Body Language

Body language and the body of the English language are the entwined themes of this passionate new collection of poems. The centerpiece is "Skyhorse," an ambitious poem that traces the turbulence of three millennia of English history by focusing on the enduring presence of the legendary White Horse of the Berkshire Downs. The latter half of the collection features a candid, passionate sequence of elegies and love poems that gradually shifts focus from the first words in the garden of Eden to the final words of last night's lovers.

Jon Stallworthy is a senior research fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford University, and fellow of the British Academy. He is the author of the prize-winning biographies Louis MacNeice and Wilfred Owen, as well as Rounding the Horn: Collected Poems.

Language

In the Beginning

9

(2)

Skyhorse

11

(15)

1 The first priest of the White Horse, c.1000 BC

13

(2)

2 Priest and poet, c.970 BC

15

(2)

3 Poet of the shield-wall, AD 871

17

(2)

4 Wandering Scholar, 13th century

19

(1)

5 Antiquary, 18th century

20

(1)

6 Rifleman (discharged), 52nd Regiment, 18 June 1832

21

(1)

7 Mother, 1899

22

(1)

8 Colonel and others, 1905

23

(2)

9 Homeguard, 1940

25

(1)

10 Ex-homeguard, 1946

26

(1)

11 Wandering Scholar, 1999/2000

27

(3)

Dreamhorse

30

(3)

Body

Before Setting Out

33

(1)

A Ferry for Bishop Jim

34

(1)

The White Cloud

35

(1)

Handiwork

36

(1)

The Motor Vessel Anichka

37

(1)

Le Violon D'Ingres

38

(1)

A Foreign Tongue

39

(1)

Lioness

40

(1)

Taking Breath

41

(1)

Libation

42

(1)

Hers

43

(1)

Clasp

44

(1)

What's in a Name?

45

(1)

Exorcism

46

(1)

Hunting the Lark

47

(1)

Osip Mandelstam Proposes a Toast

48

(1)

A Word with History

49

(1)

A Round

50

(1)

Edward Thomas's Fob Watch

51

(1)

In the House of the Poet

52

(1)

Notes

53

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