Taken for Pearls

Taken for Pearls is the vibrant and various new collection of poems by Tony Curtis. Included are beautiful elegies for relatives and colleagues, as well as fascinating persona poems where characters from history reveal themselves to the reader. Also featured are fine occasional lyrics inspired by domestic incidents, as well as a series of love poems translated from the dialect of the Iraqi Marsh Arabs. Throughout, the clarity and precision of the author's style allows his subjects to shine through. Poems that meditate on the darker moments of history, such as the 1993 Dylan Thomas Prize-winner 'Incident on a Hospital Train from Calcutta, 1944' are counterbalanced by the humour of 'The Captain's Diary' a long poem in the voice of an Edwardian golf club captain.

Taken for Pearls	p. 7
Pembrokeshire Buzzards	p. 8
Judy	p. 9
At the Border	p. 10
Under the Yew	p. 12
Playing for Vince	p. 14
Angel on the Line	p. 16
A Sloping House	p. 17
Haiku	p. 19
Rope Tricks	p. 20
Aubade	p. 21
Coracle	p. 22
Reg Webb	p. 23
Walking on Water	p. 24
The New Settlement	p. 26
Sutherland at Picton Ferry	p. 28
Caitlin Macnamara	p. 30
Inspiration	p. 32
The Captain's Diary	p. 33
Playing St. Enodoc's	p. 37
The Poetry of Money	p. 39
Translations: Five Poems from the Dialect of the Iraqi Marsh Arabs	p. 41
To the Train and Hammad	p. 43
Knocked Flat	p. 46
A Liar	p. 47
Twice Robbed	p. 48
The Summer-rain is Coming	p. 49
The Pew	p. 51
More and more	p. 52
The Eagle	p. 53
Soap Opera	p. 54
Coeurs de Plomb	p. 55
Queen's Tears	p. 56
Summer in Bangkok	p. 58
In Union Square, 1978	p. 60
Brady's Glass	p. 62
From the hills, the town	p. 63
Belgium: Coffee	p. 64
Incident on a hospital train from Calcutta, 1944	p. 65
The Night-trees	p. 66
Portrait of the Painter Hans Theo Richter and his wife Gisela, Dresden, 1933	p. 67
The Visit to Terezin	p. 69
The bowl and the spoon	p. 70
Acknowledgements	p. 71
About the Author	p. 72
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