Poems

  • ANOTHER ABOUT PUBS AND WEATHER
  • WINDERMERE, 1987
  • SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST
  • A SOBER POET
  • NEWTON'S CRADLE
  • PATIENCE
  • BRIGHTNESS ON THE WESTERN FRINGES
  • YOU WERE WRONG AND I WAS RIGHT
  • IF ONLY THIS ROOM FACED SOUTH
  • UNDERWATER BREATHING
  • COMPANY
  • PRESENT AND INCORRECT
  • NO USER-SERVICEABLE PARTS INSIDE
  • BIG AND NOT VERY CLEVER
  • UNTITLED
  • ABSENCE IS AN UNPLEASANT WORD
  • THE TRUTH
  • BECAUSE
  • LITERARY CRITICISM
  • GHOST
  • THE KNIGHTS OF THE RECTANGULAR TABLE (for the Monday Night Group)
  • LOST TIME
  • MIDNIGHT, EUSTON STATION
  • EXTINCT, BUT STILL HOPING
  • AARDVARK
  • THE MAN WHO LAUNCHED A THOUSAND POEMS
  • HOME THOUGHTS FROM A BROAD
  • TRICK OF THE LIGHT
  • TROUBLE
  • FROST
  • DOING JUST ENOUGH TO GET BY
  • JUNE (with sincere apologies to Edna St Vincent Millay)
  • ANOTHER UNTITLED POEM
  • UNTITLED
  • UNTITLED NO. 42
  • VERY NEARLY AN ARMFUL
  • CITY GALLERY, MOSLEY STREET ...
  • WET THURSDAY, LIVERPOOL ...
  • RESTLESS PERSON WISHES TO BE ROOTLESS
  • RHETORICAL QUESTIONS
  • PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A GRUMPY SCHOOLCHILD
  • LIFE NOT FICTION, UNFORTUNATELTY
  • THE MAN WHO ...
  • SAFE HAVEN
  • GREEN
  • I KNOW HOW IT FEELS TO BE A CAT IN THE RAIN ...
  • THE LAST LAUGH
  • NARROW ESCAPE
  • DREAM