Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Miscellaneous Frontmatter
- INTRODUCTION: Katherine Mansfield, War Writer
- CRITICISM
- CREATIVE WRITING
- Poetry
- Kevin Ireland: ‘Miss Mansfield selects a word’
- Seamus Heaney: ‘Fosterage’ with a note on Seamus Heaney and Katherine Mansfield by Mirosława Kubasiewicz
- Short Story
- REPORTS
- Reviews
- Notes on Contributors
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
Kevin Ireland: ‘Miss Mansfield selects a word’
from Poetry
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2016
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Miscellaneous Frontmatter
- INTRODUCTION: Katherine Mansfield, War Writer
- CRITICISM
- CREATIVE WRITING
- Poetry
- Kevin Ireland: ‘Miss Mansfield selects a word’
- Seamus Heaney: ‘Fosterage’ with a note on Seamus Heaney and Katherine Mansfield by Mirosława Kubasiewicz
- Short Story
- REPORTS
- Reviews
- Notes on Contributors
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
Summary
Her words grew in a garden
choked with commonplace implications.
But she picked up on colour, strength and clarity.
Words thought to be too ordinary
or useless disclosed how intricately
their stems were bound in an undergrowth of meaning.
In the end each word was selected
to take its chance in new-found situations.
It had adopted native company and simply had to get on
with its own erratic reckonings.
If the word wilted and packed it in
somehow fresh growth always struck out once again.
KEVIN IRELAND
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- Katherine Mansfield and World War One , pp. 113Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2014