Michael Hulse, born 1955, is one of the most distinguished poets of his generation, and an acclaimed translator and editor. This selection of a quarter century's work draws on all his books and pamphlets to date and includes sixteen new and uncollected poems.
Michael Hulse is an award-winning poet. In `Empires and Holy Lands', his German literary interests lead his to consider the disjuncture between European high culture and the barbarism of the Shoah. On Location has the Shoah continuing to resonate in a post-modern present through movies... There are witty poems here - Michelangelo's statue of Moses seen as a patriarchal bully-boy./ Mister universal Law... Clearly there is room for the demonic in this sophisticated, highly enjoyable collection.
-- Peter Lawson * Jewish Chronicle - The Weekly Review *I Empires
Calcutta Red
Simla
Raffles Hotel
Village Performance
A Chinese Tale
Helicopter
Brunei
Evening at Imogiri
Mother of Battles
Homo Sum
That Christmas
Heathrow
Nine Points of the Nation
Dole Queue
The Bell-ringer
Fornicating and Reading the Papers
Burslem
After Rain
Europe
II Burnings
Twentieth Burning in the Bishopric of Wurzburg
A Family Portrait circa 1900
The Prisoner
Phrenology, 1914
White
Refugees
On Location
One Damn Thing after another
Festival of Youth
To Botho Strauss in Berlin
Roadworkers Picking Cherries
Loreley
To Gottlob Fabian
III Holy Lands
The Winter Ward
The Country of Pain and Revelation
Knowing
Five Poems after Winslow Homer
Rotterdam, 07.50, December 22nd
At Avila
Welcome to the Delectable Mountains
Horns
At Aigues-Mortes
The Pointlessness of Poetry
IV Loves
The Architecture of Air
The Kid
Eating Strawberries in the Necropolis
Windowless Monads
Tangle
Adultery
An Aluminium Casket Would Be a Good Idea
The Evidence of Things not Seen
Concentrating
Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose
Young Mother
La Gazzetta
Silver Wedding
An American Murder
V Lights
A Sonnet
The Yuppie in Love
To His Coy Mistress
The Sigh
There's Something About a Cow
Stopping by Woods Without a Map
The Essential Auden
A Treatise on the Astrolabe
The Thunder and Lightning Poker
The Death of Dracula
The Critics Are Too Much With Us