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First published in Great Britain in 2016 by Carcanet Press Limited Alliance House, 30 Cross Street, Manchester, M2 7AQ www.carcanet.co.uk Text copyright © Ian McMillan, 2016 This Lake Used to be Frozen: Lamps (2011), Ah’ve Soiled Ma Breeks! (2012) and Jazz Peas (2014) were first published by smith|doorstop Books, and are republished here with kind permission. The right of Ian McMillan to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him 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 9781784101886 Typeset by XL Publishing Services, Exmouth Printed and bound in England by SRP Ltd, Exeter The publisher acknowledges financial assistance from Arts Council England
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Contents Dad, the Donkey’s on Fire (1994) Kake Yourself Comfortable 3 Why We Need Libraries 4 Pit Closure as Art 5 Lilian’s Poem 7 Death’s Feet 8 Husband and Wife 9 Tempest Avenue 9 Deaths from Ice Cream 10 Ted Hughes is Elvis Presley 11 Visit Early Train, Rain, Wombwell Station Poem Occasioned by the High Incidence of Suicide 14 16 amongst the Unemployed 17 Song for Roof Building 18 The Force of His Storm Knocked Me from My Stool 19 Moon River: Lives of the Great Comedians 20 Henry’s Skeleton, George’s Leg 21 Jesus Died from Eating Curtains 23 Stone, I Presume 24 Point of Transit 25 Still Life Life 26 Realism (Nothing is Ever Finished) 28 Dad, the Donkey’s on Fire 29 Stories Poetry Matters The Route to Work Whatever Happened to Freddie Galloway? Grisp the Wheel at Ten Past Two There’s Always a Man in a Cardigan Just Like Ours Except for the Ducks 30 36 40 45 51 56 On the Closure of Cadeby Colliery Title (Northumberland June 11th/12th 1987) Slow Thaw In Fear of Abstraction 59 60 62 63 Contents v

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First published in Great Britain in 2016 by

Carcanet Press Limited Alliance House, 30 Cross Street,

Manchester, M2 7AQ www.carcanet.co.uk Text copyright © Ian McMillan, 2016

This Lake Used to be Frozen: Lamps (2011), Ah’ve Soiled Ma Breeks! (2012) and Jazz Peas (2014) were first published by smith|doorstop Books, and are republished here with kind permission.

The right of Ian McMillan to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him 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 9781784101886

Typeset by XL Publishing Services, Exmouth Printed and bound in England by SRP Ltd, Exeter The publisher acknowledges financial assistance from Arts Council England

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