Full Description
A giant crane appears at the back windows of a residential street, its beam swinging freely, its red 'eye' seeming to overlook the lives on the other side of the glass. In her eighth collection of poems, Susan Wicks writes searchingly about our ordinary existence, its serendipities and unreliable sense-impressions, its delight in a new generation, its brief escapes - but this earthbound perspective is also part of an implicit dialogue. Under the crane new buildings spring up, seasons shift, perspective varies, until, its work completed, the giant machine is ready to be driven away. By the time it leaves, the landscape we knew will have changed and we too will have moved on.
Contents
9 Dear Crane
10 High Wind
11 For the Blind
12 Tamar
13 The Romance of Steam
14 Crane
15 Dear Crane
16 Feeding the Ducks
17 Driving to Dorking
18 Separation Anxiety
19 Free Slew
20 Dear Crane
22 Look
23 Emergency
24 Parable
25 Two Tractors
26 Perhaps
27 Dear Crane
31 Paint
32 Over the Old Station
33 Two Trains
34 Halfway
35 Explaining Snow
36 Dear Crane
40 Stacked Planes, 5.30 a.m.
42 Dicky Ticker
44 Midwich Cuckoo
45 M25
46 The Old Cemetery, Cove
47 Dear Crane
50 Clubbercise
51 Elderly Bathing Solutions
52 Rhubarb
53 Maine, End of Summer
54 After the Lobster Feast
55 Dear Crane
57 Sirinas
58 Reading Scott Fitzgerald at the Gorgona
60 Olive tree with Clothes-pegs
61 Leaving Alikí
62 Credo
63 Sunset at Karnagio
64 Marble Beach, with Crane
65 Dear Crane
69 After a Daughter's Miscarriage
71 The Road to Bardigues
72 On the Day of the Royal Wedding
73 Lopped Trees
74 Windmill above Golfech
75 Dear Crane
78 The Sunday Hunters
79 Robert Singing
80 Notes
