some poems from 1967 to 2022
( roughly in chronological order, most recent poems first )
- plot badly
- all, most
- i dunno
- voodoo vertigo
- as each tear
- the memento tinge
- Antares (1)
- Antares (2)
- under cover of night my tar baby portraits splash through galleries not mine to grace by day
- sonzai-kan
- white ink interfering
- let the wound form lips and sing some sole mio song
- bob, bill
- bpm
- live at the Apollo and they shouted
- inventrix
- froooom
- mediocre revenge
- open top bus tour of Tourette, it’s
- in sports socks only
- in whose shoes now
- on the origin of
- once wandered
- sextet
- civitas sancti tui
- considering
- love token number 1
- perhaps not particularly helpful advice to self
- up, up
- kerfaffle
- no solo, oh no, oh it’s me
- bob, dart
- among all
- bang again bang
- your uber has arrived
- no good reason
- triumph of venus
- cabaret
- mind ½ full
- after… Clive James
- on two tongue common
- my wife eats breakfast cereal in bed at 2am
- chant de Tasmanie
- scriptorium
- m-m-m-mahler
- bit of a mouthful
- carnival of clones
- Parkinson’s but no complaints
- compline
- sharp
- (dis)missive
- untutored 1
- hamming it up
- shot, exterior
- title fight
- woulda, shoulda
- milk wars
- teen gothic
- thinking again about
- vintage roadshow
- I’m not cured yet
- this day this door
- landing approach
- lignt motive 3
- Van Loon’s Life
- tres chic
- friday lunchtime, lindisfarne, 1979
- qui tollis peccata mundi
- about Agatha
- towards Amy
- message in a bottle
- near life (experience)
- silence of the crows
- well look who’s here
- adept at it
- proof (that flight is possible)
- now U R 6
- next cab off the rank
- always October (2005)
- arrested development
- hard act to follow
- not drowning
- skirting the issue
- Gaia
- medical insight
- ‘boxcars boxcars’
- blessed are the millstones
- up at sparrow fart (circa 2000)
- ironing
- and Eve
- green
- jeans
- exposed
- urbino
- crumpled
- crumpled
- notes to the next
- biomorph 1
- assuming thinking
- which anatomy lesson
- neighbours in vertigo
- permeable old man
- postmarked Highgrove House
- improbable romance 20
- where the words come from
- geometry
- my son sits down with his guitar
- signing off now
- I, Ro
- on the origin of old stone crosses of the Vale of Clwyd
- more about the art of
- been there thought that
- not Green Lantern
- clothes in candlelight
- opera tutu
- transubstantiation 3
- when you write the novel of your life
- pure durum
- once was pink
- curse in Klingon
- the eleventh hour
- kiddle
- carrickfergus
- pink possum
- à la Olivier Messiaen
- clouds
- varennes
- flies
- smartalec
- i lost
- alex lounged
- hiroshima
- chat
- sunny boy
- duke ellington
- the diver
- alf in
- economy
- à la stockhausen
- beaches
- remember laurence denham
- good friday
- californ
- proteus
- still life
- cuckoo
- evie
- powpow
- penetrable
- interruption
- cardwoolsey
- the boys in town
- paddock
- regarday
- cheryl
- cuckoo chronochrome
- amerigo
- wood bell
- marslance
- powertool
- pan
- portolan
- spume life
- glee club
- field words
- wet
- leviathans
- pirate
- i.m. flip macarth
- sprite
- detour
- fouquet
- icarus
- rust
- mild rain
- laughter
- heraclitean fire
- on a still day
- n power
- come sunday
- stage stalks
- gloriana
- comfort