Black sand : new and selected poems / Edward Baugh.

Includes poems selected from Baugh's two previous collections (A tale from the rain forest and It was the singing) with a collection's worth of new poems.

Machine generated contents note: New Poems -- End Poem -- The Comings and Goings of Poems -- Hurrying Across Hill Country -- Black Sand -- Blue Hills, Blue Haze of Memory -- The Accident -- The Arrival -- At Coventry -- The Ice-Cream Man -- What's Poetry For? -- Slight and Ornamental -- The Limitations of Poetry -- To the Editor Who Asked Me to Send Him Some of My Black Poems -- A Nineteenth-Century Portrait -- Amadou's Mother -- Monumental Man -- An Older and a Wiser Man -- Telling the Time -- Freeze Warning -- Obituary Page -- The Listening Dead -- The Dark Hole in the Garden -- "When the Doomed Are Most Eloquent" -- Walking to Jerusalem -- Holy Fever -- A Little Night Music -- I Wish You a Leaf Falling -- Memories Like Comfort Stones -- My Lady Says -- Pilot Boat -- River Song -- Miss Lady Is Weeping -- True Love -- Worst-Case Scenario -- Out of Stock -- Half-a Half-a Girl -- Home Truths -- Bay Street Boy -- Soundings -- Yabba -- Choices -- Flip Side -- Guinea-Hen Weed -- Nearly -- from It Was The Singing (2000) -- Responsibility -- Joe Waugh, Engine Driver -- Sunday Afternoon Walks with My Father -- The Town that Had Known Better Days -- Picking Up the Pieces -- The Ocean Will Not Be Hurried -- Seasons -- Aubade -- You Ever Notice How? -- At the Atlantis Hotel, Bathsheba -- Old Talk, or West Indian History -- Long Service Award -- View from the George Headley Stand, Sabina -- Nightwalker -- It Was the Singing -- Time Frame -- On Being Mistaken for Eddie Brathwaite -- Visiting Professor -- Hedge Trimming -- The House -- Journey -- Travelling Man -- from A Tale from the Rainforest (1988) -- This Poem -- Elemental -- Imagine -- Truth and Consequences -- "I Am Very Proud, Revengeful, Ambitious" -- Getting There -- The Poet Bemused -- Capricorn -- The House of Poems -- An Open Letter to Feelings of Insecurity -- Woman, Bird -- A Tale from the Rainforest -- Running River Water -- The Warner-Woman -- Cold Comfort -- Ingrid Bergman's Hat-Brim at the end of Casablanca -- Instamatic -- Yard-Boy -- For Simon Cole -- June Roses -- Words -- An Ageing Lady -- Small-Town Story -- The Carpenter's Complaint -- The Pulpit Eulogists of Frank Worrell -- People Poem -- Turning Point -- Country Dance -- Colour Scheme -- Nigger Sweat -- Sometimes in the Middle of the Story -- Lignum Vitae -- A Way of Going.

'Black Sand' comprises poems selected from Baugh's two previous collections, plus a collection's worth of new poems. His subject matter ranges from race, history, and sport to love, the academic life, and the consolations of natural beauty. He also casts a shrewd eye over a Jamaica characterised by urbane polish, gated communities, and a black majority still struggling against the wrongs of the past.

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