Essential Poems from the Staying Alive Trilogy (22 page)

• Kim Addonizio
  60
  ,
  61
  
• Agha Shahid Ali
  73
  
• Yehuda Amichai
  88
  ,
  100
  ,
  101
  
• W.H. Auden
  98
  ,
  115
  
• Mourid Barghouti
  96
  
• Elizabeth Bishop
  38
  ,
  93
  
• John Burnside
  44
  ,
  72
  
• Edip Cansever
  15
  
• Raymond Carver
  119
  ,
  124
  
• Nina Cassian
  25
  
• Charles Causley
  118
  
• C.P. Cavafy
  28
  
• Julius Chingono
  27
  
• Kate Clanchy
  50
  
• Michael Coady
  107
  
• David Constantine
  114
  
• Imtiaz Dharker
  109
  
• Michael Donaghy
  86
  
• Mark Doty
  34
  
• Rita Dove
  18
  
• Alan Dugan
  63
  
• Helen Dunmore
  58
  
• Stephen Dunn
  106
  
• T.S. Eliot
  74
  ,
  121
  
• U.A. Fanthorpe
  62
  
• Robert Frost
  31
  ,
  33
  
• Jack Gilbert
  97
  
• Dana Gioia
  94
  
• Lars Gustafsson
  45
  
• Kerry Hardie
  70
  
• Seamus Heaney
  48
  ,
  124
  
• Nâzim Hikmet
  108
  
• Geoffrey Hill
  102
  
• Jane Hirshfield
  95
  ,
  96
  
• Miroslav Holub
  19
  ,
  98
  
• Langston Hughes
  21
  
• Mohja Kahf
  109
  
• Jaan Kaplinski
  87
  
• Doris Kareva
  12
  
• Jackie Kay
  117
  
• Brendan Kennelly
  26
  
• Jane Kenyon
  20
  ,
  84
  
• Galway Kinnell
  54
  
• Stanley Kunitz
  29
  
• Philip Larkin
  64
  ,
  112
  
• Li-Young Lee
  80
  
• Denise Levertov
  14
  ,
  79
  
• Philip Levine
  47
  ,
  81
  
• Michael Longley
  103
  
• Thomas Lux
  53
  
• Norman MacCaig
  104
  ,
  116
  
• Louis MacNeice
  41
  ,
  89
  
• Derek Mahon
  42
  ,
  78
  
• Czesław Miłosz
  38
  
• Edwin Morgan
  59
  ,
  85
  
• Les Murray
  90
  
• Pablo Neruda
  82
  
• Alden Nowlan
  55
  
• Naomi Shihab Nye
  91
  
• Dennis O’Driscoll
  67
  
• Sharon Olds
  56
  
• Mary Oliver
  11
  ,
  22
  
• Alice Oswald
  64
  
• Fernando Pessoa
  14
  
• Rainer Maria Rilke
  22
  
• Rumi
  13
  
• Gjertrud Schnackenberg
  57
  
• Ken Smith
  46
  
• William Stafford
  32
  
• Anne Stevenson
  49
  ,
  51
  
• Ruth Stone
  16
  
• Arundhathi Subramaniam
  120
  
• Anna T. Szabó
  52
  
• Wisława Szymborska
  17
  
• Toon Tellegen
  32
  
• R.S. Thomas
  73
  
• Tomas Tranströmer
  36
  
• Derek Walcott
  66
  
• James Wright
  24
  
• Adam Zagajewski
  105
  

• A Brief for the Defense,
  97
  [BH]
  
• A Confession,
  78
  [BH]
  
• A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford,
  42
  [SA]
  
• A Little Tooth,
  53
  [BH]
  
• A Man in His Life,
  88
  [BH]
  
• After Making Love We Hear Footsteps,
  54
  [BA]
  
• All of These People,
  103
  [SA]
  
• Alone,
  36
  [SA]
  
• An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow,
  90
  [SA]
  
• An Arundel Tomb,
  64
  [BA]
  
• Archaic Torso of Apollo,
  22
  [BH]
  
• As I Go,
  27
  [BH]
  
• At the Fishhouses,
  38
  [BA]
  
• Atlas,
  62
  [BA]
  
• Aubade,
  112
  [SA]
  
• Begin,
  26
  [SA]
  
• Being the third song of Urias,
  46
  [SA]
  
• Burlap Sack,
  96
  [BH]
  
• Clearances, FROM,
  48
  [BA]
  
• Common and Particular,
  114
  [BH]
  
• Could Have,
  17
  [BH]
  
• Darling,
  117
  [BH]
  
• Dawn Revisited,
  18
  [BH]
  
• Eden Rock,
  118
  [SA]
  
• Encounter,
  38
  [SA]
  
• Entirely,
  89
  [SA]
  
• For Desire,
  60
  [BA]
  
• Four Quartets, FROM,
  121
  [BA]
  
• From Blossoms,
  80
  [BA]
  
• Funeral Blues,
  115
  [SA]
  
• Gravy,
  119
  [BA]
  
• Great Things Have Happened,
  55
  [BA]
  
• Happiness,
  84
  [BA]
  
• Harlem [2],
  21
  [BH]
  
• Hijab Scene #
  7
  ,
  109
  [BH]
  
• I drew a line,
  32
  [BH]
  
• It’s This Way,
  108
  [BH]
  
• Ithaka,
  28
  [BA]
  
• Kindness,
  91
  [BA]
  
• Late Fragment,
  124
  [SA]
  
• Living,
  14
  [SA]
  
• Love After Love,
  66
  [BA]
  
• Love Song: I and Thou,
  63
  [BH]
  
• Love,
  50
  [BA]
  
• Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota,
  24
  [SA]
  
• Memorial,
  116
  [BH]
  
• Migratory,
  34
  [BA]
  
• Missing God,
  67
  [BA]
  
• Musée des Beaux Arts,
  98
  [BA]
  
• Nothing Is Lost,
  94
  [BH]
  
• O Taste and See,
  79
  [BA]
  
• Of Gravity and light, FROM,
  72
  [BH]
  
• One Art,
  93
  [SA]
  
• Otherwise,
  20
  [BA]
  
• Poem for a Daughter,
  49
  [SA]
  
• Postscript,
  124
  [SA]
  
• Prayer,
  120
  [BH]
  
• Second-Hand Coat,
  16
  [BH]
  
• September Song,
  101
  [SA]
  
• Shape of Time, FROM,
  12
  [BH]
  
• She Leaves Me,
  52
  [BH]
  
• Sheep Fair Day,
  70
  [BA]
  
• Silence,
  96
  [BH]
  
• Snow Melting,
  57
  [SA]
  
• Snow,
  41
  [SA]
  
• Starlight,
  47
  [BA]
  
• Stationery,
  73
  [BA]
  
• Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,
  33
  [SA]
  
• Strawberries,
  59
  [BH]
  
• Sweetness,
  106
  [SA]
  
• Sweetness, Always,
  82
  [BA]
  
• Table,
  15
  [BH]
  
• Temptation,
  25
  [SA]
  
• The Bright Field,
  73
  [BH]
  
• The Diameter of the Bomb,
  100
  [BA]
  
• The door,
  19
  [SA]
  
• The fly.
  98
  [SA]
  
• The Girl,
  45
  [BH]
  
• The Guest House,
  13
  [BH]
  
• The Journey,
  22
  [SA]
  
• The Layers,
  29
  [BH]
  
• The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,
  74
  [BH]
  
• The Place Where We Are Right,
  99
  [BH]
  
• The Present,
  86
  [BA]
  
• The Red and the Black,
  104
  [BA]
  
• The Road Not Taken,
  31
  [SA]
  
• The Simple Truth,
  81
  [BA]
  
• The Victory,
  51
  [BA]
  
• ‘The washing never gets done…’,
  87
  [BH]
  
• The Way It Is,
  32
  [BH]
  
• The Weighing,
  95
  [BH]
  
• They’ll say, ‘She must be from another country’,
  109
  [SA]
  
• This Hour,
  56
  [BH]
  
• Though There Are Torturers,
  107
  [BH]
  
• ‘To be great, be whole…’,
  14
  [BH]
  
• Trio,
  85
  [BH]
  
• Try to Praise the Mutilated World,
  105
  [BA]
  
• Unwittingly,
  44
  [SA]
  
• Wedding,
  64
  [BA]
  
• Wild Geese,
  11
  [SA]
  
• Wild strawberries,
  58
  [BA]
  
• You Don’t Know What Love Is,
  61
  [BH]
  

Selection, introduction and notes copyright © 2012 Neil Astley.

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