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"Full Blood" is John Siddique's fourth full-length collection of poems for adults. Erotic, physical, completely open and fully engaged with the mortal urgency of life, Siddique tackles his themes robustly and yet with great sensitivity, constantly defining and reimagining what it is to be a man in today's world, living fully in the moment. Marking a serious development in the writer's work (as well as the mind of this significant British poet) this is Siddique's most emotionally-charged work to date.
List of contents
- Contents
- Prologue
- Every Atom
- Via Negativa
- Thirst
- The Knife
- Love Poem
- Memorial Day
- Mary
- One Monday Afternoon in Mytholmroyd
- Rachel Last Springtime
- Coffee Mornings
- The Learning Skin
- The Last Poem
- Kabul
- One Hundred
- One Hundred
- Afghanistan 1970, Stopped
- Filey
- Blue
- I Think of You
- Parenthesis
- Blackbird, Silence Your Shrill Song
- My Beautiful Fantasist
- Pig
- There Were Birds
- True Roses of England
- Reclaiming the Body
- Name
- Between the Words
- Adultery
- Most of the Things That Need to be Seen
- are Seen with the Eyes Closed
- Lightly
- Green Dogs
- For Our Final Fuck of the Afternoon
- Sunday
- Love Poem
- Via Negativa
- The Tree of Life
- Making
- Detail
- Unwritten
- Circumnavigations
- Trial One - The Root of the Root
- Circumnavigations
- Trial Two - Ritual of the Sun
- Circumnavigations
- Trial Three - Action
- Circumnavigations
- Trial Four - Sin Eating
- Circumnavigations
- Trial Five - A Gospel of Silence
- (Pygmalionism)
- Circumnavigations
- Trial Six - Shadows
- Circumnavigations
- Trial Seven - Love and the Body
- Tree of Life
- Xibulba
- Lustre
- Xibulba
- Why?
- Full Blood
- Gauntlets
- We Will Wake at Dawn
- Mary
- Blackpool Rock
- Rain Song
- How to Sleep
- How to Become a Moth
- On Becoming a Writer
- Bailero
- The Road
- Become
- Eagle
- Love Poem
- Jali
- Kitying
- Abha
- Maria
- Junmo
- Flowing
- Sky Burial
- A Place of Silence
About the author
John Siddique was born in 1964. His discovery of his local library when young began his life-long love affair with what words mean and how they sit together. He is the bestselling author of
Recital - An Almanac,
Poems From A Northern Soul,
The Prize and now
Full Blood. He is the co-author of the story/memoir Four Fathers. He has contributed poems, stories, essays and articles to many publications, including
Granta,
The Guardian,
Poetry Review, and
The Rialto.
