Getting there / Matt Simpson.

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Matt Simpson?s poetry has among its principal themes one of coming to terms with the past as a way of understanding the present. In the present collection Simpson continues his journey into his family history. He has also been on other travels: there are poems about Japan, Tasmania, Ireland and the Greek islands of Aegina and Leros. Simpson is not shy of big themes. Here are poems about identity, love, death, illness, friendship. Simpson can be tenderly elegiac as well as celebratory, meditative and also humorous.

Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Another Look; A Great-Grandfather; A Great-Grandmother; Grandfathers; Grandmothers; Birthplace; My Mother and her Two Brothers; Their Wedding Photograph; Sticks and Stones; Hickory Dickory; Jolson Sings; First Day at the Grammar School; Catching an Old Film on Television; Days of TEFL; Snap; May 1997; Emma at Seven Months; Somewhere Down the Line; No Joke; For the Man I Used to Go Fishing With; Fishing in the Grounds of a Therapeutic Community; Not at his Best; Dead of Winter; 'Committal'; The Dovecote; The Idea of Order at Hunts Cross

Jupiter Optimus Maximus Squeezing a Poem out of Me; Fragment; Something for Gael Turnbull on his Seventieth Birthday; Making an Arrangement; An Invitation to Breakfast from Sydney Smith; Hiroshima; Sez I Sez I in Stephen's Green; Seventh Heaven; At Drumcliff in 1997; Getting There; Mnemósynon; Moonlight on Leros; Olives; The Quality of Greek Light; Scottish Waiter Bringing Squid; Funerary Monuments, Aegina; Taking the Hexameter a Walk; Moonlight on Aegina; Whalewatching -- Vancouver Island; Seventh-Storey Heaven -- Richard le Gallienne (1866-1947); Sarah Biffin; Ancestors; In the Dock Canteen

On Tape at the Old People's Home Winter Solstice 2001; A Long Way from Home; Publisher's note

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