selected poems 1967 – 2022
These are roughly in order of writing, from most recent to poems written long ago. Excluded are many poems from 2004–2021 of which about 60 can be found in the studio.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- bl(u)est
- Van Loon’s Life
- tres chic
- about Agatha
- towards Amy
- near life (experience)
- hard act to follow
- skirting the issue
- Gaia
- medical insight
- ‘boxcars boxcars’
- blessed are the millstones
- …
- (gap of about a decade)
- …
- green
- jeans
- exposed
- urbino
- crumpled
- …