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Authors: E.A. Markham, E. A. Markham
ISBN-13: 9780856463372, ISBN-10: 085646337X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Anvil Press Poetry, Limited
Date Published: June 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: E.A. Markham

Born in 1939 on the West Indian island of Montserrat, E.A. ("Archie") Markham lived mainly in Britain. He worked as a media co-ordinator in Papua New Guinea, directed the Caribbean Theatre Workshop, and ran the Creative Writing department at Sheffield Hallam University. He edited anthologies of Caribbean writing for Penguin and Bloodaxe. He died in Paris in 2008.

Book Synopsis

The seventh collection of poems by one of contemporary poetry's most exciting writers.

	Postscript: The Long Road to Barnes & Noble, Booksellers	11
Part 1	Poems 2000
	Photocopying Your Story	17
	The Man With the Umbrella	18
	O, The Humiliations of this Life	19
	Psalm 151	21
	Black Youth	22
	Inquest	23
	It Gets Worse, My Friend	24
Part 2	From Montserrat
	To Whom It May Concern	29
	Hurricane, Volcano, Mass Flight	31
	Two Men at the Cassava Mill	32
	Lines Composed to Test the Idea of Montserrat	34
	All Our Oases	38
	Nearing Sixty	40
	The Last Letter to a Grandmother	43
	Allies	47
	Re-entering the Caves of Castine	48
Part 3	Late (from the last century) News
	On George Lamming's Couch	53
	From a Waitress at the Franziskaner Hotel, Wurzburg, 1999	54
	Insomnia	56
	Night	57
	My Brothers and Sister are Alive	58
	Hidden Extras	59
	A Philpot and a Wife	60
	Peace Process	61
	The Paraffin Stove Case	63
	The Husbands	64
	Whistling in the Dark	66
	A Life	67
	Double Act	68
	Vulgar Assumptions	69
	Interruptions	70
	Friday the 13th	71
Part 4	Remembering
	On the Death of George MacBeth (1932-1992)	75
	Pierrot	77
	On Hearing of the Death of Francois Mitterrand	78
	For the Environment	80
	Remembering Geoffrey Adkins	82
	Appropriator, Hijacker, Racist, Thief ...	84
	Hidiot (a polemic)	85
	Old Man Horace, Oowokalee	87
Part 5	Taking Note
	Taking the Drawing-Room through Customs	91
	In Other Words	105