if
it were one
stone it would not be magical
if it were two stones the attrition of
rain cutting into its natural weakness too well
it would not be magical if its massif could not be set
trembling neither two nor one for a moment only say
the logging-poing of night-fall it would be magical yet
not miraculous small worlds may be born of such magic
but that it can go on and on without ceasing dazzling
the spectator with immobile motion neith two nor one
neither one nor two doomed and unshakable on its point
of infinity that is the miracle to be so weak
a finger logs it what constant strength
what force it takes to be a
logan -
stone you and I what cold applied
granite-fire on weakness no stone can move us
- excerpt from Logan Stone -
Click on the speaker to hear
Don Thomas reading the above excerpt
(Windows Media Format)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
POETRY
Personal and Possessive
Outposts, 1964.(With D.M. Black and Peter Redgrove)
Modern Poets II
Penguin, 1968.Two Voices
Cape Goliard, 1968.The Lover's Horoscope: Kinetic Poem
Purple Sage, 1970.Logan Stone
Cape Goliard, 1971.The Shaft
Arc, 1973.Lilith-Prints
Second Aeon,
(Cardiff, Wales), 1974.Symphony in Moscow
Keepsake Press, 1974.Love and Other Deaths
Elek, 1975.The Rock**
Sceptre Press, 1975.Orpheus in Hell**
Sceptre Press, 1977.In the Fair Field**
Five Seasons Press, 1978.The Honeymoon Voyage
Secker & Warburg, 1981.Protest: A Poem after a Medieval Armenian Poem by Frik**
Five Seasons Press, 1980.Dreaming in Bronze
Secker & Warburg, 1981.Selected Poems
Secker & Warburg, 1983.(With Sylvia Kantaris)
News from the Front
Arc, 1983.The Puberty Tree
(selected poems),
Bloodaxe Books, 1992.Dear Shadows
Fal, 2004.
Order from victoriajfield@btconnect.com or
+44(0)1872 225358
www.falpublications.co.uk** Signed, limited editions of
individual poems, not books.PROSE
The Devil and the Floral Dance
(juvenile), Robson, 1978.The Flute-Player
(novel), Gollancz, 1979.Birthstone
(novel), Gollancz, 1980.The White Hotel
(novel), Gollancz, 1981.Memories and Hallucinations
(memoir), Gollancz, 1988.
"Russian Nights" series:
Ararat
(novel), Gollancz, 1983.Swallow
(novel), Gollancz, 1984.Sphinx
(novel), Gollancz, 1986.Summit
(novel), Gollancz, 1987.Lying Together
(novel), Gollancz, 1990.
Flying into Love
(novel), Bloomsbury, 1992.Pictures at an Exhibition
(novel), Bloomsbury, 1993.Eating Pavlova
(novel), Bloomsbury, 1994.Lady with a Laptop
(novel), Carroll & Graf., 1996.Charlotte
(novella), Duckworth Press, 2000.
BIOGRAPHY
Solzhenitsyn: A Century
in His Life
St. Martin's Press, 1998.TRANSLATIONS
Anna Akhmatova,
Requiem, and Poem without a Hero
Elek, 1976.Akhmatova,
Way of All the Earth
Elek, 1979.Alexander Pushkin,
The Bronze Horseman
Secker & Warburg, 1982.Pushkin,
The Bronze Horseman, Selected Poems of Pushkin
Viking Press, 1982.Yevgeny Yevtushenko,
A Dove in Santiago
Secker & Warburg, 1983.Pushkin,
Boris Godunov
(a play developed for the BBC)
Sixth Chamber Press, 1985.Akhmatova,
You Will Hear Thunder
Secker & Warburg, 1985.Akhmatova,
Selected Poems
Penguin Books, 1988.
EDITOR
The Granite Kingdom: Poems of Cornwall
Barton, 1970.Poetry in Crosslight
(textbook), Longman, 1975.Songs from the Earth: Selected Poems of John Harris, Cornish Miner 1820-84
Lodenek Press, 1977.