Finding a Leg to Stand On: New & Selected Poems 9781780370729, 1780370725
Cover; Description; Title Page; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; from PROGRESS REPORT (1981); Annual Dinner; Apri
379 62 373KB
English Pages 341 pages Year 2014
Table of contents :
Cover
Description
Title Page
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Contents
from PROGRESS REPORT (1981)
Annual Dinner
April
Cardiac Department
Comfort
Commuter
Crossing London to Suffolk
Desires
Dig
Dropping Out
The Emigré
Evidence
Father Christmas
February
God's Christmas Jokes
Hiatus
Life Study
March
May
1915
Parent and Child
Permissive Society
Provence
Recluse
The Stable Relationship
A Suitable Case for Treatment
Synopsis
Technique
Time Slip
Travelling Light
Trespass
Underground Car Park
An Uninteresting Case
Vauxhall
Vicious Circle
form MOVING IN (1984). Deadlines'It's the Position That Counts'
Masters' Common Room 9 a.m.
Gardening
Charity
A Summer Afternoon
Moving In
Coming Out
Loss
The Night Light on the Mantelpiece
Dorothy
Bloomsbury Snapshot
A Luminary to Tea
Choices
Self Selection
Accountability
Last Words
Tidying Up
Survivors
Postcards
Perspectives
Short Story
Mutability
Chance Meeting
The Innocent
Cookery
Is It Anything to Worry About, Doctor?
from CENTRAL RESERVATIONS (1990)
Clay Pipes
Bed
Central Reservations
August in the Offices
The Claimant
One's Correspondence
Compassion
Confession. Heaven on EarthDiversions
Trouble Ahead
Choice
Entrails
Moscow Spring
Faidagery
Jessie's Bakery
Frank's Journal, December 1878
Wants
The Badminton Game
Albert Memorial
Terribly Weak. Please Come.
Tête-à-Tête
Bargaining
Chacun
Leaving Jenkins
History
If You Come
In the Summerhouse
The Last Great Fog
Waking in the Garden
Lost Belongings
Modus Vivendi
Visiting Time
The Slipping Glimpse
Hour by Hour
Your Laugh
Dear Mother
'It's Up to You'
Mutual Assured Destruction
The Letter
Love Song
Two Pheasants
The Sack
Waiting
Degree Ceremony
A Friendship. From CHOOSING TO BE A SWAN (1994)Choosing To Be a Swan ...
Cars
Wheel Fever
Surprised on a Train
The Covetous Cat
Jump
Politeness
In the Conservatory
Prey
Egged on by Passion -
Angela on My Mind
Shopper
Soothsayer
Adaptability
The Idea
Single Parent
Our Life in Cars
Immortality
Blackheath
Just Until
Thin Ice
Thresholds
Choir Practice
Mr and Mrs R and the Christmas Card List
Hoi!
Incubus
Mrs Scipio's Umbrella
The Night He Had Thirty-Two Pints
The Optimist
Harriet
Pastoral
Sunday Lunchtime
The Star and the Birds
Here Today
Tabula Rasa
Last Haiku. From THE BACK AND THE FRONT OF IT (2000)Apologia
The Back and the Front of It
Taking a Taxi to a Wedding
Rewards
The Go-Between
'The Unexamined Life is not Worth Living'
Natural Selection
Cut
Twelve Things I Don't Want to Hear
Birth Day
Get a Life
Insomnia
English Dictation
The Visit
Holding Hands in the Movie Show
Metropolitan
Leviathan
The R Word
Escape
Ice Cream
At Kill-Two-Birds
Getting Out of Hand
In the Palm of His Hand
House Detective
Home Truths
The Aspirant
The Upper Hand
At Madame Tussaud's
Elephants
Keeping on Top of Things
Next Please
Mésalliance.
