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First published in Great Britain in 2011 by Carcanet Press Limited Alliance House Cross Street Manchester M2 7AQ Selection and editorial matter copyright © R.W. Maslen and G. Peter Winnington 2011 Poems and drawings by Mervyn Peake copyright © the Estate of Mervyn Peake The right of R.W. Maslen and G. Peter Winnington to be identified as the editors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988 All rights reserved A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978 1 84777 087 5 The publisher acknowledges financial assistance from Arts Council England Typeset by XL Publishing Services, Tiverton Printed and bound in England by SRP Ltd, Exeter
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Contents Acknowledgements Introduction by R.W. Maslen A Note on the Text References and Further Reading COMPLETE NONSENSE I Saw a Puffin The Song of Lien Tsung Railway Ditties Waddon Thornton Heath Norbury Streatham and Balham Green Park You Can Never Be Sure of Your Birron Beard of My Chin You Before Me Although I Love Him Practically Poetry Ode to a Bowler Raft Song of the Conger Eel The Dwarf of Battersea Thank God for a Tadpole About My Ebb and Flow-ziness A Fair Amount of Doziness Ancient Root O Ancient Root The Frivolous Cake Simple, Seldom and Sad Linger Now with Me, Thou Beauty I Married Her in Green Swelter’s Song I Cannot Simply Stand and Watch Upon the Summit of a Hill xiii 1 14 16 21 22 23 23 23 23 24 24 26 26 26 29 30 31 35 42 42 43 44 44 47 48 50 53 58 59

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Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction by R.W. Maslen

A Note on the Text

References and Further Reading

COMPLETE NONSENSE I Saw a Puffin

The Song of Lien Tsung

Railway Ditties

Waddon

Thornton Heath

Norbury

Streatham and Balham

Green Park

You Can Never Be Sure of Your Birron

Beard of My Chin

You Before Me

Although I Love Him

Practically Poetry

Ode to a Bowler

Raft Song of the Conger Eel

The Dwarf of Battersea

Thank God for a Tadpole

About My Ebb and Flow-ziness

A Fair Amount of Doziness

Ancient Root O Ancient Root

The Frivolous Cake

Simple, Seldom and Sad

Linger Now with Me, Thou Beauty

I Married Her in Green

Swelter’s Song

I Cannot Simply Stand and Watch

Upon the Summit of a Hill xiii

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