Thinking of Skins: New & Selected Poems - Softcover

Above Cuckmere Haven
After An Emigration
Almost In Walking Distance
At Kibbutz Amiad
At Puberty
Ballad Of The Morning After
Before These Wars
Bheir Me O
Blockade
Camouflage
Carpet-weavers, Morocco
A Case Of Deprivation
Charm Against The Virtuous
Cherchez L'ail
Chippa Rippa
Clouding The Borders
Cold Dawns
The Colouring Age
Dark Harvest
Death Of Anna Pavlova
Double Exposure
Dreams Of Revolution
The Duchess And The Assassin
An Easter Garland: 1
An Easter Garland: 2
An Easter Garland: 3
An Easter Garland: 4
Eclipses
The Emigree
England To Her Maker
Et Incarnatus Est
False Wings
Finding The Sun
The Fire-fighter's Widow On Her First Memorial Day Outing
The First Strokes
The Flood Of Silence
From Berlin To Heaven: 1. Democracy At Burgerbraukeller
From Berlin To Heaven: 2. Munich
From Berlin To Heaven: 3. Jerusalem
From Berlin To Heaven: 4. Masada
From Berlin To Heaven: 5. Playing Statues
From Berlin To Heaven: 6. Hypothesis
The Fuchsia Knight
Genius Loci
Geography Lesson
A Geometry Lesson For The Children Of England
The Girl In The Cathedral
Green Love
Head Cold
Heart Sufferer
The Hebrew Class
How Can The Living Mourn Enough
Icons, Waves
The Impenitent
Imperial Carbon
In Memory Of A Friendship
In Pear Tree Road
In The Cloud Of Unknowing
In The Craft Museum
In The Season Of Green Gowns
The Inheritors
Jarrow
The Last Day Of March
Last Of The Lays
The Last Wife's Consolation
Late Travellers
A Lawn For The English Family
Leningrad Romance
The Lisburn Road List
The Lost Language Of Birth
Lullaby For A First Child
The March Of The Lance-bombardier And His Children
March, Happy Valley
March, Happy Valley
A Marriage
A Meeting Of Innocents
A Memo About The Green Oranges
Midnight
The Most Difficult Door
The Muse Of Argument
Museum
My Two Muses
A New Song
Our Early Days In Graveldene
Outside Oswiecim
Passing A Statue Of Our Lady In Derry
Pavane For The Lost Children
Perestgroika
Phaedrus
A Prague Dusk, August 21st 1983
Prelapsarian
A Prophet, Unhonoured
The Release
Revolutionary Women
Rules For Beginners
Schoolgirl's Story
Seascape And Single Figure
Second Lives
Simple Poem
Siren
The Skin Politic
Skins
Snowfire
St Petersburg, Reclaimed By Merchants
Star Whisper
Stealing The Genre
Sunday Evening, Belfast 9
That Bloody Kid Again
Three Poets Play The Sake Cup Game
Tides
Time Trouble
Two Women
Unplayed Music
Until We Could Hardly See Them
Variant Readings
Virgil For The Plebs
Visions Of A Protestant
Vocation
Walking Out
Wealth
Weeds
A West Country Twin-town
Winter Borscht
A Woman Of A Certain Age
Writing The City
-- Table of Poems from Poem FinderŪ

Here is real poetic authority, singular, sure, strong. The subject matter does not differ much from that of most contemporary poets, save that Rumens brings political consciousness into almost every line. Her voice is colloquial and clear, never overwrought; her settings, often commonplace, are easily recognizable; and her images grow appropriately from the content. What distinguishes Rumens from other, simply competent poets is the unyielding brilliance--a graven quality, an unalterable rightness of expression--of her every line and the certainty in her every phrase. This book collects from her eight previous books as well as presents recent work written since she moved to Belfast. An exciting, inspiring poet. Pat Monaghan