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A concrete selection

Some concrete poems, further to those newly published in The Reality Street Book of Sonnets (see www.realitystreet.co.uk) and onedit (issue12)


Some songs


To the Tune of Abandoned Love (and a performance of it on YouTube, 4 minutes in to the clip)

Nowhere Without You

Moments Arrived

Sunsong

Give Me My Own

 

 

Agenda poems

Some lyric poems were publisehd in the online edition of Agenda magazine (the supplement to the ‘Past Histories’ issue, available as a pdf from www.agendapoetry.co.uk)

 

A page for William Blake

Haiku print and settings of two of his Songs: ‘The Tyger’ and ‘The Little Black Boy’



Musical prose

 

61 Minutes : A Second
Some notes on Bob Dylan’s Chronicles, Volume 1. Download as a pdf.

 

 

There’s Hot Stuff Here and It’s Everywhere I Go
A Young Person’s Introduction to Modern Times

 

 

Bow Down to Her on Sunday
Some thoughts on Dylan’s use of Tarot imagery and ‘To Ramona’

 

Steady Rollin’ Man: a revolutionary critique of Robert Johnson
A brief essay about the famous bluesman’s records, a revised form of some ideas originally mooted in The Nightingale’s Code.

 

We Walk the Line
A Rambler’s Guide to the Dylans, Bob and Thomas

Originally written as a lecture for the Dylan Thomas Celebration in Swansea. Download as a pdf.

 

From ‘The Nightingale’s Code: a poetic study of Bob Dylan’
The Postscript, about Love and Theft. Download as a pdf file.


Poems


lullabytes (pdf)
Second part of London Bride, a long poem from the Square Mile

 

Poludnitsa
In memory of Burhan Tufail

 

Alfred to the Barmaid
Inspired by The White Horse in Tetford, Lincolnshire

 

Olivia
Her garland

 

Nude Ascending
“She comes upstairs / by the light of a small blue vase…”


‘One gets the look’

 

The Promise
A callipygian ode

Ruby’s Song
For the fair singer

 

‘The sonnetteers’


‘The apple trees’

 

Vulcan to His Bronze
With thanks

 

The Parting Gift
A Pantagrueline love-song

 

Friendly Flesh
Contains rude words

 

Clutch
For four fledglings

 

Goats and Sheep
A poem partly ovine but largely capric

 

Swanage Bay
A Purbeck ballad

 

The Sea to Venus
A plea

 

For the Christening of Lewis Ryan Thompson

 

 

Ludslumber
Midnight in the capital

 

A Yellow Rose
“which turns / the wrist of storms"


White Spirit
In memory of Burhan Tufail

 

‘They’re too well known’

 

View
“which days of rain have washed / and wind have brushed and sun / brought more near”

 

Sand of the Thames
Winning poem in the competition for Southwark Poet of the Year 2005

 

Etruscan Nightingale
In memory of N'Deaye (or Inday) Ba, 1972–2005

 

The Conversation of Graves
A memory of the poet

 

‘Where I loved you before’

 

‘The crowd was only a crowd’

 

Eros in Aluminium
Desire takes aim on Pickadilla

 

‘The world is ours

 

Twigs
A mild winter and an early spring



‘A young sycamore’

 

The Centaur to Athene
A close encounter

 

Four Creatures
The Hare, the Hind, the Hedgehog and the Vixen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Lyrics:

Moments Arrived
A song for the new world order

New Orleans of the Mind
The Big Easy in full swing, right behind your eyes.

To the Tune of Abandoned Love

Have you seen the Lay for the Day?