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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And the last poem of Riverbus is London Bride (as yet unpublished).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.

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