W. S. Graham

Hester Jones is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol.

• Notes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsAbbreviations1. Introduction: Contacting Graham - Ralph Pite and Hester JonesListen. Put on Morning2. ‘Listen’: W. S. Graham - Ian SansomFrom The White Threshold3. Graham and the 1940s - Tony LopezFrom The Nightfishing4. ‘Roaring between the lines’: W. S. Graham and the White Threshold of Line-Breaks - Adam PietteFromm The Dark Dialogues5. Abstract, Real and Particular: Graham and Painting - Ralph PiteFrom Implements in their Places6. Syntax Gram and the Magic Typewriter: W. S. Graham’s Automatic Writing - Matthew FrancisFrom To My Wife at Midnight7. Dependence in the Poetry of W. S. Graham - Peter RobinsonFrom Dear Bryan Wynter8. Achieve Further through Elegy - Fiona GreenLetter X – My Dear So Many Times9. Graham and the Numinous: The ‘Centre Aloneness’ and the ‘Unhailed Water’ - Hester JonesFrom Johann Joachim Quantz’s Five Lessons10. The Poetry of W. S. Graham - Edwin MorganFurther ReadingGeneral IndexIndex of Graham’s Works

I first read a W. S. Graham poem in 1949. It sent a shiver down my spine. Forty-five years later nothing has changed. His song is unique and his work an inspiration.Harold Pinter