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I’d Better Not The Idea of Loneliness in the Little Chef, Uttoxeter In a West Yorkshire Bus Queue In Fear of Abstraction The Indoor Glider: a Miniature The Inevitability of Snow It’s Only a Novelty Coronation Street Alarm Clock It’s the 4th of July! 119 174 113 63 221 172 155 157 Jesus Died from Eating Curtains Just Like Ours Except for the Ducks 23 56 Kake Yourself Comfortable Keith’s Mankini: A Three-Line Work in Progress 3 200 Language and Politics Language and Politics 2: Maps and Dog Ventriloquism 210 Combined in the Same Tale 212 Language and Politics 3: Complexity and Simplicity, a Debate 213 The Language of Philosophical Enquiry 186 A Light Breeze Carries the Stink into My Backyard 227 Lilian’s Poem 7 The Literary Life 106 Little Houghton Seascape er like 69 Lumb Bank, 1978 132 M1 Seascape near Hoyland: er it’s a rough day 69 The Making of the English Working Class 115 Malvern Link, Early Morning 131 Me and Dave and Thelonious Monk Waiting for the 14 Bus 203 The Mexico Poems 143 A Miniature 157 Mining Town 91 The Mirror in the Toilet 66 Modernism: The Umbrella Girl Forgets What She is Talking About 76 A Mo-ment 198 Moon River: Lives of the Great Comedians 20 M’ Writing Table 194 My Achilles, He’ll 199 My Caravan’s Got a Bontempi Organ in it 97 My Dog 120 My Kidnapping 215 244 To Fold the Evening Star
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The New Punctuation The Next Poem I Write Norman Came to My House Norman Stopped Me on the Street Not a Real Bear, But a Bear Nevertheless November 1963 in a Scotland of the Mind 222 105 216 160 160 114 Oboe Old Age An Old Map An Old Seadog er Speaks On the Closure of Cadeby Colliery 217 159 223 70 59 Pit Closure as Art Plain, Cheese & Onion, Salt & Vinegar Platform 2 Playing Chess with Uncle Charlie Poem Containing Several R.E.M. Song Titles Poem Is a City Poem Occasioned by the High Incidence of Suicide amongst the Unemployed The Poet Speaks Poetry Matters Point of Transit Postmodernist Summer Nights in the Dearne Valley Pumped; to be Accompanied by Pumping Music 5 196 175 194 123 125 17 176 30 25 105 218 Quartet 231 Railway Ballad: Broken Rail 218 Realism (Nothing is Ever Finished) 28 Rhapsody, in a Jumpy Way, on the Word ‘Unravel’ 220 Rhapsody on Boat Names and Some Observations on the Weather 236 Rotherham 80 The Route to Work 36 A Scientific Explanation of the Mystery of the Passing of Time 184 The Scream on Stockport Station 96 Seascape Could er Be Anywhere around here 71 Seaview Video, Barnsley: Er Latest Offers 71 Self Portrait 121 A Series of Novels 171 Index of Titles 245

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I’d Better Not

The Idea of Loneliness in the Little Chef, Uttoxeter

In a West Yorkshire Bus Queue

In Fear of Abstraction

The Indoor Glider: a Miniature

The Inevitability of Snow

It’s Only a Novelty Coronation Street Alarm Clock

It’s the 4th of July!

119

174

113

63

221

172

155

157

Jesus Died from Eating Curtains

Just Like Ours Except for the Ducks

23

56

Kake Yourself Comfortable

Keith’s Mankini: A Three-Line Work in Progress

3

200

Language and Politics

Language and Politics 2: Maps and Dog Ventriloquism

210

Combined in the Same Tale

212

Language and Politics 3: Complexity and Simplicity, a Debate 213 The Language of Philosophical Enquiry 186 A Light Breeze Carries the Stink into My Backyard 227 Lilian’s Poem 7 The Literary Life 106 Little Houghton Seascape er like 69 Lumb Bank, 1978 132

M1 Seascape near Hoyland: er it’s a rough day

69

The Making of the English Working Class

115

Malvern Link, Early Morning

131

Me and Dave and Thelonious Monk Waiting for the 14 Bus 203 The Mexico Poems 143 A Miniature 157 Mining Town 91 The Mirror in the Toilet 66 Modernism: The Umbrella Girl Forgets What She is Talking About 76 A Mo-ment 198 Moon River: Lives of the Great Comedians 20 M’ Writing Table 194 My Achilles, He’ll 199 My Caravan’s Got a Bontempi Organ in it 97 My Dog 120 My Kidnapping 215

244 To Fold the Evening Star

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