Walking Out of the World

"Matthew Mead's subject is the presence and absence of the past . . . in their reticence and grave poignancy, these poems speak clearly to us of what we are and were; they are, I think, among the most austerely beautiful poems to have appeared in England for many years." So wrote the US-based British poet and critic Dick Davis in 1979, and the same is no less true for the poems in Walking Out of the World.

Matthew Mead was born in Slapton, Buckinghamshire, in 1924. He served in the British army from 1942 to 1947, including three years in India, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and Singapore. He has lived in Germany since 1962 and, with his wife Ruth, has translated many German poets, including Johannes Bobrowski, Heinz Winfried Sabais and Nelly Sachs. He was a Penguin Modern Poet in 1970. Walking Out of the World is the fifth collection of his own poems.

Invocation

9

(1)

Ancient & Modern: Five Poems

In Brief

10

(1)

Below Zero

11

(1)

Into Avarice

12

(1)

In the Changing Room

13

(1)

The Brew

14

(3)

A Dozen Villanelles

Villanelle of the Final Whole

17

(1)

Villanelle of the Last Gasp

18

(1)

A Villanelle on Hold

19

(1)

Villanelle of the Unslept Night

20

(1)

Villanelle of the Sudden Twinge

21

(1)

An Unrhymed Villanelle

22

(1)

A Double Villanelle

23

(2)

Villanelle: A Blotted Weltanschauung

25

(1)

A Phantom Villanelle

26

(1)

Villanelle of the Last Lap

27

(1)

A Villanelle in Memory of Edward Mummery

28

(1)

A Badly Bloated Villanelle

29

(2)

Eleven Little Poems

31

(5)

The First Cold Mornings

36

(1)

With a Styptic Pencil

37

(1)

Bearings

38

(1)

Triolet: 'Young girls explode...'

39

(1)

In That Wild Bed

40

(1)

Till the Sands of the Desert

41

(1)

Too Late for the Centenary

42

(2)

Mermaids: One

44

(1)

Mermaids: Two

45

(1)

In the Bleachery

46

(2)

Low Blood Pressure

48

(1)

Kenneth Cain

49

(1)

After the Break

50

(1)

The Drill

51

(1)

Help the Aged

52

(1)

You in Your Small Corner

53

(1)

At the Turn

54

(1)

Losses 2002

55

(1)

The Hag

56

(1)

The Space Where I Stood

57

(4)

The Sentences of Death

ONE: Set Up

61

(2)

TWO: Death as a Foreign Language, Lesson One

63

(2)

THREE: Cowardice in Face of the Blank Page

65

(1)

FOUR: Local Colour Seen as Camouflage

66

(1)

FIVE: And Daylight Hours Tomorrow

67

(1)

SIX: In the Epitaph Section

68

(1)

SEVEN: Drill for a Deathbed

69

(1)

EIGHT: Sitrep

70

(2)

NINE: Fade Out

72

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Walking Out of the World

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