A checklist of his published poems

Compiled by Valerie Soar, using the resources of the Eric Mottram Archive

1. • title: '"The cat sat on the mat"'
   • first line: on her vinestump haunches she...
   • last line: the isotype of Venus in her blood
   • publication: Poetry 93/5 (Chicago) pp.306-307
   • date: 1959
2. • title: '"Take me to your leader"'
   • first line: in the centre pages he asks...
   • last line: from wrist and spine a history of sight
   • publication: Lucifer 59 (King's College, London) p.30
   • date: 1961
3. • title: 'Meet in the corpse'
   • first line: Philippe d'Orlean's heart...
   • last line: never notices
   • publication: Lucifer no issue number (King's College, London) p.16
   • date: Lent 1962
4. • title: 'There was new on'
   • first line: quite lately...
   • last line: peopleless
   • publication: Lucifer no issue number (King's College, London) p.16
   • date: Lent 1962
5. • title: none
   • first line: worn to / ruins...
   • last line: your hand putting out
   • publication: Lucifer no issue number (King's College, London) p.17
   • date: Lent 1962
6. • title: 'Provincetown'
   • first line: a hut with sun and moon...
   • last line: "I like to drink"
   • publication: Centigrade 3 (King's College, London) p.20
   • date: 1964
7. • title: 'Body calendars'
   • first line: slowly the biorhythms fulfill...
   • last line: the rest is excess
   • publication: Eleventh Finger 4 (Forest Row, Sussex) p.18
   • date: 1968
8. • title: 'Discovery information'
   • first line: hexagonal diamonds in a meteorite...
   • last line: for his remains: good the time is going slowly
   • publication: Eleventh Finger 4 (Forest Row, Sussex) p.19
   • date: 1968
9. • title: 'Armed men 1. O'Brien 1828-1862'
   • first line: a great admiration...
   • last line: an engraving by Sol Eytinge, Jr.
   • publication: Intrepid 11-12 (Buffalo, New York) pp.107-108.
   • date: 1969
   • reprinted in: Lon Chaney magazine (Brighton [1971])
   • dedication: Muriel Rukeyser
   • epigraph: Brecht
10. • title: 'Armed men 2. The shield of Henry II'
    • first line: with tears as single horn ribbons...
    • last line: wary within the orgy their symplegma
    • publication: Intrepid 11-12 (Buffalo, New York) p.108.
    • date: 1969
    • reprinted in: Lon Chaney magazine (Brighton [1971])
    • dedication: Muriel Rukeyser
    • epigraph: Brecht
11. • title: 'Armed men 3.'
    • first line: from beyond Fly Dakota...
    • last line: laughing men hardly ever shoot
    • publication: Intrepid 11-12 (Buffalo, New York) p.109.
    • date: 1969
    • reprinted in: Lon Chaney magazine (Brighton [1971])
    • dedication: Muriel Rukeyser
    • epigraph: Brecht
12. • title: 'Maps' pt 1
    • first line: where is the place to be...
    • last line: suck the screen there eyes not on the their hands
    • publication: Intrepid 11-12 (Buffalo, New York) pp.109-110
    • date: 1969
    • dedication: Rhiannon and Paul Evans
13. • title: 'Maps' pt 2
    • first line: in dream firm moving hazel wands grow knowing paths...
    • last line: in his closed fist
    • publication: Intrepid 11-12 (Buffalo, New York) pp.110-111
    • date: 1969
    • dedication: Rhiannon and Paul Evans
14. • title: 'Maps' pt 3
    • first line: small cry from inside...
    • last line: to touch others
    • publication: Intrepid 11-12 (Buffalo, New York) pp.111-112
    • date: 1969
    • dedication: Rhiannon and Paul Evans
15. • title: 'Maps' pt 4
    • first line: from the heart of the mountain red epidendrous flower...
    • last line: "the young tide of my people"
    • publication: Intrepid 11-12 (Buffalo, New York) pp.112-113
    • date: 1969
    • dedication: Rhiannon and Paul Evans
    • epigraph: Kierkegaard
16. • title: 'Maps' pt 5
    • first line: death ) towards death...
    • last line: unrepresented to the city
    • publication: Intrepid 11-12 (Buffalo, New York) pp.113-115
    • date: 1969
    • dedication: Rhiannon and Paul Evans
17. • title: 'Inside the whale'
    • first line: Not watching the errors...
    • last line: "in the buff"
    • publication: Inside the whale (Writers Forum, London) item 1
    • date: 1970
    • dedication: Jeff Nuttall
18. • title: none
    • first line: Cagney's freckled insolent eyes...
    • last line: the fields of exchange
    • publication: Inside the whale (Writers Forum, London) item 2
    • date: 1970
19. • title: none
    • first line: optimism of Popular Mechanics...
    • last line: your right hand?
    • publication: Inside the whale (Writers Forum, London) item 3
    • date: 1970
20. • title: none
    • first line: powers of darkness rise in...
    • last line: darkness silhouettes
    • publication: Inside the whale (Writers Forum, London) item 4
    • date: 1970
21. • title: 'Nutt's Castle'
    • first line: Photos of Kilpeck I thought you might like to see...
    • last line: one
    • publication: Inside the whale (Writers Forum, London) item 5
    • date: 1970
    • reprinted in: The Kilpeck Anthology ed. Glen Storhaug (Five Season Press, Madley, Herefordshire, 1981)
    • epigraph: Lorca
22. • title: 'Good life' pt 1
    • first line: blood overwhelms...
    • last line: demonaic ruin
    • publication: Anonym 5-6 (Buffalo, New York) p.25
    • date: 1970
    • dedication: for Babara and Lloyd Agte
23. • title: 'Good life' pt 2
    • first line: this Wyoming space...
    • last line: wind stone grass camera
    • publication: Anonym 5-6 (Buffalo, New York) p.26
    • date: 1970
    • dedication: for Babara and Lloyd Agte
24. • title: 'Good life' pt 3
    • first line: trying for one whole life's day...
    • last line: without eye glare packs his thrusty old cock in a box
    • publication: Anonym 5-6 (Buffalo, New York) p.27
    • date: 1970
    • dedication: Babara and Lloyd Agte
25. • title: 'Good life' pt 4
    • first line: under solar virtue...
    • last line: on the planet
    • publication: Anonym 5-6 (Buffalo, New York) p.28
    • date: 1970
    • dedication: for Babara and Lloyd Agte
26. • title: 'Shelter Island' pt 1
    • first line: Within the bowed wings...
    • last line: vibrations in order of complete invention
    • publication: Shelter Island and The remaining world (Turret Books, London) item 1a
    • date: 1971
    • reprinted in: Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) pp.429-431
    • year of composition: 1966-1969
    • dedication: Ulla and John Dydo
27. • title: 'Shelter Island' pt 2
    • first line: Stones begin their long glitter...
    • last line: observed
    • publication: Shelter Island and The remaining world (Turret Books, London) item 1b
    • date: 1971
    • reprinted in: Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) pp.431-433
    • year of composition: 1966-1969
    • dedication: Ulla and John Dydo
28. • title: 'The remaining world'
    • first line: exposed to withering radiation...
    • last line: all self-existing equanimity
    • publication: Shelter Island and The remaining world (Turret Books, London) item 2
    • date: 1971
    • year of composition: 1969-1970
    • dedication: Künga Dawa
29. • title: 'To the Indian poets: 1968' pt 1
    • first line: leaves of Madame Bovary...
    • last line: white car path into seer dark
    • publication: Intrepid 18-19 (Buffalo, New York) pp.88-90
    • date: 1971
    • dedication: Allen De Loach
30. • title: 'To the Indian poets: 1968' pt 2
    • first line: corsairs of Byron they pulled on chains...
    • last line: no name for blue
    • publication: Intrepid 18-19 (Buffalo, New York) pp.90-91
    • date: 1971
    • dedication: Allen De Loach
31. • title: 'To the Indian poets: 1968' pt 3
    • first line: these photographs...
    • last line: his unballed eyes
    • publication: Intrepid 18-19 (Buffalo, New York) pp.91-93
    • date: 1971
    • dedication: Allen De Loach
32. • title: 'To the Indian poets: 1968' pt 4
    • first line: explosions of love...
    • last line: forming under repeated sun
    • publication: Intrepid 18-19 (Buffalo, New York) pp.93-94
    • date: 1971
    • dedication: Allen De Loach
33. • title: 'Underground'
    • first line: we do not have / Beethoven's Faust...
    • last line: is absurd
    • publication: Intrepid 18-19 (Buffalo, New York) p.95
    • date: 1971
34. • title: 'Brighton & Hove Albion'
    • first line: Wayne Shorter short sword in hand...
    • last line: and half seconds
    • publication: Lon Chaney magazine (Brighton)
    • date: [1971]
35. • title: 'On a letter from Oregon'
    • first line: "from there to Olympus...
    • last line: you might live
    • publication: Human Issue 3/3 (Kent State, Ohio) p.28 sss 1972
    • dedication: Tom & Janet Hines
36. • title: 'Islamic mosaic near Jericho'
    • first line: under the Tree of Cruelty lion has entered antelope...
    • last line: from sleep
    • publication: Human Issue 3/3 (Kent State, Ohio) p.29
    • date: 1972
37. • title: 'A "picture"'
    • first line: wraith-what is the body...
    • last line: it repeats us inexorable
    • publication: Human Issue 3/3 (Kent State, Ohio) p.30
    • date: 1972
    • dedication: Walter Lowenfels
    • epigraph: Francis Bacon
38. • title: 'Underground: beginning from a passage in Neruda'
    • first line: from guitars of water and sunlight...
    • last line: the ground
    • publication: Intrepid 23-24 (Buffalo, New York) pp.2-3
    • date: 1972
39. • title: 'Gardiner's Island'
    • first line: against a people guilty of English blood...
    • last line: as well as strength
    • publication: Intrepid 23-24 (Buffalo, New York) pp.4-6
    • date: 1972
40. • title: 'Counterjustice'
    • first line: under the jackal's circling cough under star blanket...
    • last line: men turn their backs on this civilization to strike to live
    • publication: Sixpack 2 (London) pp.13-17
    • date: 1972
    • dedication: Tony Dunn
41. • title: 'Replies to Montale: January 1972'
    • first line: "Look for a broken mesh in the net that grips us"...
    • last line: guides to their foxholes teachers of dangerous springs
    • publication: The he expression (Aloes Books, London) item 1
    • date: 1973
    • year of composition: 1972
42. • title: 'Summer 1971'
    • first line: liquidation orders...
    • last line: is a process of inner development
    • publication: The he expression (Aloes Books, London) item 2
    • date: 1973
    • year of composition: 1971
43. • title: 'For a jailed killed man'
    • first line: men so new in the crisis-ridden field...
    • last line: almost to the floor
    • publication: The he expression (Aloes Books, London) item 3
    • date: 1973
    • year of composition: 1971-1972
44. • title: 'Definition of employee'
    • first line: sixty years of films packed with assassination...
    • last line: keep watching the skies
    • publication: The he expression (Aloes Books, London) item 4
    • date: 1973
    • year of composition: 1971-1972
45. • title: 'Rachmaninov'
    • first line: pedals of holds for a song swings back...
    • last line: about tachyons faster than light without proof
    • publication: The he expression (Aloes Books, London) item 5
    • date: 1973
    • year of composition: 1971-1972
46. • title: 'Five derivations 1. Sunday through Saturday'
    • first line: Sheriff Ben Sadler arrives...
    • last line: revenge
    • publication: The he expression (Aloes Books, London) item 6a
    • date: 1973
    • reprinted in: Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) p.7
    • year of composition: 1971-1972
    • dedication: Gerald Casale
47. • title: 'Five derivations 2. Satie'
    • first line: Like cats...
    • last line: ragtime on the outskirts
    • publication: The he expression (Aloes Books, London) item 6b
    • date: 1973
    • year of composition: 1971-1972
    • dedication: Gerald Casale
48. • title: 'Five derivations 3. Crumb'
    • first line: corns bunch out to sunsets...
    • last line: wisecracks I'm glad I got it over with.
    • publication: The he expression (Aloes Books, London) item 6c
    • date: 1973
    • year of composition: 1971-1972
    • dedication: Gerald Casale
49. • title: 'Five derivations 4. Counterscript of braille film'
    • first line: the last split second in his ahead appointment with death...
    • last line: in a VIP braille film counterscript inspection tour
    • publication: The he expression (Aloes Books, London) item 6d
    • date: 1973
    • year of composition: 1971-1972
    • dedication: Gerald Casale
50. • title: 'Five derivations 5. Time Out'
    • first line: Mogul Thrush no more...
    • last line: the general tapestry of people
    • publication: The he expression (Aloes Books, London, 1973) item 6e
    • date: 1973
    • year of composition: 1971-1972
    • dedication: Gerald Casale
51. • title: 'Arcturus'
    • first line: life your term...
    • last line: around me for this time being
    • publication: The he expression (Aloes Books, London) item 7
    • date: 1973
    • year of composition: 1971-1972
52. • title: 'Northumberland dark event'
    • first line: A cruel cut-throat nightrider...
    • last line: as cock crows Gilsland's gry spurts home nightrider's neck loose to Gilsland's hall
    • publication: The he expression (Aloes Books, London) item 8
    • date: 1973
    • reprinted in: Polytechnic of Central London Modern British Poetry Conference booklet (31 May-2 Jun 1974) p.72
    • year of composition: 1971-1972
    • dedication: Bill Griffiths
53. • title: 'Crete'
    • first line: bears wolves boars wild cattle...
    • last line: men brown women fair a dead man stands before his tomb composed
    • publication: The he expression (Aloes Books, London) item 9
    • date: 1973
    • reprinted in:
      • Polytechnic of Central London Modern British Poetry Conference booklet (31 May-2 Jun 1974) p.73;
      • Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) p.8
    • year of composition: 1971-1972
54. • title: 'Charles Burchfield'
    • first line: at moon radiance of a five point...
    • last line: settle on bees bodies in crocus dust
    • publication: The he expression (Aloes Books, London) item 10
    • date: 1973
    • year of composition: 1971-1972
55. • title: 'Frank Stella'
    • first line: is this purple...
    • last line: chimeras of geometry
    • publication: The he expression (Aloes Books, London) item 11
    • date: 1973
    • year of composition: 1971-1972
    • dedication: Peter Donnelly
56. • title: 'Mallarmé homage: The Folds'
    • first line: those returns to repetitions of youth...
    • last line: returns those ends
    • publication: The he expression (Aloes Books, London) item 12
    • date: 1973
    • year of composition: 1971-1972
57. • title: 'Variations on some lines by Brakhage'
    • first line: then these men feel through...
    • last line: or bedlam
    • publication: The he expression (Aloes Books, London) item 13
    • date: 1973
    • year of composition: 1971-1972
58. • title: 'The nerves of Proust and Sitting Bull'
    • first line: as cure for original...
    • last line: dreaming American young a last stand
    • publication: The he expression (Aloes Books, London) item 14
    • date: 1973
    • year of composition: 1971-1972
59. • title: 'Floodlit hand'
    • first line: Floodlit small funeral...
    • last line: a big hand
    • publication: The he expression (Aloes Books, London) item 15
    • date: 1973
    • year of composition: 1971-1972
    • dedication: Jerome Rothenberg
60. • title: 'To take an aim' (but elsewhere 'To take aim')
    • first line: sounds of water...
    • last line: yours
    • publication: The he expression (Aloes Books, London) item 16
    • date: 1973
    • year of composition: 1971-1972
61. • title: 'Confidence'
    • first line: confidence no sacrifice...
    • last line: confidence "a will I have polished with an artist's care"
    • publication: The he expression (Aloes Books, London) item 17
    • date: 1973
    • year of composition: 1971-1972
62. • title: 'Beginning with Fielding Dawson'
    • first line: do not be you...
    • last line: else
    • publication: The he expression (Aloes Books, London) item 18
    • date: 1973
    • year of composition: 1971-1972
63. • title: 'Letter to Jonathan Williams'
    • first line: in reply...
    • last line: born in the shadow of the sun
    • publication: The he expression (Aloes Books, London) item 19
    • date: 1973
    • year of composition: 1971-1972
64. • title: none pt 1 [elsewhere headed 'After Jeffers-1971']
    • first line: it pauses or seems to...
    • last line: this centre of the world
    • publication: The he expression (Aloes Books, London) item 20a
    • date: 1973
    • year of composition: 1971-1972
65. • title: none pt 2
    • first line: tore at the outside lock...
    • last line: let your tastebuds know who's boss
    • publication: The he expression (Aloes Books, London) item 20b
    • date: 1973
    • year of composition: 1971-1972
66. • title: 'Local Movement' pt 1
    • first line: the i is dotted ...
    • last line: drawn into our heart by magnetick force and virtue
    • publication: Local movement (Writers Forum, London) item 1a
    • date: 1973
    • reprinted in: Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) pp.434-440
67. • title: 'Local Movement' pt 2
    • first line: in bright lands of the North...
    • last line: is brain master of actors timekeepers sailors the spheres is heart brain
    • publication: Local movement (Writers Forum, London) item 1b
    • date: 1973
68. • title: 'Local Movement' pt 3
    • first line: sun of this ship...
    • last line: in thrall
    • publication: Local movement (Writers Forum, London) item 1c
    • date: 1973
69. • title: 'Towards the heart'
    • first line: beyond his clear mind little help...
    • last line: experiments to a nephew
    • publication: Local movement (Writers Forum, London) item 2
    • date: 1973
    • reprinted in: Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) pp.9-13
70. • title: none
    • first line: the magic lady has arts...
    • last line: throughout this body's entrances opening
    • publication: Local movement (Writers Forum, London) item 3
    • date: 1973
    • epigraph: George Santayana
71. • title: 'Turning point'
    • first line: he is nomad...
    • last line: he smelled cocoa nut almond frangipani as skin neared the blade
    • publication: Local movement (Writers Forum, London) item 4
    • date: 1973
    • dedication: John Blacking
72. • title: 'A homage to Hugh MacDiarmid'
    • first line: moonlight is knowledge of myself...
    • last line: all nothing thirst of eternity called love
    • publication: Local movement (Writers Forum, London) item 5
    • date: 1973
73. • title: 'William Harvey'
    • first line: a first that was curious in Anatomie...
    • last line: where there was no discovery
    • publication: Local movement (Writers Forum, London) item 6
    • date: 1973
    • reprinted in: Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) pp.14-16
    • epigraph: Georges Braque
74. • title: 'Homage to Denis Saurat'
    • first line: crawling nights to fetch a hanged man...
    • last line: men in perpetual process of madness and rescue
    • publication: Local movement (Writers Forum, London) item 7
    • date: 1973
75. • title: 'Flight'
    • first line: over roaring shingles run out to meet deceived body...
    • last line: in each other fired all light to darkness sunlight all touch
    • publication: Local movement (Writers Forum, London) item 8
    • date: 1973
76. • title: 'The condensation'
    • first line: so they vanish as a gambler into immolation...
    • last line: endless themes breathing their first
    • publication: Local movement (Writers Forum, London) item 9
    • date: 1973
77. • title: 'Transfigured night'
    • first line: is this dawn or moonlight still ...
    • last line: so love in bodies shines to show us
    • publication: Local movement (Writers Forum, London) item 10
    • date: 1973
78. • title: 'Chance'
    • first line: a thundering collision of different worlds...
    • last line: a pared moon above scraping sea
    • publication: Local movement (Writers Forum, London) item 11
    • date: 1973
79. • title: 'Art news'
    • first line: March without you ...
    • last line: for where electricity
    • publication: Local movement (Writers Forum, London) item 12
    • date: 1973
80. • title: none
    • first line: what he saw then he never saw again...
    • last line: value spot and bloom the universe
    • publication: Local movement (Writers Forum, London) item 13
    • date: 1973
81. • title: none
    • first line: midnight back ground out of this night...
    • last line: slaying eyes which pad light fall foot fall
    • publication: Local movement (Writers Forum, London) item 14
    • date: 1973
    • epigraph: Wagner
82. • title: 'For Max Knoll'
    • first line: if there is relation between physical objects...
    • last line: revenge of corona in her changing blood
    • publication: Local movement (Writers Forum, London) item 15
    • date: 1973
83. • title: 'The city as an image of man'
    • first line: "come good folk don't stand about"...
    • last line: the bodies city of conjunction
    • publication: Local movement (Writers Forum, London) item 16
    • date: 1973
    • dedication: Igor Stravinsky
84. • title: 'Tristam comes: a conclusion'
    • first line: Tristam comes...
    • last line: a form of re-entry
    • publication: Local movement (Writers Forum, London) item 17
    • date: 1973
85. • title: 'Definition'
    • first line: not to put to ...
    • last line: unrestricted
    • publication: Local movement (Writers Forum, London) item 18
    • date: 1973
86. • title: 'The Galen tradition unbroken'
    • first line: at Padua ...
    • last line: they may fall
    • publication: Local movement (Writers Forum, London) item 19
    • date: 1973
87. • title: 'Left for California: the slow awakening'
    • first line: what died in the egg unable to break out...
    • last line: every morning and this morning now you left for California
    • publication: Sixpack 5 (London & Lake Toxaway, North Carolina)
    • date: 1973
    • dedication: Robert Lewis and Gerald Casale
88. • title: 'Kent Diptych 1. Invasion: Kent, March 1971'
    • first line: between two air raids...
    • last line: descent came for
    • publication: Toucan 3 (Kent, Ohio)
    • date: 1973
    • dedication: Lynn Gingrass
89. • title: 'Kent Diptych 2. Return room: May 4 1971'
    • first line: to build this room around...
    • last line: body is freed all nothing after
    • publication: Toucan 3 (Kent, Ohio)
    • date: 1973
    • dedication: Lynn Gingrass
90. • title: 'Profession'
    • first line: the twins destroyed themselves...
    • last line: for clear action awakened balance he stands on surf rides his art
    • publication: When the last trumpet sounded ed. Mike Dobbie as Poet and Peasant 5 (Hayes, Middlesex)
    • date: 1973
91. • title: 'Schneebaum snow tree'
    • first line: then we embarked on a strenth journey...
    • last line: could not answer questions words came and were there
    • publication: WF100 ed. Bob Cobbing and John Rowan (Writers Forum, London)
    • date: 1973
    • dedication: William Burroughs
92. • title: 'Uncertainty of West'
    • first line: along the ridge...
    • last line: on a clear day you can see it now
    • publication: Second Aeon 15 (Cardiff) p.57
    • date: 1973
93. • title: 'Ancestor variants'
    • first line: consider for example our thoughts...
    • last line: imitates Wood in Winter Kuo Hsi 1020-1090
    • publication: Second Aeon 15 (Cardiff) p.58
    • date: 1973
94. • title: 'What is to be done'
    • first line: a fretwork radio...
    • last line: to wait
    • publication: Poetry presented by Transgravity 4 (London)
    • date: [pre-1974]
    • dedication: Lee Harwood
95. • title: 'Concord of Fludd: Homage to Diter Rot'
    • first line: earth through his toes...
    • last line: endless making and carefree reverence for seeds
    • publication: Strange Fæces 10 part B pp.10-13
    • date: 1973-1974
    • dedication: Clive Bush
96. • title: 'Elegy 1. Wonders of nature'
    • first line: "Druid Stone" passes under me...
    • last line: to bring ends together
    • publication: Two elegies (Poet & Peasant, Hayes, 1974) item 1
    • date: 1974
    • dedication: Pound & Kerouac
97. • title: 'Elegy 2'
    • first line: to continue tell a story...
    • last line: to pick them
    • publication: Two Elegies (Poet & Peasant, Hayes, 1974) item 2
    • date: 1974
    • reprinted in:
      • Sixpack 7-8 (London & Lake Toxaway, North Carolina, 1974) pp.200-204;
      • Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) pp.441-444
    • dedication: Paul Blackburn
98. • title: '"Fanatacism is when you redouble your effort, having forgotten your aim" (Santayana)'
    • first line: the magic lady has arts...
    • last line: throughout this body's entrances opening
    • publication: Polytechnic of Central London Modern British Poetry Conference booklet pp.74-75
    • date: 1974
99. • title: 'Tropics'
    • first line: at eye level the level banks mound the Sahara...
    • last line: as she makes her own size strides plunges into the sea
    • publication: pp.198-199 in Active anthology ed. George Quasha (The Sumac Press, Fremont, Michigan)
    • date: 1974
    • dedication: Pierre Joris
100. • title: 'The Baron'
     • first line: the miners learned rivers' courses...
     • last line: facts as a race against death unaccompanied by music
     • publication: Against tyranny (Poet & Peasant, Hayes, 1975) item 1
     • date: 1975
     • reprinted in: Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) pp.17-18
     • year of composition: 1973
     • epigraph: Pound
101. • title: 'Life speed'
     • first line: the son of a traitor suffocates...
     • last line: the knifer's acolyte to the dream of angels
     • publication: Against tyranny (Poet & Peasant, Hayes) item 2
     • date: 1975
     • reprinted in: Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) pp.19-22
     • year of composition: 1974
     • dedication: Paul Nizan
102. • title: 'The revolter'
     • first line: "the gloomy pleasure of not having to think...
     • last line: the relief of never succeeded"
     • publication: Against tyranny (Poet & Peasant, Hayes) item 3
     • date: 1975
     • year of composition: 1973-1974
103. • title: 'Deserts and surfaces'
     • first line: eight wounded men two women...
     • last line: from woods waters and air and our hands a sound
     • publication: Against tyranny (Poet & Peasant, Hayes) item 4
     • date: 1975
     • year of composition: 1974
104. • title: 'Against tyranny: Elegy 4' pt 1
     • first line: to regrow forests...
     • last line: skins trail the frost
     • publication: Against tyranny (Poet & Peasant, Hayes) item 5(a);
     • date: 1975
     • reprinted in:
       • Elegies (Galloping Dog, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1981) pp.41-42;
       • New Wilderness Letter 7 (New York, 1979) pp.36-37;
       • Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) p.23;
       • Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) p.445
     • year of composition: 1973
     • dedication: Jackie Kaye
105. • title: 'Against tyranny: Elegy 4' pt 2
     • first line: a region of brilliant smells intense colours...
     • last line: where to surpass yourself out of nature
     • publication: Against tyranny (Poet & Peasant, Hayes) item 5(b);
     • date: 1975
     • reprinted in:
       • Elegies (Galloping Dog, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1981) pp.41-42;
       • Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) pp.23-24;
       • Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) p.446
     • year of composition: 1973
     • dedication: Jackie Kaye
106. • title: 'Starless edge'
     • first line: the object, reality, sensuousness, is conceived only in...
     • last line: at any time masked as accident her own performance
     • publication: Fix 2 (Hayes, Middlesex)
     • date: 1975
     • year of composition: 1972-1974
     • dedication: Elaine Feinstein
107. • title: 'To the snowline'
     • first line: under slow traction a white cleft...
     • last line: a temperature for the naked
     • publication: Shelley's 3 (Kent, Ohio) pp. 60-61
     • date: 1975
108. • title: 'The apples of Paris'
     • first line: boxes radiant with sleeves and ospreys...
     • last line: Paris 'that factory of nothingness'
     • publication: Alembic 4 (London) 19-22
     • date: 1975-1976
     • year of composition: 1973
109. • title: '1922' pt 1
     • first line: Hung around the fat no neck...
     • last line: Old Nick
     • publication: '1922 earth raids', and other poems 1973-1975 (New London Pride, London) item 1 p.5
     • date: 1976
     • reprinted in: Matières d'Angleterre: Anthologie bilingue de la nouvelle poésie anglaise ed. Pierre Joris & Paul Buck (Trois Caillous, Amiens, 1984)
     • year of composition: 1973
     • dedication: David Attoe
     • epigraph: Wittgenstein
110. • title: '1922' pt 2
     • first line: face of the Earth...
     • last line: foodless in a breaking web
     • publication: '1922 earth raids', and other poems 1973-1975 (New London Pride, London) item 1 pp.5-7
     • date: 1976
     • reprinted in: Matières d'Angleterre: Anthologie bilingue de la nouvelle poésie anglaise ed. Pierre Joris & Paul Buck (Trois Caillous, Amiens, 1984)
     • year of composition: 1973
     • dedication: David Attoe
     • epigraph: Wittgenstein
111. • title: '1922' pt 3
     • first line: beneath...
     • last line: in dark earth dark light
     • publication: '1922 earth raids', and other poems 1973-1975 (New London Pride, London) item 1 pp.7-8
     • date: 1976
     • reprinted in: Matières d'Angleterre: Anthologie bilingue de la nouvelle poésie anglaise ed. Pierre Joris & Paul Buck (Trois Caillous, Amiens, 1984)
     • year of composition: 1973
     • dedication: David Attoe
     • epigraph: Wittgenstein
112. • title: '1922' pt 4
     • first line: across a deep track a web...
     • last line: but unity an angel at home
     • publication: '1922 earth raids', and other poems 1973-1975 (New London Pride, London) item 1 pp.8-9
     • date: 1976
     • reprinted in: Matières d'Angleterre: Anthologie bilingue de la nouvelle poésie anglaise ed. Pierre Joris & Paul Buck (Trois Caillous, Amiens, 1984)
     • year of composition: 1973
     • dedication: David Attoe
     • epigraph: Wittgenstein
113. • title: '1922' pt 5
     • first line: 2to walk in oneself and meet no one...
     • last line: national epic angelic as a comet
     • publication: '1922 earth raids', and other poems 1973-1975 (New London Pride, London) item 1 p.9
     • date: 1976
     • reprinted in: Matières d'Angleterre: Anthologie bilingue de la nouvelle poésie anglaise ed. Pierre Joris & Paul Buck (Trois Caillous, Amiens, 1984)
     • year of composition: 1973
     • dedication: David Attoe
     • epigraph: Wittgenstein
114. • title: 'Earth: Men: Angels' pt 1
     • first line: As the sun rises he has the complete earth...
     • last line: residence in earth
     • publication: '1922 earth raids', and other poems 1973-1975 (New London Pride, London) item 2 p.11
     • date: 1976
     • reprinted in:
       • Voix-Off / Angleterre ed. Pierre Jean Buffy (Editions du Castor Astral, Talence, 1980) pp.78-80;
       • Interstice 2 (London, 1997) 9-13
     • year of composition: 1973-1974
115. • title: 'Earth: Men: Angels' pt 2
     • first line: why we talk wild in the wind...
     • last line: one valentine one priapic thumb
     • publication: '1922 earth raids', and other poems 1973-1975 (New London Pride, London) item 2 p.12
     • date: 1976
     • reprinted in:
       • Voix-Off / Angleterre ed. Pierre Jean Buffy (Editions du Castor Astral, Talence, 1980) pp.80-82;
       • Interstice 2 (London, 1997) 9-13
     • year of composition: 1973-1974
116. • title: 'Earth: Men: Angels' pt 3
     • first line: I hear a bird in Persepolis sundown song...
     • last line: who judge him
     • publication: '1922 earth raids', and other poems 1973-1975 (New London Pride, London) item 2 pp.13-15
     • date: 1976
     • reprinted in:
       • Voix-Off / Angleterre ed. Pierre Jean Buffy (Editions du Castor Astral, Talence, 1980) pp.82-88;
       • Interstice 2 (London, 1997) 9-13
     • year of composition: 1973-1974
117. • title: 'Earth: Men: Angels' pt 4
     • first line: "those who profess to favour freedom yet deprecate agitation...
     • last line: pink gloves the rubber skins the first incision
     • publication: '1922 earth raids', and other poems 1973-1975 (New London Pride, London) item 2 pp.15-16
     • date: 1976
     • reprinted in:
       • Voix-Off / Angleterre ed. Pierre Jean Buffy (Editions du Castor Astral, Talence, 1980) pp.88-90;
       • Interstice 2 (London, 1997) 9-13
     • year of composition: 1973-1974
118. • title: 'Raids: knot and keel' pt 1.1
     • first line: raiders break in our gutters...
     • last line: lasting across door path
     • publication: '1922 earth raids', and other poems 1973-1975 (New London Pride, London) item 3 pp.18-19
     • date: 1976
     • reprinted in:
       • A decade and then some (Intrepid 25-35, 1976);
       • Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) pp.447-448
     • year of composition: 1973
     • dedication: John Porter
119. • title: 'Raids: knot and keel' pt 1.2
     • first line: leaf knife...
     • last line: I saw how the corpse-cuckoo swelled"
     • publication: '1922 earth raids', and other poems 1973-1975 (New London Pride, London) item 3 pp.19-20
     • date: 1976
     • reprinted in:
       • A decade and then some (Intrepid 25-35, 1976);
       • Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) p.448
     • year of composition: 1973
120. • title: 'Raids: knot and keel' pt 1.3
     • first line: knots on a weather vane spur on the burgee...
     • last line: where crabs leap on hot sands
     • publication: '1922 earth raids', and other poems 1973-1975 (New London Pride, London) item 3 p.20;
     • date: 1976
     • reprinted in:
       • A decade and then some (Intrepid 25-35, 1976);
       • Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) p.449
     • year of composition: 1973
     • dedication: John Porter
121. • title: 'Raids: knot and keel' pt 1.4
     • first line: ransomed cities paid out...
     • last line: by these reached Greenland and placed
     • publication: '1922 earth raids', and other poems 1973-1975 (New London Pride, London) item 3 pp.20-21;
     • date: 1976
     • reprinted in:
       • A decade and then some (Intrepid 25-35, 1976);
       • Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) p.449
     • year of composition: 1973
     • dedication: John Porter
122. • title: 'Raids: knot and keel' pt 2.1
     • first line: where the wind roared in the sea lung...
     • last line: to take place'
     • publication: '1922 earth raids', and other poems 1973-1975 (New London Pride, London) item 3 pp.21-24;
     • date: 1976
     • reprinted in:
       • A decade and then some (Intrepid 25-35, 1976);
       • Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) pp.450-452
     • year of composition: 1973
     • dedication: John Porter
123. • title: 'Raids: knot and keel' pt 2.2
     • first line: murderous ferocity marks their seizures...
     • last line: a keel is a backbone for a build
     • publication: '1922 earth raids', and other poems 1973-1975 (New London Pride, London) item 3 pp.24-26;
     • date: 1976
     • reprinted in:
       • A decade and then some (Intrepid 25-35, 1976);
       • Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) pp.452-454
     • year of composition: 1973
     • dedication: John Porter
124. • title: 'The effort'
     • first line: those who had made the revolution safe...
     • last line: the blue level of the Mediterranean
     • publication: '1922 earth raids', and other poems 1973-1975 (New London Pride, London) item 4 pp.28-32
     • date: 1976
     • reprinted in: Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) pp.25-29
     • year of composition: 1975
     • dedication: Joel Oppenheimer
125. • title: 'Elegy 5. Webern'
     • first line: a perfect knowledge of the mines...
     • last line: the invention of infinite plants
     • publication: '1922 earth raids', and other poems 1973-1975 (New London Pride, London) item 5 pp.34-37
     • date: 1976
     • reprinted in:
       • Elegies (Galloping Dog, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1981) pp.75-77;
       • Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) pp.30-32
     • year of composition: 1975
     • epigraph: Webern
126. • title: 'A faithful private' pt 1
     • first line: of being scared we never had it...
     • last line: of your insanity
     • publication: A faithful private (Genera, Newcastle upon Tyne)
     • date: 1976
     • reprinted in: Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) pp.37-38
     • dedication: Barry MacSweeney
     • epigraph: Heine
127. • title: 'A faithful private' pt 2
     • first line: blood of old newsreels movies...
     • last line: new man fountain
     • publication: A faithful private (Genera, Newcastle upon Tyne)
     • date: 1976
     • reprinted in: Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) p.39
     • dedication: Barry MacSweeney
     • epigraph: Heine
128. • title: 'A faithful private' pt 3 'Dolores Huerta'
     • first line: no cocks break dawn here...
     • last line: all the time
     • publication: A faithful private (Genera, Newcastle upon Tyne)
     • date: 1976
     • reprinted in: Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) pp.40-41
     • dedication: Barry MacSweeney
     • epigraph: Heine
129. • title: 'A faithful private' pt 4 'The singer'
     • first line: Interstate 40 at...
     • last line: songs
     • publication: A faithful private (Genera, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1976)
     • date: 1976
     • reprinted in: Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) p.42
     • dedication: Barry MacSweeney
     • epigraph: Heine
130. • title: 'A faithful private' pt 5 'Homage to Humphrey Jennings'
     • first line: what is the use of talent...
     • last line: unnecessarily
     • publication: A faithful private (Genera, Newcastle upon Tyne)
     • date: 1976
     • reprinted in: Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) pp.43-44
     • year of composition: 1974
     • dedication: Elaine Randell
     • epigraph: Heine
131. • title: 'A faithful private' pt 6 'Courbet: Elegy 8'
     • first line: white open works...
     • last line: before the levels of horizon
     • publication: A faithful private (Genera, Newcastle upon Tyne)
     • date: 1976
     • reprinted in:
       • Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) pp.45-46;
       • Revue de Poïétique Comparée 1/1 (Paris, 1989-1990) p.53
     • dedication: Barry MacSweeney
     • epigraph: Heine
132. • title: 'A faithful private' pt 7
     • first line: do you wish to begin?...
     • last line: We do
     • publication: A faithful private (Genera, Newcastle upon Tyne)
     • date: 1976
     • reprinted in: Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) p.47
     • dedication: Barry MacSweeney
     • epigraph: Heine
133. • title: 'Pictures of a world'
     • first line: a world forest trees unmatured...
     • last line: a dog at his heel
     • publication: Homage to Braque (Blacksuede Boot Press, [London]) item 1
     • date: 1976
134. • title: 'Walled garden'
     • first line: from single-handed genius flora and geometry...
     • last line: a chosen grove a path where firs catch winds for your ear
     • publication: Homage to Braque (Blacksuede Boot Press, [London]) item 2
     • date: 1976
     • reprinted in: Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) pp.33-35
135. • title: 'Wallington House'
     • first line: brood on names of things by coronels of nameless...
     • last line: by time's fictioneer forget it forget it
     • publication: Homage to Braque (Blacksuede Boot Press, [London]) item 3
     • date: 1976
136. • title: 'Silence at Wallington House'
     • first line: in 20 years 450 million radios 130 million...
     • last line: it's a performance audience assembles all the time
     • publication: Homage to Braque (Blacksuede Boot Press, [London]) item 4
     • date: 1976
137. • title: 'Vision'
     • first line: a secret arrangement...
     • last line: it opens and is light inside
     • publication: Homage to Braque (Blacksuede Boot Press, [London]) item 5
     • date: 1976
     • reprinted in: Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) pp.455-456
138. • title: 'The garden master'
     • first line: his fuel did unite and seduced changes from fields...
     • last line: fast hunt for shadows of the wheel
     • publication: Homage to Braque (Blacksuede Boot Press, [London]) item 6
     • date: 1976
139. • title: 'Trains'
     • first line: through unknown towns strange walls...
     • last line: past this frame
     • publication: Homage to Braque (Blacksuede Boot Press, [London]) item 7
     • date: 1976
     • reprinted in: Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) p.36
140. • title: 'Wild life of the people'
     • first line: "Wild life of the people" revolution is for criminals...
     • last line: leaping tails around dropped food
     • publication: Homage to Braque (Blacksuede Boot Press, [London]) item 8
     • date: 1976
141. • title: 'Melbourne House and West Wales'
     • first line: the opening movement brings yellow bog iris...
     • last line: wind steady across empire boundary
     • publication: Homage to Braque (Blacksuede Boot Press, [London]) item 9
     • date: 1976
142. • title: 'The necessity'
     • first line: one turns towards one...
     • last line: how green shapes a pierced star of nothing in the world
     • publication: Homage to Braque (Blacksuede Boot Press, [London]) item 10
     • date: 1976
143. • title: 'The painters'
     • first line: I touched her body my hands...
     • last line: juts the bardot rainforest begins again uses everything
     • publication: Homage to Braque (Blacksuede Boot Press, [London]) item 11
     • date: 1976
144. • title: none
     • first line: Pleasure of flat meadows by sea...
     • last line: above weed babble language of onward dirt
     • publication: Homage to Braque (Blacksuede Boot Press, [London]) item 12
     • date: 1976
     • dedication: Philip Whalen
145. • title: 'Underground: a passage in Neruda'
     • first line: from guitars of water and sunlight...
     • last line: into the ground
     • publication: Homage to Braque (Blacksuede Boot Press, [London], 1976) item 13
     • date: 1976
146. • title: 'English garden effect'
     • first line: pruned roses in high wind rain soaked perfumes...
     • last line: plotinian rock "forthought and carelessness combined"
     • publication: Homage to Braque (Blacksuede Boot Press, [London]) item 14
     • date: 1976
     • dedication: John Ashbery
147. • title: '"The tedious Sundays of death"'
     • first line: shooting and assassination...
     • last line: you could not tell
     • publication: Homage to Braque (Blacksuede Boot Press, [London], 1976) item 15
     • date: 1976
148. • title: 'The body makes a garden in the universe of things'
     • first line: the flecked circle of your eye...
     • last line: of love sown by the plough
     • publication: Homage to Braque (Blacksuede Boot Press, [London]) item 16
     • date: 1976
     • reprinted in: Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) pp.457-461
     • year of composition: 1971-1973
     • dedication: Christopher Jones
149. • title: 'But it does change'
     • first line: old plants shrivel into records...
     • last line: that words bind and loose materials things
     • publication: Branch Redd Review 1 (London)
     • date: 1976
     • year of composition: 1975
150. • title: 'Elegy 3: Parker'
     • first line: a dawn pitch this undulating country...
     • last line: he raises a steel shell to his mouth
     • publication: Branch Redd Review 1 (London)
     • date: 1976
     • reprinted in:
       • Elegies (Galloping Dog, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1981) pp.73-74;
       • Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) pp.73-74
     • year of composition: 1974
     • dedication: Brian Mottram
151. • title: 'Elegy 10: Lorca'
     • first line: judge and Civil Guard...
     • last line: into the earth
     • publication: Curtains, le prochain step 14-17 (Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire) pp.154-155
     • date: 1976
     • reprinted in:
       • Elegies (Galloping Dog, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1981) pp.19-20;
       • Matières d'Angleterre ed. Pierre Joris & Paul Buck (Trois Caillous, Amiens, 1984) pp.293-7
     • year of composition: (1976
     • dedication: Nissa Donnelly
152. • title: 'Elegy 6'
     • first line: the only man...
     • last line: from old shapes
     • publication: Fix 3 (Hayes, Middlesex) p.29
     • date: 1976
     • dedication: Jim Pennington
153. • title: 'The way of Miyamoto Musashi'
     • first line: an honoured guests advances...
     • last line: between two teachers you will never forget it
     • publication: Fix 3 (Hayes, Middlesex) pp.30-33
     • date: 1976
     • year of composition: 1975
     • dedication: Richard Cupidi
154. • title: 'Howard Vincent's 75th birthday'
     • first line: overhead a star clock...
     • last line: running at random over the stops
     • publication: Fix 3 (Hayes, Middlesex) pp.34-35
     • date: 1976
155. • title: 'The Green Man no.1'
     • first line: you must have felt it your hair feels like leaves...
     • last line: phallus impudicus the common stinkhorn
     • publication: A freebook: one poem four poems & a bit more accompanying a reading at the White Swan, London, 1 Dec
     • date: 1976
     • reprinted in:
       • A Book of Herne (Arrowspire Press, Colne, Lancashire, 1981) pp. 8-9;
       • Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) pp.486-487
     • year of composition: 1976
     • dedication: David Murray
156. • title: 'Moving through here'
     • first line: the true connoisseur of this art...
     • last line: is quoted you can have it
     • publication: Jam 2 (King's College, London) pp.18-19
     • date: 1976
     • year of composition: 1974
157. • title: 'Homage to Ferenc Juhácz no.1'
     • first line: in the call to home...
     • last line: or leave clear water
     • publication: Pod 1 (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) pp.43-44;
     • date: 1976
     • reprinted in:
       • The New Hungarian Quarterly 82 (Budapest, 1981) pp.75-77;
       • A Book of Herne (Arrowspire Press, Colne, Lancashire, 1981) pp.41-42;
       • Matières d'Angleterre ed. Pierre Joris & Paul Buck (Trois Caillous, Amiens, 1984) pp.183-189;
       • Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) pp.78-80
     • year of composition: 1975
     • dedication: Miklos Vajda
158. • title: 'A revolution: elegy 8-for Béla Bartók'
     • first line: even the flame in our oil lamp...
     • last line: to pathless winds
     • publication: Pod 1 (Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1976) p.42
     • date: 1976
     • reprinted in:
       • The New Hungarian Quarterly 82 (Budapest, 1981) pp.72-73;
       • A Book of Herne (Arrowspire Press, Colne, Lancashire, 1981) p.47
     • year of composition: 1975-1980
159. • title: 'Elegy 7: David Jones'pt 1
     • first line: layer under lens...
     • last line: hapless as crystals to reform
     • publication: Pod 1 (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) pp.39-40
     • date: 1976
     • reprinted in: Elegies (Galloping Dog, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1981) p.47
     • year of composition: 1975
160. • title: 'Elegy 7: David Jones'pt 2
     • first line: beyond each frame...
     • last line: his mad hands on a youth's arm
     • publication: Pod 1 (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) p.40
     • date: 1976
     • reprinted in: Elegies (Galloping Dog, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1981) p.48
     • year of composition: 1975
161. • title: 'Elegy 7: David Jones'pt 3
     • first line: a choice cannot be made twice...
     • last line: for the joy the ply
     • publication: Pod 1 (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) pp.40-41
     • date: 1976
     • reprinted in: Elegies (Galloping Dog, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1981) pp.48-49
     • year of composition: 1975
162. • title: 'A line of enquiry'
     • first line: no man can be known...
     • last line: discovered
     • publication: Third week in September [Arvon Foundation, Lumb Bank]
     • date: 1976
     • reprinted in: A Book of Herne (Arrowspire Press, Colne, Lancashire, 1981) p.7
163. • title: 'Herne's descent'
     • first line: Chlorophytum spreads green and white...
     • last line: the beginnings of truth
     • publication: Alembic 6 (Orpington, Kent, 1977) pp.49-50
     • reprinted in: A Book of Herne (Arrowspire Press, Colne, Lancashire, 1981) pp.29-30
     • year of composition: 1976
164. • title: 'Elegy 9: Gramsci. version (a)'
     • first line: dream back to a time when punctuality was new...
     • last line: a man's diet of place is a joke that kills
     • publication: Alembic 6 (Orpington, Kent) pp.45-48
     • date: 1977
     • reprinted in: Elegies (Galloping Dog, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1981) pp.87-90 in revised form-see separate entry
     • year of composition: 1976
     • dedication: Colin Simms
165. • title: 'Descents of love: songs of recognition'
     • first line: the fire did not burn...
     • last line: the rare moments of liberty'
     • publication: Mugshots ([McCarthy & Dobbie, London]) no.6
     • date: 1977
     • year of composition: 1976-1977
166. • title: 'Elegy 11: Ford'
     • first line: one dread knocked out another...
     • last line: toward
     • publication: Spring Ford (Pig Press Hasty Editions, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1977)
     • date: 1977
     • reprinted in:
       • Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) pp.60-62
       • Other: British and Irish poetry since 1970 ed. Richard Caddel and Peter Quartermain (Wesleyan University Press, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1999) 158-160
     • year of composition: 1976-1977
     • dedication: Lee Harwood
167. • title: 'Spring 1953: the years of pilgrimage'
     • first line: another relaxation...
     • last line: deeper than breath can hold
     • publication: Spring Ford (Pig Press Hasty Editions, Newcastle upon Tyne)
     • date: 1977
     • reprinted in:
       • Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) pp.63-64;
       • Fire Readings ed. David Applefield et al. (Frank Books, Vincennes, 1991) pp.119-120
     • year of composition: 1976
168. • title: 'Tunis' pt 1
     • first line: for King Necho of Egypt ..
     • last line: president
     • publication: Tunis (Rivelin Press, Sheffield)
     • date: 1977
     • reprinted in: Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) pp.48-49
     • year of composition: 1975-1976
169. • title: 'Tunis' pt 2
     • first line: breathless lions and Africans' slaves...
     • last line: drew iron and pine keel across a flat ocean
     • publication: Tunis (Rivelin Press, Sheffield, 1977)
     • date: 1977
     • reprinted in: Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) pp.49-50
     • year of composition: 1975-1976
170. • title: 'Tunis' pt 3
     • first line: a moving frame states...
     • last line: rises brief manic a flute over water
     • publication: Tunis (Rivelin Press, Sheffield)
     • date: 1977
     • reprinted in: Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) pp.50-51
     • year of composition: 1975-1976
171. • title: 'Tunis' pt 4
     • first line: through the open window...
     • last line: clear drums held to air light
     • publication: Tunis (Rivelin Press, Sheffield)
     • date: 1977
     • reprinted in: Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) pp.51-52
     • year of composition: 1975-1976
172. • title: 'Tunis' pt 5
     • first line: his legs and arms in unnatural angles...
     • last line: the boards proclaim Le Malade Imaginaire
     • publication: Tunis (Rivelin Press, Sheffield)
     • date: 1977
     • reprinted in: Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) p.52
     • year of composition: 1975-1976
173. • title: 'Tunis' pt 6
     • first line: rigid light blocked from cloud...
     • last line: a cowl unbroken
     • publication: Tunis (Rivelin Press, Sheffield)
     • date: 1977
     • reprinted in: Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) p.52
     • year of composition: 1975-1976
174. • title: 'Tunis' pt 7
     • first line: the treasure is the key...
     • last line: glare-proof
     • publication: Tunis (Rivelin Press, Sheffield)
     • date: 1977
     • reprinted in: Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) pp.52-53
     • year of composition: 1975-1976
175. • title: 'Tunis' pt 8
     • first line: moles on neck and left breastbone...
     • last line: legions of Aeneas
     • publication: Tunis (Rivelin Press, Sheffield)
     • date: 1977
     • reprinted in: Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) pp.53-54
     • year of composition: 1975-1976
176. • title: 'Tunis' pt 9
     • first line: Djebel Mansour...
     • last line: her flutes
     • publication: Tunis (Rivelin Press, Sheffield)
     • date: 1977
     • reprinted in: Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) p.54
     • year of composition: 1975-1976
177. • title: 'Tunis' pt 10
     • first line: punic-cufic-Arabic...
     • last line: counter point recognitions
     • publication: Tunis (Rivelin Press, Sheffield)
     • date: 1977
     • reprinted in: Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) p.55
     • year of composition: 1975-1976
178. • title: 'Tunis' pt 11
     • first line: on this city's one hill...
     • last line: trellises slope to the inland sea
     • publication: Tunis (Rivelin Press, Sheffield)
     • date: 1977
     • reprinted in: Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) pp.55-56
     • year of composition: 1975-1976
179. • title: 'Tunis' pt 12
     • first line: a pomegranate is a punic apple...
     • last line: son of Scylla
     • publication: Tunis (Rivelin Press, Sheffield)
     • date: 1977 reprinted in Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) pp.56-58
     • year of composition: 1975-1976
180. • title: 'Tunis' pt 13
     • first line: shards in winter...
     • last line: a sound of light
     • publication: Tunis (Rivelin Press, Sheffield)
     • date: 1977
     • reprinted in: Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) pp.58-59
     • year of composition: 1975-1976
181. • title: 'Wing commanded salutation'
     • first line: Bewcastle rune reads travel east and did not return...
     • last line: a dark age of blocked access the automatic shift
     • publication: Madeira and toasts: for Basil Bunting's 75th birthday ed.Jonathan Williams (The Jargon Society, Dentdale and Highlands, North Carolina, 1977 for 1975)
     • date: 1977
     • reprinted in: Raise the wind for me: poems for Basil Bunting (Pig Press, Durham, 1992) p.10
     • dedication: Basil Bunting
182. • title: 'Matrix' pt 1
     • first line: of the four peripheral nations...
     • last line: his eyes startle
     • publication: Saturday Morning 4 (London)
     • date: 1977
     • reprinted in:
       • A Book of Herne (Arrowspire Press, Colne, Lancashire, 1981) pp.71-72;
       • Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) pp.494-495
     • year of composition: 1976
     • dedication: Simon Pettet
183. • title: 'Matrix' pt 2
     • first line: 'I like the time I live in...
     • last line: hair in spiral
     • publication: Saturday Morning 4 (London)
     • date: 1977
     • reprinted in:
       • A Book of Herne (Arrowspire Press, Colne, Lancashire, 1981) pp.72-75;
       • Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) pp.495-499
     • year of composition: 1976
     • dedication: Simon Pettet
184. • title: 'Matrix' pt 3
     • first line: we to whom the world is our native country...
     • last line: without any melodic repetition and without a break'
     • publication: Saturday Morning 4 (London)
     • date: 1977
     • reprinted in:
       • A Book of Herne (Arrowspire Press, Colne, Lancashire, 1981) p.75;
       • Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) p.499
     • year of composition: 1976
     • dedication: Simon Pettet
185. • title: 'Matrix' pt 4
     • first line: "the barbed hook, baited with the illusion of progress, to bring...
     • last line: to look at that sort
     • publication: Saturday Morning 4 (London)
     • date: 1977
     • reprinted in:
       • A Book of Herne (Arrowspire Press, Colne, Lancashire, 1981) p.75;
       • Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) p.500
     • year of composition: 1976
     • dedication: Simon Pettet
186. • title: 'Matrix'pt 5
     • first line: Dylan made the sea...
     • last line: remembrance of a good act'
     • publication: Saturday Morning 4 (London)
     • date: 1977
     • reprinted in:
       • A Book of Herne (Arrowspire Press, Colne, Lancashire, 1981) p.76;
       • Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) pp.500-501
     • year of composition: 1976
     • dedication: Simon Pettet
187. • title: 'Matrix'pt 6
     • first line: open as dream through a door...
     • last line: Tremayne
     • publication: Saturday Morning 4 (London)
     • date: 1977
     • reprinted in:
       • A Book of Herne (Arrowspire Press, Colne, Lancashire, 1981) p.76;
       • Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) p.501
     • year of composition: 1976
     • dedication: Simon Pettet
188. • title: 'Matrix'pt 7
     • first line: a wild spectral object...
     • last line: to unmistakable mask
     • publication: Saturday Morning 4 (London)
     • date: 1977
     • reprinted in:
       • Polytechnic of Central London British Poetry Conference booklet (1977) pp.81-82;
       • A Book of Herne (Arrowspire Press, Colne, Lancashire, 1981) pp.77-78;
       • Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) pp.502-503
     • year of composition: 1976
     • dedication: Simon Pettet
189. • title: 'Matrix'pt 8 first line (1977): dawn light encounters gravitational mass... first line (later versions): Sun rises on gravitational mass...
     • last line: in your soul
     • publication: Saturday Morning 4 (London)
     • date: 1977
     • reprinted in:
       • Polytechnic of Central London British Poetry Conference booklet (1977) pp.82-84;
       • A Book of Herne (Arrowspire Press, Colne, Lancashire, 1981) pp.78-79;
       • Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) pp.504-505
     • year of composition: 1976
     • dedication: Simon Pettet
190. • title: 'from The Dark Time 1.'
     • first line: when you say understand...
     • last line: magma
     • publication: Rune 2 (London) pp.16-127
     • date: 1978
191. • title: 'from The Dark Time 2.'
     • first line: "the appearance of liberty...
     • last line: an ark
     • publication: Rune 2 (London) p.17
     • date: 1978
192. • title: 'from The Dark Time 3.'
     • first line: making love...
     • last line: the audience laughs
     • publication: Rune 2 (London) p.17
     • date: 1978
193. • title: 'Herne the Hunter'
     • first line: in a green velvet dress...
     • last line: recoils in the black humus
     • publication: Rune 2 (London) pp.15-16
     • date: 1978
     • reprinted in: A Book of Herne (Arrowspire Press, Colne, Lancashire, 1981) 13 p.32
     • year of composition: 1977
194. • title: 'Pierre Vidal the wolf'
     • first line: one version tells how he...
     • last line: mad lord
     • publication: Rune 2 (London) pp.14-15
     • date: 1978
     • reprinted in: A Book of Herne (Arrowspire Press, Colne, Lancashire, 1981) pp.58-59
     • year of composition: 1978
195. • title: 'Elegy 15: Neruda'
     • first line: they rise against misery...
     • last line: above the drudgeries of dirty Intelligence
     • publication: Spanner 13 (London)
     • date: 1978
     • reprinted in:
       • Elegies (Galloping Dog, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1981) pp.1-2;
       • Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) pp.65-66
     • year of composition: 1977-1978
196. • title: untitled constituent card of 'Precipice of Fishes'
     • first line: hands passive for the cigarette years to come...
     • last line: rock and sea the stoic example
     • publication: Precipice of Fishes (Writers Forum, London)
     • date: 1979
     • year of composition: 1977-1979
     • dedication: Barrie and Howell Daniels
197. • title: untitled constituent card of 'Precipice of Fishes'
     • first line: borrowing the paths of the fraudulent sea...
     • last line: to the mackerel sky
     • publication: Precipice of Fishes (Writers Forum, London)
     • date: 1979
     • year of composition: 1977-1979
     • dedication: Barrie and Howell Daniels
198. • title: untitled constituent card of 'Precipice of Fishes'
     • first line: torrential streams fifty million years...
     • last line: sun stone perpetual foam
     • publication: Precipice of Fishes (Writers Forum, London)
     • date: 1979
     • year of composition: 1977-1979
     • dedication: Barrie and Howell Daniels
199. • title: untitled constituent card of 'Precipice of Fishes'
     • first line: to find within the revolution a place to work and create...
     • last line: children reduced to a clothed gaze at the sun
     • publication: Precipice of Fishes (Writers Forum, London)
     • date: 1979
     • year of composition: 1977-1979
     • dedication: Barrie and Howell Daniels
200. • title: untitled constituent card of 'Precipice of Fishes'
     • first line: mirror the extent and diversity of the earth's surface...
     • last line: 1557 and any other time
     • publication: Precipice of Fishes (Writers Forum, London)
     • date: 1979
     • year of composition: 1977-1979
     • dedication: Barrie and Howell Daniels
201. • title: untitled constituent card of 'Precipice of Fishes'
     • first line: he is original...
     • last line: the tridentine hand of Neptune
     • publication: Precipice of Fishes (Writers Forum, London)
     • date: 1979
     • year of composition: 1977-1979
     • dedication: Barrie and Howell Daniels
202. • title: untitled constituent card of 'Precipice of Fishes'
     • first line: earth's damned...
     • last line: slip into the undifferentiating sea
     • publication: Precipice of Fishes (Writers Forum, London)
     • date: 1979
     • year of composition: 1977-1979
     • dedication: Barrie and Howell Daniels
203. • title: untitled constituent card of 'Precipice of Fishes'
     • first line: drugged hunter in the earth seas...
     • last line: seed into summer wireless space
     • publication: Precipice of Fishes (Writers Forum, London)
     • date: 1979
     • year of composition: 1977-1979
     • dedication: Barrie and Howell Daniels
204. • title: untitled constituent card of 'Precipice of Fishes'
     • first line: his flesh dreaded the cold...
     • last line: at a distance
     • publication: Precipice of Fishes (Writers Forum, London)
     • date: 1979
     • year of composition: 1977-1979
     • dedication: Barrie and Howell Daniels
205. • title: untitled constituent card of 'Precipice of Fishes'
     • first line: we are not for your gloomy inspection...
     • last line: reinhabitation
     • publication: Precipice of Fishes (Writers Forum, London)
     • date: 1979
     • year of composition: 1977-1979
     • dedication: Barrie and Howell Daniels
206. • title: untitled constituent card of 'Precipice of Fishes'
     • first line: from vortex cleft tongue...
     • last line: a liquid fate seeps into words
     • publication: Precipice of Fishes (Writers Forum, London)
     • date: 1979
     • year of composition: 1977-1979
     • dedication: Barrie and Howell Daniels
207. • title: untitled constituent card of 'Precipice of Fishes'
     • first line: what is the uncharted reach...
     • last line: sea leader
     • publication: Precipice of Fishes (Writers Forum, London)
     • date: 1979
     • year of composition: 1977-1979
     • dedication: Barrie and Howell Daniels
208. • title: untitled constituent card of 'Precipice of Fishes'
     • first line: fifty million years torrential snow...
     • last line: to believe in one sea road
     • publication: Precipice of Fishes (Writers Forum, London)
     • date: 1979
     • year of composition: 1977-1979
     • dedication: Barrie and Howell Daniels
209. • title: untitled constituent card of 'Precipice of Fishes'
     • first line: high weather places where solids and fluids meet...
     • last line: precipitate the scatter and hang there
     • publication: Precipice of Fishes (Writers Forum, London)
     • date: 1979
     • year of composition: 1977-1979
     • dedication: Barrie and Howell Daniels
210. • title: untitled constituent card of 'Precipice of Fishes'
     • first line: long cliches underset cliffs...
     • last line: beyond magma and igneous rocks
     • publication: Precipice of Fishes (Writers Forum, London)
     • date: 1979
     • year of composition: 1977-1979
     • dedication: Barrie and Howell Daniels
211. • title: untitled constituent card of 'Precipice of Fishes'
     • first line: who has shut up the sea with doors...
     • last line: divided a watercourse
     • publication: Precipice of Fishes (Writers Forum, London)
     • date: 1979
     • year of composition: 1977-1979
     • dedication: Barrie and Howell Daniels
212. • title: untitled constituent card of 'Precipice of Fishes'
     • first line: borders join and a red sail...
     • last line: far out
     • publication: Precipice of Fishes (Writers Forum, London)
     • date: 1979
     • year of composition: 1977-1979
     • dedication: Barrie and Howell Daniels
213. • title: untitled constituent card of 'Precipice of Fishes'
     • first line: hot limestone shines into marble...
     • last line: defining unprecedented and totalitarian
     • publication: Precipice of Fishes (Writers Forum, London)
     • date: 1979
     • year of composition: 1977-1979
     • dedication: Barrie and Howell Daniels
214. • title: untitled constituent card of 'Precipice of Fishes'
     • first line: always recommencing...
     • last line: the hollow alterations
     • publication: Precipice of Fishes (Writers Forum, London)
     • date: 1979
     • year of composition: 1977-1979
     • dedication: Barrie and Howell Daniels
215. • title: untitled constituent card of 'Precipice of Fishes'
     • first line: when experience has nothing...
     • last line: as he is selected to obtain intelligence inland
     • publication: Precipice of Fishes (Writers Forum, London)
     • date: 1979
     • year of composition: 1977-1979
     • dedication: Barrie and Howell Daniels
216. • title: untitled constituent card of 'Precipice of Fishes'
     • first line: liquid...
     • last line: yet it moves
     • publication: Precipice of Fishes (Writers Forum, London)
     • date: 1979
     • year of composition: 1977-1979
     • dedication: Barrie and Howell Daniels
217. • title: untitled constituent card of 'Precipice of Fishes'
     • first line: slow tribal vanity cannot contain revolt...
     • last line: from a Centre
     • publication: Precipice of Fishes (Writers Forum, London)
     • date: 1979
     • year of composition: 1977-1979
     • dedication: Barrie and Howell Daniels
218. • title: untitled constituent card of 'Precipice of Fishes'
     • first line: to be left to natural sentences...
     • last line: waves banal mathematical role and thud
     • publication: Precipice of Fishes (Writers Forum, London)
     • date: 1979
     • year of composition: 1977-1979
     • dedication: Barrie and Howell Daniels
219. • title: untitled constituent card of 'Precipice of Fishes'
     • first line: hats off to the Sea...
     • last line: bonjour Monsieur Courbet
     • publication: Precipice of Fishes (Writers Forum, London)
     • date: 1979
     • year of composition: 1977-1979
     • dedication: Barrie and Howell Daniels
220. • title: untitled constituent card of 'Precipice of Fishes'
     • first line: zu dem raschen Wasser spricht: ich bin...
     • last line: tellus the Earth
     • publication: Precipice of Fishes (Writers Forum, London)
     • date: 1979
     • year of composition: 1977-1979
     • dedication: Barrie and Howell Daniels
221. • title: untitled constituent card of 'Precipice of Fishes'
     • first line: at the limit of fertile ground
     • last line: (none--a one line entry)
     • publication: Precipice of Fishes (Writers Forum, London)
     • date: 1979
     • year of composition: 1977-1979
     • dedication: Barrie and Howell Daniels
222. • title: untitled constituent card of 'Precipice of Fishes'
     • first line: they have learned from the sea...
     • last line: never does it tire of its lace-fan of silver and silk
     • publication: Precipice of Fishes (Writers Forum, London)
     • date: 1979
     • year of composition: 1977-1979
     • dedication: Barrie and Howell Daniels
223. • title: untitled constituent card of 'Precipice of Fishes'
     • first line: water crowds the arterial banks...
     • last line: flow in the clepsidra encircles the Earth
     • publication: Precipice of Fishes (Writers Forum, London)
     • date: 1979
     • year of composition: 1977-1979
     • dedication: Barrie and Howell Daniels
224. • title: untitled constituent card of 'Precipice of Fishes'
     • first line: leave hope...
     • last line: draw back together
     • publication: Precipice of Fishes (Writers Forum, London)
     • date: 1979
     • year of composition: 1977-1979
     • dedication: Barrie and Howell Daniels
225. • title: untitled constituent card of 'Precipice of Fishes'
     • first line: thus gan...
     • last line: hooly her figure
     • publication: Precipice of Fishes (Writers Forum, London)
     • date: 1979
     • year of composition: 1977-1979
     • dedication: Barrie and Howell Daniels
226. • title: untitled constituent card of 'Precipice of Fishes'
     • first line: lame and blind pilgrims were conveyed...
     • last line: Gowan's call cut in the face
     • publication: Precipice of Fishes (Writers Forum, London)
     • date: 1979
     • year of composition: 1977-1979
     • dedication: Barrie and Howell Daniels
227. • title: untitled constituent card of 'Precipice of Fishes'
     • first line: the I scathed by moonrise between striations...
     • last line: intermediate surfaces
     • publication: Precipice of Fishes (Writers Forum, London)
     • date: 1979
     • year of composition: 1977-1979
     • dedication: Barrie and Howell Daniels
228. • title: untitled constituent card of 'Precipice of Fishes'
     • first line: far from the interiors...
     • last line: land locked
     • publication: Precipice of Fishes (Writers Forum, London)
     • date: 1979
     • year of composition: 1977-1979
     • dedication: Barrie and Howell Daniels
229. • title: untitled constituent card of 'Precipice of Fishes'
     • first line: stars in the magnificence...
     • last line: in my esteem
     • publication: Precipice of Fishes (Writers Forum, London)
     • date: 1979
     • year of composition: 1977-1979
     • dedication: Barrie and Howell Daniels
230. • title: untitled constituent card of 'Precipice of Fishes'
     • first line: song explodes in reason aged land...
     • last line: open to the scars
     • publication: Precipice of Fishes (Writers Forum, London)
     • date: 1979
     • year of composition: 1977-1979
     • dedication: Barrie and Howell Daniels
231. • title: untitled constituent card of 'Precipice of Fishes'
     • first line: his sea is left: past rhetoric...
     • last line: white sand whisperer
     • publication: Precipice of Fishes (Writers Forum, London)
     • date: 1979
     • year of composition: 1977-1979
     • dedication: Barrie and Howell Daniels
232. • title: untitled constituent card of 'Precipice of Fishes'
     • first line: then it thundered for the first time...
     • last line: Thunder
     • publication: Precipice of Fishes (Writers Forum, London)
     • date: 1979
     • year of composition: 1977-1979
     • dedication: Barrie and Howell Daniels
233. • title: untitled constituent card of 'Precipice of Fishes'
     • first line: sea song sung by the sea in us...
     • last line: knowing about knowledge
     • publication: Precipice of Fishes (Writers Forum, London)
     • date: 1979
     • year of composition: 1977-1979
     • dedication: Barrie and Howell Daniels
234. • title: untitled constituent card of 'Precipice of Fishes'
     • first line: after seventyfour ledges...
     • last line: deep shells exhale unseen unheard
     • publication: Precipice of Fishes (Writers Forum, London)
     • date: 1979
     • year of composition: 1977-1979
     • dedication: Barrie and Howell Daniels
235. • title: untitled constituent card of 'Precipice of Fishes'
     • first line: this calm repeating fountain...
     • last line: bird life
     • publication: Precipice of Fishes (Writers Forum, London)
     • date: 1979
     • year of composition: 1977-1979
     • dedication: Barrie and Howell Daniels
236. • title: untitled constituent card of 'Precipice of Fishes'
     • first line: rocks help destroy memory...
     • last line: king my father's
     • publication: Precipice of Fishes (Writers Forum, London)
     • date: 1979
     • year of composition: 1977-1979
     • dedication: Barrie and Howell Daniels
237. • title: untitled constituent card of 'Precipice of Fishes'
     • first line: the green miser merman Wisdom
     • last line: (none, one line entry)
     • publication: Precipice of Fishes (Writers Forum, London)
     • date: 1979
     • year of composition: 1977-1979
     • dedication: Barrie and Howell Daniels
238. • title: untitled constituent card of 'Precipice of Fishes'
     • first line: and the unique white track of sea trumpets
     • last line: (none, one line entry)
     • publication: Precipice of Fishes (Writers Forum, London)
     • date: 1979
     • year of composition: 1977-1979
     • dedication: Barrie and Howell Daniels
239. • title: 'Windsor Forest' pt 1
     • first line: holly thickness projected impervious...
     • last line: "the very hounds with which thou hunted me shall lick thy blood"
     • publication: Windsor Forest (Pig Press, Newcastle upon Tyne)
     • date: 1979
     • reprinted in:
       • A Book of Herne (Arrowspire Press, Colne, Lancashire, 1981) item 1;
       • Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) pp.67-69
     • dedication: Bill Butler
240. • title: 'Windsor Forest' pt 2
     • first line: Expert beyond us in woodcraft...
     • last line: the allegiances
     • publication: Windsor Forest (Pig Press, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1979)
     • date: 1979
     • reprinted in: Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) pp.69-70
     • dedication: Bill Butler
241. • title: 'from Shadow borders'
     • first line: a man's body a soft...
     • last line: answers in conception
     • publication: From Shadow borders (Twisted Wrist, Paris)
     • date: 1979
     • year of composition: 1977
242. • title: 'Elegy 12: Modigliani'
     • first line: stone carved perfect eggs...
     • last line: corduroy costume
     • publication: Adam: internatonal review 419-421 (London) p.39
     • date: 1979
     • reprinted in:
       • Elegies (Galloping Dog, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1981) p.53;
       • Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) p.481
     • year of composition: 1978
243. • title: 'Elegy 23: The secret adventures of order'
     • first line: the intelligence of the spectator...
     • last line: seven or eight others underneath it you can't tell about
     • publication: Adam: internatonal review 419-421 (London) p.51
     • date: 1979
     • reprinted in: Elegies (Galloping Dog, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1981) pp. 61-62
     • year of composition: 1976
     • dedication: Poussin
244. • title: 'Elegy 16: Catling'
     • first line: the willow twig in full leaf...
     • last line: after the arrow
     • publication: Alembic 8 (Orpington, Kent) p.4
     • date: 1979
     • reprinted in: Elegies (Galloping Dog, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1981) p.55
     • year of composition: 1978
245. • title: 'Elegy 18: Jackson Pollock as Herne'
     • first line: on bone head bone mask...
     • last line: the living dead shut away
     • publication: Alembic 8 (Orpington, Kent) pp.5-6
     • date: 1979
     • reprinted in: A Book of Herne (Arrowspire Press, Colne, Lancashire, 1981) pp.53-54
     • year of composition: 1978
246. • title: 'Elegy 14: Zukofsky'
     • first line: "the stone cringes...
     • last line: which shore
     • publication: Alembic 8 (Orpington, Kent) pp.1-3;
     • date: 1979
     • reprinted in:
       • Elegies (Galloping Dog, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1981) pp.3-4;
       • Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) pp.466-468
     • year of composition: 1978
247. • title: 'Friends, writers'
     • first line: "that gentle but persistent pressure...
     • last line: I am no longer the same man"
     • publication: Maxy's Journal 2 (Nashville, Tennessee) p.40
     • date: 1979
248. • title: 'Spicer: Elegy 13'
     • first line: sung through the forest mirror...
     • last line: King glass
     • publication: Maxy's Journal 2 (Nashville, Tennessee) pp.38-39
     • date: 1979
     • reprinted in: A Book of Herne (Arrowspire Press, Colne, Lancashire, 1981) pp.51-52
     • year of composition: 1978
     • dedication: Jack Spicer
249. • title: none
     • first line: from all angles lines converge cross to points...
     • last line: through intersection of loci their multiplicity may become revelatory
     • publication: item in 'Pollock Record' in P.S. (Primary sources on the international performing arts) 2 (London) pp.12-13
     • date: 1979
250. • title: none
     • first line: Bruce stood at last...
     • last line: at the empty canvas
     • publication: item in 'Pollock Record' in P.S. (Primary sources on the international performing arts) 2 (London) pp.12-13
     • date: 1979
251. • title: none
     • first line: every matted shoreline...
     • last line: below us the germinal universe of wood alive
     • publication: item in 'Pollock Record' in P.S. (Primary sources on the international performing arts) 2 (London) pp.12-13
     • date: 1979
252. • title: none
     • first line: cell and tissue...
     • last line: in which to dance
     • publication: item in 'Pollock Record' in P.S. (Primary sources on the international performing arts) 2 (London) pp.12-13
     • date: 1979
253. • title: none
     • first line: to Jarrell the occasional...
     • last line: no beginning and no end-1950 film
     • publication: item in 'Pollock Record' in P.S. (Primary sources on the international performing arts) 2 (London) pp.12-13
     • date: 1979
254. • title: none
     • first line: rain spears force sea flat under split light...
     • last line: contour ploughed scapes
     • publication: item in 'Pollock Record' in P.S. (Primary sources on the international performing arts) 2 (London) pp.12-13
     • date: 1979
255. • title: none
     • first line: you made your history...
     • last line: "further"
     • publication: item in 'Pollock Record' in P.S. (Primary sources on the international performing arts) 2 (London) pp.12-13
     • date: 1979
256. • title: none
     • first line: an anchor plumbed into the adamanian bay...
     • last line: a floated life the buoyant islands tackle
     • publication: item in 'Pollock Record' in P.S. (Primary sources on the international performing arts) 2 (London) pp.12-13
     • date: 1979
257. • title: none
     • first line: a boy stares with drastic knowledge...
     • last line: without sacrifice
     • publication: item in 'Pollock Record' in P.S. (Primary sources on the international performing arts) 2 (London) pp.12-13
     • date: 1979
258. • title: none
     • first line: masks as the stag king...
     • last line: with blood-stained handprints
     • publication: item in 'Pollock Record' in P.S. (Primary sources on the international performing arts) 2 (London) pp.12-13
     • date: 1979
259. • title: none
     • first line: courage to the spiral surfaces... of thought
     • last line: item in 'Pollock Record' in P.S. (Primary sources on the international performing arts) 2 (London) pp.12-13
     • date: 1979
260. • title: none
     • first line: suckled by a she-wolf...
     • last line: support and Spider
     • publication: item in 'Pollock Record' in P.S. (Primary sources on the international performing arts) 2 (London) pp.12-13
     • date: 1979
261. • title: none
     • first line: the line is quick...
     • last line: coral bones in private collections item in 'Pollock Record' in P.S. (Primary sources on the international performing arts) 2 (London) pp.12-13
     • date: 1979
262. • title: none
     • first line: lacerated skin...
     • last line: the art forces
     • publication: item in 'Pollock Record' in P.S. (Primary sources on the international performing arts) 2 (London) pp.12-13
     • date: 1979
263. • title: none
     • first line: a river bends into a peak forest...
     • last line: juice falls in shapely runs
     • publication: item in 'Pollock Record' in P.S. (Primary sources on the international performing arts) 2 (London) pp.12-13
     • date: 1979
264. • title: none
     • first line: the prairie floor...
     • last line: those scum corners in harbour
     • publication: item in 'Pollock Record' in P.S. (Primary sources on the international performing arts) 2 (London) pp.12-13
     • date: 1979
265. • title: none
     • first line: a tree bridge flung across matted ravine...
     • last line: from our hill home
     • publication: item in 'Pollock Record' in P.S. (Primary sources on the international performing arts) 2 (London) pp.12-13
     • date: 1979
266. • title: none
     • first line: his line dilates...
     • last line: the white bed
     • publication: item in 'Pollock Record' in P.S. (Primary sources on the international performing arts) 2 (London) pp.12-13
     • date: 1979
267. • title: none
     • first line: a stage for illumination...
     • last line: a ripe volcano
     • publication: item in 'Pollock Record' in P.S. (Primary sources on the international performing arts) 2 (London) pp.12-13
     • date: 1979
268. • title: none
     • first line: seeds fall in design in white sands...
     • last line: how will it lie
     • publication: item in 'Pollock Record' in P.S. (Primary sources on the international performing arts) 2 (London) pp.12-13
     • date: 1979
269. • title: none
     • first line: in 1937 Jungian analysis...
     • last line: Jungian automatism
     • publication: item in 'Pollock Record' in P.S. (Primary sources on the international performing arts) 2 (London) pp.12-13
     • date: 1979
270. • title: none
     • first line: safety a head through breaking sea...
     • last line: an island in the city floor
     • publication: item in 'Pollock Record' in P.S. (Primary sources on the international performing arts) 2 (London) pp.12-13
     • date: 1979
271. • title: none
     • first line: amorous bestiality enforced in Consualia...
     • last line: we tolerate an image
     • publication: item in 'Pollock Record' in P.S. (Primary sources on the international performing arts) 2 (London) pp.12-13
     • date: 1979
272. • title: none
     • first line: fear of the white the black sea...
     • last line: the Discovery locked in southern ice
     • publication: item in 'Pollock Record' in P.S. (Primary sources on the international performing arts) 2 (London) pp.12-13
     • date: 1979
273. • title: none
     • first line: shavings scent from pines...
     • last line: marvellous bread and pies
     • publication: item in 'Pollock Record' in P.S. (Primary sources on the international performing arts) 2 (London) pp.12-13
     • date: 1979
274. • title: none
     • first line: her white thighs in white cockle rays...
     • last line: sea sap from your crotch
     • publication: item in 'Pollock Record' in P.S. (Primary sources on the international performing arts) 2 (London) pp.12-13
     • date: 1979
275. • title: none
     • first line: chaos sown broadside...
     • last line: masterless
     • publication: item in 'Pollock Record' in P.S. (Primary sources on the international performing arts) 2 (London) pp.12-13
     • date: 1979
276. • title: 'Deer hunt'
     • first line: weeping dark in their seats...
     • last line: against crumbling alternates of law
     • publication: Soma 1 (Colchester, Essex) pp.21-22
     • date: 1979
     • reprinted in:
       • A Book of Herne (Arrowspire Press, Colne, Lancashire, 1981) pp.334-35;
       • Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) pp.81-82;
       • Fire Readings ed. David Applefield et al. (Frank Books, Vincennes, 1991) pp.120-121
     • year of composition: 1979
     • epigraph: Gauguin
277. • title: 'Midsummer: the longest day' pt 1
     • first line: will non but Herne the Hunter serve your turn ?...
     • last line: and leave poetry first appeared in Windows 7 (Eastbourne, Sussex) unpaginated
     • date: 1979
     • reprinted in: A Book of Herne (Arrowspire Press, Colne, Lancashire, 1981) p.22
     • year of composition: (1977
278. • title: 'Midsummer: the longest day' pt 2
     • first line: und liess' alle Poeterei !...
     • last line: a brilliance in deserted Taos. first appeared in Windows 7 (Eastbourne, Sussex) unpaginated
     • date: 1979
     • reprinted in: A Book of Herne (Arrowspire Press, Colne, Lancashire, 1981) pp.22-23
     • year of composition: 1977
279. • title: 'Midsummer: the longest day' pt 3
     • first line: mon coeur, comme un oiseau...
     • last line: orchards in polis first appeared in Windows 7 (Eastbourne, Sussex) unpaginated
     • date: 1979
     • reprinted in: A Book of Herne (Arrowspire Press, Colne, Lancashire, 1981) pp.23-25
     • year of composition: 1977
280. • title: 'Midsummer: the longest day' pt 4
     • first line: in this country...
     • last line: when night dogs run all sorts of deer are chas'd first appeared in Windows 7 (Eastbourne, Sussex) unpaginated
     • date: 1979
     • reprinted in: A Book of Herne (Arrowspire Press, Colne, Lncashire) pp.25-28
     • year of composition: 1977
281. • title: 'In time of war: 1980 mediate'
     • first line: gold leaf fruit...
     • last line: "the song's high breath"
     • publication: 1980 Mediate (Zunne Heft, Maidstone) pp.1-7
     • date: 1980
282. • title: 'New Year 1977'
     • first line: "the last hare stiffens into sculpture as catastrophe approaches"...
     • last line: prompts the upsurge of reason
     • publication: 1980 Mediate (Zunne Heft, Maidstone) pp.8-9
     • date: 1980
     • reprinted in:
       • The New Hungarian Quarterly 82 (Budapest, 1981) pp.73-75;
       • Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) pp.71-72
     • dedication: Gyula Illes
283. • title: 'Levelling: in honour of Gerrard Winstanley'
     • first line: making Lawes under specious pretences...
     • last line: who shall own the Sun
     • publication: 1980 Mediate (Zunne Heft, Maidstone) pp.10-12;
     • date: 1980
     • reprinted in: Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) pp.462-464
284. • title: 'To vitalize'
     • first line: to vitalize the tongue...
     • last line: aerial flares in pennants farewell silk flags
     • publication: 1980 Mediate (Zunne Heft, Maidstone) pp.13-14
     • date: 1980
285. • title: 'Conrad poems' pt 1
     • first line: beyond instincts for humility and vainglory...
     • last line: that is in panic blurred opportunity into nature
     • publication: 1980 Mediate (Zunne Heft, Maidstone) p.15
     • date: 1980
286. • title: 'Conrad poems' pt 2
     • first line: living in a world more or less homicidal and desperately...
     • last line: a whimsical determination
     • publication: 1980 Mediate (Zunne Heft, Maidstone) p.15
     • date: 1980
287. • title: 'When the days: from Jauffré Rudel'
     • first line: long days sweet songs...
     • last line: too fades
     • publication: Bunting at eighty (Coventry Arts Centre, Warwick University, 1980)
     • date: 1980
     • reprinted in:
       • Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London, 1982) pp.7-9;
       • Raise the wind for me: poems for Basil Bunting (Pig Press, Durham, 1992) as item 5
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
     • dedication: to Basil Bunting in 1992 printing
288. • title: 'Close out mystification: bring on the bread' pt 1
     • first line: the mourning period will not with our recent deaths...
     • last line: metallurgists in sacrifice time of the cannibal classes
     • publication: Fool's House ed. Allen Fisher (Spanner, London) pp.23-24
     • date: 1980
     • reprinted in: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London, 1982) pp.1-3
     • year of composition: 1980
289. • title: 'Close out mystification: bring on the bread' pt 2
     • first line: stay apart...
     • last line: The Slaughter (prose-poem)
     • publication: Fool's House ed. Allen Fisher (Spanner, London) pp.25-26
     • date: 1980
     • reprinted in: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London, 1982) pp.3-4
     • year of composition: 1980
290. • title: 'Close out mystification: bring on the bread' pt 3
     • first line: how much for...
     • last line: the luck
     • publication: Fool's House ed. Allen Fisher (Spanner, London) p.26
     • date: 1980
     • reprinted in: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London, 1982) pp.4-5
     • year of composition: 1980
291. • title: 'From the Exeter Book'
     • first line: both were Lord...
     • last line: bleached limestone
     • publication: A Book of Herne (Arrowspire Press, Colne, Lancashire) p.6
     • date: 1981
     • year of composition: 1978
292. • title: 'Audience of trees: after Ovid and Matamorphosis X'
     • first line: after his second's wife's death Orpheus...
     • last line: a new kind of flower out of blood
     • publication: A Book of Herne (Arrowspire Press, Colne, Lancashire) p.11
     • date: 1981
     • reprinted in: Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) p.488
     • year of composition: 1976
293. • title: 'Green Man no.2'
     • first line: shock eyes lids tight back...
     • last line: by something else-by colour'
     • publication: A Book of Herne (Arrowspire Press, Colne, Lancashire, 1981) pp.12-13
     • date: 1981
     • reprinted in: Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) pp.489-491
     • year of composition: 1978
294. • title: 'Green Man meets the Kid'
     • first line: babyfaced twenty wrinkled wrists and neck...
     • last line: rigid as tides
     • publication: A Book of Herne (Arrowspire Press, Colne, Lancashire, 1981) p.14
     • date: 1981
     • reprinted in: Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) p.492
     • year of composition: 1978
     • dedication: Samuel R Delany
295. • title: 'Green'
     • first line: no death not even change...
     • last line: for the isolated
     • publication: A Book of Herne (Arrowspire Press, Colne, Lancashire, 1981) p.16
     • date: 1981
     • reprinted in: Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) p.493
     • year of composition: 1978
296. • title: 'Wycoller' pt 1
     • first line: below matched ascidic green and yellow mustard...
     • last line: subway contacts palm strokings
     • publication: A Book of Herne (Arrowspire Press, Colne, Lancashire) p.17
     • year of composition: 1977-1978
     • dedication: Rachel Bank
297. • title: 'Wycoller' pt 2
     • first line: forest beyond law...
     • last line: Guy's walking teeth part
     • publication: A Book of Herne (Arrowspire Press, Colne, Lancashire) pp.17-19
     • date: 1981
     • year of composition: 1977-1978
     • dedication: Rachel Bank
298. • title: 'Herne Oak'
     • first line: in full cry after dancers...
     • last line: "a hunger for green, a thirst for blue"
     • publication: A Book of Herne (Arrowspire Press, Colne, Lancashire) p.20
     • date: 1981
     • year of composition: 1977
299. • title: none
     • first line: pearled oak carried in royal double span...
     • last line: "climbing through the idea to my skeleton"
     • publication: A Book of Herne (Arrowspire Press, Colne, Lancashire, 1981) 12 p.31
     • date: 1981
     • year of composition: 1978
300. • title: 'Hunter'
     • first line: ... cannot allow him to sit...
     • last line: he sees rain paving
     • publication: A Book of Herne (Arrowspire Press, Colne, Lancashire) p.36
     • date: 1981
     • year of composition: 1978
301. • title: none
     • first line: in blue water icicled...
     • last line: green-leaved polls the May wine again
     • publication: A Book of Herne (Arrowspire Press, Colne, Lancashire) pp. 37-38
     • date: 1981
     • year of composition: 1980
302. • title: none
     • first line: the coding hunter steals into wooden corners...
     • last line: theirs his always to return to leap in skins
     • publication: A Book of Herne (Arrowspire Press, Colne, Lancashire) p.39
     • date: 1981
     • year of composition: 1979
303. • title: 'Homage to Ferenc Juhácz no.2.Ouroboros'
     • first line: it does not bite but lets in...
     • last line: understand principles of flight
     • publication: A Book of Herne (Arrowspire Press, Colne, Lancashire) pp.43-46
     • date: 1981
     • year of composition: 1975-1980
304. • title: 'Orphic Herne'
     • first line: prison dedication to perfection...
     • last line: isolate the eyes
     • publication: A Book of Herne (Arrowspire Press, Colne, Lancashire) pp.49-50
     • date: 1981
     • year of composition: 1977
305. • title: 'Satyriasis'
     • first line: from foot to head green...
     • last line: to be continued
     • publication: A Book of Herne (Arrowspire Press, Colne, Lancashire) pp.56-57
     • date: 1981
     • year of composition: 1979
306. • title: 'Therioanthropy'
     • first line: a buck's head on am I a woodsman...
     • last line: "...I can only distinguish luminous and dark bodies"
     • publication: A Book of Herne (Arrowspire Press, Colne, Lancashire) pp.60-61
     • date: 1981
     • year of composition: 1979
307. • title: none
     • first line: in a clearing...
     • last line: watchful dialectic
     • publication: A Book of Herne (Arrowspire Press, Colne, Lancashire) p.63
     • date: 1981
     • year of composition: 1977
308. • title: none
     • first line: Oswolt Krel's left thumb is thrust...
     • last line: supports a determined pain
     • publication: A Book of Herne (Arrowspire Press, Colne, Lancashire) p.64
     • date: 1981
     • year of composition: 1977
309. • title: 'Herne Freewheelin'
     • first line: A small branch hung down...
     • last line: know your own
     • publication: A Book of Herne (Arrowspire Press, Colne, Lancashire) p.65
     • date: 1981
     • year of composition: 1977
310. • title: 'Outina consecrates the stag'
     • first line: at the return of February sun...
     • last line: King Stag
     • publication: A Book of Herne (Arrowspire Press, Colne, Lancashire) p.66
     • date: 1981
     • year of composition: 1976
311. • title: 'The world's rim'
     • first line: to American people widely the East...
     • last line: deer
     • publication: A Book of Herne (Arrowspire Press, Colne, Lancashire) p.68
     • date: 1981
     • year of composition: 1979
312. • title: 'Tristan's tale of madness'
     • first line: she and I drank Brangain's drink...
     • last line: the Yseut Tristan roots pushed through again
     • publication: A Book of Herne (Arrowspire Press, Colne, Lancashire) p.69
     • date: 1981
     • year of composition: 1978
313. • title: none
     • first line: a dance on the earth a drawing...
     • last line: in the ice age
     • publication: A Book of Herne (Arrowspire Press, Colne, Lancashire) p.70
     • date: 1981
     • year of composition: 1979
314. • title: 'Gifting hand'
     • first line: rain has fallen into a hand...
     • last line: towards the pull from another sun
     • publication: A Book of Herne (Arrowspire Press, Colne, Lancashire) pp.81-82
     • date: 1981
     • year of composition: 1979
315. • title: 'Bases: Herne among the poets' voices'
     • first line: I welcome this menace...
     • last line: ahead death from choking without attention
     • publication: A Book of Herne (Arrowspire Press, Colne, Lancashire) pp.83-84
     • date: 1981
     • year of composition: 1977
316. • title: 'Origin'
     • first line: the limiting position of the point of intersection...
     • last line: we are bewildered, run wild, or dwell like Robin Hood, outlawd [sic] and at home'
     • publication: A Book of Herne (Arrowspire Press, Colne, Lancashire) pp.85-88
     • date: 1981
     • year of composition: 1976
317. • title: 'Notebook 3'
     • first line: we invented one who melted ice returned Spring...
     • last line: jungles
     • publication: A Book of Herne (Arrowspire Press, Colne, Lancashire) pp.90-94
     • date: 1981
     • year of composition: 1976-1980
318. • title: none
     • first line: "antlers broken some time ago...
     • last line: this saddens me'
     • publication: A Book of Herne (Arrowspire Press, Colne, Lancashire) p.95
     • date: 1981
     • year of composition: 1981
319. • title: '(March 25, 1881)'
     • first line: only let the source be clean...
     • last line: "head bare and feet bare in the freshness of the world"
     • publication: A Book of Herne (Arrowspire Press, Colne, Lancashire) p.96
     • date: 1981
     • year of composition: 1981
320. • title: 'Elegy 37: O'Hara'
     • first line: pitted postquake New York...
     • last line: infusions and nightingales and strides the Bridge
     • publication: Elegies (Galloping Dog, Newcastle upon Tyne) p.5; 1981
     • reprinted in: Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) p.469
     • year of composition: 1980 (broadcast on Radio 3 'Poetry Now' programme 7 Nov 1980)
321. • title: 'Elegy 40: Twentieth Century'pt 1
     • first line: feather your oars...
     • last line: song thrush sipping at a pool under a pump
     • publication: Elegies (Galloping Dog, Newcastle upon Tyne) p.7
     • date: 1981
     • reprinted in: Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) p.470
     • year of composition: 1980
     • dedication: Muriel Rukeyser
322. • title: 'Elegy 40: Twentieth Century'pt 2
     • first line: the kite soars for prey...
     • last line: the People's emptied memory
     • publication: Elegies (Galloping Dog, Newcastle upon Tyne) pp.7-8
     • date: 1981
     • reprinted in: Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) p.471
     • year of composition: 1980
     • dedication: Muriel Rukeyser
323. • title: 'Elegy 40: Twentieth Century'pt 3
     • first line: words assemble shared memory...
     • last line: that enfolds him speaks in his tones'
     • publication: Elegies (Galloping Dog, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1981) pp.8-9
     • date: 1981
     • reprinted in: Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) pp.472-473
     • year of composition: 1980
     • dedication: Muriel Rukeyser
324. • title: 'Elegy 41: Brecht'
     • first line: Ming the Sun and Moon together we have learned...
     • last line: in the damaged east sky
     • publication: Elegies (Galloping Dog, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1981) pp.11-13
     • date: 1981
     • reprinted in:
       • Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) pp.75-77;
       • Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) pp.474-476
     • year of composition: 1980
325. • title: 'Elegy 11: Ford'
     • first line: One dread knocked out another...
     • last line: toward
     • publication: Elegies (Galloping Dog, Newcastle upon Tyne) pp.15-17
     • date: 1981
     • year of composition: 1976-1977
     • dedication: Lee Harwood
326. • title: 'Elegy 17: Melville'
     • first line: at his unfavourable circumstances desk all day...
     • last line: followed
     • publication: Elegies (Galloping Dog, Newcastle upon Tyne) pp.21-22
     • date: 1981
     • reprinted in: Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) pp.477-478
     • year of composition: 1978
327. • title: 'Elegy 1: Wonders of Nature'
     • first line: Druid Stone passes under me...
     • last line: to bring ends together
     • publication: Elegies (Galloping Dog, Newcastle upon Tyne) pp.23-29
     • date: 1981
     • year of composition: 1973-1974
     • dedication: Pound and Kerouac
328. • title: 'Elegy 6: William Carlos Williams'
     • first line: the only man....
     • last line: from old shapes
     • publication: Elegies (Galloping Dog, Newcastle upon Tyne) p.35
     • date: 1981
     • reprinted in: Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) p.479
     • year of composition: 1975
     • dedication: Jim Pennington
329. • title: 'Elegy 39: Henry Miller'
     • first line: actually you don't have a choice...
     • last line: vanished
     • publication: Elegies (Galloping Dog, Newcastle upon Tyne) pp.37-38
     • date: 1981
     • year of composition: 1980
330. • title: 'Elegy 28: De Sade'
     • first line: if M.de Sade is not removed from the Bastille...
     • last line: from the final stages of bones under Presidents
     • publication: Elegies (Galloping Dog, Newcastle upon Tyne) p.39
     • date: 1981
     • year of composition: 1978
331. • title: 'Elegy 38: for Vallejo'
     • first line: will the Earth turn in silence the forgotten rents...
     • last line: contempt in the tempestuous floodlit dawn after dawn
     • publication: Elegies (Galloping Dog, Newcastle upon Tyne) p.43
     • date: 1981
     • year of composition: 1980
332. • title: 'Elegy 35: Monk Lewis'
     • first line: from his Jamaican estates he returned...
     • last line: with "Puck" by Sir Joshua Reynolds over the mantle
     • publication: Elegies (Galloping Dog, Newcastle upon Tyne) p.45
     • date: 1981
     • reprinted in: Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) p.480
     • year of composition: 1979
333. • title: 'Elegy 31: Samuel Palmer' pt 1
     • first line: money and beef are not solid in the mind...
     • last line: under a warm bending moon
     • publication: Elegies (Galloping Dog, Newcastle upon Tyne) p.51
     • date: 1981
     • year of composition: 1978-1979
334. • title: 'Elegy 31: Samuel Palmer' pt 2
     • first line: walking in a tepid bath....
     • last line: that deathly single vision
     • publication: Elegies (Galloping Dog, Newcastle upon Tyne) pp.51-52
     • date: 1981
     • year of composition: 1978-1979
335. • title: 'Elegy 31: Samuel Palmer' pt 3
     • first line: Blake's elastic nervous spring which belongs...
     • last line: our precious possessions stolen over a life-time
     • publication: Elegies (Galloping Dog, Newcastle upon Tyne) p.52
     • date: 1981
     • year of composition: 1978-1979
336. • title: 'Elegy 19: Cornell'
     • first line: in cupboard life object and events...
     • last line: down falls hysteron-proteron the rational
     • publication: Elegies (Galloping Dog, Newcastle upon Tyne) pp. 57-58
     • date: 1981
     • year of composition: 1978
     • dedication: Paul Hammond
337. • title: 'Elegy 20: Bernard Leach'
     • first line: the firbres float uniformly in vegetable starch...
     • last line: on a milk white hand glaze
     • publication: Elegies (Galloping Dog, Newcastle upon Tyne) pp. 59-60
     • date: 1981
     • year of composition: 1968
338. • title: 'Elegy 27: Monet'
     • first line: "nature will never stand still"...
     • last line: he blows categories out of the window
     • publication: Elegies (Galloping Dog, Newcastle upon Tyne) pp.63-64
     • date: 1981
     • reprinted in: Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) pp.482-483
     • year of composition: 1977-1978
339. • title: 'Elegy 30: Courbet'
     • first line: white open works...
     • last line: before the levels of horizon
     • publication: Elegies (Galloping Dog, Newcastle upon Tyne) p.65
     • date: 1981
     • year of composition: 1976
340. • title: 'Elegy 36: Chardin '
     • first line: monkeys play connoisseurs and painters...
     • last line: I have to forget everything I have seen
     • publication: Elegies (Galloping Dog, Newcastle upon Tyne) p.67
     • date: 1981
     • year of composition: 1979
341. • title: 'Elegy 26: Hendrix'
     • first line: to be on your own...
     • last line: the kid split'
     • publication: Elegies (Galloping Dog, Newcastle upon Tyne) pp.69-71
     • date: 1981
     • year of composition: 1979-1980
     • dedication: Ulli McCarthy (Freer)
342. • title: 'Elegy 29: Mahler'
     • first line: with Dionysus in the forest...
     • last line: from a naked emaciated body
     • publication: Elegies (Galloping Dog, Newcastle upon Tyne) p.79
     • date: 1981
     • year of composition: 1979
343. • title: 'Elegy 33: Mingus erect'
     • first line: at Atlantic Records Sunday night rain...
     • last line: above one another'
     • publication: Elegies (Galloping Dog, Newcastle upon Tyne) p.81;
     • date: 1981
     • year of composition: 1979 (broadcast on Radio 3 'Poetry Now' programme, 7 Nov 1980)
344. • title: 'Elegy 21: W.C.Fields'
     • first line: the country is fraught with marauders...
     • last line: by the toes
     • publication: Elegies (Galloping Dog, Newcastle upon Tyne) pp.83-84
     • date: 1981
     • year of composition: 1978
345. • title: 'Elegy 22: Lenny Bruce'
     • first line: he drowned couldn't get out of the car...
     • last line: kill him after the show
     • publication: Elegies (Galloping Dog, Newcastle upon Tyne) p.85
     • date: 1981
     • year of composition: 1978
346. • title: 'Elegy 9: Gramsci. version (b)'
     • first line: dream back to a time when punctuality was new...
     • last line: "liberty grew possible only for the inner life will solely to resist"
     • publication: Elegies (Galloping Dog, Newcastle upon Tyne) pp.87-90;
     • date: 1981
     • year of composition: 1976-1980 (cf.separate version in Alembic 6 (Orpington, Kent, 1977) pp.45-48)
     • dedication: Colin Simms
347. • title: 'Elegy 24: Wittgenstein'
     • first line: nothing left to chance...
     • last line: me
     • publication: Elegies (Galloping Dog, Newcastle upon Tyne) pp.91-92
     • date: 1981
     • reprinted in: Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) pp.484-485
     • dedication: Alan Shelston
348. • title: 'Elegy 25: Rules of the game'
     • first line: who will help me out of this skin...
     • last line: hawk moths out of their sweat
     • publication: Elegies (Galloping Dog, Newcastle upon Tyne) p.97
     • date: 1981
     • year of composition: 1979
349. • title: 'Elegy 32: Robert Hooke'
     • first line: ceiinosstum / in love with springs...
     • last line: with the tension thereof
     • publication: Elegies (Galloping Dog, Newcastle upon Tyne) p.93
     • date: 1981
     • year of composition: 1978
350. • title: 'Elegy 34: Jung'
     • first line: the art of splitting stones can be learned...
     • last line: and raised to 'the status of one who plays'
     • publication: Elegies (Galloping Dog, Newcastle upon Tyne) p.95
     • date: 1981
     • year of composition: 1979
351. • title: 'First Legal'
     • first line: a feudal ether in the interstices...
     • last line: outdated pet is outmoded ideology
     • publication: Figs 7-8 (New Malden, Surrey)
     • date: 1981
     • reprinted in: The legal poems: 29 December 1980-30 May 1981 (Arrowspire, Colne, Lancashire, 1986)item 1
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
352. • title: 'Second Legal'
     • first line: what if on a white surface...
     • last line: old spells cling to panelled walls
     • publication: Figs 7-8 (New Malden, Surrey)
     • date: 1981
     • reprinted in: The legal poems: 29 December 1980-30 May 1981 (Arrowspire, Colne, Lancashire, 1986)item 2
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
353. • title: 'Third Legal'
     • first line: Vidocq con snout...
     • last line: was not ashamed at all'
     • publication: Figs 7-8 (New Malden, Surrey)
     • date: 1981
     • reprinted in: The legal poems: 29 December 1980-30 May 1981 (Arrowspire, Colne, Lancashire, 1986)item 3
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
354. • title: 'Fourth Legal'
     • first line: by whose surprise devices...
     • last line: while you float offshore
     • publication: Figs 7-8 (New Malden, Surrey)
     • date: 1981
     • reprinted in: The legal poems: 29 December 1980-30 May 1981 (Arrowspire, Colne, Lancashire, 1986)item 4
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
355. • title: 'Fifth Legal'
     • first line: naked kniving priests...
     • last line: for production
     • publication: Figs 7-8 (New Malden, Surrey)
     • date: 1981
     • reprinted in: The legal poems: 29 December 1980-30 May 1981 (Arrowspire, Colne, Lancashire, 1986)item 5
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
356. • title: 'Sixth Legal'
     • first line: trained in command...
     • last line: exhibition as instruction
     • publication: Figs 7-8 (New Malden, Surrey)
     • date: 1981
     • reprinted in: The legal poems: 29 December 1980-30 May 1981 (Arrowspire, Colne, Lancashire, 1986)item 6
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
357. • title: 'Seventh Legal'
     • first line: absurd confidence in shapeless noise...
     • last line: by legal fiction
     • publication: Figs 7-8 (New Malden, Surrey)
     • date: 1981
     • reprinted in: The legal poems: 29 December 1980-30 May 1981 (Arrowspire, Colne, Lancashire, 1986)item 7
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
358. • title: 'Eighth Legal'
     • first line: the black snow king who drives...
     • last line: they have survived and will
     • publication: Figs 7-8 (New Malden, Surrey)
     • date: 1981
     • reprinted in: The legal poems: 29 December 1980-30 May 1981 (Arrowspire, Colne, Lancashire, 1986)item 8
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
359. • title: 'Ninth Legal'
     • first line: "do not make me do evil to myself"...
     • first line: from Beauty and Beast
     • publication: Figs 7-8 (New Malden, Surrey)
     • date: 1981
     • reprinted in: The legal poems: 29 December 1980-30 May 1981 (Arrowspire, Colne, Lancashire, 1986)item 9
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
360. • title: 'Tenth Legal'
     • first line: captured in memory...
     • last line: a snake coagulant
     • publication: Figs 7-8 (New Malden, Surrey)
     • date: 1981
     • reprinted in: The legal poems: 29 December 1980-30 May 1981 (Arrowspire, Colne, Lancashire, 1986)item 10
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
361. • title: 'Eleventh Legal'
     • first line: a verb walks into the museum...
     • last line: science and religion'
     • publication: Figs 7-8 (New Malden, Surrey)
     • date: 1981
     • reprinted in:
       • The legal poems: 29 December 1980-30 May 1981 (Arrowspire, Colne, Lancashire, 1986)item 11
       • Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) p.104
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
362. • title: 'Twelfth Legal'
     • first line: forests go down...
     • last line: to supplements
     • publication: Figs 7-8 (New Malden, Surrey)
     • date: 1981
     • reprinted in: The legal poems: 29 December 1980-30 May 1981 (Arrowspire, Colne, Lancashire, 1986)item 12
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
363. • title: 'Thirteenth Legal'
     • first line: of transformation quantity into quality...
     • last line: in chaos is repetition
     • publication: Figs 7-8 (New Malden, Surrey)
     • date: 1981
     • reprinted in: The legal poems: 29 December 1980-30 May 1981 (Arrowspire, Colne, Lancashire, 1986)item 13
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
364. • title: 'Fourteenth Legal'
     • first line: before the high fanciful cathedral...
     • last line: brothers
     • publication: Figs 7-8 (New Malden, Surrey)
     • date: 1981
     • reprinted in: The legal poems: 29 December 1980-30 May 1981 (Arrowspire, Colne, Lancashire, 1986)item 14
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
365. • title: 'Fifteenth Legal'
     • first line: see someone you know in the madness queue...
     • last line: as they carve initials on his stomach chest and hands
     • publication: Figs 7-8 (New Malden, Surrey)
     • date: 1981
     • reprinted in: The legal poems: 29 December 1980-30 May 1981 (Arrowspire, Colne, Lancashire, 1986)item 15;
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
366. • title: 'Sixteenth Legal'
     • first line: seated separate...
     • last line: vacuum master
     • publication: Figs 7-8 (New Malden, Surrey)
     • date: 1981
     • reprinted in: The legal poems: 29 December 1980-30 May 1981 (Arrowspire, Colne, Lancashire, 1986)item 16
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
367. • title: 'New York 1965'
     • first line: bare grain to your feet...
     • last line: conversation turning together in our speech (prose-poem)
     • publication: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London) pp.5-6
     • date: 1982
     • reprinted in: Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) p.83;
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
368. • title: 'Greetings: 15/12/80'
     • first line: the horizon...
     • last line: in hope itself
     • publication: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London) pp.6-7
     • date: 1982
     • year of composition: 1980
369. • title: 'Bruno the stranger'
     • first line: topics shrink arguments freeze...
     • last line: turns and expects following (prose-poem)
     • publication: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London) pp.9-10
     • date: 1982
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
370. • title: none
     • first line: interviewing continues inside the box...
     • last line: October language (prose-poem)
     • publication: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London) pp.10-11
     • date: 1982
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
371. • title: none
     • first line: saturated with rules...
     • last line: and that's happiness (prose-poem)
     • publication: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London) pp.11-13
     • date: 1982
     • reprinted in: Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) pp.84-85
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
372. • title: none
     • first line: with sound turned up...
     • last line: vibrating multiples (prose-poem)
     • publication: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London) pp.13-14
     • date: 1982
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
373. • title: 'Message'
     • first line: no hero in a grade journey...
     • last line: everything one invents is true
     • publication: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London) pp.14-15
     • date: 1982
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
374. • title: 'no title'
     • first line: best to refuse it...
     • last line: nothing heard nothing to bug (prose-poem)
     • publication: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London) p.16
     • date: 1982
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
375. • title: 'no title'
     • first line: in the endless procession....
     • last line: procession endless the in (prose-poem)
     • publication: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London) pp.16-17
     • date: 1982
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
376. • title: 'The party'
     • first line: looking back...
     • last line: this is a denial (prose-poem)
     • publication: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London) pp.17-18
     • date: 1982
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
     • epigraph: Spinoza
377. • title: 'Staying is nowhere / The Sardinian Prisoner / "Strugglers in the desert"' pt 1
     • first line: purity control advances...
     • last line: interest judges (prose-poem)
     • publication: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London) pp.18-20
     • date: 1982
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
378. • title: 'Staying is nowhere / The Sardinian Prisoner / "Strugglers in the desert"' pt 2
     • first line: who does not suffuse the golden glow...
     • last line: after life-cosmic strictness (prose-poem)
     • publication: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London) pp.20-21
     • date: 1982
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
     • epigraph: Oxford English Dictionary and Swift
379. • title: 'Staying is nowhere / The Sardinian Prisoner / "Strugglers in the desert"' pt 3
     • first line: Your split resewn body Guy...
     • last line: sumptuous funeral through closed streets (prose-poem)
     • publication: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London) pp.21-22
     • date: 1982
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
     • epigraph: Rilke
380. • title: 'Time levels tense levels'
     • first line: they are armed...
     • last line: a snap (prose-poem)
     • publication: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London) p.22
     • date: 1982
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
381. • title: none
     • first line: Alive in parts of this century...
     • last line: hypocrite double
     • publication: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London) p.23
     • date: 1982
     • reprinted in: Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) pp.86-87
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
382. • title: none
     • first line: pay the tortured sick wounded starving...
     • last line: which is strong
     • publication: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London) pp.23-24
     • date: 1982
     • reprinted in: Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) p.88
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
383. • title: none
     • first line: should we revive those with a chance...
     • last line: learning to breathe to order
     • publication: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London) pp.24-25
     • date: 1982
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
384. • title: none
     • first line: fed and clothes with clip round the ear...
     • last line: in "expression totality" an absorbent story (prose-poem)
     • publication: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London) pp.25-26
     • date: 1982
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
385. • title: none
     • first line: bodysnatchers music drives into your space...
     • last line: found his shape was not human
     • publication: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London) pp.26-29
     • date: 1982
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
386. • title: none
     • first line: where now your prudent incapacities...
     • last line: with no name speechless in the meaning (prose-poem)
     • publication: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London) p.29
     • date: 1982
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
387. • title: none
     • first line: through the night light they clone...
     • last line: economic edifice" (prose-poem)
     • publication: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London) pp.29-30
     • date: 1982
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
388. • title: 'The works'
     • first line: open eyed sliced brain in the brain galaxy...
     • last line: the silence of noise (prose-poem)
     • publication: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London) pp.30-32
     • date: 1982
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
389. • title: none
     • first line: on tilt persistent...
     • last line: the world of art is not the world of pardon (prose-poem)
     • publication: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London) pp.33-34
     • date: 1982
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
390. • title: none
     • first line: to stop clarity in aftermath...
     • last line: I leapt into the vertical limestone waterfall (prose-poem)
     • publication: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London) p.34
     • date: 1982
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
     • epigraph: Spinoza
391. • title: '20/8/80'
     • first line: the carpet is ours made or theirs...
     • last line: from here an arc of the sharp withering horizon (prose-poem)
     • publication: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London) pp.35-36
     • date: 1982
     • year of composition: 1980
392. • title: none fffhouse walls screens cannot fade... lllthe familiar begins to be natural (prose-poem)
     • publication: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London) p.36
     • date: 1982
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
393. • title: none
     • first line: walking after dinner...
     • last line: they are hungry
     • publication: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London) p.37
     • date: 1982
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
394. • title: none
     • first line: throat cleared over the system...
     • last line: Nosferatu remakes
     • publication: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London) p.38
     • date: 1982
     • reprinted in: Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) p.506
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
395. • title: none
     • first line: the morning looks...
     • last line: remind you
     • publication: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London) pp.38-40
     • date: 1982
     • reprinted in: Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) pp.506-507
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
396. • title: none
     • first line: Fellini's sunfish giant deflates...
     • last line: on one tree
     • publication: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London) pp.40-41,
     • reprinted in: Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) p.508
     • date: 1982
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
397. • title: none
     • first line: come out of the past...
     • last line: on earth
     • publication: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London) p.41
     • date: 1982
     • reprinted in: Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) pp.508-509
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
398. • title: none
     • first line: at Faber...
     • last line: of our own
     • publication: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London) pp.41-42
     • date: 1982
     • reprinted in: Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) p.509
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
399. • title: none
     • first line: a man was seen running...
     • last line: but a killing is managed (prose-poem)
     • publication: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London) p.42
     • date: 1982
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
400. • title: none
     • first line: white workers move in...
     • last line: all and around it space no place
     • publication: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London) pp.43-45
     • date: 1982
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
401. • title: none
     • first line: speed reading is a defence...
     • last line: revolutions one after another (prose-poem)
     • publication: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London) p.45
     • date: 1982
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
402. • title: 'Rereading the Hungrealistic Manifestoes in Kulchur 15, 1964'
     • first line: Egdon Heath absorbed civilizing manoeuvres...
     • last line: the missile felt out of its slot (prose-poem)
     • publication: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London) pp.45-46
     • date: 1982
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
403. • title: none
     • first line: hypnotized by the future's closed eye...
     • last line: in command
     • publication: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London) pp.46-47
     • date: 1982
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
404. • title: 'A work: from Ferneyhough's "Time and Motion study II" and out'
     • first line: completion, commentary, support...
     • last line: silently erased behind his back' (visual poem with lines in multiple orientation on grid paper)
     • publication: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London) p.48 as fold-out
     • date: 1982
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
405. • title: 'Tarpaulin'
     • first line: a cover/ing...
     • last line: flaking climb
     • publication: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London) pp.49-50
     • date: 1982
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
406. • title: none
     • first line: expert shootout...
     • last line: do your best (prose-poem)
     • publication: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London) p.51
     • date: 1982
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
407. • title: none
     • first line: they stroke their pricks with national flags...
     • last line: duty to particularities (prose-poem)
     • publication: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London) pp.51-52
     • date: 1982
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
408. • title: none
     • first line: split ignorance in argument...
     • last line: connected by waves to command (prose-poem)
     • publication: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London) p.52
     • date: 1982
     • reprinted in: Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) p.89
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
409. • title: none
     • first line: a clean chill from eternity...
     • last line: unsurprised every day
     • publication: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London) p.52
     • date: 1982
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
410. • title: none
     • first line: what's in the spinning tapes...
     • last line: studies in a dying culture
     • publication: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London) p.53
     • date: 1982
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
411. • title: none
     • first line: a sea grammar to the summer isles...
     • last line: we will not be infected but infections again
     • publication: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London) pp.54-55
     • date: 1982
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
412. • title: none
     • first line: the street hostile will crumble in the coming...
     • last line: arranging for 'a possible human event' (prose-poem)
     • publication: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London) pp.56-58
     • date: 1982
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
413. • title: none
     • first line: I am lying...
     • last line: why are the windows steaming up (prose-poem)
     • publication: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London) pp.58-59
     • date: 1982
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
414. • title: none
     • first line: now you're on...
     • last line: do you celebrate
     • publication: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London) p.59
     • date: 1982
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
415. • title: none
     • first line: a jagged front moves at height...
     • last line: pesticides into every hedgerow (prose-poem)
     • publication: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London) p.59
     • date: 1982
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
416. • title: none
     • first line: a seaman gardener double story teller...
     • last line: enough to break
     • publication: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London) pp.59-61
     • date: 1982
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
417. • title: 'After "About Zhivago and his poems"'
     • first line: shot by three teenage thugs...
     • last line: over burning streets
     • publication: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London) p.61
     • date: 1982
     • year of composition: 1980-1981 genre: prose poem
418. • title: 'Dog-proof room important for our "oxygen' lines"'
     • first line: replication god beams down the variety virus...
     • last line: remember contempt in the eyes (prose-poem)
     • publication: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London) pp.61-62
     • date: 1982
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
419. • title: none
     • first line: athletes sleep away their lives...
     • last line: death is a gaze that change (prose-poem)
     • publication: Interrogation rooms; poems 1980-1981 (Spanner, London) pp.62-64
     • date: 1982
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
420. • title: 'Address'
     • first line: as separation approaches...
     • last line: discovered disclosed arisen
     • publication: Address (Shadowcat, [Gateshead])
     • date: 1983
     • reprinted in: Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) pp.90-97 as 'Address 1'
421. • title: 'Address. 2.'
     • first line: monotonous excitements...
     • last line: find our own
     • publication: Figs 9 (New Malden, Surrey)
     • date: 1983
     • reprinted in: Resistances: A homage to René Char (RWC, Sutton, 1991) pp.24-25
422. • title: 'Deep erasure'
     • first line: towards the P'Oasis a white dress...
     • last line: Robert Desnos walks towards us
     • publication: Figs 9 (New Malden, Surrey)
     • date: 1983
423. • title: 'Letter to Colin Simms'
     • first line: grace in water buoyances...
     • last line: then makes a swallow a dagger in his researches
     • publication: North Dakota Quarterly 51/4 pp.57-58
     • date: 1983
424. • title: 'Letter to Jerome Rothenberg'
     • first line: to live forwards look
     • last line: and tropic isles
     • publication: North Dakota Quarterly 51/4 pp.58-59
     • date: 1983
425. • title: 'Letter to Thomas A. Clark'
     • first line: the boy who made lists of music...
     • last line: elysian contracts where no heroic asphodel lasts
     • publication: North Dakota Quarterly 51/4 p.60
     • date: 1983
426. • title: 'Origin'
     • first line: sun worshipers stroke their knives...
     • last line: hope that is thanks in creation
     • publication: Three Letters (Spanner, London) no. 1
     • date: 1984
     • year of composition: 1983
     • dedication: Paige Mitchell
427. • title: 'Letter to Lee Harwood: sea discoveries'
     • first line: a looming story tracks a sea desire to be away...
     • last line: wave breaks on a windswept beach
     • publication: Three Letters (Spanner, London) no. 2
     • date: 1984
     • reprinted in: Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) pp.98-101
428. • title: 'Letter to Ulla and John Dydo'
     • first line: sometimes ...
     • last line: gifts
     • publication: Three Letters (Spanner, London)no. 3
     • date: 1984
     • reprinted in: Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) pp.102-103
429. • title: 'from Paul Green's poem'
     • first line: from a slicked sea...
     • last line: blue stars flash blue forest
     • publication: Variations / various artists (Spectacular Diseases, Peterborough)
     • date: 1985
430. • title: 'Seventeenth Legal'
     • first line: with free competitor...
     • last line: Poets and Women no longer fear except their apes
     • publication: The legal poems: 29 December 1980-30 May 1981 (Arrowspire, Colne, Lancashire)item 17
     • date: 1986
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
431. • title: 'Eighteenth Legal'
     • first line: night focussed eye...
     • last line: who sat under the table whose promise
     • publication: The legal poems: 29 December 1980-30 May 1981 (Arrowspire, Colne, Lancashire)item 18
     • date: 1986
     • reprinted in: Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) p.105
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
432. • title: 'Nineteenth Legal'
     • first line: we think in fact we believe...
     • last line: we are women and men of general principles
     • publication: The legal poems: 29 December 1980-30 May 1981 (Arrowspire, Colne, Lancashire)item 19
     • date: 1986
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
433. • title: 'Twentieth Legal'
     • first line: alone with guns...
     • last line: the Press confirmed you
     • publication: The legal poems: 29 December 1980-30 May 1981 (Arrowspire, Colne, Lancashire)item 20
     • date: 1986
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
434. • title: 'Twentyfirst Legal'
     • first line: Great American Queen speaks...
     • last line: a past joined from sceptical scenes
     • publication: The legal poems: 29 December 1980-30 May 1981 (Arrowspire, Colne, Lancashire)item 21
     • date: 1986
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
435. • title: 'Twentysecond Legal'
     • first line: king and brother cry the poor...
     • last line: brings a smile to your teeth
     • publication: The legal poems: 29 December 1980-30 May 1981 (Arrowspire, Colne, Lancashire)item 22
     • date: 1986
     • reprinted in: Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) p.106
     • year of composition: 1980-1981;
436. • title: 'Twentythird Legal'
     • first line: in war the people become obedient again...
     • last line: then we can carry on
     • publication: The legal poems: 29 December 1980-30 May 1981 (Arrowspire, Colne, Lancashire)item 23
     • date: 1986
     • reprinted in: Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) p.107
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
437. • title: 'Twentyfourth Legal'
     • first line: any person who seems nervous to you...
     • last line: and what do you sell and buy
     • publication: The legal poems: 29 December 1980-30 May 1981 (Arrowspire, Colne, Lancashire)item 24
     • date: 1986
     • reprinted in: Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) p.108
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
438. • title: 'Twentyfifth Legal'
     • first line: a rare authenticity...
     • last line: corral and star in frozen dust discarded
     • publication: The legal poems: 29 December 1980-30 May 1981 (Arrowspire, Colne, Lancashire)item 25
     • date: 1986
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
439. • title: 'Twentysixth Legal'
     • first line: the star system goals my project...
     • last line: as that a sport goes on as forever rules for life
     • publication: The legal poems: 29 December 1980-30 May 1981 (Arrowspire, Colne, Lancashire)item 26
     • date: 1986
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
440. • title: 'Twentyseventh Legal'
     • first line: retaken felon...
     • last line: for surgery
     • publication: The legal poems: 29 December 1980-30 May 1981 (Arrowspire, Colne, Lancashire)item 27
     • date: 1986
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
441. • title: 'Twentyeighth Legal'
     • first line: "civilization is largely the history of weapons"...
     • last line: understand that
     • publication: The legal poems: 29 December 1980-30 May 1981 (Arrowspire, Colne, Lancashire)item 28
     • date: 1986
     • reprinted in:
       • Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) p.109;
       • Revue de Poïétique Comparée 1/1 (Paris, 1989-1990) pp.53-54
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
442. • title: 'Twentyninth Legal'
     • first line: in 1917 Lukacs deposited a suitcase...
     • last line: write (prose-poem)
     • publication: The legal poems: 29 December 1980-30 May 1981 (Arrowspire, Colne, Lancashire) item 29
     • date: 1986
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
443. • title: 'Thirtieth Legal'
     • first line: empty she...
     • last line: homes into branches
     • publication: The legal poems: 29 December 1980-30 May 1981 (Arrowspire, Colne, Lancashire) item 30
     • date: 1986
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
444. • title: 'Thirtyfirst Legal'
     • first line: from the rubber tree boardrooms...
     • last line: their glowing west
     • publication: The legal poems: 29 December 1980-30 May 1981 (Arrowspire, Colne, Lancashire) item 31
     • date: 1986
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
445. • title: 'Thirtysecond Legal: '
     • first line: disolved with frostbite they love...
     • last line: the Harrow the Bed the Designer
     • publication: The legal poems: 29 December 1980-30 May 1981 (Arrowspire, Colne, Lancashire) item 32
     • date: 1986
     • reprinted in: Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) pp.510-511
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
     • dedication: The Media Rig
446. • title: 'Thirtythird Legal: Art and Society'
     • first line: "more and more"...
     • last line: is there no way out of time the death telephone (prose-poem)
     • publication: The legal poems: 29 December 1980-30 May 1981 (Arrowspire, Colne, Lancashire) item 33
     • date: 1986
     • reprinted in: Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) p.512
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
447. • title: 'Thirtyfourth Legal'
     • first line: carnival is farewell to meat but if...
     • last line: the octupus palace
     • publication: The legal poems: 29 December 1980-30 May 1981 (Arrowspire, Colne, Lancashire) item 34
     • date: 1986
     • reprinted in: Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) pp.513-514
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
448. • title: 'Thirtyfifth Legal: November 1, 1972'
     • first line: from Europe's wreckage...
     • last line: did you sign this
     • publication: The legal poems: 29 December 1980-30 May 1981 (Arrowspire, Colne, Lancashire) item 35
     • date: 1986
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
     • epigraph: (Ezra Pound)
449. • title: 'Thirtysixth Legal'
     • first line: command authority...
     • last line: the judge delivers
     • publication: The legal poems: 29 December 1980-30 May 1981 (Arrowspire, Colne, Lancashire) item 36
     • date: 1986
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
450. • title: 'Thirtyseventh Legal'
     • first line: the dammed pious...
     • last line: where you live
     • publication: The legal poems: 29 December 1980-30 May 1981 (Arrowspire, Colne, Lancashire) item 37
     • date: 1986
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
451. • title: 'Thirtyeighth Legal'
     • first line: savage masters double cross...
     • last line: and intervene and turn and turn
     • publication: The legal poems: 29 December 1980-30 May 1981 (Arrowspire, Colne, Lancashire) item 38
     • date: 1986
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
452. • title: 'Thirtyninth Legal'
     • first line: now is dying...
     • last line: offering
     • publication: The legal poems: 29 December 1980-30 May 1981 (Arrowspire, Colne, Lancashire) item 39
     • date: 1986
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
453. • title: 'Fortieth Legal'
     • first line: Gatsby turned into foul dust...
     • last line: they make theatre in themselves
     • publication: The legal poems: 29 December 1980-30 May 1981 (Arrowspire, Colne, Lancashire) item 40
     • date: 1986
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
454. • title: 'Fortyfirst Legal'
     • first line: a conquered people...
     • last line: a conquered people failed
     • publication: The legal poems: 29 December 1980-30 May 1981 (Arrowspire, Colne, Lancashire) item 41
     • date: 1986
     • year of composition: 1980-1981
455. • title: 'Peace project no.2'
     • first line: your assignment is to...
     • last line: they weren't just weird, they have machine guns
     • publication: Angel Exhaust 6 (Southend, Essex) pp.51-52
     • date: 1986
     • reprinted in:
       • Peace projects & brief novels, 1986-1988 (Talus Editions, London, 1989) pp.3-4;
       • Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) pp.113-114
     • epigraph: Harry Matthews
456. • title: 'Peace project no.3'
     • first line: then he says...
     • last line: away at last
     • publication: Angel Exhaust 6 (Southend, Essex) pp.52-53
     • date: 1986
     • reprinted in: Peace projects & brief novels, 1986-1988 (Talus Editions, London, 1989) pp.5-6
457. • title: 'Peace project no.4 Recital after Corbin's 'Avicenna''
     • first line: inside the gaze...
     • last line: resentment staked into its dead earth
     • publication: Angel Exhaust 6 (Southend, Essex) pp.53-55
     • date: 1986
     • reprinted in: Peace projects & brief novels, 1986-1988 (Talus Editions, London, 1989) pp.7-9
458. • title: 'Peace project no.5'
     • first line: sheer fluke...
     • last line: elevates last flukes
     • publication: Angel Exhaust 6 (Southend, Essex) pp.55-56
     • date: 1986
     • reprinted in: Peace projects & brief novels, 1986-1988 (Talus Editions, London, 1989) pp.10-11
459. • title: '"Raise the wind for me"'
     • first line: so consumed...
     • last line: live and flourish'
     • publication: A dog's nose: Basil Bunting 1900/1985 ed. Michael Farley (Taxvs, Leicester, 1986) pp.15-16
     • date: 1986
     • reprinted in: Raise the wind for me: poems for Basil Bunting (Pig Press, Durham, 1992) pp.5-6
     • dedication: Basil Bunting
460. • title: 'Peace project no.6 Homage to Basil Bunting'
     • first line: seed fitted to earth...
     • last line: the shame of these writings
     • publication: First Offence 2 (Stodmarsh, Kent) pp.27-29
     • date: 1987
     • reprinted in:
       • Peace projects & brief novels, 1986-1988 (Talus Editions, London, 1989) pp.12-14;
       • Raise the wind for me: poems for Basil Bunting (Pig Press, Durham, 1992) item 2
     • dedication: Peter Makin
     • epigraph: Norman Mailer
461. • title: 'Peace project no.7 Youth'
     • first line: then out from...
     • last line: each absolute a gaze a kiss in loyalty
     • publication: First Offence 2 (Stodmarsh, Kent) pp.30-31
     • date: 1987
     • reprinted in: Peace projects & brief novels, 1986-1988 (Talus Editions, London, 1989) pp.15-16
462. • title: 'from Conrad poems'
     • first line: make for wildness while we can...
     • last line: targets fade and a species shifts
     • publication: First Offence 2 (Stodmarsh, Kent) p.32
     • date: 1987
463. • title: 'Peace project no.1: Talus'
     • first line: in cave overhang...
     • last line: beginning again
     • publication: Talus 1 (London) pp.5-6
     • date: 1987
     • reprinted in:
       • Peace projects & brief novels, 1986-1988 (Talus Editions, London, 1989) pp.1-2;
       • Selected poems (North & South, Twickenham & Wakefield, 1989) pp.110-112;
       • Fire Readings ed. David Applefield et al. (Frank Books, Vincennes, 1991) pp.122-124
464. • title: 'Return from expedition'
     • first line: standing before the history wall silence in question...
     • last line: tales in it
     • publication: Talus 2 (London) p.105
     • date: 1987
465. • title: 'Learn fears'
     • first line: a tide turns up river...
     • last line: to learn
     • publication: Talus 2 (London) pp.106-107
     • date: 1987
466. • title: 'Healing'
     • first line: emerged from wound hurt the canyon trail...
     • last line: to us held spiral in and out in one time our place
     • publication: Talus 2 (London) pp.108-109
     • date: 1987
467. • title: 'A letter to Robert Duncan'
     • first line: no private experience no false lord events no...
     • last line: crested to an absence where you speak
     • publication: Talus 3 (London) p.4
     • date: 1988
468. • title: 'Brief novel 3'
     • first line: did you waste his time
     • last line: legitimate
     • publication: The New British Poetry (Paladin, London) pp.201-202
     • date: 1988
469. • title: none
     • first line: smell of canyon rain storm
     • last line: the winds take up
     • publication: The New British Poetry (Paladin, London) p.203
     • date: 1988
470. • title: 'Peace project 5'
     • first line: have you preserved time
     • last line: desires concluded in births
     • publication: The New British Poetry (Paladin, London) pp.203-206
     • date: 1988
471. • title: none
     • first line: STILL LIVE 1986
     • last line: then forward and where it is
     • publication: First Offence 4 (Stodmarsh, Kent) pp.45-46
     • date: 1988
472. • title: 'Peace project no.8 Paraphrases of Nature and other correspondences'
     • first line: a rough paved courtyard between bare quarters...
     • last line: "consistently compressing elements"
     • publication: Peace projects & brief novels, 1986-1988 (Talus Editions, London) pp.17-18
     • date: 1989
     • year of composition: 1986-1988
473. • title: 'Peace project no.9'
     • first line: lively ugliness of sleep...
     • last line: to their environment
     • publication: Peace projects & brief novels, 1986-1988 (Talus Editions, London) pp.19-20
     • date: 1989
     • year of composition: 1986-1988
     • epigraph: (René Char)
474. • title: 'Peace project no.10 Communities of transmission'
     • first line: other orders' sounds can be...
     • last line: the balance acts refuse sacrofice the waste loneliness
     • publication: Peace projects & brief novels, 1986-1988 (Talus Editions, London) pp.21-22
     • date: 1989
     • year of composition: 1986-1988
475. • title: 'Peace project no.11 Requiem'
     • first line: today in the gloomy physicality...
     • last line: "the true ship is the ship-builder"
     • publication: Peace projects & brief novels, 1986-1988 (Talus Editions, London) pp.23-24
     • date: 1989
     • year of composition: 1986-1988
476. • title: 'Peace project no.12 The non-Kymric colony'
     • first line: he made the earth upon it and the sky...
     • last line: passionately fond of music
     • publication: Peace projects & brief novels, 1986-1988 (Talus Editions, London) pp.25-26
     • date: 1989
     • year of composition: 1986-1988
477. • title: 'Peace project no.13 Homaggio a Pavese'
     • first line: a long white curtain draped billows out...
     • last line: the fountain surface trembles
     • publication: Peace projects & brief novels, 1986-1988 (Talus Editions, London) p.27
     • date: 1989
     • year of composition: 1986-1988
478. • title: 'Peace project no.14 Megalithic'
     • first line: constructed of large stones...
     • last line: they startle and secure every time while breath holds
     • publication: Peace projects & brief novels, 1986-1988 (Talus Editions, London) pp.28-29
     • date: 1989
     • year of composition: 1986-1988
479. • title: 'Peace project no.15'
     • first line: progressive illuminations...
     • last line: sail after knowledge
     • publication: Peace projects & brief novels, 1986-1988 (Talus Editions, London) pp.30-31
     • date: 1989
     • reprinted in: Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) pp.515-517
     • year of composition: 1986-1988
480. • title: 'Peace project no.16 Wilstead'
     • first line: at what point is this entrance made...
     • last line: deep colour dark pulse
     • publication: Peace projects & brief novels, 1986-1988 (Talus Editions, London) pp.32-33
     • date: 1989
     • year of composition: 1986-1988
481. • title: 'Peace project no.17'
     • first line: as this fiction contracts...
     • last line: "old in our youth"
     • publication: Peace projects & brief novels, 1986-1988 (Talus Editions, London) pp.34-35
     • date: 1989
     • year of composition: 1986-1988
482. • title: 'Peace project no.18 Towards human-a vocation'
     • first line: then a spell cast entered...
     • last line: masks husked lie around a naked singer
     • publication: Peace projects & brief novels, 1986-1988 (Talus Editions, London) pp.36-37
     • date: 1989
     • year of composition: 1986-1988
483. • title: 'Peace project no.19'
     • first line: in restless...
     • last line: in silvered glistened prevention
     • publication: Peace projects & brief novels, 1986-1988 (Talus Editions, London) p.38
     • date: 1989
     • year of composition: 1986-1988
484. • title: 'Peace project no.20 Mesa and ocean'
     • first line: what hopes still possible...
     • last line: soft strong from moulding china clay
     • publication: Peace projects & brief novels, 1986-1988 (Talus Editions, London) pp.39-40
     • date: 1989
     • year of composition: 1986-1988
485. • title: 'Peace project no.21'
     • first line: have you preserved time...
     • last line: desires concluded in births
     • publication: Peace projects & brief novels, 1986-1988 (Talus Editions, London) pp.41-43
     • date: 1989
     • year of composition: 1986-1988
486. • title: 'Peace project no.22'
     • first line: behind eyes and their head...
     • last line: a voyage around the world
     • publication: Peace projects & brief novels, 1986-1988 (Talus Editions, London) pp.44-45
     • date: 1989
     • year of composition: 1986-1988
487. • title: 'Peace project no.23'
     • first line: whole body employed to keep...
     • last line: rank
     • publication: Peace projects & brief novels, 1986-1988 (Talus Editions, London) pp.46-47
     • date: 1989
     • year of composition: 1986-1988
488. • title: 'Brief novel no.1'
     • first line: to stand in its climax...
     • last line: hit a large object under water now the bow shows unsinking
     • publication: Peace projects & brief novels, 1986-1988 (Talus Editions, London) pp.51-52
     • date: 1989
     • year of composition: 1986-1988
489. • title: 'Brief novel no.2'
     • first line: once beyond immigrations and customs...
     • last line: "pockets of turbulence scattered in flowery fluid"
     • publication: Peace projects & brief novels, 1986-1988 (Talus Editions, London) pp.53-54
     • date: 1989
     • year of composition: 1986-1988
490. • title: 'Brief novel no.3'
     • first line: did you waste his time...
     • last line: legitimate
     • publication: Peace projects & brief novels, 1986-1988 (Talus Editions, London) pp.55-56
     • date: 1989
     • year of composition: 1986-1988
491. • title: 'Brief novel no.4'
     • first line: a sharp horizon means...
     • last line: longitudes never for long and greetings
     • publication: Peace projects & brief novels, 1986-1988 (Talus Editions, London) pp.57-58
     • date: 1989
     • year of composition: 1986-1988
492. • title: 'Brief novel no.5'
     • first line: I had begun to feel that the sky...
     • last line: some secrets held after the end
     • publication: Peace projects & brief novels, 1986-1988 (Talus Editions, London) p.59
     • date: 1989
     • year of composition: 1986-1988
493. • title: 'Brief novel no.6 And they came to a place'
     • first line: it's a short training in camps wastelands extended noise...
     • last line: a specific social fate not a universal
     • publication: Peace projects & brief novels, 1986-1988 (Talus Editions, London) pp.60-61
     • date: 1989
     • year of composition: 1986-1988
494. • title: 'Brief novel no.7'
     • first line: one white curtain over the whole open window...
     • last line: attanur attanur
     • publication: Peace projects & brief novels, 1986-1988 (Talus Editions, London) pp.62-63
     • date: 1989
     • year of composition: 1986-1988
495. • title: 'Brief novel no.8'
     • first line: you cannot imagine your life...
     • last line: never the first the whole sky magnetic light
     • publication: Peace projects & brief novels, 1986-1988 (Talus Editions, London) p.64
     • date: 1989
     • year of composition: 1986-1988
496. • title: 'Brief novel no.9. Single chance'
     • first line: a scuffle of small dents in the Sahara...
     • last line: this writing is a statement from an alley
     • publication: Peace projects & brief novels, 1986-1988 (Talus Editions, London) pp.65-66
     • date: 1989
     • year of composition: 1986-1988
497. • title: 'Brief novel no.10'
     • first line: in the first person...
     • last line: no shimmer
     • publication: Peace projects & brief novels, 1986-1988 (Talus Editions, London) pp.67-68
     • date: 1989
     • year of composition: 1986-1988
498. • title: 'Brief novel no.11'
     • first line: "any mountain climber...
     • last line: "how come through the living hills"
     • publication: Peace projects & brief novels, 1986-1988 (Talus Editions, London) p.69
     • date: 1989
     • year of composition: 1986-1988
499. • title: 'First poem in an unpublished collection tentatively entitled "Sun"'
     • first line: origin is not past...
     • last line: to high seas and waterfalls
     • publication: Revue de Poïétique Comparée 1/1 (Paris) pp.51-52
     • date: 1989-1990
     • year of composition: 1989
500. • title: 'Four explorations. no.1'
     • first line: under one thin yellow sheet...
     • last line: know it's day and opens
     • publication: Branch Redd Review 5 (Philadelphia) p.6
     • date: 1990
501. • title: 'Four explorations. no.2'
     • first line: under full saturating moon...
     • last line: until you cannot know
     • publication: Branch Redd Review 5 (Philadelphia) p.7
     • date: 1990
502. • title: 'Four explorations. no.3'
     • first line: at six eighteen a dark grey morning...
     • last line: too clear too unknown now known
     • publication: Branch Redd Review 5 (Philadelphia) p.7
     • date: 1990
503. • title: 'Four explorations. no.4'
     • first line: the expensive dead...
     • last line: soon to have design
     • publication: Branch Redd Review 5 (Philadelphia) p.8
     • date: 1990
504. • title: 'For Basil Bunting' [2]
     • first line: trees do not tear the sky...
     • last line: emerge on a Dent peak beard taut to dale wind
     • publication: High on the walls (Bloodaxe, Newcastle on Tyne) pp.98-99
     • date: 1990
     • reprinted in: Raise the wind for me: poems for Basil Bunting (Pig Press, Durham, 1992) pp.11-12
505. • title: 'Season of monsters'
     • first line: a grey lake surface explodes yellow in drift oil mist...
     • last line: a double's organ as its other appears behind you
     • publication: Season of monsters: poems 1989-1990 (Writers Forum, London) pp.1-2
     • date: 1991
     • year of composition: 1989-1990
506. • title: 'A feast'
     • first line: steeled lake and still screen explode...
     • last line: or successors
     • publication: Season of monsters: poems 1989-1990 (Writers Forum, London) pp.3-6
     • date: 1991
     • year of composition: 1989-1990
507. • title: none
     • first line: no birds float rise harsh breath in their formations...
     • last line: but a virus entered early and is ready
     • publication: Season of monsters: poems 1989-1990 (Writers Forum, London) p.7
     • date: 1991
     • year of composition: 1989-1990
508. • title: 'A conversation. 1'
     • first line: "you are walking over mineral rights...
     • last line: falls on my face"
     • publication: Season of monsters: poems 1989-1990 (Writers Forum, London) pp.8-9
     • date: 1991
     • year of composition: 1989-1990
509. • title: none
     • first line: "to us his word is fresher than new water"...
     • last line: stores up and awaits the first flood
     • publication: Season of monsters: poems 1989-1990 (Writers Forum, London) pp.10-11
     • date: 1991
     • year of composition: 1989-1990
510. • title: none
     • first line: some cannot always leave...
     • last line: depths without him we could not experience to be completely ourselves
     • publication: Season of monsters: poems 1989-1990 (Writers Forum, London) p.12
     • date: 1991
     • year of composition: 1989-1990
511. • title: none
     • first line: his own victory tomb of his defeat...
     • last line: screen signs
     • publication: Season of monsters: poems 1989-1990 (Writers Forum, London) p.13
     • date: 1991
     • year of composition: 1989-1990
512. • title: 'A conversation. 2'
     • first line: "voluntary exile since we have no race to declare...
     • last line: the city of communications maximally purged of noise
     • publication: Season of monsters: poems 1989-1990 (Writers Forum, London) p.14
     • date: 1991
     • year of composition: 1989-1990
513. • title: 'Tyranny: a report'
     • first line: "while I gripped the iron railing of the steps from the sit-in...
     • last line: "reality is what must be overthrown so that human existence can begin"
     • publication: Season of monsters: poems 1989-1990 (Writers Forum, London) pp.15-16
     • date: 1991
     • year of composition: 1989-1990
514. • title: none
     • first line: solar tedium of governments...
     • last line: a sudden glimpse of Dürer's head
     • publication: Season of monsters: poems 1989-1990 (Writers Forum, London) pp.17-18
     • date: 1991
     • year of composition: 1989-1990
515. • title: none
     • first line: we began to notice our language...
     • last line: a figure is starting to appear'
     • publication: Season of monsters: poems 1989-1990 (Writers Forum, London) pp.19-20
     • date: 1991
     • reprinted in: Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) pp.521-522
     • year of composition: 1989-1990
516. • title: 'Net'
     • first line: this is the year the door remains unlocked...
     • last line: an eight-legged dog barks silence
     • publication: Season of monsters: poems 1989-1990 (Writers Forum, London) pp.21-22
     • date: 1991
     • year of composition: 1989-1990
517. • title: none
     • first line: she looked out...
     • last line: a neighbourhood
     • publication: Season of monsters: poems 1989-1990 (Writers Forum, London) p.23
     • date: 1991
     • year of composition: 1989-1990
518. • title: 'With Maquis'
     • first line: 3 September 1939 a wizened traitor voice...
     • last line: to wait
     • publication: Resistances: A homage to René Char (RWC, Sutton) pp.2-5
     • date: 1991
519. • title: 'South and East'
     • first line: to escape to discover...
     • last line: and the lure of long voyages
     • publication: Resistances: A homage to René Char (RWC, Sutton) pp.5-6
     • date: 1991
     • dedication: Paul Bowles
520. • title: 'The hunter'
     • first line: sudden heavy hailstones on the trail...
     • last line: to their own fires
     • publication: Resistances: A homage to René Char (RWC, Sutton) pp.7-8
     • date: 1991 (1985)
521. • title: 'High'
     • first line: it is no good up there...
     • last line: on a slab in Rome
     • publication: Resistances: A homage to René Char (RWC, Sutton) p.8
     • date: 1991
522. • title: 'Care of self'
     • first line: form himself as the ethical subjectof his actions...
     • last line: do not linger in the rut of results
     • publication: Resistances: A homage to René Char (RWC, Sutton) p.9
     • date: 1991
523. • title: 'John Cage and Electric Phoenix'
     • first line: let us carry on together without trying...
     • last line: to the sources of formal power
     • publication: Resistances: A homage to René Char (RWC, Sutton) p.9
     • date: 1991
524. • title: none
     • first line: there are days, he said, when I want...
     • last line: enthusiasm that lifts the weight of years
     • publication: Resistances: A homage to René Char (RWC, Sutton) p.10
     • date: 1991
525. • title: 'It begins to be clearer'
     • first line: everyone had been at liberty to hope...
     • last line: with terrible precautions
     • publication: Resistances: A homage to René Char (RWC, Sutton) pp.10-11
     • date: 1991
526. • title: none
     • first line: poetry is not illustrations...
     • last line: space out from a house of burdens
     • publication: Resistances: A homage to René Char (RWC, Sutton) p.11
     • date: 1991
     • reprinted in: Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) p.519
527. • title: 'Death of René Char'
     • first line: dawn is repeated as far...
     • last line: the beginnings of truth?
     • publication: Resistances: A homage to René Char (RWC, Sutton) pp.11-12
     • date: 1991
     • reprinted in: Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) pp.519-520
528. • title: '8 8 88'
     • first line: a move in a structure of danger...
     • last line: me choked me a velocity legend interference
     • publication: Resistances: A homage to René Char (RWC, Sutton) p.12
     • date: 1991
529. • title: 'Sunless'
     • first line: "they sell us our youth and our religion...
     • last line: the battle regained its velocity at the same time as its suffering
     • publication: Resistances: A homage to René Char (RWC, Sutton) pp.13-14
     • date: 1991
     • dedication: Chris Marker
530. • title: none
     • first line: a hunter stops in a glade...
     • last line: the moment of power and invulnerability absolute
     • publication: Resistances: A homage to René Char (RWC, Sutton) p.14
     • date: 1991
     • dedication: Jonathan Williams
531. • title: 'So far'
     • first line: half way through the canal a dhow...
     • last line: without the help of ordnance maps
     • publication: Resistances: A homage to René Char (RWC, Sutton) p.15
     • date: 1991
532. • title: 'no title'
     • first line: "miracle of total transformation of beings and objects...
     • last line: tomorrow visions on the passage of poems
     • publication: Resistances: A homage to René Char (RWC, Sutton) p.15
     • date: 1991
533. • title: 'Death of Hypnos'
     • first line: wealthy movies that pauperise...
     • last line: "passionate powers and rules of action"
     • publication: Resistances: A homage to René Char (RWC, Sutton) pp.16-17
     • date: 1991
534. • title: 'Oracle'
     • first line: we have come to be your serpent...
     • last line: a sort of man always in advance of his excrements'
     • publication: Resistances: A homage to René Char (RWC, Sutton) p.18
     • date: 1991
535. • title: 'Escapes'
     • first line: important for him to escape from all...
     • last line: an agent of justice was coming'
     • publication: Resistances: A homage to René Char (RWC, Sutton) p.19
     • date: 1991
536. • title: none
     • first line: that boy would never be again...
     • last line: although wells have been removed'
     • publication: Resistances: A homage to René Char (RWC, Sutton) p.19
     • date: 1991
537. • title: none
     • first line: the human being is perfect...
     • last line: but his eyes are needed for killing"
     • publication: Resistances: A homage to René Char (RWC, Sutton) p.20
     • date: 1991
538. • title: none
     • first line: cane chairs on a Bangkok river balcony...
     • last line: obsessive tunes to tell truth just as it comes to them
     • publication: Resistances: A homage to René Char (RWC, Sutton) p.20
     • date: 1991
539. • title: none
     • first line: look back too soon and the work...
     • last line: by any testament'
     • publication: Resistances: A homage to René Char (RWC, Sutton) p.21
     • date: 1991
540. • title: 'Three voices. 1.'
     • first line: day to day unjudged...
     • last line: you send to break knuckles
     • publication: Resistances: A homage to René Char (RWC, Sutton) p.21
     • date: 1991
541. • title: 'Three voices. 2.'
     • first line: "we must surmount our rage...
     • last line: our action"
     • publication: Resistances: A homage to René Char (RWC, Sutton) p.21
     • date: 1991
542. • title: 'Three voices. 3.'
     • first line: we have we have...
     • last line: primal guiltless repeatable
     • publication: Resistances: A homage to René Char (RWC, Sutton) p.22
     • date: 1991
543. • title: none
     • first line: a visiting poet notices two suitcases...
     • last line: Compel yourself to whirl about'
     • publication: Resistances: A homage to René Char (RWC, Sutton) p.22
     • date: 1991
544. • title: none
     • first line: loyalty to fear of the sea...
     • last line: you must not deceive him'
     • publication: Resistances: A homage to René Char (RWC, Sutton) p.22
     • date: 1991
545. • title: none
     • first line: into heads jerked back they pour...
     • last line: ruins emblems of the mind's history'
     • publication: Resistances: A homage to René Char (RWC, Sutton) p.23
     • date: 1991
546. • title: 'William Blake 1803'
     • first line: friend whose eyes have done me so much good...
     • last line: perverts of the imaginations'
     • publication: Resistances: A homage to René Char (RWC, Sutton) p.23
     • date: 1991
547. • title: 'America, the West, and the Far East'
     • first line: a man once again arises in the wind...
     • last line: darkening waves
     • publication: Estuaries: poems 1989-91 (Solaris, Twickenham) pp.7-8
     • date: 1992
548. • title: 'no title'
     • first line: Sun rise silvers a white silent glitter...
     • last line: enigmatic glow
     • publication: Estuaries: poems 1989-91 (Solaris, Twickenham) pp.9-11
     • date: 1992
549. • title: 'Laugharne'
     • first line: mid-afternoon high sunlight through yellow green hollow...
     • last line: a strange light
     • publication: Estuaries: poems 1989-91 (Solaris, Twickenham, 1992) pp.11-12
     • date: 1992
550. • title: 'Abercastle Bay March 23 1990'
     • first line: a man rows out from the brief shallow slope...
     • last line: wind clipped grass the rock weeds surge in the sea
     • publication: Estuaries: poems 1989-91 (Solaris, Twickenham) pp.12-13
     • date: 1992
     • year of composition: 1990
551. • title: none
     • first line: and what do poets do in a destitute time...
     • last line: to be created
     • publication: Estuaries: poems 1989-91 (Solaris, Twickenham) pp.13-14
     • date: 1992
552. • title: 'John Constable: in a time of depression: 1834'
     • first line: every gleam of sunshine is withdrawn from me...
     • last line: after the fire a still small voice
     • publication: Estuaries: poems 1989-91 (Solaris, Twickenham) p.15
     • date: 1992
     • reprinted in: Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) p.518
553. • title: none
     • first line: the offing barred by a black bank of clouds...
     • last line: the comedy is finished
     • publication: Estuaries: poems 1989-91 (Solaris, Twickenham) p.15
     • date: 1992
     • reprinted in: Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) p.518
554. • title: 'Thoreau's dawn'
     • first line: stand right fronting face to face...
     • last line: in the deep tree-shadows
     • publication: Estuaries: poems 1989-91 (Solaris, Twickenham) p.16
     • date: 1992
555. • title: none
     • first line: mad joy to be in...
     • last line: between me and the hawks
     • publication: Estuaries: poems 1989-91 (Solaris, Twickenham) pp.16-17
     • date: 1992
556. • title: none
     • first line: cross currents of poison air...
     • last line: blinded in sunlight over a crumbled path
     • publication: Estuaries: poems 1989-91 (Solaris, Twickenham) pp.18-19
     • date: 1992
557. • title: none
     • first line: across time from where it used...
     • last line: a scene ends in shaking
     • publication: Estuaries: poems 1989-91 (Solaris, Twickenham) p.19
     • date: 1992
558. • title: 'All souls'
     • first line: "we are becoming divided into those who can drive...
     • last line: "seriously, it's not as bad as I sometimes think it is"
     • publication: Estuaries: poems 1989-91 (Solaris, Twickenham) p.20
     • date: 1992
559. • title: none
     • first line: to awake in inherent ecstacy...
     • last line: noctivagation
     • publication: Estuaries: poems 1989-91 (Solaris, Twickenham) p.21
     • date: 1992
560. • title: none
     • first line: a question of where the sun could be...
     • last line: found at last in opportunities for search
     • publication: Estuaries: poems 1989-91 (Solaris, Twickenham) pp.21-22
     • date: 1992
561. • title: none
     • first line: "seeking some earth to stand on...
     • last line: a question mark deep in foundations
     • publication: Estuaries: poems 1989-91 (Solaris, Twickenham) pp.23-24
     • date: 1992
562. • title: A collection
     • first line: the sun shines today also...
     • last line: escapes and enters
     • publication: Estuaries: poems 1989-91 (Solaris, Twickenham) p.25
     • date: 1992
563. • title: none
     • first line: "I am not ashamed it is my destiny"...
     • last line: in sea-sky outward comes towards
     • publication: Estuaries: poems 1989-91 (Solaris, Twickenham) pp.26-27
     • date: 1992
564. • title: none
     • first line: to use two days writing letters...
     • last line: twelve miles from here and I am now a grandfather
     • publication: Estuaries: poems 1989-91 (Solaris, Twickenham) pp.27-28
     • date: 1992
565. • title: none
     • first line: fake thunder lounges through windows to be closed...
     • last line: detritus pours into the clotted estuaries
     • publication: Estuaries: poems 1989-91 (Solaris, Twickenham) pp.28-29
     • date: 1992
566. • title: none
     • first line: panic walk the wrong way west in Piccadilly...
     • last line: cold be any time to step out
     • publication: Estuaries: poems 1989-91 (Solaris, Twickenham) pp.29-30
     • date: 1992
567. • title: 'Krim: an autobiography to September 1989'
     • first line: I travelled all the byways and intellectual traps...
     • last line: different conceptions are created from the wounds
     • publication: Estuaries: poems 1989-91 (Solaris, Twickenham) pp.31-34
     • date: 1992
568. • title: none
     • first line: halted light crystals sharp on lens...
     • last line: over your head
     • publication: Estuaries: poems 1989-91 (Solaris, Twickenham) p.34
     • date: 1992
569. • title: Civil War
     • first line: grey wool jersies camouflage trousers...
     • last line: as they were completed"
     • publication: Estuaries: poems 1989-91 (Solaris, Twickenham) pp.35-36
     • date: 1992
570. • title: 'Open box' pt 1
     • first line: "the hand of my thoughts"...
     • last line: from thoughts vesseled in chopped seas
     • publication: Estuaries: poems 1989-91 (Solaris, Twickenham) pp.36-37
     • date: 1992
     • dedication: Yasmin and Peterjon Skelt
571. • title: 'Open box' pt 2
     • first line: on a mid-estuary bank a garbage fire blows northeast...
     • last line: "along my veins sing sea flutes from diverse existences"
     • publication: Estuaries: poems 1989-91 (Solaris, Twickenham) p.37
     • date: 1992
     • dedication: Yasmin and Peterjon Skelt
572. • title: 'Open box' pt 3
     • first line: led out from the bull man by white twine clued...
     • last line: rescued by Dionysus who married her
     • publication: Estuaries: poems 1989-91 (Solaris, Twickenham) p.37
     • date: 1992
     • dedication: Yasmin and Peterjon Skelt
573. • title: 'Open box' pt 4
     • first line: in South Hoy bay seals heads watched...
     • last line: free sounds from swimming diving and throats freed 1943
     • publication: Estuaries: poems 1989-91 (Solaris, Twickenham) p.38
     • date: 1992
     • dedication: Peterjon and Yasmin Skelt
574. • title: none
     • first line: freezing night gales wrestled with immense yards...
     • last line: battery music for the dead
     • publication: Estuaries: poems 1989-91 (Solaris, Twickenham) pp.38-39
     • date: 1992
575. • title: none
     • first line: tightly tied bud...
     • last line: suffuses keeps us and this huge place together
     • publication: Estuaries: poems 1989-91 (Solaris, Twickenham) pp.39-40
     • date: 1992
576. • title: none
     • first line: seated more or less constant...
     • last line: with thanks into the local swamp
     • publication: Estuaries: poems 1989-91 (Solaris, Twickenham) p.40
     • date: 1992
577. • title: none
     • first line: our walk holds a quarter-moon...
     • last line: from word movement
     • publication: Estuaries: poems 1989-91 (Solaris, Twickenham) p.41
     • date: 1992
578. • title: 'Coleridge explores'
     • first line: the common sun is born departs...
     • last line: you change equipment
     • publication: Estuaries: poems 1989-91 (Solaris, Twickenham) pp.41-42
     • date: 1992
579. • title: 'Lodge'
     • first line: leafed sunlight flickers strong...
     • last line: hand into thick leaves small sweet melons in their vine
     • publication: Estuaries: poems 1989-91 (Solaris, Twickenham) p.42
     • date: 1992
580. • title: none
     • first line: "his favorite place to drink at the end of the day...
     • last line: under rim to rim blue
     • publication: Estuaries: poems 1989-91 (Solaris, Twickenham) p.43
     • date: 1992
581. • title: 'Landshipping'
     • first line: then by seatless canoe...
     • last line: "all the children are insane"
     • publication: Estuaries: poems 1989-91 (Solaris, Twickenham) p.43
     • date: 1992
582. • title: none
     • first line: harp ripples between flox and roses scarlets...
     • last line: "at the heart of insecurity where a man discovers himself"
     • publication: Estuaries: poems 1989-91 (Solaris, Twickenham) p.44
     • date: 1992
583. • title: none
     • first line: "she wasn't exactly innocent"...
     • last line: "it's a slow business not wasting time"
     • publication: Estuaries: poems 1989-91 (Solaris, Twickenham) p.44
     • date: 1992
584. • title: none
     • first line: dawn grows in twin elliptical long mirrors...
     • last line: blue in her porcelain
     • publication: Estuaries: poems 1989-91 (Solaris, Twickenham) pp.44-45
     • date: 1992
585. • title: 'After all'
     • first line: things still chime and the photos...
     • last line: our hands hear on a yellow lichened balustrade
     • publication: Estuaries: poems 1989-91 (Solaris, Twickenham) p.46
     • date: 1992
586. • title: 'William Carlos Williams basks'
     • first line: summer is up among the huckleberries...
     • last line: and moonlight
     • publication: Estuaries: poems 1989-91 (Solaris, Twickenham) p.46
     • date: 1992
587. • title: 'Lodge rooms (at Laugharne)'
     • first line: each house room is an order...
     • last line: each sound particular held in white sunlight
     • publication: Estuaries: poems 1989-91 (Solaris, Twickenham) p.47
     • date: 1992
588. • title: 'Miami vice folds 1990'
     • first line: "I never figured to make sixty-five...
     • last line: the drinks are cold..."
     • publication: Estuaries: poems 1989-91 (Solaris, Twickenham) p.47
     • date: 1992
     • year of composition: 1990
     • dedication: Harry Gluck
589. • title: none
     • first line: dark sunlight...
     • last line: a deposit of "still light" not radiant
     • publication: Estuaries: poems 1989-91 (Solaris, Twickenham) p.48
     • date: 1992
590. • title: none
     • first line: below this house stone basement...
     • last line: but radiate and envigorate
     • publication: Estuaries: poems 1989-91 (Solaris, Twickenham) p.49
     • date: 1992
591. • title: none
     • first line: Matisse has the sun in his belly...
     • last line: with all the money had in Paris
     • publication: Estuaries: poems 1989-91 (Solaris, Twickenham) p.49
     • date: 1992
592. • title: none
     • first line: who is it produced by fears...
     • last line: the dare remains before sun rises
     • publication: Estuaries: poems 1989-91 (Solaris, Twickenham) p.50
     • date: 1992
593. • title: 'Copan'
     • first line: form of sculpture most frequently met...
     • last line: piled with dead
     • publication: Estuaries: poems 1989-91 (Solaris, Twickenham) p.51
     • date: 1992
594. • title: 'For Sándor Csoóri'
     • first line: where the sun stands...
     • last line: confronts the wind
     • publication: Estuaries: poems 1989-91 (Solaris, Twickenham) p.52
     • date: 1992
595. • title: '1888'
     • first line: ...which is not happiness and true life...
     • last line: from your heart
     • publication: Estuaries: poems 1989-91 (Solaris, Twickenham) p.53
     • date: 1992
596. • title: 'Precipice of fishes March 1990'
     • first line: wherever may be fresh green trees...
     • last line: a living room is better if it grows
     • publication: Estuaries: poems 1989-91 (Solaris, Twickenham) pp.54-55
     • date: 1992
     • dedication: Howell Daniels
597. • title: none
     • first line: the warmest clothes you own goggles...
     • last line: a chaos internalized society
     • publication: Estuaries: poems 1989-91 (Solaris, Twickenham) pp.55-56
     • date: 1992
598. • title: 'The embodiment of knowledge'
     • first line: because the knife is polished...
     • last line: they think it is sharp
     • publication: Estuaries: poems 1989-91 (Solaris, Twickenham) p.56
     • date: 1992
599. • title: 'Homage to Paul Eluard'
     • first line: "the last bud of the future"...
     • last line: song creates the reflex of its own revenge
     • publication: Estuaries: poems 1989-91 (Solaris, Twickenham) pp.56-58
     • date: 1992
600. • title: 'Estuary'
     • first line: tidal a place where tides in 1538...
     • last line: where we interact
     • publication: Estuaries: poems 1989-91 (Solaris, Twickenham) p.59
     • date: 1992
601. • title: 'White'
     • first line: under this thick azure...
     • last line: below ice rock at the snows
     • publication: Raise the wind for me: poems for Basil Bunting (Pig Press, Durham) pp.15-16
     • date: 1992
     • dedication: Basil Bunting
602. • title: 'In Liddesdale'
     • first line: why do you read this listen to...
     • last line: he's dead we partly live around an event
     • publication: Raise the wind for me: poems for Basil Bunting (Pig Press, Durham) pp.17-18
     • date: 1992
     • dedication: Basil Bunting
603. • title: none
     • first line: warm as dawn discloses...
     • last line: close analyzed complex above
     • publication: Situations 1/1 (New York)
     • date: 1992
604. • title: none
     • first line: sea shore gray salt...
     • last line: and more for a last long letter
     • publication: Situations 1/1 (New York)
     • date: 1992
605. • title: none
     • first line: to this night with unendable...
     • last line: a cat's automatic lucidity not ours
     • publication: Situations 1/1 (New York)
     • date: 1992
606. • title: 'An attempt to resist'
     • first line: remember looking for a voice...
     • last line: weather turns
     • publication: Situations 1/1 (New York)
     • date: 1992
607. • title: 'Time Sight Unseen' pt 1
     • first line: in among / look at among...
     • last line: real scenes-mutual internals-all you can
     • publication: Time Sight Unseen (State University of New York at Buffalo) item 1a
     • date: 1993
     • dedication: Robert Bertholf
608. • title: 'Time Sight Unseen' pt 2
     • first line: nut it-we say it-recall...
     • last line: that a fool can go wrong'
     • publication: Time Sight Unseen (State University of New York at Buffalo) item 1b
     • date: 1993
     • dedication: Robert Bertholf
609. • title: 'Time Sight Unseen' pt 3
     • first line: a monster prostrate there...
     • last line: eating the great recipe
     • publication: Time Sight Unseen (State University of New York at Buffalo) item 1c
     • date: 1993
     • dedication: Robert Bertholf
610. • title: 'Time Sight Unseen' pt 4
     • first line: laws of taut you made...
     • last line: what is in the briefcase
     • publication: Time Sight Unseen (State University of New York at Buffalo) item 1d
     • date: 1993
     • dedication: Robert Bertholf
611. • title: '"Beware the hundred percent loyal"'
     • first line: "and what if after so many words...
     • last line: this business of walking tightropes..."
     • publication: Klaonica: poems for Bosnia ed. Ken Smith & Judi Benson (Bloodaxe, Newcastle upon Tyne) p.76
     • date: 1993
612. • title: none
     • first line: dreams give words turn masks to reveal...
     • last line: universe is ununited
     • publication: Design origins: Masks book two, poems 1993-4 (Amra Imprint, Seaham, Co.Durham) item 1
     • date: 1994
     • year of composition: 1993-1994
     • epigraph: Robert Kelly
613. • title: 'Zuni dancers'
     • first line: "now it's time for me to go to my society...
     • last line: wait like ravens like vultures
     • publication: Design origins: Masks book two, poems 1993-4 (Amra Imprint, Seaham, Co.Durham) item 2
     • date: 1994
     • reprinted in: Other: British and Irish poetry since 1970 ed. Richard Caddel and Peter Quartermain (Wesleyan University Press, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1999) 160-162
     • year of composition: 1993-1994
614. • title: 'Ideology'
     • first line: they hide a person wears them...
     • last line: come masks chant
     • publication: Design origins: Masks book two, poems 1993-4 (Amra Imprint, Seaham, Co.Durham) item 3
     • date: 1994
     • year of composition: 1993-1994
615. • title: none
     • first line: "tell me about yourself make it up...
     • last line: who is fairest all's fair in war who said it was
     • publication: Design origins: Masks book two, poems 1993-4 (Amra Imprint, Seaham, Co.Durham) item 4
     • date: 1994
     • year of composition: 1993-1994
     • epigraph: Ezra Pound
616. • title: 'Bios'
     • first line: no more hills...
     • last line: Cornet Christoph
     • publication: Inheritance: Masks book one, poems 1993-1994 (Writers Forum, London) item 1
     • date: 1994
     • reprinted in: Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) pp.523-525
     • year of composition: 1993-1994
617. • title: 'Masks'
     • first line: "the body seduced from without...
     • last line: and west from black jeweled chiefs towards awaiting ships
     • publication: Inheritance: Masks book one, poems 1993-1994 (Writers Forum, London) item 2
     • date: 1994
     • year of composition: 1993-1994
618. • title: 'Learning'
     • first line: in Náhuatl they use a phrase for the whole...
     • last line: the chemical composition of wings
     • publication: Inheritance: Masks book one, poems 1993-1994 (Writers Forum, London) item 3
     • date: 1994
     • year of composition: 1993-1994
619. • title: 'Discovery'
     • first line: back to mountain valley...
     • last line: instructions left by tea-master Sen-no-Rikyu
     • publication: Inheritance: Masks book one, poems 1993-1994 (Writers Forum, London) item 4
     • date: 1994
     • year of composition: 1993-1994
620. • title: none
     • first line: even these few hours...
     • last line: dissolves at a touch of the discovering voice
     • publication: Inheritance: Masks book one, poems 1993-1994 (Writers Forum, London) item 5
     • date: 1994
     • year of composition: 1993-1994
     • epigraph: Thoreau
621. • title: 'New Year Greeted'
     • first line: what face must wear...
     • last line: for you in about 5 minutes'
     • publication: Inheritance: Masks book one, poems 1993-1994 (Writers Forum, London) item 6
     • date: 1994
     • year of composition: 1993-1994
622. • title: 'Other news'
     • first line: people turned into things...
     • last line: desire the most sacred
     • publication: Inheritance: Masks book one, poems 1993-1994 (Writers Forum, London) item 7
     • date: 1994
     • year of composition: 1993-1994
623. • title: 'Journey'
     • first line: "the sort of complicated living...
     • last line: completed to walk shackled to the end
     • publication: Inheritance: Masks book one, poems 1993-1994 (Writers Forum, London) item 8
     • date: 1994
     • year of composition: 1993-1994
624. • title: 'A second for Jarrett' pt 1
     • first line: masks for the only journey...
     • last line: forceful risks in excess to be recognised as order
     • publication: Inheritance: Masks book one, poems 1993-1994 (Writers Forum, London) item 9 (a)
     • date: 1994
     • year of composition: 1993-1994
625. • title: 'A second for Jarrett' pt 2
     • first line: hear laughter in mockery...
     • last line: "wind ocean cold sky earth empty of the detritus of man"
     • publication: Inheritance: Masks book one, poems 1993-1994 (Writers Forum, London) item 9 (b)
     • date: 1994
     • year of composition: 1993-1994
626. • title: 'Conrad / Perse'
     • first line: our "share of daylight"...
     • last line: in "the triple drama"
     • publication: Inheritance: Masks book one, poems 1993-1994 (Writers Forum, London) item 10
     • date: 1994
     • year of composition: 1993-1994
627. • title: none
     • first line: "sea of the trance and transgression...
     • last line: freed at limits of well-being
     • publication: Inheritance: Masks book one, poems 1993-1994 (Writers Forum, London) item 11
     • date: 1994
     • year of composition: 1993-1994
628. • title: 'Test 1' pt 1
     • first line: a supernatural being appears...
     • last line: the long is
     • publication: Inheritance: Masks book one, poems 1993-1994 (Writers Forum, London) item 21 (a)
     • date: 1994
     • year of composition: 1993-1994
629. • title: 'Test 1' pt 2
     • first line: this place slight shelter therefore none...
     • last line: naked in crazy birthday suits unarmed
     • publication: Inheritance: Masks book one, poems 1993-1994 (Writers Forum, London) item 12 (b)
     • date: 1994
     • year of composition: 1993-1994
630. • title: 'Pollen sounds'
     • first line: to make darkened woods...
     • last line: sounds of dead pollen fall
     • publication: Inheritance: Masks book one, poems 1993-1994 (Writers Forum, London) item 13
     • date: 1994
     • year of composition: 1993-1994
631. • title: 'The career painter speaks under pressure'
     • first line: from this lookout...
     • last line: becomes a relic
     • publication: Inheritance: Masks book one, poems 1993-1994 (Writers Forum, London) item 14
     • date: 1994
     • year of composition: 1993-1994
632. • title: 'Homage to Don van Fliet'
     • first line: this song no sing-song...
     • last line: together again again
     • publication: Inheritance: Masks book one, poems 1993-1994 (Writers Forum, London) item 15
     • date: 1994
     • year of composition: 1993-1994
     • dedication: In memoriam Andrew Britton
633. • title: 'Birth day'
     • first line: a word shouted or sung...
     • last line: as possible as costume and script are learned
     • publication: Inheritance: Masks book one, poems 1993-1994 (Writers Forum, London) item 16
     • date: 1994
     • year of composition: 1993-1994
634. • title: 'Album'
     • first line: this is what he looks like...
     • last line: face what did you say standing beside the excluded middle light
     • publication: Inheritance: Masks book one, poems 1993-1994 (Writers Forum, London) item 17
     • date: 1994
     • reprinted in: Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) pp.526-527
     • year of composition: 1993-1994
635. • title: 'Photographic memory'
     • first line: from cap to shoes father's photograph...
     • last line: one masked voyage after another with photographs
     • publication: Inheritance: Masks book one, poems 1993-1994 (Writers Forum, London) item 18
     • date: 1994
     • year of composition: 1993-1994
636. • title: 'Reports'
     • first line: reports from the battlefront...
     • last line: let me bite your beautiful neck you will
     • publication: Graven Images 1 (Madison, Wisconsin) pp.226-227
     • date: 1994
637. • title: 'Virtual P.C.'
     • first line: awake while asleep...
     • last line: sound afar of taped applause but distinct
     • publication: Graven Images 1 (Madison, Wisconsin) pp.228-229
     • date: 1994
638. • title: 'Navigation'
     • first line: "so suddenly into sea depths disappears...
     • last line: desire for insatiable explosion
     • publication: Double your stakes: Masks book three (RWC, London) pp.1-2
     • date: 1995
639. • title: 'Invisible man'
     • first line: on the day of memory...
     • last line: without withdrawal
     • publication: Double your stakes: Masks book three (RWC, London) p.3
     • date: 1995
640. • title: 'Passager: fragment from an unknown journal'
     • first line: "...at this point in passage...
     • last line: guide passport and stout boots..."
     • publication: Double your stakes: Masks book three (RWC, London) p.5
     • date: 1995
     • dedication: Drew Whitelegg
641. • title: 'Counter point experience'
     • first line: the sea before and at my back...
     • last line: "living as if every moment were his last"
     • publication: Double your stakes: Masks book three (RWC, London) pp.6-7
     • date: 1995
642. • title: 'Lifeboat man'
     • first line: his boat alongside in total respect...
     • last line: at any time launched into public sea
     • publication: Double your stakes: Masks book three (RWC, London) p.7
     • date: 1995
643. • title: 'Prisoners' pt 1
     • first line: dream is where mask breaks...
     • last line: no need to read that childhood sign
     • publication: Double your stakes: Masks book three (RWC, London) p.8
     • date: 1995
644. • title: 'Prisoners' pt 2
     • first line: dumb space repeats...
     • last line: tribe music lies in sand
     • publication: Double your stakes: Masks book three (RWC, London) p.8
     • date: 1995
645. • title: 'Prisoners' pt 3
     • first line: a mask fits a useless thing for a seed...
     • last line: imperfectly grasped but magic speechless
     • publication: Double your stakes: Masks book three (RWC, London) p.9
     • date: 1995
646. • title: 'A recently discovered message'
     • first line: "what readiness for transformation this...
     • last line: performance"
     • publication: Double your stakes: Masks book three (RWC, London) p.10
     • date: 1995
     • reprinted in: Worlds of new measure: an anthology of five contemporary British poets ed. Clive Bush (Talus Editions, London, 1997) pp.528-529
     • epigraph: Don DeLillo
647. • title: 'Some time held together'
     • first line: sea and forest...
     • last line: some time held together
     • publication: Double your stakes: Masks book three (RWC, London) p.11
     • date: 1995 genre: prose poem
648. • title: 'A conventional statement'
     • first line: inside with a making urge surges need...
     • last line: once stunned each victim believes his cause
     • publication: Double your stakes: Masks book three (RWC, London) p.12 (first part of a sequence of three poems)
     • date: 1995
649. • title: 'Role speech'
     • first line: "I cannot love because I cannot trust...
     • last line: invent manic orders to steady destruction
     • publication: Double your stakes: Masks book three (RWC, London) p.12 (second part of sequence of three poems)
     • date: 1995
650. • title: 'Security core story'
     • first line: "So these five tried to make a packaged banknotes...
     • last line: one key to one box of sheets of Truth"
     • publication: Double your stakes: Masks book three (RWC, London) pp.13 (third part of a sequence of three poems)
     • date: 1995
651. • title: 'On Horn'
     • first line: a strained exuberant mask...
     • last line: I Want To Talk About You
     • publication: Double your stakes: Masks book three (RWC, London) p.13
     • date: 1995
652. • title: 'Time table'
     • first line: voice from naked performance...
     • last line: around assembly
     • publication: Double your stakes: Masks book three (RWC, London) p.14
     • date: 1995
653. • title: 'Obituary'
     • first line: a great painter impaled on degraded malice...
     • last line: from air and water against stone
     • publication: Double your stakes: Masks book three (RWC, London) p.14
     • date: 1995
654. • title: 'Wigman'
     • first line: just before dawn he unlocked his library...
     • last line: for private court alone
     • publication: Double your stakes: Masks book three (RWC, London) p.15
     • date: 1995
655. • title: none
     • first line: the Sea Princess...
     • last line: the lark sings louder
     • publication: Double your stakes: Masks book three (RWC, London) p.16
     • date: 1995
     • dedication: Jackson Mac Low
656. • title: 'Challenge'
     • first line: to announce defiance...
     • last line: used clothes make cut commonplace
     • publication: Double your stakes: Masks book three (RWC, London) p.17
     • date: 1995
657. • title: 'Tree of Life marvellous herb'
     • first line: apples are not poisonous and not all snakes...
     • last line: New York 1963 fast foods and frozen double trouble
     • publication: Double your stakes: Masks book three (RWC, London) p.18
     • date: 1995
658. • title: 'The James papers' pt 1
     • first line: "the sense in the whole element of things too numerous...
     • last line: into golden strangeness of facts'
     • publication: Double your stakes: Masks book three (RWC, London) p.19
     • date: 1995
659. • title: 'The James papers' pt 2
     • first line: at the Rye end of the line a resistance to...
     • last line: the thing hideously behind"
     • publication: Double your stakes: Masks book three (RWC, London) pp.19-20
     • date: 1995
660. • title: 'The James papers' pt 3
     • first line: "the port from which I set out was the essential loneliness...
     • last line: the bared identity was too hideous as his'
     • publication: Double your stakes: Masks book three (RWC, London) p.20
     • date: 1995
661. • title: 'A canvas'
     • first line: offices behind protective glass for tyranny examples...
     • last line: "all that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves"
     • publication: Double your stakes: Masks book three (RWC, London) p.21
     • date: 1995 genre: prose poem
     • dedication: R.B.Kitaj
662. • title: 'Belief prisoners' pt 1
     • first line: all the music...
     • last line: locked in present loud repeats
     • publication: Double your stakes: Masks book three (RWC, London) p.22
     • date: 1995
663. • title: 'Belief prisoners' pt 2
     • first line: inside electric arcades...
     • last line: daylight research library
     • publication: Double your stakes: Masks book three (RWC, London) pp.22-23
     • date: 1995
664. • title: 'Belief prisoners' pt 3
     • first line: your second life is needed...
     • last line: their kids enter slave magic
     • publication: Double your stakes: Masks book three (RWC, London) p.23
     • date: 1995
665. • title: 'The coat: Blake and Thoreau talk'
     • first line: "more! more! is the cry of the mistaken soul-...
     • last line: of the natures, and baited their hooks with darkness"
     • publication: Double your stakes: Masks book three (RWC, London) p.24
     • date: 1995
666. • title: 'Variations on the Duke'
     • first line: tree tongues...
     • last line: of the sunne"
     • publication: Double your stakes: Masks book three (RWC, London) pp.25-26
     • date: 1995
667. • title: 'With faith'
     • first line: a connoisseur fleeces his victim disappears...
     • last line: his nostalgia pursues 'confidence' as the captain climbs aboard
     • publication: Double your stakes: Masks book three (RWC, London) p.26
     • date: 1995 genre: prose poem
668. • title: 'Lommel'
     • first line: a whole coat is needed...
     • last line: born to draw blood a drawing out of a creation a diet
     • publication: Double your stakes: Masks book three (RWC, London) pp.27-28(misprint?)
     • date: 1995
669. • title: 'Price fit'
     • first line: a sports bag with labels...
     • last line: too much work'
     • publication: Double your stakes: Masks book three (RWC, London) p.28
     • date: 1995
670. • title: 'Song dance'
     • first line: night commands set you double free...
     • last line: whole heartedly whole
     • publication: Double your stakes: Masks book three (RWC, London) pp.28-29
     • date: 1995
671. • title: 'Missing motives'
     • first line: confused they sleep dogmatic...
     • last line: as you now it is dissolve
     • publication: Double your stakes: Masks book three (RWC, London) pp.30-31
     • date: 1995
672. • title: 'Round Table library'
     • first line: the green head speaks still...
     • last line: clockwork bell from encircling wall
     • publication: Double your stakes: Masks book three (RWC, London) p.31
     • date: 1995
673. • title: 'Double your stake'
     • first line: once on...
     • last line: performance
     • publication: Double your stakes: Masks book three (RWC, London) p.32
     • date: 1995
674. • title: 'John Ashbery's head'
     • first line: rivers and mountains at a Chinese distance...
     • last line: is a trophy brought back from a frontier again
     • publication: Double your stakes: Masks book three (RWC, London) p.33
     • date: 1995
675. • title: 'Armed to the teeth for the teeth'
     • first line: "maybe you should wear a gun...
     • last line: look out of this window'
     • publication: Double your stakes: Masks book three (RWC, London) pp.34-35
     • date: 1995
676. • title: 'Faked health'
     • first line: street as theatre of abduction and in woods...
     • last line: heights, boulders, and woods I love...'
     • publication: Double your stakes: Masks book three (RWC, London) p.35
     • date: 1995
677. • title: 'L'état brut'
     • first line: do we hope that it is there behind...
     • last line: image guardians robed wigged made-up
     • publication: Double your stakes: Masks book three (RWC, London) p.35
     • date: 1995
678. • title: 'Arrests were made'
     • first line: into any grating wire netting...
     • last line: into living feast for survival
     • publication: Double your stakes: Masks book three (RWC, London) p.36
     • date: 1995
679. • title: 'Painting: mask'
     • first line: the blackness alerts memories of human...
     • last line: jogs by possessed overheard
     • publication: Double your stakes: Masks book three (RWC, London) p.37
     • date: 1995
680. • title: 'All over'
     • first line: inside this all over...
     • last line: without security to hell
     • publication: Double your stakes: Masks book three (RWC, London) p.38
     • date: 1995
681. • title: 'Black ice'
     • first line: without the super naturalist motivation...
     • last line: you better than way
     • publication: Double your stakes: Masks book three (RWC, London) p.39-40
     • date: 1995
     • dedication: Ronald Sukenick
682. • title: 'Mask-free travellers'
     • first line: hurry through this great solitude...
     • last line: imperfectly understood but magic
     • publication: Double your stakes: Masks book three (RWC, London) pp.40-41
     • date: 1995
683. • title: 'Meyerhold'
     • first line: even before he speaks the actor works prepares...
     • last line: so mask life prepares for life survival which is control
     • publication: Double your stakes: Masks book three (RWC, London) p.41
     • date: 1995
684. • title: none
     • first line: sudden feel unsatisfied...
     • last line: as a shedding shelterless
     • publication: Double your stakes: Masks book three (RWC, London) p.41
     • date: 1995
685. • title: 'Writer's face'
     • first line: "what is the importance of a writer's face?...
     • last line: is the only measure of freedom"
     • publication: Double your stakes: Masks book three (RWC, London) p.42
     • date: 1995
686. • title: 'Democracy from childhood'
     • first line: wills "by force of events" in borrowed...
     • last line: numbers elected by mass ignorance
     • publication: Double your stakes: Masks book three (RWC, London) p.43
     • date: 1995
687. • title: 'Unwanted guests'
     • first line: through the front doors into the hall...
     • last line: kitsch shines in unused cleanliness
     • publication: Double your stakes: Masks book three (RWC, London) p.44
     • date: 1995
688. • title: 'Limbo'
     • first line: again tonight they act as if...
     • last line: contraception of your choice one record for ever
     • publication: Double your stakes: Masks book three (RWC, London) pp.44-46
     • date: 1995
689. • title: 'The god race'
     • first line: cults of symbolic brothers and sisters initiated...
     • last line: torture festival Jews fled to Arabia with gods
     • publication: Double your stakes: Masks book three (RWC, London) p.46
     • date: 1995
690. • title: 'Wanted for...'
     • first line: "5.05 returning to warm areas of sleep...
     • last line: exit a dot of that light..."
     • publication: Double your stakes: Masks book three (RWC, London) p.47
     • date: 1995
691. • title: 'Let there be and there was'
     • first line: their stories short stories...
     • last line: to just where we are already
     • publication: Periodical contests: Masks book four (Anarcho Press, Badninish, with Mainstream, St Albans) pp.1-2
     • date: 1997
692. • title: 'Captain' pt 1
     • first line: each side of him...
     • last line: discovery again
     • publication: Periodical contests: Masks book four (Anarcho Press, Badninish, with Mainstream, St Albans) p.3
     • date: 1997
693. • title: 'Captain' pt 2
     • first line: no plans or at last confessions...
     • last line: floated for wind wave rocked passage
     • publication: Periodical contests: Masks book four (Anarcho Press, Badninish, with Mainstream, St Albans) p.4
     • date: 1997
694. • title: 'Laws of form'
     • first line: "we have come to take you apart"...
     • last line: to leave
     • publication: Periodical contests: Masks book four (Anarcho Press, Badninish, with Mainstream, St Albans) pp.5-6
     • date: 1997
695. • title: 'Full life by mask'
     • first line: a second self fits over inside...
     • last line: full life for releasing fear into you
     • publication: Periodical contests: Masks book four (Anarcho Press, Badninish, with Mainstream, St Albans) p.6
     • date: 1997
696. • title: 'First intimations'
     • first line: at times unable to voice...
     • last line: he could say not completed
     • publication: Periodical contests: Masks book four (Anarcho Press, Badninish, with Mainstream, St Albans) pp.7-8
     • date: 1997
697. • title: 'Copenhagen'
     • first line: "outside the night is governed"...
     • last line: moves to survive and end
     • publication: Periodical contests: Masks book four (Anarcho Press, Badninish, with Mainstream, St Albans) p.9
     • date: 1997
698. • title: 'Defences'
     • first line: "the trouble I have with him is me"...
     • last line: I do not wish to go below now"
     • publication: Periodical contests: Masks book four (Anarcho Press, Badninish, with Mainstream, St Albans) p.10
     • date: 1997
699. • title: 'Tickets'
     • first line: one eye shut sees darkness a blackness...
     • last line: for futher instruction you walk'
     • publication: Periodical contests: Masks book four (Anarcho Press, Badninish, with Mainstream, St Albans) p.11
     • date: 1997
700. • title: 'Rites'
     • first line: more invisible masked in absorbed...
     • last line: god enactions of torture the only game
     • publication: Periodical contests: Masks book four (Anarcho Press, Badninish, with Mainstream, St Albans) p.12
     • date: 1997
701. • title: 'Slips'
     • first line: "remember" he says "know watch"...
     • last line: in some cases it is"
     • publication: Periodical contests: Masks book four (Anarcho Press, Badninish, with Mainstream, St Albans) pp.13-14
     • date: 1997
702. • title: 'Superficies'
     • first line: "where are you staying then"...
     • last line: stories told to vibrate old surfaces
     • publication: Periodical contests: Masks book four (Anarcho Press, Badninish, with Mainstream, St Albans) p.15
     • date: 1997
703. • title: 'Towards "A comedian"'
     • first line: orange inherited hoods...
     • last line: mask for rejection
     • publication: Periodical contests: Masks book four (Anarcho Press, Badninish, with Mainstream, St Albans) pp.16-17
     • date: 1997
     • epigraph: Jack Spicer
704. • title: 'Members'
     • first line: to hold spirits of those who entered through their arts...
     • last line: chords and lines unheard before they are made
     • publication: Periodical contests: Masks book four (Anarcho Press, Badninish, with Mainstream, St Albans) p.18
     • date: 1997
705. • title: none
     • first line: all cracks of innocence...
     • last line: a forest entered from familiar new entrance
     • publication: Periodical contests: Masks book four (Anarcho Press, Badninish, with Mainstream, St Albans) pp.19-20
     • date: 1997
706. • title: none
     • first line: no projected slave design...
     • last line: break rules imagine rhythms begin again
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) pp.11-14
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
     • dedication: Alok Bhalla
707. • title: 'Coromandel Coast 1946'
     • first line: maps copied then drawn up corrected...
     • last line: to Wolf Creek and Second Mesa in a burnt southwest
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) p.15
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
708. • title: 'Code Aztec: Code Ajanta-Hopiland and Central India'
     • first line: submissions repeated through urban stations...
     • last line: into crystal cut cave inside the geode
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) pp.16-17
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
709. • title: 'Transformations'
     • first line: Bacchus at the Marriage changfes water into wine...
     • last line: there exists no innocent site
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) p.18
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
710. • title: 'Protection'
     • first line: with one belief makes it possible...
     • last line: brass pot balancing head and hair
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) pp.19-20
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
711. • title: none
     • first line: should this low storied city...
     • last line: through victory chants against the prime minister
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) pp.21-22
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
     • dedication: Barbara Guest
712. • title: none
     • first line: they stole the fire and leased it...
     • last line: not an acquisition
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) pp.23-26
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
713. • title: none
     • first line: It ends with a quick embrace in an airport...
     • last line: the history electrode plastered to head skin
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) pp.27-28
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
714. • title: none
     • first line: Mies van der Rohe style small hotel...
     • last line: apart from boiled water carriers
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) p.29
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
715. • title: none
     • first line: no place to come back to...
     • last line: follow its eyes
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) p.30
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
716. • title: none
     • first line: insane as thirty-eight stops...
     • last line: death in which dreams come to us
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) pp.31-33
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
717. • title: none
     • first line: Wealth and blood into flights...
     • last line: absorbed into a space where memory vanished
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) p.34
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
718. • title: none
     • first line: a shot fired random....
     • last line: imagined peopleless smokeless unrimmed
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) p.35
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
719. • title: none
     • first line: the beggar's hands...
     • last line: to distance
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) pp.36-37
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
720. • title: none
     • first line: when electricity fails heat...
     • last line: who are you brake it up
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) pp.38-39
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
721. • title: none
     • first line: extreme body distress in a journey...
     • last line: a priest issues weapons
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) pp.40-41
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
722. • title: none
     • first line: it's Indian...
     • last line: where they got it from
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) p.42
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
     • dedication: David Mamet
723. • title: none
     • first line: occupied in occupied territory a print...
     • last line: of a history it has never seen
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) p.43
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
724. • title: none
     • first line: a phone call over an immense mile...
     • last line: in the broken world
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) pp.44-45
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
725. • title: none
     • first line: law hardly lays down on soil...
     • last line: lex talionis a law of retaliations
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) p.46
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
726. • title: none
     • first line: sacrifice is happening there...
     • last line: many hands to the work
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) p.47
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
727. • title: 'no title' pt 1
     • first line: under a root branch tree children sit...
     • last line: children in noon shade as she stresses
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) p.48
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
728. • title: 'no title' pt 2
     • first line: at flight's end what to offer...
     • last line: to coherences a descendent blackness
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) p.48
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
729. • title: none
     • first line: limits to regeneration...
     • last line: out of the curfew smell of ashes
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) pp.49-50
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
730. • title: none
     • first line: to say embarrassing noble claims...
     • last line: army may begin at any time
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) p.51
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
731. • title: none
     • first line: lightning flash new rose thunder...
     • last line: contains sacrifice on the home run
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) p.52
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
732. • title: '"The dreamlike world of India"'
     • first line: "weird" to a Swiss mentalist...
     • last line: Human beings at least partly control their conditions
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) pp.53-54
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986 genre: prose poem
733. • title: none
     • first line: on her black oiled hair...
     • last line: world sounds infection
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) p.55
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
     • epigraph: V.S.Naipul
734. • title: none
     • first line: now in these hot nights hibiscus days...
     • last line: that rises to kill now
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) pp.56-57
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
     • dedication: Will Rowe
735. • title: none
     • first line: potted body ash...
     • last line: among animals
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) p.58
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
736. • title: none
     • first line: a breach in fear and a hand...
     • last line: with signs that must be familiar
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) pp.59-60
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
737. • title: none
     • first line: no matter how far back...
     • last line: obscurely
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) pp.61-62
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
738. • title: none
     • first line: we live under terror back there...
     • last line: heavy when the kids are out
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) p.63
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
739. • title: none
     • first line: a squareless city...
     • last line: they sit there on edge in Daultabad
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) p.64
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
740. • title: none
     • first line: rushed me in a passage between...
     • last line: is this why our common tongue flares between us
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) p.65
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
741. • title: none
     • first line: even the narrow gauge line...
     • last line: discards stale against this order
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) p.66
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
742. • title: none
     • first line: fierce streams ...
     • last line: profound terror
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) p.67
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
743. • title: none
     • first line: this is no country for youth...
     • last line: for daughters and sons of the 1946 beggars
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) p.68
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
744. • title: none
     • first line: a scramble for coins and bent notes...
     • last line: but this scene and that back and back
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) p.69
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
745. • title: none
     • first line: I did not my pink and pale brown hands...
     • last line: on a still cassette
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) pp.70-71
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
746. • title: none
     • first line: inside electoral circuits a vote...
     • last line: brain sand
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) p.72
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
747. • title: none
     • first line: South in...
     • last line: lives crawl from water holes to bask
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) p.73
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
748. • title: 'Desolation'
     • first line: an axehead bounces off old teak...
     • last line: as debt rises from the swamp
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) p.74
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
749. • title: none
     • first line: in deep ignorance I should silence...
     • last line: is to be left
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) p.75
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
750. • title: none
     • first line: burning ghats banyan avenues Mughals...
     • last line: flaking desire
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) p.76
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
     • epigraph: D.H.Lawrence
751. • title: none
     • first line: she holds Une Etrange Aventure a sign...
     • last line: do to us under pressures repeated
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) p.77
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
752. • title: none
     • first line: off the camouflage rifle street...
     • last line: to "the great empty mouth of chaos"
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) pp.78-79
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
753. • title: none
     • first line: a rush cradle floats on lodges in rushes...
     • last line: in a viewfinder one reflects one
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) pp.80-81
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
754. • title: none
     • first line: on baked rock iced murrain rock...
     • last line: silted to under us here
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) p.82
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
755. • title: none
     • first line: "Indians are often sullen and argumentative..."
     • last line: waiting in the long rebirths
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) p.83
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
756. • title: none
     • first line: where the new flows...
     • last line: shouting Give this to your friend
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) pp.84-85
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
757. • title: none
     • first line: who should be hooded from such glare...
     • last line: crushed and back there a secure entrance exit
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) p.86
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
758. • title: none
     • first line: night blue fruit...
     • last line: flight angles camera angle prevent in limited engagement
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) pp.87-88
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
759. • title: 'Nizan Club'
     • first line: what are we doing on probably the only lawn...
     • last line: goddess whose multiple tits are numbered
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) p.89
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
760. • title: none
     • first line: so occupied with doing this job properly...
     • last line: in Angkor white screen petals hooded banner warning
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) p.90
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
761. • title: none
     • first line: who asks the stone figure...
     • last line: somewhere around daylight
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) pp.91-93
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
762. • title: 'A conference'
     • first line: the telex epic press claimed era's end...
     • last line: in the hollows of the Supreme Court
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) pp.94-97
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
763. • title: none
     • first line: thin shirt thin trousers...
     • last line: beside me
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) pp.98-99
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
764. • title: none
     • first line: orphaned inconsolable...
     • last line: into a fast river
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) p.100
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
765. • title: none
     • first line: buffalo black nostrils just...
     • last line: who they are who the enemy
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) p.101
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
766. • title: 'September 26'
     • first line: ...is not merely a by-product of a faulty political economy...
     • last line: it is possible to make it ours, too.
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) p.102
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986 genre: found text
767. • title: none
     • first line: sir, monkeys pose a great menace...
     • last line: bear your restlessness with grace
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) p.103
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986 genre: found text
768. • title: none
     • first line: reading this book in New York Philadelphia...
     • last line: the government insists they be married
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) p.104
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
769. • title: none
     • first line: Muriel came into these caves in 1940...
     • last line: light mirrored from a work sun world
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) p.105
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
     • dedication: Muriel Rukeyser
770. • title: 'Twin cities'
     • first line: a road between immense boulders veers...
     • last line: Massachusetts 1849
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) p.106
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
771. • title: 'Before Bibi-Ka-Maqbara'
     • first line: who dream of women men children...
     • last line: in this exposed arena
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) pp.107-111
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
772. • title: none
     • first line: a distraught lonely man gazes at war...
     • last line: "I got my strength from god"
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) p.112
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
773. • title: 'Twentieth Century city'
     • first line: white government towers and terraces...
     • last line: silence neither life nor death
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) pp.113-114
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
774. • title: 'Another return'
     • first line: a weighted field stretches under blasts...
     • last line: forty years journeys west and south and east
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) pp.115-116
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
775. • title: 'South Seas'
     • first line: then came back everything's new...
     • last line: from Bunting a travelling man in New York State
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) p.117
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
776. • title: 'Mirror'
     • first line: again unspoiled conditions remained...
     • last line: cold iron cannot be forged
     • publication: Hyderabad depositions (University of Salzburg Press) p.118
     • date: 1997
     • year of composition: 1984-1986
777. • title: 'Warwick' pt 1
     • first line: staves upright from snow folds...
     • last line: an absurd subject of generation
     • publication: Limits of self-regard (Talus Editions, London) pp.3- 4, 'Geography' pt 1
     • date: 1998
     • dedication: Jeremy Hilton
778. • title: 'Warwick' pt 2
     • first line: suppose I was tortured...
     • last line: travels what craft for a majestic structure
     • publication: Limits of self-regard (Talus Editions, London) p.4, 'Geography' pt 1
     • date: 1998
     • dedication: Jeremy Hilton
779. • title: 'Warwick' pt 3
     • first line: a living man...
     • last line: in the language of the country
     • publication: Limits of self-regard (Talus Editions, London) pp.4- 5, 'Geography' pt 1
     • date: 1998
     • dedication: Jeremy Hilton
780. • title: 'Warwick' pt 4
     • first line: breath momentary before my mouth...
     • last line: a drive by double agent
     • publication: Limits of self-regard (Talus Editions, London) pp.5- 6, 'Geography' pt 1
     • date: 1998
     • dedication: Jeremy Hilton
781. • title: 'Warwick' pt 5
     • first line: growth laws...
     • last line: the composition teachers
     • publication: Limits of self-regard (Talus Editions, London) pp.6- 7, 'Geography' pt 1
     • date: 1998
     • dedication: Jeremy Hilton
782. • title: 'Homage to Haniel Long'
     • first line: a wild monastery could at least cover...
     • last line: cries in a parent garden
     • publication: Limits of self-regard (Talus Editions, London) pp.8- 10, 'Geography' pt 2
     • date: 1998
     • dedication: Roy Marx
783. • title: 'Geography'
     • first line: a drive into distance brings down...
     • last line: then the scarcely wrinkled dawn channel and rested oars
     • publication: Limits of self-regard (Talus Editions, London) pp.11-13, 'Geography' pt 3
     • date: 1998
     • year of composition: 1974
     • dedication: Allen Fisher
784. • title: 'Limits of self regard' pt 1
     • first line: or moonless dawn the maquis leader...
     • last line: up through wrinkled fingerprints in the change
     • publication: Limits of self-regard (Talus Editions, King's College London) p.19
     • date: 1998
     • year of composition: 1978-1979
785. • title: 'Limits of self regard' pt 2
     • first line: is air a wilderness...
     • last line: home transcended
     • publication: Limits of self-regard (Talus Editions, King's College London) pp.19-20
     • date: 1998
     • year of composition: 1978-1979
786. • title: 'Limits of self regard' pt 3
     • first line: the body keeps...
     • last line: interior
     • publication: Limits of self-regard (Talus Editions, King's College London) pp.20-21
     • date: 1998
     • year of composition: 1978-1979
787. • title: 'Limits of self regard' pt 4
     • first line: the page on the page...
     • last line: to radiate and die
     • publication: Limits of self-regard (Talus Editions, King's College London) p.21-22
     • date: 1998
     • year of composition: 1978-1979
788. • title: 'Limits of self regard' pt 5
     • first line: no guns or daggers in this house...
     • last line: mate in one
     • publication: Limits of self-regard (Talus Editions, King's College London) pp.22-23
     • date: 1998
     • year of composition: 1978-1979
789. • title: 'Limits of self regard' pt 6
     • first line: the artiste record collection played...
     • last line: a record of pitted walls
     • publication: Limits of self-regard (Talus Editions, King's College London) p.23
     • date: 1998
     • year of composition: 1978-1979
790. • title: 'Limits of self regard' pt 7
     • first line: "comforting annihilating orgasm"...
     • last line: the last time
     • publication: Limits of self-regard (Talus Editions, King's College London) p.24
     • date: 1998
     • year of composition: 1978-1979
791. • title: 'Limits of self regard' pt 8
     • first line: customs in whose easy or skilled regularity...
     • last line: before my hand draws signs or chops spare ribs
     • publication: Limits of self-regard (Talus Editions, King's College London) p.24
     • date: 1998
     • year of composition: 1978-1979
792. • title: 'Limits of self regard' pt 9
     • first line: inside this nightmare...
     • last line: hidden place
     • publication: Limits of self-regard (Talus Editions, King's College London) pp.24-25
     • date: 1998
     • year of composition: 1978-1979
793. • title: 'Limits of self regard' pt 10
     • first line: dark days at three in the afternoon...
     • last line: art on the incorporated trade routes
     • publication: Limits of self-regard (Talus Editions, King's College London) p.25
     • date: 1998
     • year of composition: 1978-1979
794. • title: 'Limits of self regard' pt 11
     • first line: inabilities to live float through corrosive ghosts...
     • last line: bud is new
     • publication: Limits of self-regard (Talus Editions, King's College London) p.26
     • date: 1998
     • year of composition: 1978-1979
795. • title: 'Limits of self regard' pt 12
     • first line: stories that interweave...
     • last line: with puns on all and have
     • publication: Limits of self-regard (Talus Editions, King's College London) p.26
     • date: 1998
     • year of composition: 1978-1979
796. • title: 'Limits of self regard' pt 13
     • first line: before dawn this is the routine...
     • last line: to tourists the peasant in the gold fields
     • publication: Limits of self-regard (Talus Editions, King's College London) p.27
     • date: 1998
     • year of composition: 1978-1979 genre: prose poem
797. • title: 'Limits of self regard' pt 14
     • first line: Flower Pot and Pears...
     • last line: "the entire art of the past has now become a political issue"
     • publication: Limits of self-regard (Talus Editions, King's College London) p.27
     • date: 1998
     • year of composition: 1978-1979
798. • title: 'Limits of self regard' pt 15
     • first line: the walking eyes trophy search...
     • last line: an unbearable loss born by a stone presence
     • publication: Limits of self-regard (Talus Editions, King's College London) p.28
     • date: 1998
     • year of composition: 1978-1979
799. • title: 'Limits of self regard' pt 16
     • first line: in the night day...
     • last line: fossil monastery home
     • publication: Limits of self-regard (Talus Editions, King's College London) pp.28-29
     • date: 1998
     • year of composition: 1978-1979
800. • title: 'Limits of self regard' pt 17
     • first line: gardeners feel innocence...
     • last line: to look at his arse
     • publication: Limits of self-regard (Talus Editions, King's College London) pp.29-30
     • date: 1998
     • year of composition: 1978-1979
801. • title: 'Limits of self regard' pt 18
     • first line: November wasps...
     • last line: to eager buyers
     • publication: Limits of self-regard (Talus Editions, King's College London) p.30
     • date: 1998
     • year of composition: 1978-1979
802. • title: 'Limits of self regard' pt 19
     • first line: questions refused...
     • last line: into elements
     • publication: Limits of self-regard (Talus Editions, King's College London) pp.31-32
     • date: 1998
     • year of composition: 1978-1979
803. • title: 'Limits of self regard' pt 20 'Song for a chansonnier'
     • first line: cheat the time joke...
     • last line: under law
     • publication: Limits of self-regard (Talus Editions, King's College London) pp.32-33
     • date: 1998
     • year of composition: 1978-1979
804. • title: 'Limits of self regard' pt 21 'Second anniversary'
     • first line: cold red...
     • last line: in frosted rented rooms
     • publication: Limits of self-regard (Talus Editions, King's College London) pp.33-34
     • date: 1998
     • year of composition: 1978-1979
805. • title: 'Limits of self regard' pt 22
     • first line: Marbuse descends...
     • last line: Geronimo, Mike
     • publication: Limits of self-regard (Talus Editions, King's College London) pp.34-35
     • date: 1998
     • year of composition: 1978-1979
806. • title: 'Limits of self regard' pt 23
     • first line: a pact with exile...
     • last line: released superfluous to the rack
     • publication: Limits of self-regard (Talus Editions, King's College London) p.35
     • date: 1998
     • year of composition: 1978-1979
807. • title: 'Limits of self regard' pt 24
     • first line: a habit of exploration and composition...
     • last line: on his raised head
     • publication: Limits of self-regard (Talus Editions, King's College London) p.36
     • date: 1998
     • year of composition: 1978-1979
808. • title: 'Limits of self regard' pt 25
     • first line: the enraged ache coils...
     • last line: chain gang
     • publication: Limits of self-regard (Talus Editions, King's College London) pp.36-38
     • date: 1998
     • year of composition: 1978-1979
809. • title: 'Limits of self regard' pt 26
     • first line: the master needs each work dead...
     • last line: manhandling
     • publication: Limits of self-regard (Talus Editions, King's College London) pp.38-39
     • date: 1998
     • year of composition: 1978-1979
810. • title: 'Limits of self regard' pt 27
     • first line: lyrical interference inroads little...
     • last line: the teachers
     • publication: Limits of self-regard (Talus Editions, King's College London) pp.39-40
     • date: 1998
     • year of composition: 1978-1979
811. • title: 'Limits of self regard' pt 28
     • first line: vacuuming the dustmites...
     • last line: beyond self regard
     • publication: Limits of self-regard (Talus Editions, King's College London) p.41
     • date: 1998
     • year of composition: 1978-1979
812. • title: 'Limits of self regard' pt 29
     • first line: give all self to the poem...
     • last line: held flight ever
     • publication: Limits of self-regard (Talus Editions, King's College London) pp.41-42
     • date: 1998
     • year of composition: 1978-1979
813. • title: 'Limits of self regard' pt 30
     • first line: my sea subject...
     • last line: companions
     • publication: Limits of self-regard (Talus Editions, King's College London) pp.42-43
     • date: 1998
     • year of composition: 1978-1979
814. • title: 'Exercise time'
     • first line: they smash window door...
     • last line: take all winner
     • publication: Sub Voicive Poetry no.1 (London) pp.10-14
     • date: 1998
     • year of composition: 1980

     ADDENDA:

815. • title: none
     • first line: loyalty to fear of the sea
     • last line: you must not deceive him
     • publication: Poesia do mundo ed. Maria Santos (Edições Afrontamento, Porto, Portugal, 1995), p.64, with Portuguese translation
     • date: 1995
816. • title: 'Abercastle Bay March 23 1990'
     • first line: a man rows out from the brief shallow slope
     • last line: wind clipped grass the rock weeds surge in the sea.
     • publication: Poesia do mundo ed. Mari Santos (Edições Afrontamento, Porto, Portugal, 1995), p.66, with Portuguese translation
     • date: 1995