Part one: Poor Yorick (Poor Yorick [1. Yorick's heart ; 2. Yorick has a problem with personal freshness ; 3. Yorick loses his glass ; 4. Yorick as beast of burden ; 5. Yorick contemplates drinking straws for the future ; 6. Yorick admires the spider lily ; 7. Yorick laughs ; 8. Yorick weeps ; 9. Yorick considers the worm ; 10. Yorick considers the prince ; 11. Yorick considers the cat who may ; 12. Yorick remembers gamboling ; 13. Yorick considers Hamlet's skull]) -- Part two: Scan (Scan ; Night watch ; The last stop before Betyhlehem ; Black-faced sheep ; Route 1003 ; The poets at Makara ; Hochstetter's frog ; Naughty boys' island ; Crabmeat on the fifteenth floor ; Ziziphus ; Mycroft ; other lives ; The greengage man) -- Part three: Trumpet vine (Trumpet vine ; Underwear ; The tennis ball ; There are times I feel like the egg ; Three times upon a time ; Precious McKenzie lifts himself ; The madness of crowds ; M. Hulot and the canary ; Deadpan ; Control tower ; Pool ; He had this thing ; The confession ; Pursued by crabs ; Dear Messrs. Smith & Wesson) -- Part four: Telegraph Road (Telegraph Road ; Wallet ; scrim ; Site content ; Geographies ; Helios ; Waiting for the mulberry ; She moved through the silence ; Leaves ; Invasion) -- Part five: Five travellers in a small Ford (Iron Heinrich ; Five travellers in a small Ford ; Nina Simonestraat in Nijmegen ; The muskrats at Versailles ; Near the Bonner Münster ; The Haribo factory ; At Ravenbourne ; Promenade ; Wasp at the trattoria ; At Andrès Carne de Res ; The knife ; Reforestation in the living room)
Summary:
The title of James Norcliffe's tenth poetry collection points deftly to the way it conveys big emotions without cracking a smile or shedding a tear. In Deadpan, Norcliffe writes in an alert, compassionate yet sceptical voic.
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