A Field Officer's notebook
Subtitle: selected poems
By: Dan Davin ; Robert McLean, editor
Publisher: Cold Hub Press
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Lyttleton
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780473430689
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; Poetry; World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924 (uri) http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01180924
Description: "Second World War. Youth in Invercargill and Dunedin the 1920s & 1930s. Others explore Davin's Irishness and record the "fighting withdrawal" of his final years (1980s)"--Publisher information.
Notes: Poems.
Table of contents: title: Near Thermopylae; or, Necessity compels : the poetry of Dan Davin / Robert McLean; title: Before. Perspective; Exiled; 'Great sorrow has come with the night's black heart'; Winter Galway; 'Had I constrained my spirit then'; The far-away hill; Harmony; 'In what diversity of sterile tasks'; title: During. Epitaph for last winter's snow; 'Haunted by mysteries, life, time, and death'; What the ghost said; 'Life with high finality will stalk'; Morning fatigue in the canteen; Night before Athens; A hope against hope; Egyptian Madonna; Grave near Sirte; Elegy I; Night near Maleme; Cairo Cleopatra; Elegy II; Libyan epitaph.; title: After. Solidarity of self; 'The Christ is dead'; That night in 1954 on 53rd Street in New York; The Irish; Desert song; Port Meadow: Panthalamion; Odysseus; Windows; 'She padlocked her virginity'; 'Do you remember, Shan Van Oght'; 'Waiting for the pubs to open'; Alamein fragment I; 'While over the Puni Creek'; Recent Irish immigrants (c.1928); 'I love never great ones greatly'; Rommel is in Agheila; 'And we must go to Garsington'; Fragment: Alamein, Dorchester; Summoned by bells; 'Do you remember our youth, my dear?'; Aphorism; Alamein fragment II; 'Farewell, farewell, my lovely nymphs'; The dusk; Pay day; 'For chutney and for chota pegs; 'O God, supreme potato'; 'Despair?'; 'Gone, gone, all our yesterdays'; For W.K.D.: belated love poem (I); For W.K.D.: belated love poem (II); 'There is thunder in my head tonight'; 'Once I couldn't leave the girls alone'; Apollo's funeral feast; 'Do you remember?'; The Heavenly Isles; 'Why not be dead?'; Mr Lee; Invercargill boundary; 'Fierce minutes of magic'; The pibrochs of Formanagh; Infernal idyll; Confession and absolution; December; Waiting, snookered; Day's end.