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Acknowledgements Earlier versions of these poems appeared in the journals Ganymede, Gay and Lesbian Review, PN Review, Poetry Salzburg Review, Polari Journal and Staple, as well as in the following anthologies: Amie M. Evans and Trebor Healey (eds.), Queer and Catholic (New York: Routledge, 2008), Jo Harding and Theresa Robson (eds.), Slip Through the Silence: Facing Adversity with Verse (Clitheroe: Clitheroe Books, 2008), Kapow: New Writing with Impact (Nottingham: Launderette, 2009), Gregory A. Kompes (ed.), The Queer Collection (Las Vegas: Fabulist Flash, 2007), Reflections: A Collection of Poetry for the Waiting Room (Derby: Reflections, 2007). ‘Echo’s Echoes’ was first publshed on Twitter. I was awarded a second Hawthornden Fellowship in 2008. First published in Great Britain in 2011 by Carcanet Press Limited Alliance House Cross Street Manchester M2 7AQ Copyright © Gregory Woods 2011 The right of Gregory Woods to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988 All rights reserved A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978 1 84777 078 3 The publisher acknowledges financial assistance from Arts Council England Typeset by XL Publishing Services, Tiverton Printed and bound in England by SRP Ltd, Exeter
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Contents One Invocation Figure of Enchantment Objective Disorder Age of Gold Landscape/Portrait The Best Medicine Faith Figure Scenes from Stendhal Scenes from Flaubert Wing Three-Quarter La Vie en Rose Strokes Action and Reaction Initiation Ah the Taste of a Stranger’s Mouth! The Picture with the Bear Figure with No Past Figure of Achievement Messages Trees or Fly-Fishing When You Go Scenes from Gautier The Sweet Life Last Resorts Figure of Opportunity End of Eternity Jerome Into Battle Newton at Woolsthorpe Interpreting Flaubert Death of Rimbaud Jean Genet in Norwich Lenin on the Thérémin Two v 3 4 5 6 7 9 11 12 14 16 17 18 19 22 23 25 27 28 29 31 33 35 36 39 41 42 45 46 47 48 49 50 51

Contents

One

Invocation

Figure of Enchantment

Objective Disorder

Age of Gold

Landscape/Portrait

The Best Medicine

Faith Figure

Scenes from Stendhal

Scenes from Flaubert

Wing Three-Quarter

La Vie en Rose

Strokes

Action and Reaction

Initiation

Ah the Taste of a Stranger’s Mouth!

The Picture with the Bear

Figure with No Past

Figure of Achievement

Messages

Trees or Fly-Fishing

When You Go

Scenes from Gautier

The Sweet Life

Last Resorts

Figure of Opportunity

End of Eternity

Jerome

Into Battle

Newton at Woolsthorpe

Interpreting Flaubert

Death of Rimbaud

Jean Genet in Norwich

Lenin on the Thérémin

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