Black sand
Subtitle: new and selected poems
By: Edward Baugh
Publisher: Peepal Tree
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Leeds, United Kingdom
Language: eng
Number of pages: 131
ISBN-13: 9781845232108
Subjects: Jamaican poetry; Poetry
Notes: Includes poems selected from Baugh's two previous collections (A tale from the rain forest and It was the singing) with a collection's worth of new poems.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: New Poems; title: End Poem; title: The Comings and Goings of Poems; title: Hurrying Across Hill Country; title: Black Sand; title: Blue Hills, Blue Haze of Memory; title: The Accident; title: The Arrival; title: At Coventry; title: The Ice-Cream Man; title: What's Poetry For?; title: Slight and Ornamental; title: The Limitations of Poetry; title: To the Editor Who Asked Me to Send Him Some of My Black Poems; title: A Nineteenth-Century Portrait; title: Amadou's Mother; title: Monumental Man; title: An Older and a Wiser Man; title: Telling the Time; title: Freeze Warning; title: Obituary Page; title: The Listening Dead; title: The Dark Hole in the Garden; title: "When the Doomed Are Most Eloquent"; title: Walking to Jerusalem; title: Holy Fever; title: A Little Night Music; title: I Wish You a Leaf Falling; title: Memories Like Comfort Stones; title: My Lady Says; title: Pilot Boat; title: River Song; title: Miss Lady Is Weeping; title: True Love; title: Worst-Case Scenario; title: Out of Stock; title: Half-a Half-a Girl; title: Home Truths; title: Bay Street Boy; title: Soundings; title: Yabba; title: Choices; title: Flip Side; title: Guinea-Hen Weed; title: Nearly; title: from It Was The Singing (2000); title: Responsibility; title: Joe Waugh, Engine Driver; title: Sunday Afternoon Walks with My Father; title: The Town that Had Known Better Days; title: Picking Up the Pieces; title: The Ocean Will Not Be Hurried; title: Seasons; title: Aubade; title: You Ever Notice How?; title: At the Atlantis Hotel, Bathsheba; title: Old Talk, or West Indian History; title: Long Service Award; title: View from the George Headley Stand, Sabina; title: Nightwalker; title: It Was the Singing; title: Time Frame; title: On Being Mistaken for Eddie Brathwaite; title: Visiting Professor; title: Hedge Trimming; title: The House; title: Journey; title: Travelling Man; title: from A Tale from the Rainforest (1988); title: This Poem; title: Elemental; title: Imagine; title: Truth and Consequences; title: "I Am Very Proud, Revengeful, Ambitious"; title: Getting There; title: The Poet Bemused; title: Capricorn; title: The House of Poems; title: An Open Letter to Feelings of Insecurity; title: Woman, Bird; title: A Tale from the Rainforest; title: Running River Water; title: The Warner-Woman; title: Cold Comfort; title: Ingrid Bergman's Hat-Brim at the end of Casablanca; title: Instamatic; title: Yard-Boy; title: For Simon Cole; title: June Roses; title: Words; title: An Ageing Lady; title: Small-Town Story; title: The Carpenter's Complaint; title: The Pulpit Eulogists of Frank Worrell; title: People Poem; title: Turning Point; title: Country Dance; title: Colour Scheme; title: Nigger Sweat; title: Sometimes in the Middle of the Story; title: Lignum Vitae; title: A Way of Going.