Review
The Water Diviner
by Dannie Abse River
by Karen Fleur Adcock Water
by Karen Fleur Adcock The Water Below
by Karen Fleur Adcock Flat Rock
by Archie Randolph Ammons If Anything Will Level With You Water Will
by Archie Randolph Ammons River
by Margaret Atwood Vermilion Flycatcher, San Pedro River, Arizona
by Margaret Atwood River Profile
by Wystan Hugh Auden The Estuary
by Patricia Beer The Water Diviner
by Patricia Beer First Day Of September
by Frances Bellerby The Porch Over The River
by Wendell Berry The Springs
by Wendell Berry Gentle Brent, I Used To Know You
by John Betjeman Waterspout, 1853
by Ruth Bidgood Waterfalls
by Elizabeth Bishop To Memory
by William Blake The Spring At Chedworth
by Alison Brackenbury The Banks Of Nith
by Robert Burns In Avon
by John Burnside Scotland In An Oxford Landscape
by Olivia Byard To My Mistress Sitting By A River's Side
by Thomas Carew The Brook
by Hayden Carruth Watercourse
by John Cassidy Sibard's Well
by Charles Stanley Causley The Ford
by John Clare Round Oak And Eastwell
by John Clare Rustic Fishing
by John Clare Forest Pools
by Leonard Clark Water Meadows
by Leonard Clark St Winefride's Well
by Gillian Clarke Valley
by Gillian Clarke Inscription For A Fountain On A Heath
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sonnet To The River Otter
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Lothian Burn
by John Stewart Conn A Two-seater Privy Over A Stream
by David Constantine In The Backs
by Frances Crofts Darwin Cornford Repose Of Rivers
by Harold Hart Crane Downstream Effects: River Stour
by James Crowden The Dowser
by James Crowden Springhead At Fontmell Magna
by James Crowden The Fisherman
by Martyn Crucefix Heaven
by Michael Cullup Not Drinking Water
by Peter Dale Vignette: 1
by Keki N. Daruwalla Vignette: 2
by Keki N. Daruwalla Green River
by Donald Davie The Thames
by John Denham Like Rain It Sounded Till It Curved
by Emily Dickinson The Bait
by John Donne Net And River
by Maura Dooley River People
by Joan Downar Where Stour Receives Her Strength
by Michael Drayton River
by Carol Ann Duffy Who Carved A Bird And A Fish
by Carol Ann Duffy Above All Rivers Thy River Hath Renown
by William Dunbar Hungry Thames
by Helen Dunmore Tay Bridge
by Douglas Dunn Bridge
by Geoffrey Fraser Dutton The River's Tent Is Broken: The Last Fingers Of Leaf
by Thomas Stearns Eliot The River
by Peter Fallon Rising Damp
by Ursala Fanthorpe Water Everywhere
by Ursala Fanthorpe Abstracted Water
by Roy Fisher Birmingham River
by Roy Fisher A Brook In The City
by Robert Frost Boundaries
by John Fuller At The Sand Creek Bridge
by James Galvin How Shy The Attraction
by James Galvin Culvert
by Roger Garfitt Beside The Wye
by John Greening Huntingdonshire Eclogues
by John Greening An Offering
by John Greening River History
by Lavinia Greenlaw The Salmon Leap
by Christopher Murray Grieve The Soaking
by Ivor Gurney Water Colours
by Ivor Gurney Thames
by Michael Hamburger On Sturminster Foot-bridge
by Thomas Hardy Under The Waterfall
by Thomas Hardy The Poet As Spirit Of The River
by Michael Hartnett The Wounded Otter
by Michael Hartnett Anahorish
by Seamus Heaney The Riverbed
by Seamus Heaney River Song
by John Heath-stubbs Angler
by Adrian Henri To Dean-bourn, A Rude River In Devon, By Which ... He Lived
by Robert Herrick Kingfisher
by Phoebe Hesketh The River Idle
by Phoebe Hesketh Guests Of Silence
by Jeremy Hooker Penmaen Pool
by Gerard Manley Hopkins A Shropshire Lad: 50
by Alfred Edward Housman An Eel
by Edward James Hughes Drouth End
by Paul Hyland Watering Place
by Paul Hyland Well Water
by Randall Jarrell Water Music
by Elizabeth Jennings River Rising In India
by Jennifer Joseph Charing Cross
by David Herbert Lawrence The Third Thing
by David Herbert Lawrence Sands Of The Well
by Denise Levertov Rivers
by Peter Chad Tigar Levi Behind The Waterfall
by Hilary Llewellyn-williams Mother Anthony's
by Hilary Llewellyn-williams To The River Charles
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Spring Tide
by Michael Longley The Charles River: 1
by Robert Lowell Dipper
by Norman Maccaig Gray Wagtail
by Norman Maccaig Kingfisher
by Norman Maccaig The Banished Gods
by Derek Mahon Heraclitus On Rivers
by Derek Mahon The Factories, Bathing In The Moscow River
by Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam The Kingfisher
by Andrew Marvell The River Meadows: 59
by Andrew Marvell The River Meadows: 60
by Andrew Marvell The River Meadows: 61
by Andrew Marvell Sweet Thames Flow Softly
by Francis Xavier Mathews The Launch
by Paul Mills Rivers Arise; Whether Thou Be The Son
by John Milton Eels At Night
by Robert Minhinnick Sap
by Robert Minhinnick Springs
by John Montague Flood
by Blake Morrison Now The Children Are Old Enough
by Andrew Motion October
by Iris Murdoch Brian Boru's Well
by Richard Murphy Beck
by Norman Nicholson Five Rivers
by Norman Nicholson To The River Duddon
by Norman Nicholson Definition Of A Waterfall
by John Ormond Salmon
by John Ormond Otter Out And In
by Alice Oswald River
by Alice Oswald Shadwell Stair
by Wilfred Owen Liffey Water
by William Oxley The Twist In The River
by Katherine Pierpoint In Imitation Of Cowley: 3. The River
by Alexander Pope Long Nanny Burn
by Katrina Porteous Team Gut
by Katrina Porteous Hundred River
by Neil Powell Along Almost Any River
by Jeremy Halvard Prynne Floods
by Craig Raine The Names Of The Sea-trout
by Tom Rawling Torridge Salmon
by Tom Rawling Concord River
by Adrienne Cecile Rich Riverine
by Lawrence Sail A Day On The River
by Vernon Scannell There Is A Willow Grows Aslant A Brook
by William Shakespeare The Question
by Percy Bysshe Shelley The River God
by Florence Margaret Smith Fording The Flooded Goldie River
by Gary Snyder River In The Valley
by Gary Snyder So Went He Playing On The Watery Plaine
by Edmund Spenser Dockland
by Bernie Steer The River Of Rivers In Connecticut
by Wallace Stevens A River
by Anne Stevenson Where Is The Scared Well, That Bore My Name?
by Jonathan Swift The Trout Map
by John Orley Allen Tate The Song Of The Brook
by Alfred Tennyson The Brook
by Philip Edward Thomas The Mill-water
by Philip Edward Thomas The Watchers
by Philip Edward Thomas The River
by Ronald Stuart Thomas Wide O'er The Brim, With Many A Torrent Swell'd
by James Thompson At Dunkeswell Abbey
by Anthony Thwaite Hudson River School
by Charles Tomlinson Ruskin Remembered
by Charles Tomlinson Sevenside
by Charles Tomlinson River
by Michael Vince The Wye Below Bredwardine
by John Powell Ward The Stream (1)
by Robert Wells Two Rivulets
by Walt Whitman The Voice Of The Rain
by Walt Whitman Symphony In Yellow
by Oscar Wilde A Flowing River
by William Carlos Williams Mists Over The River
by William Carlos Williams Sonnet
by Sheila Wingfield Ballade To A Fish Of The Brooke
by John Wolcott Bathing
by William Wordsworth Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
by William Wordsworth Derwent River
by William Wordsworth On The River Avon, Near Stratford
by David Wright --
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Product Description
Rivers are an inexhaustible source of metaphors and meanings, linking us with numberless generations who have paused to wonder at the paradox of constancy and flow. Poetry has a special capacity to convey the elusive qualities of running water, its magical transformations, its correspondences with life's meanderings, and the particular qualities of actual streams and rivers. While in recent years some rivers have been cleansed and restored, so that they are healthier now than at any time since the industrial revolution, other rivers are under assault from the impacts of modern society--chemical pollution, the lowering of water tables, erosion of banks and stream beds, and flooding due to global climate change, as well as destruction of plant and animal habitat. In this book, more than 180 poems create a chorus of older voices (Shakespeare, Blake, Wordsworth, Dickinson) and new, from both sides of the Atlantic, including Margaret Atwood, Seamus Heaney, A. R. Ammons, Adrienne Rich, Randall Jarrell, William Carlos Williams, Gary Snyder, Wendell Berry, Andrew Motion and Elizabeth Bishop.
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