Fossil Unicorn

Review 15th Century Woodcut Aeneid Vi After Amairgen After Crinagoras And You Shall Find All True But The Wild Iland As The Wind Of Springtime Touches Her At Night The Snow Is Blue Autocrat Of The Subtle Undereground World Be Not Afeared Breathing The Golden Darkness Cranae A Deep-sea Fisherman Hauls Up Dr Dee Easter Elizabeth Of Bohemia Grey Flames Roll & Drum He Turns From The Narrow Isle I'll Sing You Seven Seas January 10, 1984 Landsmen For An Old Crime Lie Gently In Linquenda Tellus Merlin's Time Will Return Moor, Mound & Crag My Heart That Wanders In Your Forest On Propertius Iv.7 Out From The Moon's Hillside Out From Time's Tumulus Poem For Lent Or Advent The Rain Rational Skeleton In The Green Tomb Receding Into Mist Robert Kirk The Scapegoat Old Year Sestina For Two Voices Seven Horizon Poems: 1 Seven Horizon Poems: 2. Based On Fernando Pessoa Seven Horizon Poems: 3 Seven Horizon Poems: 4 Seven Horizon Poems: 5. Lorenzo Magnificent, Probably 1480s Seven Horizon Poems: 6 Seven Horizon Poems: 7 Shadowless Air, Unchanging Season A Small Wind Is Fidgeting Spider Starting Out From The Latitude Of Byzantium To Thomas Cavalieri Tomis, December Valentine Wind-scattered Leaves Wyatt -- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®`Miss Purcell is masterly in her handling of myth and ancient history' --Elizabeth Jennings Product Description `Fossil Unicorn' is Sally Purcell's first collection for more than ten years and contains the very best of her work from that period. Drawing on folklore and mediaeval sources, these poems are tense yet fluid in rhythm and diction, and alive with a sense of the numinous underlying the world of the senses. Critics of her first collection, `The Holly Queen', spoke of `the ghostly music' and `diamantine elegance' of her poetry. These qualities have remained constant in her later work, in which she continues to explore the mysteries of the quest through legend and myth. Review `[The Holly Queen] is a miracle of chaste perfection' About the Author Sally Purcell studied French and Provençal at Oxford. A specialist in mediaeval literature, she has edited the anthology `Monarchs and the Muse' (Carcanet, 1972), editions of George Peele and Charles d'Orléans (also for Carcanet) and has translated a selection of `Provençal Poems'. Her previous collections are `The Holly Queen' (Anvil, 1971), `Dark of Day' (Anvil, 1977) and `Lake and Labyrinth' (Taxvs, 1985). She is also the author (with William Leaf) of `Heraldic Symbols' (V&A, 1986).