The New Exeter Book of Riddles - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1900564319 ISBN 13: 9781900564311

Publisher: Enitharmon Pr, 1999

Synopsis

Presents one hundred new riddles by contemporary English poets, inspired by the riddles in the medieval "Exeter Book," and describing both items that would not be out of place in the original work, and others of modern origin.

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About the Author

Kevin Crossley-Holland Kevin Crossley-Holland's deep interest in the early literature of north-west Europe is reflected in much of his writing. In addition to his Selected Poems and Moored Man, a cycle of North Norfolk poems with watercolours and etchings by Norman Ackroyd, he is the author of The Penguin Book of Norse Myths ,while his anthology The Anglo-Saxon World contains his well-known translations ofBeowulf and many of the shorter poems. His celebrated books for children, including the Arthur trilogy, Gatty's Tale and retelling of Beowulf illustrated by Charles Keeping, have been translated into well over twenty languages. With the poet Lawrence Sail, Crossley-Holland has edited a collection of modern metaphorical riddles,The New Exeter Book of Riddles ,and Light Unlocked, an anthology of Christmas Card poems. He is also the co-author with Ivan Cutting of The Wuffings, a play about Anglo-Saxon East Anglia, and the librettist for Nicola LeFanu of two operas based on medieval legends, The Green Children and The Wildman. Kevin Crossley-Holland is an Honorary Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, patron of the Society for Storytelling and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives on the North Norfolk coast.

Review

I Offer You Four Things by Roselle Angwin
The Bald Head With The Fringe by Jane Beeson
I Live Alone Where Echoes Roost by Charles Bennett
I Am Cuddle-shaped And Freckled by James Berry
Black My Beginning by Elizabeth Bewick
Like The Tides I Rise And Fall by Patricia Bishop
Weird Stuff This by Elizabeth Bletsoe
I Chuck Their Chins by Anne Born
A Punt Gliding Under A Chain Of Smiles by Tilla Brading
Your Fingers Fully Awake, It by Alan Brownjohn
I Have No Substance And No Form by Nigel Cameron
I Saw A Great Building With Many Storeys Piled High by Tony Charles
All Afternoon I Hope by Gillian Clarke
What We Reminded You Of You Are Already Forgetting by David Constantine
For Being Unfaithful Though Ever True by Christopher Cook
We Are A Crystal Zoo by John (20th Century-) Cotton
They're Marked Men. Their Park Is Like An Open Prison by Kevin Crossley-holland
There Is A Whole World Involved In Me by Martyn Crucefix
I Start With A Straight Back And Two Points by Peter Dale
When I Lean Down To Stir The Bathwater by Jane Duran
Alive, I Flourish by Edna Eglinton
My Emblem Is An Arrow by John Fairfax
A Door by Ursala Fanthorpe
Without You, I Prefer The Nights by Vicki Feaver
Gifted With Vision The Snowman Would See by Frank Fell
Ask Many Women And They'll Claim No Knowledge, But Some by Jennie Fontana
Rarest Of The Esculents, Its Distribution by Rodger Garfitt
Riddle by Elizabeth Garrett
You Lie With Me Nightly. In Bathrooms I'm There by Pamela Gillilan
I Flash For Megabucks by Diana Gittins
More Powerful Than The Government by Giles Goodland
When My Stomach Bulges, I Hurl Wild Whoops by Bill Greenwell
Two Spiral Stairs We Climb To Bed Together by Philip Gross
No Fragrance Yet The Fold by Harry Guest
My Skin Shimmers With All The Colours by Charles Hadfield
Narrow For Love That Must Be Fitted In by Sophie Hannah
I Work In The Evening, Alone And In Silence by James Harpur
The Hair On Your Body by David Hart
I Am A Glider On Time's Thermals by John Hawkhead
I Am The Swift Scribble by Patricia Hawkhead
I'm Skulking By The Scandal And The Handle by John Hegley
Though Starlings Imitate Me by Michael J. Henry
Grab The Beast By The Horns by Stuart Henson
I Do Not Have A Body by Bill Herbert
Who's That Knocking On My Ring, Says The Chin by Selima Hill
I Can Lift Gravity's Stern Glower by Libby Houston
In Grandfather's House I Ran Up And Down by Doris Hulme
I Am A Winged Creature, Flightless by Su Jarwood
Who Could Have Baked My Entire Heart's Desire by Sylvia Kantaris
One Eye Crystal, One Eye Flame, It Arrives by Mimi Khalvati
I Am Chained by Lotte Kramer
I'm Not In Court To Be Judged by Jenny Lewis
I Quake Like Satan by Herbert Lomas
I Flourish Between Pleasure And Pain by Michael Longley
Not Like A Sock. The One by Mary Maher
If You're Looking For Water by Tinker Mather
A Slow Train. Few Travellers. If by Eleanor Maxted
Though Giving Pleasure To Many by Roger Mcgough
I Wear Bright Colours by Elma Mitchell
Twilight By The Plantation by John Moat
Mine Is The Ungloved by John Mole
Rune by Paul Muldoon
The Tall Wood Twins by Les A. Murray
Not Loved Enough, Nor Yet Quite Lost by Suniti Namjoshi
Men Stare At Me More Than At Women by William Oxley
Through Frost And Snow And Sunlight by Brian Patten
I Am First Mouth, Then Hand by Edwyna Prior
I Hang From A Thin Green Rope by Elizabeth Rapp
Soon And Silently, In A Dark Suit... by Peter Reading
Your Job's To Work The Surface. Don't by Michele Roberts
You Need Me For Sitting by Michael Rosen
Like Cancer Cells, Ivy, Arthritis by Carol-ann Lumley Rumens
Up And Down I Go, My Stock by Lawrence Sail
Men Rigged My Chamfered Oak by William Scammell
Although You Never Asked To Come With Me by John Peter Scupham
Together, Babe, We Could Have Had The World Sewn Up by Olive Senior
I Am Always Behind by Jo Shapcott
Many Creatures Don't Have One by Penelope Diane Shuttle
It's Night, An Extra Quilt by Steve Sims
I Have A Voice In My Head That Talks Backwards. by Lemn Sissay
Conjure With Me: Three Letters by Richard Skinner
Rumoured Thief by Sam Smith
Time And Again We're Cut Down To Size by Martin Sorrell
Man by Christopher Southgate
I Am Black-browed by Pauline Stainer
Something You Won't Ever Bring Pressure To Bear On by James Sutherland-smith
I Pull Opposites Together by Guida Swan
Even Now I Cannot Help Thinking Of Them by George Szirtes
I'm Ugly But I Don't Know Why by Sandra Tappenden
I Am True In The Land Of Ancient Sounds by Susan Taylor
The Radial Wheels Of The Season Spiked With Knives by Charles Tomlinson
Then Suddenly His Brain Became The Sound by Raymond Tong
In Cities I'm As Rare As I'm Unwelcome by James Turner
I Have Horns, But Am Not Beast by Gordon Wardman
I Paid A Spring-time Visit To Your Country by Jean West
The Big Sleep, The High Window by John Whitworth
The Inscrutable Question by Simon Williams
Everything Opaque About Us, Perhaps by Anthony Wilson
I Go Through The Wood In Silence by Kit Wright
I Love Your Plumpness by Sally Young
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Edition details

• Publisher: Enitharmon Pr
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1900564319
• ISBN 13: 9781900564311
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Drew Simon
• Number of pages: 66
• Editor: Crossley-Holland Kevin, Sail Lawrence