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    Constellations
    Constellations
    Constellations
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    Constellations

    By Ian Pindar

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    Constellations begins by celebrating sunlight and ends with the appearance of the moon, the coming of winter, snow and 'perpetual night'. In poems of compelling beauty Pindar takes us from a summer love affair by the sea to war and its aftermath, when night falls and 'the song that was promised has been sung'.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCarcanet Poetry
    Release dateJul 27, 2012
    ISBN9781847776495
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      Book preview

      Constellations - Ian Pindar

      IAN PINDAR

      Constellations

      to the Carpenter

      Contents

      Title Page

      Dedication

      Acknowledgements

      I

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      II

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      III

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      IV

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      About the Author

      Also by Ian Pindar from Carcanet Press

      Copyright

      Acknowledgements

      My thanks to Michael Schmidt and Chris Hamilton-Emery, Judith Willson and everyone at Carcanet. Thanks are also due to the editors of The English Review, Poetry Review and Wave Composition, where some of the poems in Constellations first appeared in slightly different forms. I am grateful to A.P. Watt Ltd on behalf of The Literary Executors of the Estate of H.G. Wells for permission to quote from The Time Machine on p. 104. As always, Ali, Izzy and Tom graced me with their days.

      Constellations

      I

      1

      Sweetness, some cloudlessness, some shapes,

      a random horse, the rolling arrangement

      of the mind, with open eyes.

      Fluttering gold limbs of brown leaves

      sunned by straight cloudless blue in October,

      bits and pieces of the sometimes Sunday.

      A real skyline for its own sake.

      Not regret in the sky but late light,

      little certainty in the dusk.

      Old cars and roses. The yard prepares for evening.

      It knows the colour of yesterday,

      as the shapes in the yard are angles of themselves.

      This night of royal blue can taste the sea,

      reflected in a field of smoothness,

      gulls tumbling over the tide.

      The tide goes out, the tide comes in.

      Everything seems to want to be

      electric. Everything comes alive.

      2

      The multiple appearances of the world,

      the shapes it makes, a succession of organic forms,

      of breaths of irreducible beings, the breath

      that hesitates between the haunted and the painted.

      Flower, landscape, portrait, self-portrait.

      Humans, plants, animals, manifestations

      of the question, finite nuances of nature,

      numerous ripples and representations of forms,

      muscle, flesh, bone, breath, the expressionless

      coolness of the day, capturing colour

      and light, the life of rain, the secret surging

      of the sea. The

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