Collected Love Poems

Collected Love Poems
Brian Patten

Of all the poets writing today, Brian Patten is perhaps the most accessible and popular. Now his love poems, old and new, are collected together in his single volume.Widely acknowledged as one of Europe’s foremost writers, Brian Patten’s love poems have earned him recognition far and wide. Truthful and tender, profoundly aware of the possibility of magic and the miraculous, these poems are beautiful, informed and, even at their darkest moments, filled with courage and hope.Alongside old favourites, this edition will contain a selection of new and hitherto unpublished poems. A must for lovers and poetry lovers everywhere this February.

Collected Love Poems

BRIAN PATTEN

Table of Contents

Cover Page

Title Page (#u5880e07c-ed11-5563-b3d7-f62b42182639)

Not Only (#uac4a3cad-687b-5ca9-af34-9c3ec42dd895)

Into My Mirror Has Walked (#ub094b54c-8dcf-50a8-be08-b22a2991acd0)

These Songs Were Begun One Winter (#u108359f0-685b-5c79-a5be-99a6e441d1c4)

The Ambush (#u8d62a758-ad06-5f76-ba05-76f16b19a467)

A Blade of Grass (#ud7eb6dab-5ef9-56ad-ae2e-70c9c0d60c11)

What I Need for the Present (#u7d4f331b-67b4-5296-9389-7db55afe8ee5)

Through All Your Abstract Reasoning (#uff2654eb-79fc-5dda-95a1-f25265e5fea1)

Song for Last Year’s Wife (#u921200c7-4385-5de4-8bda-7f0462f6f019)

On Time for Once (#udaf24f84-9c32-571f-89dc-12358ea12c31)

A Small Dragon (#u609f2a2f-eb18-57d0-9b8d-b39c79fac755)

Doubt Shall Not Make an End of You (#u53a4b1e6-f574-5800-a22d-9a3e3b78d8aa)

First Love (#u639dc0bd-8a73-5b44-b053-18a3e3bc679b)

After Rimbaud’s Première Soirée (#u63d5d4c9-3254-5bef-b620-7a33053b7420)

Now They Will Either Sleep, Lie Still, or Dress Again (#u60e3eede-bc8a-59b1-8c39-d7ffd63c8eaf)

Party Piece (#u4b4ec3ce-6877-5163-a8c7-4a6f428c7310)

Nor the Sun Its Selling Power (#u505d24d0-85fe-517f-aed2-e04d983ab18d)

When She Wakes Drenched from Her Sleep (#uf998fa4d-14f6-5931-8d4c-0b8e61abe8a2)

Dressed (#uf73f1676-261b-50d1-879f-43a2079dd77a)

The Transformation (#u1bb9ea10-d8cd-53fe-8ecf-d58032461efc)

Leavetaking (#u6f908f7b-d2bc-543d-9aab-8d1d80e0098a)

The Poor Fools (#u8bacdd2a-3318-5c8d-aabf-1069afc69423)

Tonight I Will Not Bother You (#ub69281b2-c894-5b3c-94e5-92a39889c0bf)

It is Time to Tidy Up Your Life (#u74077f02-5e7d-54d9-970f-56fc8c04a5a0)

Remembering (#litres_trial_promo)

Love Lesson (#litres_trial_promo)

The Innocence of Any Flesh Sleeping (#litres_trial_promo)

Someone Coming Back (#litres_trial_promo)

Mindless Now (#litres_trial_promo)

In Your Turning Against Walls (#litres_trial_promo)

The Confession (#litres_trial_promo)

She Complicates Her Life (#litres_trial_promo)

Perhaps (#litres_trial_promo)

The Assassination of the Morning (#litres_trial_promo)

A Creature to Tell the Time By (#litres_trial_promo)

A Suitcase Full of Dust (#litres_trial_promo)

The Mistake (#litres_trial_promo)

In Someplace Further On (#litres_trial_promo)

And Nothing is Ever as Perfect as You Want It to Be (#litres_trial_promo)

Simple Lyric (#litres_trial_promo)

Seascape (#litres_trial_promo)

Waves (#litres_trial_promo)

In the Dying of Anything (#litres_trial_promo)

Angel Wings (#litres_trial_promo)