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SHORTLISTED FOR THE SEAMUS HEANEY CENTRE PRIZE FOR POETRY In a ruined garden children play cowboys and Indians while their fathers fight the Cold War. The children grow up and discover the enemy are also people. The Empire shrinks to an opera audience. The Royal Family is reduced to waxworks. A mediaeval university town finally gets its ecological mass transportation system.
List of contents
- I Co-ordinates
- Hold-all (Aircrew)
- Vapour Trail
- Yellow Sun, Green Grass
- Flat 9
- Revesby
- The Boasts of Jim McKay
- The Old Arboretum
- My Mother's Migraines
- Small Arms
- Russkis
- The Americans
- The Balcony
- Downstairs
- Olympus Mk 301
- Night Sky in October
- Bunker
- Nav Rad
- Co-ordinates
- II Trajectories
- The Men from Praga
- River
- A Portrait of V Nubiola
- Boots
- Thirsty
- Accident
- Taking the Air
- Advice from Nils
- Nils Takes a Breather
- Baudelaire's Pipe
- A Change in the Weather
- Vacant Possession
- Matthew Crampton
- Pauahi Crater 10 a.m.
- Between the Twenty-sixth and the Twenty-seventh Floors
- Chattel
- Britannia
- They
- One Way of Listening to Windchimes
- Food for Scandal
- Gasometer
- Great Lettuce in The Botanic Garden
- My Backyard
- Landless
- Chamber of Horrors #2 Extra
- The Cambridge Metro
About the author
Anne Berkeley is one of the poetry group Joy of Six, with whom she has performed across the UK and in New York. Her pamphlet The buoyancy aid and other poems was published by Flarestack in 1997, and a selection of her work appeared in Oxford Poets 2002 (Carcanet).
