Looking and Playing in Space

Looking and Playing in Space is the first book of poetry by George Dance. It was published in August 2011, when Dance was 57 years old. The publishers of record were Principled Press and Lulu.com.

The book is a translation of Regards et jeux dans l'espace, the first (and only) book by Quebec Canadian poet Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau. The poems are thoroughly modernist, with unrhymed lines of various lengths (free verse) and heavy in symbolism.

Contents
I - Playing No Support The Playing We are not accountants Dance Pageant River of My Eyes

II - Children The children Portrait

III - Outdoor Sketches The voice of the leaves Watercolour Flute Willows (on the water’s bank) The Elms The Great Willows Pines Against the Light

IV - Two Landscapes Landscape in Two Colours on a Background of Sky A corpse demands a drink

V - Gray and Blacker Spleen Shuttered House Fever

VI - Vigil Endless Beginning Once Vigil

VII You thought all was tranquil What can we do Minor Apocalypse Welcome Bird Cage

Accompaniment