Talking myself home
Subtitle: my life in verses
By: Ian McMillan
Publisher: John Murray
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 101
ISBN-13: 9781848540453
Subjects: English Poets; Biography
Description: "Talking Myself Home is Ian McMillan's personal homage to the power of words in shaping his life. And these playful, haunting poems are themselves testaments to the imaginative delights of words."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: 04/01/07 --; title: Closing the Door: A Few Facts --; title: Two-Line Smile Poems about the Houses I've Lived In --; title: The Facts --; title: Somewhere on the South China Sea in 1938 --; title: Tricycle/Auntie's Elbow/Pocket Watch in Church --; title: Every Other Thursday --; title: NCB Recruiting Film, 1964 --; title: Great-Aunt Bella and the Wartime Postal System --; title: Andy and Sandie --; title: The New Library, April 1964 --; title: The Thames-Clyde Express --; title: Speyk --; title: Adult Fiction --; title: Dam Flask Days, 1965 --; title: Folk Tale: The Owl in the Tower, 1966 --; title: In the Queue at the Ballachulish Ferry: Colours and Sounds --; title: Violin --; title: First Gig --; title: Nobel Prize --; title: Please Send More, 1971 --; title: Under Fourteens --; title: The Eye Blinked./It/Watered: Wales and Barnsley, 1973 --; title: Somewhere on a Back Lane Near Oxford in 1976 --; title: Hollywood Nights, 1977 --; title: The Worst Gig Ever, June 1979 --; title: The Back of My Neck --; title: Degree --; title: At the Tennis Ball Factory, 1980 --; title: Workshop Days, 1981/83 --; title: Heart of Darkness, 1984 --; title: Another Bad Gig: High Ham, 1988 --; title: Partially Overheard, Partially Invented: Darfield, 1985/2007 --; title: Just Like Watching Brazil, April 1997 --; title: Song of Stanage Edge and My Dad's Old Hat --; title: Two Pyjama Incidents --; title: Talking Myself Home --; title: You Wouldn't Want to be in This Book --; title: Geological Shifts; A Poem that Shifts into Prose as Pieces Fall Off --; title: Three --; title: Available Light --; title: Slipstream --; title: Speyk 2 --; title: Remembering --; title: Back from the Tunnels --; title: 25/12/01 --; title: A Wind Straight from Siberia.