The Shipping News and Other Poems: Poems About Politics, Nature, Love and Ideals.

By Greta Sykes

In this book are the recent and not-so-recent poems, reflections, and refractions on nature, love, politics, and ideals.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Jul 16, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524635244

Greta Sykes

Greta Sykes is a German-English poet and author, with a professional life in child and adolescent psychology. This is her second novel. Her first novel, Under Charred Skies, is a biographical story which narrates life around her grandmother and mother during the Weimar Republic. It was published in German under Unter Verbranntem Himmel. Greta Sykes's poems have been published in many anthologies. Her most recent volume is called The Shipping News and has a strong focus on nature. She also writes essays. Her work can be found on liveencounters.net and academia.edu. She is a member of the Romantic Novelists Association and London Voices Poetry group. Her most recent essays are 'Secular ecstasies and revolutionary women poets in 1917' and 'Powerful women in 12th century "Early Renaissance" Sicily'.

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Published by AuthorHouse   07/16/2016

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Front cover painting: Wild sea in Levanto, Italy. By Greta Sykes

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IN HOMAGE OF THE 27 MILLION RUSSIAN

PEOPLE WHO DIED TO DEFEAT FASCISM IN WW2

CONTENTS

The Shipping News 1

The Shipping News 2

The Shipping News 3

The Shipping News 4

The Shipping News 5

BOUND FEET AND OTHER PETITIONARY PRAYERS FOR WOMEN

If I’m Lucky

Velvet Walk

Voile And Crepe De Chine

What If We Refused

Tiny Wrinkled Old Men

Bound Feet

More Hairdressers In Crouch End

Questions Of A Reading Woman

(Homage To Bertolt Brecht’s ‘Questions Of A Reading Worker)

DREAMING OF FUTURE MYTHS AND OTHER PLACES

Dreaming Of Future Myths

Lonesome Fishermen

Beachy Head, Sussex

Parkland Walk In Crouch End

Namib Desert 1

Namib Desert 2

Café In The Crypt, St Martin’s In The Field

Savigny Piazza Berlin

A Song To Loess

I Shall Never Know

THE SEA IS A LOVER AND OTHER INCANTATIONS TO NATURE

Cinnamon And Ginger Leaves

The Sea Is A Lover

Mother Of Pearl Moon

Leaf Gold And Amber

Dusty Rings Of Saturn

Vanilla Dusk

The Riches Of Earth

A Seagull

Lonesome Fisherman

Chronology Alien

Redemption

Illuminated Materials

About The Wind

SALMON COLOURED SEAWEED AND OTHER LOVE POEMS

Departure

Word Sweets

Salmon-Coloured Seaweed

Carriages In Green

Positive Thinking

The Ship

Saturn’s Rings

Love Rondo

It Must Be Sunday

Are We Not Poets

Like Flotsam

Neutrino Wash

Anthocyanine Leaves

Carbon Coal

READING THE EXILED POETS AND OTHER REFLECTIONS ON POLITICS

Reading The Exiled Poets

Exile: The Streets In Which I Lived

On Other Beaches

Lavender Trail

Olive Harvest

Volcano Justice

Three Clouds

Triumph Of The West

Goodbye America

Spring

Armenia

What Is Invisible

THE WINGS OF MY YOUTH AND OTHER REFRACTIONS ON IDENTITY

Flashback

Normandy Beach

Out Of Sleep

A Wheelchair Of My Mind

The Wings Of My Youth

Poem For The 50Th Anniversary Of Auschwitz

Reading: Der Luftkrieg Und Die Literatur

‘L’avenir de l’homme est la femme’ Louis Aragon, 1952.

‘The whole of capitalism appears in the medium of money not in the medium of language…’ Boris Groys, 2009.

INTRODUCTION TO THE

SHIPPING NEWS

Enheduanna, High Priestess and poetess, is