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- Herausgeber: Arc Publications
- Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
- Sprache: Englisch
A hotel with mysterious guests, a city where the moon wanders, an abandoned seaside pavilion, are some of the places visited in this, Richard Lambert's second collection. Structured around a movement from city to sea and always alert to the emotional resonance of landscape, The Nameless Places dwells on those spaces that lie at the edge of our lives and vision, and that seem somewhere between reality and dream. The collection culminates in a sequence that follows a journey made along the course of a river from its source to its mouth. Here, an English landscape's margins are investigated – suburb, waste ground, marsh, and estuary beach. In poems that are formally various (rondeau, villanelle and sonnet) and conjuring an atmosphere of melancholy, The Nameless Places explores forgotten and neglected spaces – both of the mind and of our physical world.
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The Nameless Places
Published by Arc Publications,
Nanholme Mill, Shaw Wood Road
Todmorden OL14 6DA, UK
www.arcpublications.co.uk
Copyright © Richard Lambert, 2017
Copyright in the present edition © Arc Publications, 2017
978 1911469 00 1 (pbk)
978 1911469 01 8 (hbk)
978 1911469 02 5 (ebk)
Design by Tony Ward
Acknowledgements
The author is grateful to the editors of the following publications where some of the poems were published: PN Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Review, The Rialto, The Spectator, the Times Literary Supplement, and The Yellow Nib.
His thanks go to Arts Council England for their support through a Grant for the Arts.
Thanks are also due to: the members of Norwich Stanza, particularly Julia Webb, Stuart Charlesworth, Sally Festing, Ramona Herdman, Peter Wallis, and Lynn Woollacott; Moniza Alvi for reading the manuscript; and Jo Guthrie, Laura Scott, and Heidi Williamson for their editorial judgement, friendship, and advice.
Cover image:
‘Middle Road East’ by Katarzyna Coleman (acrylic & charcoal on canvas, 2016), by kind permission of the artist.
This book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to provision of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part of this book may take place without the written permission of Arc Publications.
Editor for the UK & Ireland
John Wedgwood Clarke
Richard Lambert
The Nameless Places
2017
Contents
City
1. The Rebel Angel
2. The Library
3. The Theologian
4. The Rebel Angels
5. The City and the River
6. The Sluice
7. The Bridge at Night
8. The Outskirts
The Hotel Guidebook
1. The Station Hotel
2. A Late Guest
3. The Hotel Pool
4. The Maid
5. The Union Hotel Carol
6. The Green Fish
Poem of the Hand
Slight Poem on a Rough Surface
Unnecessary Poem
Phases of the Moon
1. To the Far Moon
2. Harvest Moon
3. Lullaby of the Moon
4. In her Last Scene…
5. Little Romance of the Moon
Summer Night
The Deer
A Country Visitor
Man with the Head of a Stag
Tree
Her Tail
Her Hands
The Painter
The Line
Sea Ballad
Your Rule
Snow at the Window
The Magnolia Blossom in the Gardens
Leaving the City
Suburban Rain
The Valley, Rain Coming
Down the Valley, Water
The Token
The House
The Heart
Creatures and Ghosts
A-Road
Marsh Songs
The Wind
Coastal
Sunday Afternoon
Sleepless
Island
Sonnet
Biographical Note
CITY
1. The Rebel Angel
On the wall there’s a silhouette
you find is just a shadow from the trees
because the opera house is empty now, of course,
and in the square the rebel forces have long dispersed
though a solitary angel hangs from a lamp-post, dressed
in tar and feathers. He’s fifty, fat,
and broken in half like this sonnet.
2. The Library
The library is empty now, of course, but you notice
how its fan design is based upon an Alexandrian
notion of extent, since taken up by the Venetians,
sundry
