In The Gamekeeper, Michael Harris presents poems of sorrow, sensuality, quirkiness and humour--a grand variety of takes on the mortal landscape. With sharp wit and unaffected music, Harris handles the human and natural worlds with equal sensitivity. Of an apple tree, for instance, he says, and the apple tree's victory stays / stiff-necked, full of thrash / in its iron-bare head of black antler. Considering Emily Dickinson in a poem entitled Death, we are drawn into the protagonist's world with Weathered billet-doux hang pinned / in the sheen of black crepe // that encloses her looking-glass / like a wreath of wet seaweed. The Gamekeeper contains a selection of poetry spanning five collections and over four decades, revealing the full range of one of the finest poets of his generation.
Authors
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- CaOOCEL
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C811/.54
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9780889848481 9780889844070
- LCCN
- PR9199.3.H346
- LCCN Item number
- A6 2017eb
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- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaBNVSL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (159 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
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- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00975272 (OCoLC)1007058359 (CaOOCEL)479250
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- CaBNVSL
Table of Contents
- Table of Contents 9
- Sparks 9
- Grace 9
- In Transit 9
- New and Selected Poems 10
- Circus 10
- Sparks 13
- 1976 13
- The Human Element 15
- Birthday in Late November 16
- The Patient 17
- A Woman Washing Clothes Sees a Heron 18
- The Sparks 19
- Grace 21
- 1977 21
- The Gamekeeper 23
- October at the Farm 26
- The Woods 27
- Barn Swallow 28
- The Ice Castle 29
- Art 30
- Shady 31
- Fr ogs Courting 32
- The Lepidopterists Letter 33
- Uncle Edward 34
- Deacon Moth 35
- Rabbit 36
- The Hunting-Cabin in November 37
- Death Miss Emily 38
- In Transit 55
- 1985 55
- Turning Out the Light 57
- The Light-House Keeper 77
- Falling Back 78
- The View from the Kitchen 80
- An Octopus 82
- Goats Agios Nikolaos 83
- The Nude Beach Paros 84
- The Watchmender Paros 85
- Fr om the Hotel Calypso Corfu 86
- Constitution Square Kerkira Corfu 87
- By the Green-Fig Tree 88
- His Daughter 89
- The Dolphin 90
- The Road of the Dead 91
- New and Selected Poems 93
- 1992 93
- Spring Descending 95
- The Goddess I 106
- Siren Songs 107
- Epithalamion 108
- The Sun Rises 110
- A Visit to the Galleries 111
- Killing the Beast 118
- Family Album 1 122
- Family Album 2 123
- The Music of the Caterpillar 124
- The Steward 125
- The Saints 126
- The Siesta of the Mediterranean Man in America 127
- A Specialty Shop 128
- Janus 129
- June 130
- Circus 131
- 2011 131
- The Bearded Lady 133
- Weary Willy 134
- The Cupboard Is Bare 135
- Speech 136
- Hoodiddit 137
- At the Library 141
- On Beheading 143
- Molivos 144
- Fr om the Diary of the Sailors Wife 149
- Ringmaster 150
- Hang in There 151
- The House of Horrors 152
- Concentrate 153
- Mephisto The Human Pincushion 154
- The Swimmer 156
- Work 159
- About the Author 161
