At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners

A Multicultural Anthology of Contemporary Poetry

 Ed. by Ken Watson

 Imagined Corners is an exciting and different multicultural poetry collection for Years 10 to 12.

Part One includes a broad selection of the work of each of the following poets:

 Bei Dao                               China

 Sujata Bhatt                        India

 Nina Cassian                       Romania

 Charles Causley                  England

 Carol Ann Duffy                 Scotland

 Odysseus Elytis                   Greece

 U A Fanthorpe                    England

 Miroslav Holub                   Czechoslovakia

 Ivan Lalic                            Serbia

 Gwyneth Lewis                   Wales

 Mudrooroo                         Australia

 Dennis O'Driscoll               Ireland

 Janos Pilinszky                   Hungary

 Tadeusz Rozewicz              Poland

 Vittorio Sereni                    Italy

 Xuan Quynh                       Vietnam

Part Two includes 5 variations on traditional stories.

Part Three deals with the craft of light verse, with a selection from Wendy Cope, Sophie Hannah and Tim Hopkins.

There are also explanatory notes, notes on cross-comparisons, suggestions for discussion and a bibliography.

 Teacher's Notes

Supplementary notes for teachers with ideas and suggestions for using the poem in the classroom can be seen by clicking here.

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                    Imagined Corners Contents

Introduction

Part 1: Sixteen Poets, Fifteen Countries

BEl DAO (Chinese)      Declaration trans. Bonnie McDougall

Declaration trans. Fang Dai, D Ding, E Morin

Requiem

A Picture

Landscape Over Zero

Gains

The Bell

SUJATA BHATT            The One Who Goes Away

(Indian)                            The Langur Coloured Night

What Happened to the Elephant?

Muliebrity

The Stare

Oranges and Lemons

Wine from Bordeaux

Orpheus Confesses to Eurydice

NINA CASSIAN              Evolution

(Romanian)                     Greed

Longing

Pain

I Wanted to Stay in September

Escape

The Young Bat 2

The Couple 2

Ballad of the Jack of Diamonds

Ars Poetica - A Polemic

Snowbound

CHARLES CAUSLEY   Lord Sycamore

(English)                          Recruiting Drive

Ballad of the Bread Man

Ballad of the Faithless Wife

The Question

At the British War Cemetery, Bayeux

I Am the Great Sun

CAROL ANN DUFFY    What Price!

(Scottish)                         Head of English

Never Go Back

Close

Originally

Yes Officer

Selling Manhattan

Nostalgia

ODYSSEUS ELYTIS     Aegean

(Greek)                             from The Gloria

The Sleep of the Brave

"With what stones, what blood, and what iron..."

"All day long we walked in the fields..."

The Mad Mad Boat

U A FANTHORPE         Casehistory: Alison (head injury)

(English)                          Reports

BC:AD

You will be hearing from us shortly

Not My Best Side

Sunderland Point and Ribchester

Halley's Comet 1985-86

Nativities

MIROSLAV HOLUB     Brief Reflection on Accuracy

(Czech)                            Brief Thoughts on Exactness

Brief Reflection on Laughter

Brief Thoughts on Laughter

Brief Thoughts on a Test- Tube

Brief Reflection on Test- Tubes

Minotaur's Thoughts on Poetry

The Minotaur's Thoughts on Poetry

The Soul

Swans in Flight

IVAN LALIC                    How Orpheus Sang

(Serbo-Croat)                 Ophelia

Requiem for a Mother

Of Eurydice

Letter from the Knight Sinadin

Princip on the Battlefield

The Argonauts

Young Woman from Pompeii

The Spaces of Hope

GWYNETH LEWIS        Peripheral Vision

(Welsh)                            Flyover Elegies I, II

Fax X

The Reference Library

Pentecost

Good Dog

MUDROOROO               A Righteous Day

(Australian Aboriginal)  The Ultimate Demonstration

Tracks

Who?

Quietness

Hide and Seek

City Suburban Lines

DENNIS O'DRISCOLL In Office

(Irish)                               Fruit Salad

Operation

Looking Forward

Case Studies

Elegies

Premonitions

What She Does Not Know Is

JANOS PILINSZKY      Fable

(Hungarian)                     Fish in the Net

The French Prisoner

Passion of Ravensbruck

The Desert of Looe

Revelations VIII.7

Gradually

TADEUSZ ROZEWICZ Mars

(Polish)                            The Survivor

Abattoirs

Posthumous Rehabilitation

A Tree

Massacre of the Boys

Pigtail

Grass

What Luck

Re-education

Completion

VITTORIO SERENI      First Fear

(Italian)                             Second Fear

A Dream

Six in the Morning

Those Children Playing

Madrigal to Nefertiti

Those Thoughts of Yours of Calamity

From Holland: Amsterdam

XUAN QUYNH                Worried Over the Days Past

(Vietnamese)                  The Co May Flower

Wave

Part 2: Variations on Traditional

Donald Justice               Orpheus Opens His Morning Mail

Gwen Strauss                 Cinderella

Sue Stewart                  Cinders

Gwen Strauss                The Waiting Wolf

Sue Stewart                    Inside Wolf

Part 3 The Craft of Light Verse

WENDY COPE              Engineers' Comer

Triolet

Reading Scheme

SOPHIE HANNAH         Symptoms

Summary of a Western

A Day Too Late

Credit for the Card

TIM HOPKINS                Snowy Woods Revisited

The Bystander

What the Papers Say: Othello

Designer Pets

Cat

The Moments in Between

Explanatory Notes

Cross-Comparisons

Other Suggestions for Discussion

Bibliography

Acknowledgements