Jilted City

The poems in Jilted City inhabit in-between-places, when a border is being crossed, a word is slipping into another language, when memory is translating loss. From 'Stations where the train doesn't stop' in 'Blue Guide', following a train journey through Belgium, to 'City of Lost Walks', English versions of a dissident Romanian poet whose work is a regretful meditation on a vanished culture, McGuinness explores transition and translation, the afterlife of absences.

Patrick McGuinness is an award-winning poet whose work has appeared in numerous international journals and magazines, as well as in the anthology New Poetries II. He is the author of the collection The Canals of Mars and the scholarly Maurice Maeterlinck and the Making of Modern Theatre and Symbolism, Decadence, and the fin de siècle. He is the editor of Against Nature and T.E. Hulme’s Selected Writings.


Déjà-vu	p. 13
Blue	p. 14
The Age of the Empty Chair	p. 15
Noon at the Double Tree Hotel	p. 16
The Shape of Nothing Happening	p. 17
French	p. 18
Le Grand Pardon	p. 19
[Untitled]	p. 20
The Companions	p. 21
Nineteenth-Century Blues	p. 22
Charleville	p. 23
Black Box	p. 24
Blue Guide
Gare du Nord	p. 27
Gare centrale	p. 27
Gare du Midi	p. 28
Quartier-Léopold	p. 28
Schuman	p. 28
Bruxelles-Luxembourg	p. 29
Ottignies	p. 29
Gembloux	p. 30
Correspondances	p. 30
Namur	p. 31
Ciney	p. 32
Marloie	p. 32
Jemelle	p. 32
Libramont	p. 33
Bouillon	p. 34
Marbehan	p. 35
Arlon	p. 36
Kleinbettingen	p. 36
Luxembourg	p. 37
Stations where the train doesn't stop	p. 37

My Mother	p. 41
L'Air du Temps	p. 42
The Other Side	p. 43
Montréal	p. 44
Daytime Drinking	p. 45
Lists	p. 46
Spleen: Cardiff Matchday Blues	p. 48
The Thaw
Illegible waves of wood	p. 49
Lapland	p. 49
!!!	p. 50
Stills	p. 50
writing the words	p. 50
LO! v e	p. 51
i.m. Jacques Brel (1929-1978)	p. 52
Article 0.5: The Right to Be In-Between	p. 53
Poem in White Ink	p. 54
The Empty Frame	p. 55
House Clearance	p. 56
The Clamour	p. 57
Déjà-vu	p. 58
City of Lost Walks: Poems by Liviu Campanu
from The Ovid Complex (1989)
Poems I-VIII	p. 63
Scenarios for Lovers and Magnets	p. 67
from City of Lost Walks (1985)
In the Natural History Museum	p. 68
In the Museum of Archaeology	p. 70
Notes	p. 73
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