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    Animal People
    Animal People
    Animal People
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    Animal People

    By Carol Rumens

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    Animal People is the new collection by the distinguished poet Carol Rumens. Often inspired by and infused with the weathers of various seasons of the year, a strong sense of place also features in most poems, whether it be the dramatic mountain rock-scapes of Snowdonia or the gritty streets of London. The title poem is a ten-page meditation or symphony in varying movements, on the theme of autism and explores what it is to 'be on the spectrum,' particularly for a young girl, and what the autistic perspective may mean for individuals and for human destiny. Drawing on personal and family experience, this poem is infused with the author's characteristic empathy, curiosity and humanity. There is a strong sense of commemoration in this collection, of time passing and of the challenges of mortality, and also a number of brilliant pieces that are influenced by translations or re-readings of classic works of literature.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSeren
    Release dateAug 1, 2016
    ISBN9781781723197
    Animal People
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    Carol Rumens

    Carol Rumens is originally from South London and now lives in North Wales, where she teaches creative writing at Bangor University. She has published sixteen collections of poetry, most recently Animal People (Seren, 2016). Her work appears in many anthologies, including The Best British Poetry (2014) and The Forward Anthology (2016). She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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      Book preview

      Animal People - Carol Rumens

      Animal People

      I.M. Yurij Georgievich Drobyshev, b. Leningrad,

      June, 1932, d. Pentir, Gwynedd, November, 2015.

      Seren is the book imprint of

      Poetry Wales Press Ltd.

      57 Nolton Street, Bridgend, Wales, CF31 3AE

      www.serenbooks.com

      facebook.com/SerenBooks

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      The right of Carol Rumens to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988.

      © Carol Rumens 2016

      ISBN: 978-1-78172-318-0

      ebook: 978-1-78172-319-7

      Kindle: 978-1-78172-320-3

      A CIP record for this title is available from the British Library.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted at any time or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the copyright holder.

      The publisher acknowledges the financial assistance of the Welsh Books Council.

      Cover Image: Joseph Albert Wettlauf des Igels und des Hasen, 1862

      Printed in Bembo by Latimer Trend & Company Ltd, Plymouth.

      Author Website: www.carolrumens.co.uk

      Contents

      On Standby

      An Artistic Family

      Easter Snow

      The Teacher and the Ghosts

      Spring Forward, Fall Back: a Gwynedd Skein

      The Homeless Ship

      March Morning, Pearson Park

      Remote Bermudas

      1. School Trip

      2. Keats’s Reach

      3. The Campus of Time-Enough

      4. Lumen de Lumine

      The Big Bang Year

      Her to Apollo

      Glosa on ‘Woman of Spring’

      Two Birthday Cards

      1. Under Moel Rhiwen

      2. White Night

      Fire, Stone, Snowdonia

      Praying with the Imam at Summerfade

      The Reddish Wheel-Barrow

      Happy Seventieth-Birthday Blues, Mr Zimmerman

      All Souls’ Saturday Night

      Owls of the Ukraine

      The Search

      John Rodker Composes a Cold Elegy for Isaac Rosenberg

      Pyramid Text

      Zootoca Vivipara

      House Clearance

      Song of The Obsolete

      Home Thoughts from the Cow-Shed

      Figurine

      Danae, Dinarii

      It’s Time for the Weather!

      A Christmas Stocking

      Happy Christmas, Sister Dympna

      Small Facts

      In Memory of a Rationalist

      From an Evening Walk-Diary

      Marshalsea Quadrille

      A Few Study-Notes

      Hamlet

      The Ship of State

      Footnote

      Three Fado

      Laundry Blue

      The Hare and the Hedgehog

      On the Spectrum

      About Animal People

      Acknowledgements

      On Standby

      Pass me that small pencil, sharpened nicely

      At both ends, a pencil with two eyes,

      And up for anything – a screed, a scribble.

      The gold and navy stripes, still visible,

      Might be school uniform – the low-slung tie

      Of anti-fashion, mocking and awry.

      The pupils do their time; some pencils sidle

      Off desks and drop and vanish. But the word

      Is out, this pencil says, when a bright-voiced

      Young teacher names the mist in someone’s head.

      And the kid stares, and sees the point at last.

      A pencil starts from scratch, like anyone.

      It knows hard graft, despair and knuckled tension,

      A shadow flickering like a footballer’s –

      Designed for transfer. It diminishes,

      But leaves hard copy, proofed by crossings-out,

      Forensics of

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