
Meccano	p. 50
Portugal	p. 51
The ascent	p. 52
Squeegee	p. 53
Omega	p. 54
The Indian rope trick	p. 56
Samuel Marsden in Glory: agnus dei	p. 61
Samuel Marsden in Glory: eucharist	p. 62
Samuel Marsden in Glory: keeping the faith	p. 63
Samuel Marsden in Glory: parson bird	p. 63
Samuel Marsden in Glory: ceteris paribus	p. 64
Samuel Marsden in Glory: the camel problem	p. 65
Samuel Marsden in Glory: the wreck of the Brampton	p. 66
Samuel Marsden in Glory: requiem	p. 67
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