Table of Contents

Goldenrod Shell Island Kite The Sandbank White Horse A Valley Affair On a Cold New England Afternoon The Guest A Greek Epiphany Edward Hopper and the Lighthouse Comrade Seahorses The Mirrored Room The Catch The Figurehead Narrow Boat Etched in Glass The Storm The Anarchists China Blue Bronze Horses End of Season Songs of Freedom Peninsula Navigation Road Promises and Smiles The Loneliness of Men in Midnight Bars Window Seat Balthus and his Model in the Early Evening Light Anderby Creek At the Water's Edge The Ice Hotel Ghost The Other The Great Divide A Last Love Poem The Western Sea The Glass Head An Encounter at the Well The Girl Opens a Window and the Darkness is Postponed Jazz Train Lavernock

About the Author

IAN PARKS was born in 1959 in Mexborough, South Yorkshire and was one of the National Poetry Society New Poets in 1996. He was writer-in-residence at North Riding College, Scarborough from 1986-88 and recieved a Hawthornden Fellowship in 1991 and a Travelling Fellowship to the USA in 1994. A CLIMB THROUGH ALTERED LANDSCAPES was published in 1998. Recent poems have appeared in POETRY REVIEW, POETRY (CHICAGO), THE LONDON MAGAZINE, THE LIBERAL, THE OBSERVER and have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3. He currently teaches creative writing at Leeds University and serves on the judging panel for the TMA theatre awards.

Reviews

"A whisper in a social gathering can attract more attention than someone holding forth. Reading a poem by Ian Parks is like hearing a voice using what sounds like your name in the din of a public place. You hear it whatever the background noise." -- Peter Dale "Ian Parks is a master of the elegiac cadence. These are poems caught between tides -- ghosted with slippages, departures, possibilities. And at their shifting centre, loss and love." -- Pauline Stainer "One of the bright new hopes of British poetry." -- John Osborne