The Inkjet Books
These pamphlets (twenty-six in all) have been put together between 2002 and 2007. A portion of the poems reappear from Collected Poems (2000), but often revised, served as separate dishes to bring out the flavour, in different groupings and sequences, and some with illustrations.
Illustrata
Aliens
A
biblical sci-fi fairytale
Intimations
A
dream sonata
The
Improvised Version,
Volume 1
Poems
about musicians, from Albert Ayler and the Beatles to the band in your
local pub
The
Improvised Version,
Volume 2
Poems
about musicians, from Lol Coxhill and Jimmie Rodgers to the buskers on
the corner
The
Entertainers
Bareback,
Conjuror, Harlequin, Hermes, High Wire, Juggler, Pierrot, Ringmaster,
Stiltwalkers, Sydney Stanley, Tragedian
Septet
Seven
instruments speaking: alto, double bass, electric guitar, drums, piano,
tenor, trombone
Picture
Word Book
Two
sequences of visual poems, From The Picture Word Book and Quercy
Sonnets
A Wild Inhabitation
Eye
City
A
sequence seen from EC1
The
Smell of Thyme
“…
fresh thyme / speaks of the future”
A
Wild Inhabitation
Down
from the hills of the far north into the city on the plain
Legacy
Twenty-one
approximately Petrarchan sonnets and three formal lyrics – “Unlet
passion / In the old fashion”
Bay
Ten
small word-tunes, tiny but true
Characters
You & I
Portraits
from life, of the living and the dead.
One
Life
A
sequence of moments, from the grave to the cradle and back
Ballads & Histories
Ballads,
One
Romance
takes a swan-dive, from Majorca to Swanage Bay
Ballads,
Two
Tales
of the death-defying, from Icarus and Hector to Ernie Pyle
Three
Histories
“That’s
one small stab for man, one giant sleep for mankind.”
Comprising: Blue
Lion, Originals, The Astronaut Adrift
The Ghost Path
Pisces
Pieces
of water, including the Voyage of the Conger, and an elegy for a goldfish
called Elvis
Church
of Thorns
Poems
about religion and religious poems
Becoming
Light
Weddings
and funerals, wars and christenings – poems from time to time
Comedie of Eros
The
Promise
Act
One…
Pictures
of Birds
Seven
women: Wren, Heron, Swallow, Robin, Wild Goose, Tern and Sparrow
Four
Creatures
Hare,
Hind, Hedgehog & Vixen: magic, modesty, wisdom & courage
Further
Sonnets
And
so on…
Riverbus
Sand
of the Thames
London
through the lens of its river
Falling
Down
Further
leaves from a city life
And the last poem of Riverbus is London Bride (as yet unpublished). The first part of it can be read here.
