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The Europeans
About This Book
David Clarke, winner of the Michael Marks Poetry Award 2013, returns with his second collection, The Europeans. Simultaneously close to home and looking outward beyond these shores, these wry and perceptive poems revel with form and encompass journeys, ideas of nationhood and national identity, and the optimism of a time when Europe and the UK enjoyed a quite different entente cordiale. They are a warning against nostalgia, a lucid and prescient exploration of how we see ourselves and how we are seen.
"A document for our times. A protest against bigotry and smuggery. A thesis for open borders and equality. In its cumulative effect, The Europeans is a comparative cultural analysis, a social satire and political commentary, a portrait of us and them, here and there, home and away." Paul Stephenson
"Clarke's authoritative new collection offers profound pleasures, and deepening regrets, in a poetic continent where every reader must confront 'your own untruth'. The Europeans is certainly a book for the present. It is also a book for our uncertain future." - Alison Brackenbury "It includes the best gathering of found Brexit similes I expect to see in my lifetime, and a poem on stately homes that needs to be broadcast before every re-run of Downton Abbey. With targeted humour, an eye for the mobile and the sedentary, repurposing the mundane, David Clarke takes us to estates of all kinds, to both Leeds Central and Milano Centrale."â Alistair Noon
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Letter to George Gordon Byron
Station to Station
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Invitation
- Letter in March
- An Exchange
- The Europeans
- To a Black and White Portable Television
- The Tarot Reader Shows Me the Hierophant
- Museum of Lies
- To a Public House
- In the Snug
- Let Me Be Very Clear
- The Defence of Bureaucracy
- The Towns
- When my mother worked in the asylum
- To a Mellotron
- The Villages
- To a Stately Home
- The Wreckersâ Prayer
- The Chicken Catchers
- To a Telephone Box
- The Girl with the Golden Voice
- England, I loved you
- Night Porter
- Hotel Stationery
- To a Petrol Station
- For the Traveller
- Auden at Kirchstetten
- Laudatio
- To a Small Audience
- Linguaphone
- To a Photo Booth
- Lingua franca
- The Clock
- The Amber Room
- Sugar Town
- To an Airmail Letter
- The Numbers Stations
- The Natives
- On Choosing a Piano
- Letter to George Gordon Byron
- Station to Station
- Apparition
- Land of Rain
- The Vision of Albion
- Notes and Acknowledgements
- About the author and this book