City Libraries, City of Gold Coast

The reader, [compiled by] Ali Smith

eng

Includes index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

The reader

[compiled by] Ali Smith

Jane Austen: from Northanger Abbey -- Margaret Atwood: The poet has come back ... -- Djuna Barnes: The terrible peacock -- Billie Holiday: from Lady sings the blues -- Laura Hird: from Born free -- George Mackay Brown: Witch -- Marina Tsvetayeva: We shall not escape Hell -- Kathleen Jamie: Meadowsweet -- Stevie Smith: This English woman -- Paul Bailey: Spunk -- Nell Dunn: from Up the junction -- William Douglas: Annie Laurie -- Zora Neale Hurston: from Their eyes were watching God -- Beryl the Peril: Double act -- Angela Carter: from Wise children -- Marilynne Robinson: from Housekeeping -- Jane Bowles: Everything is nice -- Virginia Woolf: from Orlando --John Keats: On first looking into Chapman's Homer -- Lydia Davis: In the Garment District -- Kasia Boddy: On the ward with TV, iPod and telephone -- Jack Rillie: Call-girls -- Margaret Tait: Elasticity; To anybody at all -- Grace Paley: Wants -- Czeslaw Milosz: On angels; Ars poetica? -- John Berger: Between two colmars -- W.G. Sebald: from After nature -- H.D. (Hilda Doolittle): The cinema and the classics: Beauty -- Colette: Mae West -- Lee Miller: Colette -- Cynthia Ozick: from the preface to Bloodshed and three novellas -- Virginia Woolf: from A writer's diary -- Edwin Morgan: More questions than answers; Instructions to an actor --John Donne: The good-morrow -- Joy Williams: Lu-lu -- Katherine Mansfield: 15 December 1919 -- Kate Atkinson: Unseen translation -- Edward Thomas: Adlestrop -- W.B. Yeats: The song of wandering Aengus -- Joseph Roth: Passengers with heavy loads -- Lavinia Greenlaw: The falling city -- Louise Brooks: Kansas to New York -- Liz Lochhead: On Midsummer Common -- A.M. Homes: Remedy -- Fred D'Aguiar: Bring back, bring back --Thomas Hardy: The darkling thrush -- Alice Oswald: Hymn to Iris -- Tove Jansson: Art in nature -- Wallace Stevens: Earthy anecdote -- Sylvia Plath: Black rook in rainy weather -- Xandra Bingley: Mrs Fish -- Hugh MacDiarmid: Bairns arena frightened -- Jackie Kay: Old Aberdeen -- Jeanette Winterson: The 24-hour dog -- William Carlos Williams: Pastoral -- Philip Larkin: The trees -- Nan Shepherd: from The living mountain -- Alan Spence: into the sea -- J.M. Synge: Prelude; In May -- Gertrude Stein: On "rose is a rose is a rose" --William Blake: Infant joy; A poison tree -- Lewis Grassic Gibbon: from Sunset song -- Alasdair Gray: Houses and small; Labour parties -- Helen Oyeyemi: Independence -- Ramona Herdman: He died on Friday -- Edwin Muir: The child dying -- Maggie O'Farrell: The house I live in -- Joyce Carol Oates: Small avalanches -- Anne Frank: Saturday, 8 July 1944 -- Dilys Powell: Reconciliation -- Armando: Fragments from Berlin -- Rachel Seiffert: Field study -- Nicola Barker: The butcher's apprentice --William Shakespeare: from Cymbeline -- Leonora Carrington: The happy corpse story -- Amos Tutuola: from The palm-wine drinkard -- Simone De Beauvoir: from Memoirs of a dutiful daughter -- Tom Leonard: baa baa black sheep -- Lorna Sage: Our Lady of the accident -- Clarice Lispector: from State of grace -- E.E. Cummings: thing no(of -- Muriel Spark: from The comforters -- Derek Jarman: White lies -- Dubravka Ugresic: Alchemy -- E.Y. "Yip" Harburg: It's only a paper moon -- Cookie Mueller: Fleeting happiness -- Italo Calvino from Six memos for the next millennium -- Rainer Maria Rilke: The ninth elegy -- Robert Creeley: End