Title: Signs round a dead body /
Authors: Rees-Jones, Deryn.; Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library).
Publisher: Seren,
Year: 1998
Subjects: English poetry Welsh authors; 4.240.
Abstract: "Signs Round a Dead Body is the follow-up to Deryn Rees-Jones's widely acclaimed first collection, The Memory Tray. Her humour, sharp technique and preoccupation with the dilemmas of women are as apparent as ever, but there is now a more intense personal focus. Love, in all its permutations, suffuses this book, and sensuous details abound: from poems like 'Making Out' and 'From His Coy Mistress', about the fears and vacillations of love, to the disillusionment of the Nerudian 'Songs of Despair'. Informed by a sensibility at once passionate, intelligent and ironic, this new collection confirms Rees-Jones's place at the forefront of contemporary poetry."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Signs Round a Dead Body -- Horoscopes -- The One That Got Away -- The Fish -- Sheep Piece -- Making Out -- From His Coy Mistress -- An Indian Summer -- What It's Like To Be Alive -- Songs of Despair -- Song for Winter -- Song for the Absence of Her Lover's Voice -- Songs for the Weather -- Song in Praise of Running by the Sea -- Song in Praise of the Art of Flight -- Song for Rain -- Song for the End of Summer -- Song to Noise -- Midnight Beach at Sizewell B -- A Brief Inventory of Facts About Snow -- Snow Song -- Calcium -- My Father's Hair -- Atlantis -- The Oral Tradition -- Spells -- Natural Selection -- The Policeman's Daughter