The Men from Praga

Auteur

Anne Berkeley was born in Ludlow and grew up in Lincolnshire. Her pamphlet The buoyancy aid and other poems was published by Flarestack in 1997, and a selection of her work appeared in Oxford Poets 2002 (Carcanet). She won the TLS prize in 2000 and was a prizewinner in the Arvon competition in 2004. She edited Rebecca Elson's acclaimed posthumous collection A Responsibility to Awe (Carcanet, 2001) and is currently editor of the poetry journal Seam. She is one of the poetry group Joy of Six, with whom she has performed across the UK and in New York.

Texte du rabat

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SEAMUS HEANEY CENTRE PRIZE FOR POETRY In a ruined garden children play cowboys and Indians while their fathers fight the Cold War. The children grow up and discover the enemy are also people. The Empire shrinks to an opera audience. The Royal Family is reduced to waxworks. A mediaeval university town finally gets its ecological mass transportation system.

Contenu

I Co-ordinates Hold-all (Aircrew) Vapour Trail Yellow Sun, Green Grass Flat 9 Revesby The Boasts of Jim McKay The Old Arboretum My Mother's Migraines Small Arms Russkis The Americans The Balcony Downstairs Olympus Mk 301 Night Sky in October Bunker Nav Rad Co-ordinates II Trajectories The Men from Praga River A Portrait of V Nubiola Boots Thirsty Accident Taking the Air Advice from Nils Nils Takes a Breather Baudelaire's Pipe A Change in the Weather Vacant Possession Matthew Crampton Pauahi Crater 10 a.m. Between the Twenty-sixth and the Twenty-seventh Floors Chattel Britannia They One Way of Listening to Windchimes Food for Scandal Gasometer Great Lettuce in The Botanic Garden My Backyard Landless Chamber of Horrors #2 Extra The Cambridge Metro