Poems 1960-2000 (30 page)
- Barber
,
242
- Beanfield
,
247
- Beauty Abroad
,
17
- Beaux Yeux
,
94
- Bed and Breakfast
,
260
- Being Blind
,
41
- Being in Mr Wood’s class this time,
170
- Being Taken from the Place
,
176
- Below Loughrigg
,
118
- Bethan and Bethany
,
143
- Bethan and Bethany sleep in real linen,
143
- Binoculars
,
119
- Birthday Card
,
278
- Blue Footprints in the Snow
,
265
- Blue Glass
,
143
- Bodnath
,
79
- Bogyman
,
35
- Books, music, the garden, cats,
70
- Boss-eye, wall-eye, squinty lid,
110
- Briddes
,
65
- ‘Briddes’ he used to call them,
65
- British, more or less; Anglican, of a kind,
61
- ‘But look at all this beauty,’
44
- Butterfly Food
,
278
- But there’s no snow yet: the footprints,
265
- Camping
,
259
- Can it be that I was unfair,
262
- Carrying still the dewy rose,
17
- Caterpillars are falling on the Writers’ Union,
156
- Cat’s-Eye
,
110
- Cattle in Mist
,
195
- Central Time
,
206
- Checking Out
,
279
- Chippenham
,
171
- Choices
,
184
- Clarendon Whatmough
,
36
- Clarendon Whatmough sits in his chair,
36
- Clear is the man and of a cold life,
103
- Come, literature, and salve our wounds,
209
- Coming out with your clutch of postcards,
156
- Comment
,
22
- Composition for Words and Paint
,
24
- Corrosion
,
130
- Counting
,
192
- Country Station
,
48
- Coupling
,
204
- Crab
,
135
- Creosote
,
206
- Danger: Swimming and Boating Prohibited
,
264
- Dear Jim, I’m using a Shakespearian form,
68
- Dear posterity, it’s 2 a.m.,
136
- Dear So-and-so, you’re seventy. Well done,
263
- Death by drowning drowns the soul,
174
- December Morning
,
75
- Declensions
,
123
- Demonstration
,
188
- Discreet, not cryptic. I write to you from the garden,
89
- Don’t think I didn’t see you in the apple tree,
278
- Doom and sunshine stream over the garden,
131
- Double-take
,
183
- Downstream
,
128
- Drawings
,
179
- Dreaming
,
141
- Dreamy with illness,
134
- ‘Drink water from the hollow in the stone…’,
60
- Droppings
,
276
- Drowning
,
174
- Dry Spell
,
100
- Earlswood
,
169
- Easter
,
272
- Eat their own hair, sheep do,
182
- Eclipse
,
135
- Elm, laburnum, hawthorn, oak,
47
- Emily Brontë’s cleaning the car,
203
- England’s Glory
,
163
- Excavations
,
181
- External Service
,
80
- Failing their flesh and bones we have the gatepost,
236
- Fairy-tale
,
92
- Festschrift
,
263
- Feverish
,
72
- Finding I’ve walked halfway around Loughrigg,
120
- Fiona’s parents need her today,
212
- First she made a little garden,
48
- First there is the hill,
112
- Flames
,
242
- Flight, with Mountains,
15
- Flying Back
,
80
- Folie à Deux
,
73
- For a Five-Year-Old
,
21
- For Andrew
,
21
- Foreigner
,
107
- Forget about the school – there was one,
167
- For Heidi with Blue Hair
,
161
- For her gravestone to have been moved is OK,
246
- For Meg
,
273
- 4 May
1979,
131
- Framed
,
234
- Frances
,
248
- From the Demolition Zone
,
209
- Future Work
,
84
- Gas
,
52
- Gentlemen’s Hairdressers
,
186
- Giggling
,
269
- Glenshane
,
82
- Going Back
,
113
- Going Out from Ambleside
,
124
- Goodbye
,
279
- Goodbye, sweet symmetry. Goodbye, sweet world,
190
- Goodbye, summer. Poetry goes to bed,
279
- Goslings dive in the lake,
86
- Grandma
,
42
- Great-great-great-uncle Frances Eggington,
235
- Half an hour before my flight was called,
95
- Half the things you did were too scary for me,
273
- Halfway Street, Sidcup,
166
- Handful
,
277
- Happiness
,
204
- Happy Ending
,
40
- Hauntings
,
28
- Having No Mind for the Same Poem,
98
- He gurgled beautifully on television,
132
- He had followed her across the moor,
142
- He is lying on his back watching a kestrel,
124
- He is my green branch growing in a far plantation,
44
- Heliopsis Scabra
,
200
- He looked for it in the streets first,
240
- Help! It’s hidden my document,
275
- Here are Paolo and Francesca,
77
- Here are the ploughed fields of Middle England,
202
- Here, children, are the pastel 50s for you,
272
- Here is a hole full of men shouting,
181
- Heron
,
277
- Her very hand. Her signature,
248
- High Society
,
272
- His jailer trod on a rose-petal,
65
- Hotspur
,
148
- House-martins
,
200
- House-talk
,
107
- How can I prove to you,
198
- ‘Hoy!’ A hand hooks me into a doorway,
243
- I am in a foreign country,
81
- I am sitting on the step,
45
- I am the dotted lines on the map,
120
- Icon
,
178
- I got a Gold Star for the Pilgrim Fathers,
258
- I have made my pilgrimage a day early,
79
- I have nothing to say about this garden,
20
- I met an ancestor in the lane,
243
- Immigrant
,
111
- I’m still too young to remember how,
177
- I mustn’t mention the hamster’s nose,
269
- Incident
,
19
- Influenza
,
134
- In Focus
,
95
- In her 1930s bob or even, perhaps,
138
- In Memoriam: James K. Baxter
,
68
- In my love affair with the natural world,
279
- Inside my closed eyelids, printed out,
95
- Instead of an Interview
,
115
- Instructions to Vampires
,
19
- In the Dingle Peninsula
,
108
- In the dream I was kissing John Prescott,
262
- In the interests of economy,
178
- In the Terai
,
108
- In the Unicorn, Ambleside,
128
- I raise the blind and sit by the window,
75
- I Ride on My High Bicycle
,
26
- Is it the long dry grass that is so erotic,
88
- It has to be learned afresh,
133
- It is going to be a splendid summer,
84
- It is not one thing, but more one thing than others,
100
- It is not only the eye that is astonished,
119
- It’s Done This
,
275
- It’s hard to stay angry with a buttercup,
197
- It’s the old story of the personal,
175
- It was going to be a novel,
130
- It was the midnight train; I was tired and edgy,
42
- It went like this: I married at 22,
241
- It will be typed, of course, and not all in capitals,
136
- It would be rude to look out of the car windows,
210
- It would not be true to say she was doing nothing,
22
- I want to have ice-skates and a hoop,
128
- I wish to apologise for being mangled,
176
- I would not have you drain,
19
- I write in praise of the solitary act,
49
- Jay
,
277
- Julia has chocolate on her chin,
269
- Just because it was so long ago,
237
- Just visiting: another village school,
170
- Kensington Gardens
,
276
- Kilmacrenan
,
82
- Kilpeck
,
71
- Kissing
,
182
- Knife-play
,
18
- Lantern Slides
,
140
- Last I became a raft of green bubbles,
128
- Last Song
,
190
- Late at night we wrench open a crab,
135
- Leaving the Tate
,
156
- Less like an aircraft than a kettle,
176
- Let’s be clear about this: I love toads,
196
- Letter from Highgate Wood
,
96
- Letter to Alistair Campbell
,
122
- Libya
,
193
- Light the Tilley lamp,
259
- Listen to that,
41
- Literally thin-skinned, I suppose, my face,
124
- Londoner
,
116
- Look, children, the wood is full of tigers,
31
- Looked better last time, somehow, on a wet weekday,
267
- Looking through the glass showcase,
76
- Loving Hitler
,
165
- Madmen
,
131
- Mary Derry
,
238
- Mary Magdalene and the Birds
,
145
- May: autumn. In more or less recognisable,
208
- Meeting the Comet
,
222
- Mid-point
,
120
- Milkmaids, buttercups, ox-eye dasies,
168
- Miss Hamilton in London
,
22
- Mist like evaporating stone,
121
- Moa Point
,
64
- Moneymore
,
267
- Mornings After
,
50
- Moses Lambert: the Facts
,
240
- Mr Morrison
,
86
- Mrs Fraser’s Frenzy
,
217
- Mud in their beaks, the house-martins are happy,
200
- My ancestors are creeping down from the north,
254
- My angel’s wearing dressing-up clothes,
274
- My Father
,
194
- My great-grandfather Richey Brooks,
62
- My name is Eliza Fraser,
217
- My turn for Audrey Pomegranate,
172
- Nature Table
,
132
- Naughty ancestors, I tell them,
252
- Naxal
,
78
- Near Creeslough
,
81
- Neighbours lent her a tall feathery dog,
105
- Nelia
, 64
- Nellie
, 237
- Neston
,
170
- Next Door
,
199
- Ngauranga Gorge Hill
,
43
- Nor for the same conversation again and again,
98
- Note on Propertius
,
14
- Not pill-boxes, exactly: blocks,
63
- November ’63: eight months in London,
111
- Now that there are no sparrows,
277
- Nuns, now: ladies in black hoods,
166