Verse

2020s

• Ayahuasca is not a resort in Mexico
• Loss and damage
• Olympic airways
• The ride to Mortain
• The tenderness
• Three hens

2000s

• An introduction to my father
• Leaving New York
• Loose endings
• Sam, in the bar
• Laughter at your table
• On first looking into Keats’ House
• Waiting for someone
• Why don’t you write?

1990s

• Bear and Scarecrow
• Breakast with the Bear
• Scarecrow in love
• Their marketing manager
• Love has no quantity
• A prayer before waking
• Two postcards from Fife
• The abandoned children
• La vita nuova
• High life
• Honour and virtue

1980s

• From exile
• Apologia pro Niccolò Machiavelli
• One fat tear
• Not swimming
• Staying regular
• Love and sax
• In place
• The full moon
• Ascension
• Sir John on the cross
• In a storm
• Cocalus
• Swimming at the dam

1970s

• A golden age
• Whale’s acre
• From an anthropologist’s diary
• The green chorus
• Tongues of men and angels
• Tonight Rome tomorrow
• Quatrina: Autumn
• The snow, now fallen
• Odysseus’ eyes
• Goodnight girl
• The sea which in its breathing
• Magellan and me
• Chocolate and stories
• From any footstep home

Other voices

Poem copies surviving from my time with Ignition Poets.

• Alastair Howard Robertson: Fall air, I am not sure what else there is, Praise of hands, Summer again, The Mysteris
• Bonnie Shaljean: The moon-wife, Thursday night
• Brian Reffin Smith: Come running back to me, On the floor
• Peter Mosley: Acorn, Come to Teesside
• Robin Bell: Crossing the Styx, The dying windmill
• Steve Scott: The day of the dead