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Paleface
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Shortlisted for the 1996 Forward Prize. Candid and alert to the contemporary scene, the poems inPalefacerender an immediately recognisable world, not least when ostensibly describing the rites and customs of a desert tribe. Many of the poems speak of the ways in which our lives surprise us: intimations of mortality in a Sunday market, unicorns at the zoo, a miracle in West London, redundancy and love. They distil a sense of sometimes painful, sometimes comic displacement that rings true to the facts.
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Renous, alluding to myself, asked him what he thought of the King of England sending out a collector to their country, to pick up lizards and beetles, and to break stones? The old gentleman thought seriously for some time, and then said. . . âI do not like it: if one of us were to go and do such things in England, do you not think the King of England would very soon send us out of the country?â
â Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle
Thereâs a tribe, I swear it,
in the Syrian desert
who bury their dead standing up.
Every five years, a great sandstorm
rages; diviners interpret
the chattering of skulls.
*
Their warrior queen
models Armani. Their children
are force-fed videos
of the long march
out of Crittenden
to Zit. Their god is named
after the terrifying noise
made by the opening
of a hundred tent-flaps at dawn.
*
The acrid leaves they chew
every waking hour
produce a mild
hallucinatory effect
of the kind experienced
by publishersâ reps
while driving on the M6
north of Carlisle
in light drizzle.
*
Because their topography
lacks high places
they have yet to invent
the ladder. Because
of the premium they place
on originality in art
no two toothbrushes, funeral masks
or wheels
are exactly the same.
*
While their diligent wives
are putting on their faces
the junior elders
assemble in the lobby
to smoke cheroots
and discuss the pros and cons
...Table of contents
- Contents
- Monday
- The Miracle at Shepherdâs Bush
- Wisemanâs Grand Summer Clearance
- The Year of the Dog
- Criminal Fraternity
- Strongbow
- March Hares
- The Big Idea
- Ex
- Foundersâ Day
- Switzerland
- Serial
- Species
- Unicorns
- Bedtime
- Familiar
- A Certain Age
- Lissom
- Velcro
- Tourism
- In the Middle Atlas
- Dry Goods
- 1st Floor, Ladies Fashions
- Figurine
- Solid Professionals
- The Interview
- September
- The Optometrist
- Fast Forward
- Dutch, 17th Century
- Later the Same Era
- New Mains, 1864
- White City
- Sheds