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Learning to Look

出版	Peterloo Poets, 2003
ISBN	19043240539781904324058
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=-HFaAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Learning to Look is Chris Considine's first full collection. The title sequence consists of 10 poems about Art Class. The opening sequence of 10 poems, Touched by War, was highly commended in the Blue Nose Poets Competition 2000. A third sequence, The Lonelyhearts Column, consists of 10 snapshots of recognizable types - professional widower, stylish romantic, musician seeks lady for inspiration etc - and casts a satiric eye on the whole dating game. A fourth section of poems, Stonewallers and other poems is not a sequence. The subject matter of these poems ranges from Swaledale, sheep, and marmalade-making to the Himalayas, Emma Knightley, and George Stubbs. This is an outstanding first full collection and Chris Considine is a poet to watch. Learning to Look: Art Class 9 It's not so much learning to look as re-learning. The child took so long to walk home to lunch there wasn't time to eat. I only remember the fascination of earthworms and roadworks. Now, my weekly journey to Askrigg is magical. The car protects me from too much seeing or I might never arrive. The high point comes after the tortuous climb past Crow Trees and the slow threading through icepuddles and gree