Passing Measures Selected Poems

Peter Riley is chiefly interested in making a poetry that is “available” rather than “accessible.” The poem offers the reader entry into an experience of the world mediated by the passionate needs of the shaping spirit, while seeking to avoid a reductive or confirming complicity.

King's Field

Material Soul

13

(1)

Prelude

14

(1)

Wandering Voices

14

(1)

Patina

15

(1)

Ballad of the Broken Bridge

15

(3)

Pause at Harecops

18

(1)

Driving down the Wye and Stopping

18

(1)

Driving up the Erewash and Arriving

19

(1)

Cavendish Cottages

20

(1)

No Sweet Dream

21

(1)

Distant Point

22

(1)

Greenwich Marshes and All the Way Home

22

(1)

Tumulus

23

(1)

Paws at Harecops

24

(1)

from Thirty Poems of Ten Lines

24

(7)

Sea Watches

31

(26)

Sea Watch Elegies

47

(5)

Between Harbours

52

(5)

Ospita

57

(66)

from Noon Province

Arriving at Dawn

67

(1)

Market Day

67

(1)

Roofwatch

68

(1)

Meditations in the Fields

69

(1)

Lines at the Pool above St.-Saturnin

70

(1)

Escape from our Uncaring

71

(1)

Lacoste

72

(1)

Recalling Lacoste

72

(1)

Counting the Cost (Syllables at Night)

73

(1)

Up the Big Hill and Back by Ten

74

(1)

Resolution and Interdependence

75

(1)

Real Number

75

(1)

Just a Song

76

(1)

Stating the Case

77

(1)

The Telephone Box on the Edge of the Cornfield

77

(1)

Last Night

78

(3)

Orange to Chartres

81

(1)

Slow Meditation

82

(5)

Selected Poems 1966-1996

1966-1970

Urizon

87

(1)

A Column of Air

88

(1)

Valley of the Moon

89

(1)

from The Linear Journal

89

(3)

In a German Car-park

92

(1)

Bunker Hotel

93

(1)

Is This Dusseldorf or Kiel?

94

(1)

Four Night Pacts

95

(1)

Folded Message

96

(1)

Grassy Lenses

96

(1)

1976-1990

Clouds and Birds over Wolfscote

97

(1)

Boletus Under Narrowdale

97

(1)

Prelude

98

(1)

Further Education

98

(1)

Poem Beginning with a Line

99

(1)

Nicholas Moore

Bole Hill

99

(1)

Little Bolehill

100

(1)

Midsummer Common

100

(1)

Dublin

101

(1)

Loft

101

(1)

Hackney Loft

102

(1)

Parker's Piece

102

(1)

Three Roman Churches

S. Cecilia in Trastevere

103

(1)

S. Maria in Trastevere

103

(1)

S. Pietro in Montorio

104

(1)

Three Poems in Tunisia

Djebel Bou Dabbous

104

(1)

Djebel Bou Dabbous

105

(1)

Ghar El Melh

106

(1)

Three Parts of Paris

Saint Severin's Maze

107

(1)

Causeway

107

(1)

Pascal's Corner

108

(1)

Poems from the trilogy Reader - Lecture - Author

Reader

Bolehill

109

(1)

Hastings

109

(1)

Irish Drones

110

(1)

Golden Slumbers

110

(1)

Lecture

Vallee de la Vezere

111

(1)

Glow Worm True Worm

112

(1)

Heinrich Biber

112

(1)

Magdelanian

113

(1)

Author

In Manus Tuas

113

(1)

`Voiced consonants...'

114

(1)

Do It Again

115

(1)

Bar Carol

116

(1)

`And love alone...'

116

(1)

Poems to Paintings

Jack B. Yeats

Prelude: Night Shift

117

(1)

Oh My Beauty!

118

(1)

Men of Destiny

119

(1)

The Stolen Picture

119

(1)

The Little Watercolour at Sligo

120

(1)

That Grand Conversation Was Under the Rose

120

(3)

Bibliography

123

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