The seventh collection of poems by one of contemporary poetry's most exciting writers.
Born in 1939, E. A. Markham has lived mainly in Britain and Europe since the mid-1950s. He has built houses in France, worked as a media co-ordinator in Papua New Guinea and directed the Caribbean Theatre Workshop, as well as holding various academic posts. He has edited anthologies of Caribbean writing for Penguin and Bloodaxe. He is Professor of Creative Writing at Sheffield Hallam University.
Postscript
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PART ONE: Poems 2000
Photocopying Your Story
17
(1)
The Man with the Umbrella
18
(1)
O, The Humiliations of this Life
19
(2)
Psalm 151
21
(1)
Block Youth
22
(1)
Inquest
23
(1)
It Gets Worse, My Friend
24
(5)
PART TWO: From Montserrat
To Whom It May Concern
29
(2)
Hurricane, Volcano, Mass Flight
31
(1)
Two Men at the Cassava Mill
32
(2)
Lines Composed to Test the Idea of Montserrat
34
(4)
All Our Oases
38
(2)
Nearing Sixty
40
(3)
The Last Letter to a Grandmother
43
(4)
Allies
47
(1)
Re-entering the Caves of Castine
48
(5)
PART THREE: Late (from the Last century) News
On George Lamming's Couch
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(1)
From a Waitress at the Franziskaner Hotel, Wurzburg, 1999
54
(2)
Insomnia
56
(1)
Night
57
(1)
My Brothers and Sister are Alive
58
(1)
Hidden Extras
59
(1)
A Philpot and a Wife
60
(1)
Peace Process
61
(2)
The Paraffin Stove Case
63
(1)
The Husbands
64
(2)
Whistling in the Dark
66
(1)
A Life
67
(1)
Double Act
68
(1)
Vulgar Assumption
69
(1)
Interruptions
70
(1)
Friday the 13th
71
(4)
PART FOUR: Remembering
On the Death of George MacBeth (1932-1992)
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(2)
Pierrot
77
(1)
On Hearing of the Death of Francois Mitterrand
78
(2)
For the Environment
80
(2)
Remembering Geoffrey Adkins
82
(2)
Appropriator, Hijacker, Racist, Thief...
84
(1)
Hidiot (a ploemic)
85
(2)
Old Man Horace, Oowokalee
87
(4)
PART FIVE: Taking Note
Taking the Drawing-Room through Customs
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(14)
In other Words
105
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