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Goose Music is a collection of new poems co-authored by Andy Brown and John Burnside, two writers with backgrounds in ecology and notable for their lyric poetry. John Burnside won the Whitbread Prize for poetry in 2000. Characterised by their formal variety, lyric intensity and their attention to natural detail, the poems in Goose Music are Ecopoetic, asking questions of how we might dwell on the earth in these times of great environmental change, exploring lyric ideas of identity, self, myth, landscape and place.
List of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Part One
- Goose Music
- Some Notes on a Theory of Emergence
- Nature Corner
- Atavism
- Insomnia
- The Other Garden
- Ganders in the Gardens
- A Horse's Skull
- On Hollow Moor
- Eleven Gift Songs
- Small Voices
- Pine Trees at Five Ways
- Los angeles mohosos
- Three Enquiries Concerning Angels
- The Ice Pool Under the Church Tower
- Prayer
- Prayer / Why I am Happy to be in the City this Spring
- Castor / Pollux
- Fiat Nox
- Janus? - ?Li Po Sonnets
- Orange
- Part Two
- Two Essays on the Folk Story
- The Breaking of Waves
- Persephone
- Eurydice
- Mules at Ystradginlais
- Narcissus (Einzelgaenger)
- Part Three
- Poems of the Father
- The Blue Hour
- The Promise of Home
- Homage to Henri Bergson
- The Other Brother
- Towards a Book of Common Prayer
- On the Road to the Eye Hospital
- Dedications
About the author
Andy Brown is Director of the Centre for Creative Writing at Exeter University. His recent books include
Hunting the Kinnayas (Stride, 2004),
From a Cliff (Arc, 2002) and
Of Science (Worple, 2001, with David Morley). Andy Brown studied Ecology, a discipline that informs both his poetry and his criticism, which appears in
The Salt Companion to the Works of Lee Harwood (Salt, 2006). He was previously a Centre Director for the Arvon Foundation's creative writing courses, and has been a recording musician.
