Full Description
A collection of poems from Stephen Wilson
Contents
The Surreptitious Poet 3
Sicily 1860 4
A Valediction to Valedictions 5
Mistaken Identity 6
Tea at The Phoenix 7
`Xanadu' 8
Old Shoes 9
The Ceiling at the Villa Cordellina 10
The Owl 11
Art 12
Wait 13
The Young Are Immortal 14
English Teacher 15
Swift and Pope 16
Old Books 17
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection 18
Sharon 19
New Year 20
Later 21
The Fire 22
Family Graves 23
Herefordshire Monuments 24
Getting Better 27
Schoolchildren at the Bacon Show 28
Beyond Reach 29
Birthday Memory 30
Creation after Chagall 31
Tuscan Scenes: Carmignano and Prato 32
Riddle 33
The Ancientness of Things 34
The Hyphen 35
Seagull 36
Lovers 37
Deep Lanes 38
Kin 39
Snow on the Beach 40
In the Hotel Room 41
Downsizing 42
Backache 43
Carpe Diem 44
52nd Wedding Anniversary 45
The Fourteenth Waltz 46
The Gate 47
New Year 2017 48
II
Stations of the Cross 51
III
In the Luxembourg Gardens 57
Hunting Horn 58
Footsteps 59
Symbolism 60
Sigh 61
