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This Lake Used to be Frozen: Lamps (2011) It’s Only a Novelty Coronation Street Alarm Clock 155 Tom Jones 155 A Miniature 157 It’s the 4th of July! 157 Sleeper 158 Old Age 159 Norman Stopped Me on the Street 160 Not a Real Bear, But a Bear Nevertheless 160 Walk 162 The Evening of the Day Pavarotti Died 166 Drift 167 Did You Ask for a Decaff off that Other Lady? 169 Yorkshire Pudding Rules 170 A Series of Novels 171 Black Cloud Over My House Sometime in the 1960s 172 The Inevitability of Snow 172 The Idea of Loneliness in the Little Chef, Uttoxeter 174 Platform 2 175 Aubade/Nocturne 175 The Poet Speaks 176 Unrealismus/Realismus 177 Ah’ve Soiled Ma Breeks! (2012) Come and Sit Over Here with Those Ideas of Yours Ah’ve Soiled Ma Breeks! Anchored A Scientific Explanation of the Mystery of the Passing of Time 184 Tony Bought a Guitar and Got a Parking Fine 185 The Language of Philosophical Enquiry 186 Early Morning Stroll. Deep Woods. Just Seen My Mate Who Spent His Early Years in a Children’s Home. Face of Our Lord Jesus Christ Seen in Yorkshire Pudding 187 Ian McMillan’s Unfishnished Poem 188 T’invisible Man O’ Methley 189 Torch Passes By 189 A Black Dog in Four Legs 190 Dream of a Tree in a Spanish Graveyard from a Small House in The South Yorkshire Coalfield 181 182 184 186 193 viii To Fold the Evening Star
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M’ Writing Table Playing Chess with Uncle Charlie Plain, Cheese & Onion, Salt & Vinegar Fantasia on a Theme of Uncle Charlie Uncle Jack’s Rubber Tarts, Boxing Day 1964 The Sun Comes Up A Mo-ment My Achilles, He’ll Keith’s Mankini: A Three-Line Work in Progress 194 194 196 196 197 198 198 199 200 Jazz Peas (2014) Me and Dave and Thelonious Monk Waiting for the 14 Bus 203 An Archaeologist Finds an Umbrella 201 Annual Report 204 Approaching those ‘Ruddy’ Belisha Beacons Near the Post Office Again 205 As Thoughs 206 Elegy, Eulogy, Eelegy 209 Figs Language and Politics Language and Politics 2: Maps and Dog Ventriloquism 209 210 Combined in the Same Tale 212 Language and Politics 3: Complexity and Simplicity, a Debate 213 My Kidnapping 215 Norman Came to My House 216 Oboe 217 Pumped; to be Accompanied by Pumping Music 218 Railway Ballad: Broken Rail 218 Rhapsody, in a Jumpy Way, on the Word ‘Unravel’ 220 The Indoor Glider: a Miniature 221 The New Punctuation 222 We’re Doing the Quick Crossword 222 An Old Map 223 From ‘Grafters’ New & Uncollected Poems A Group of Group Portrait Questions 227 A Light Breeze Carries the Stink into My Backyard 227 Glimpse 228 Contents ix

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This Lake Used to be Frozen: Lamps (2011) It’s Only a Novelty Coronation Street Alarm Clock 155 Tom Jones 155 A Miniature 157 It’s the 4th of July! 157 Sleeper 158 Old Age 159 Norman Stopped Me on the Street 160 Not a Real Bear, But a Bear Nevertheless 160 Walk 162 The Evening of the Day Pavarotti Died 166 Drift 167 Did You Ask for a Decaff off that Other Lady? 169 Yorkshire Pudding Rules 170 A Series of Novels 171 Black Cloud Over My House Sometime in the 1960s 172 The Inevitability of Snow 172 The Idea of Loneliness in the Little Chef, Uttoxeter 174 Platform 2 175 Aubade/Nocturne 175 The Poet Speaks 176 Unrealismus/Realismus 177

Ah’ve Soiled Ma Breeks! (2012)

Come and Sit Over Here with Those Ideas of Yours

Ah’ve Soiled Ma Breeks!

Anchored

A Scientific Explanation of the Mystery of the Passing of Time 184 Tony Bought a Guitar and Got a Parking Fine 185 The Language of Philosophical Enquiry 186 Early Morning Stroll. Deep Woods. Just Seen My Mate Who

Spent His Early Years in a Children’s Home.

Face of Our Lord Jesus Christ Seen in Yorkshire Pudding 187 Ian McMillan’s Unfishnished Poem 188 T’invisible Man O’ Methley 189 Torch Passes By 189 A Black Dog in Four Legs 190 Dream of a Tree in a Spanish Graveyard from a Small House in The South Yorkshire Coalfield

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viii To Fold the Evening Star

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