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page contains listings of poems written to-date. The LADT
POEMS, POEMS written during the MA years (1997 - 1999) the Post-LADT
POEMS (2003 to 2005) and the Post-Thesis Poems (2005 - to
date)
LADT
POEMS
These
are the poems written during the LADT Residency, from
October 2000 - May 2003. * indicates that the poem has
been published.
The Blue Gap Coat *
Palatial
Roofer *
Layan
Superlambanana *
Birds
Silent Since 73
The Unveiling
The Ocean Monarch: A Poetic Narrative Revisited (for Frederick Jerome)
*
Car Park Cold November Dawns *
An August Morning
InterCity *
Melt
The Train Can Wait *
A Place To Call Home
Blueagale *
City In Festive Shopping Frenzy (for Nicki Green) *
Snug *
Corcoran
Seventeen Seconds *
Patterns Made By The Stars *
Exiting The City
Errigal
The First Stirrings of Snow (For Adrian Henri)
The Pure Trees of Winter
Skyline *
A Gentle Heaven *
A Maximum Intake Of Reality
A Call For Friendly Voices
Chergan
Hanover St Poem
Park View (For James, Clare, Andy and Melissa)
Tracey, You’re A Rainbow *
Cathedral *
Fifty Divided By Two *
The First Cut Of The Year
Caffeine Fix (For Alicia) *
Do You Like The Pretty Blossom?
London Road *
Evening Dew Amber Glow
Dove Point
Vernon St Poem
A Spaceship Lands On Hope Street
Catharine Street Poem (for William Fallows)
Little Saint Bride Street Poem (for Karl Gielinck)
The Swoon of the Nightingale
All Roads Lead Here
The Far Lea
Turn For Home *
Overnight Lock Up
City Blacksmith *
Violet Hour *
Manic Stella
Five Story Love Poem *
Cathedral II *
Sanctuary Stone
Double Yellow *
Making Sparks Fly *
After Joe’s *
Cathedral III *
Cathedral IV *
Waveform (for Stanley Sidney Smith English) *
Dee Side *
Luminora *
Ready For Deva *
Summer’s Over Drad *
Pigeon Brace (for Rob Macdonald) *
Lines Written In Early Autumn *
Cathedral I
Cathedral V *
Dream Spiral *
Happy Valley (for Jonny Collingwood) *
Cathedral VII *
Cathedral VI
A Day of Churches *
Excursion *
Deoua *
The Magnificence of Water
Addendum I *
Crossing the Mersey on a Winter’s Afternoon
I Only Eat Fruit if it is in a Pie
Between the City and the Sea Rests my Heart *
Addendum II *
Smart Price Fox
Coastal Poem
Urban Clearway
Dock Road Filling Station
Silent Hunter *
Dumbfounded
Rust On Blue (Addendum III)
Amber Moss
Stable
Among Sculpture
Poem (Written on the last Liverpool Train)
International Sand Castle Building Competition
The Souls Of Dead Construction Workers
Everybody Needs A Place To Think (Addendum IV) *
In A Silent Way
The World’s First Multi-Storey Concrete Structure or A Light Behind The Clock Face
City Walks [100]
Mini (for Clare Greenhalgh) *
Concrete and Classrooms
These Are The Things That Kill Me
No Sheets for Comfort
Jeans and Stances
Room 108 Poem
Air-Conditioned Basement Blues
Room 309 Poem
Folio
LDN *
The Unmade Bed *
Conifer (for Ursula Hurley) *
Apex Star *
Microclimate
An Art *
Barathea *
Thurstaston Rock 23/9/02
Beach 4/10/02 P
Eucharist (Addendum V) 4/10/02
Commonly Used Text Converted 10/10/02
So Modern Everything Seems Pointless (for Scott Thurston)14/10/02 122
*
Eastgate 23/10/02 123
Amari 6/11/02
Angular in Urgency /11/02 125
A Lovely Sense of Closure and the Freedom to Rein You In 14/11/02
Cat I 26/11/02 127 *
New Warehouse 3/12/02 128
Room 212 Poem 5/12/02 129
Above and Beneath 6/12/02 130
Floor Six 12/12/02 131
You Should Gather the Photographs Together 26/12/02 132 *
Snig’s Foot 30/12/02 133
A Joining 14/01/03 134
Like No Other 16/01/03 135
Shred 31/01/03 136 *
Where Merseyside Meets West Lancashire 07/02/03 137
Form A Gentle Queue 20/2/03 138
Rhiz Bar Poem 28/02/03 139
21 Heaven and Home 22/03/02 140
West End Final 28/03/03 141
Stations and Churches 31/03/03 142
The Bath (Addendum VI) 2/04/03 143
Ribes, Narcissi, Broom and Barberry 15/04/03 144
Communion 15/04/03 145
To A Fox 19/04/03 146
Party Town 4/5/03 147
Anniversary 11/5/03 148
Vetch 30/5/03 149
Oh! The New Pastures (No Date) 150
Pre-
LADT Poems
These
Poems were written during and after completing, an MA in
Writing Studies at Edge Hill College, from September 1997
until June 1999.
12 Tales of Location
Alt I
Alt II
Bleeker and Macdougal
Burbo
Falkner
Farnsfield
Farrell *
Giddygate
Linacre
Primula
Rainbow I
Rainbow II
Happy Sad
A New Season
Ocean Spray/Mist
Toothbrush *
We Will Not Be Lovers
Something To Grasp Hold Onto
A Sense Of Complete Wonder
Does It Really Matter
Lord Joe and Lady Alicia
Mount Everest
Benetton Trousers
Just What Is It That You Are Trying To Say?
The Important Progress Of A Major Northern City
Swans And Their Partners
A Resolution
An Unforgettable Love
Feel The Need
How To Avoid Homesickness
Englyns
Voice Terminal Echo
Song Three
Fraser
Skin And Steel
Phone
Where'd You Learn to Kiss That Way? (MA thesis poems)
unpublished collection
The Air-Conditioned
Speed of Sound
Foreign Static
Glimpse of Ankle
Milk Train
Sweeping Silent
Midnight Shivers
Sudden Snowdrops
Never To Run Dry
Book Buying *
Dawn Light Dreams
Estuary Eyes *
Moaning Chair
Ravenswood
Upriver The Salmon Are Returning Home *
My Autograph
You Either Get It Or You Don't
For Ivor Cutler
Icicle
Lawton
How To Avoid Homesickness
R.O.C.
Monde Hop!
Aftershock
The Air Conditioned Speed of Sound
Alaska
Alderbaran
Aranyi (for JS and CG) *
As You Desire
My Autograph
Avalyn
Walking Barefoot
Bataleur
Birthday Girl
Blame
Book Buying *
Number Five Cafe
The Blue Mersey
Bulldozers, Diggers and Cranes
Sending The Butterflies Towards The Flowers In Springtime
Cellos and Tiredness
Milk Train
Christmas
Lawton (for Joe and Alicia)
Cloud Cover On A Spring Day
Clues To The Psyche (for Karen)
Coffee and Cheese Counter
Comfort and Joy *
Moaning Chair
Dawn Light Dreams
Daylily
I Didn't Think I Was Going To Make It
Distanced Humming
Does It Really Matter?
The Door Is Always Open
Earthmover
East Village Evening
Englynion One: *
Three a.m.
Like Stars Our Warmth Fades Away *
Sleeping Sheep
Crawl Back
Englynion
Two:
Happiness, Don't think
Eley
Wherever
Cappuccino, Espresso and Breakfasts
For Bar
Englynion Three:
City Birds
Fifteen Years Young
A Leaf
Due To You
For Bar, Again
Englynion Four:
Please Keep The Faith
Roadside
Cool Sheets
Never Cease
14/10
Englynion Five:
Waking With Birds
Yes, Yes, Yey
Rollercoaster
Desire and
Sadness *
English On A Welsh Beach
Estuary Eyes *
Eventuality
February 18
Foriegn Static
Fraser
You Either Get It Or You Don't
Glimpse of Ankle
Goddess *
The Gold Chain
The Handkerchief
Hands
Hangover Hunger
Out Of Harms Way
Head In The Clouds p
It's Enough To Make Your Heart Go... *
Hens For Sale
What I'm Here For (for Adrienne)
Icicle (for Nina)
Immune
In Ribbons
For Ivor Cutler
For Jenny
Karadin
Racecourse Killing Fields
Kings Cross
Late
The Longness Of The Evening
Manhattans And Screwdrivers
Midnight Shivers
Monde Hop
Morning Sunshine, Afternoon Rain
Never To Run Dry
No Need To Talk
Now Is The Hour
Penybont
Phone
Photographs And Letters
Pigeon
A Promise OF Light
How To Make A Marriage Quilt
Rusted Rails Run Parallel
Chilled For Freshness (R2)
Ridiculous Footwear (R3)
Ravenswood
ROC
Sherlocks
Skin And Steel
Song Three
Stair Climbing
A Struggle
Wish The World Away
Sudden Snowdrops
Somethings You Are Just Born With
Sweeping Silent
Swifts
Tailspin
Tea
The Bed is A Mess
Thunderstorm
To The Bone
Turn For Home *
An Unadmired Being
Upriver, The Salmon Are Returning Home *
Untitled #
1
Untitled #
2
Untitled # 3
Vending Machine Blues
The Village
For what It Is Not What I Am
Will I Ever Be Able To Not?
Wordsworth And Bukowski
Younger, Older, Wiser
Summer 93
Sleep
Snowdon Buffet Bar
Seliana
Shadow Innocent Time
New Age
Ashes Of Winter
Out To Sea
Post LADT Poems
2003
Winter is Creation, Spring is Release 17/6/03
Alien Tongue of Apathy 18/6/03
1080 1054 18/6/03
Norfolk Pinks 22/6/03
Poem for the Lovers 27/6/03 5
Throughout Orange Age 2/7/03 6 *
150 W 4th St 15/7/03 7
All Crushed Treasure 16/7/03 8 *
Summer Bell 16/7/03 9
Plain Essence 24/7/03 10
Falconetti, Fraser and Marr 1/8/02 11
Poem: Forty Lines For Ruth’s 40th Birthday 5/8/03 12 *
Nothing Justifies Mountains 8/8/03 14
In Answer (to The Time Before) 6/9/03 15
Joseph Arthur Poem 8/9/03 16
Goddess II ?/9/03
Longview Poem 18/9/03 17
Fruit Sweetly Tasted From The Mouth Of An Angel 23/9/03 18
*
I Will Colour Your Shoes In With Black Permanent Marker
Pen 27/10/03 19 *
The Finishing and the Future (Addendum VII) 5/11/03 20
Warehousing and Distribution 7/11/03 21 (WC1)
City Sunday 12/11/03 22
Likeness 17/11/03 23 (WC2)
PATH Poem (i.m. Father Mychel Judge) 26/11/03 *
Advent 2/12/03
25 (257)
Narration 5/12/03
Troubadour of Light 15/12/03
A Christmas Greeting (for Steve and Jane Kingsford) 17/12/03 28
The Day Before Christmas 29/12/03 29
2004
Poetry and Skin Cream 5/1/04 *
In Winter, the City almost sleeps 5/1/04 31*
Next To Nothing 6/1/04 32 *
Untitled (for Ruth) 12/1/04
Three Hearts 15/1/04
Like It Knows Exactly 18/1/04 35 *
Little Bird 18/1/04
When You See A Slow Sign, Speed Up 10/2/04
Little Be Cold
18/2/04 *
Steeple 21/2/04
39
Why Do You Come Here When You Know It Makes Things Hard
For Me? 25/2/04 40
Crocuses 28/2/04 Untitled #6 5/3/04 42
It Could be 9/3/04 43
Untitled # 5 / # 9 9/3/04 44
The Flight Was A Little Turbulent 30/3/04 45 *
Progress In Paris 5/4/04
Poem 9/4/04 *
Equal Measure 14/4/04 48
I
am an Airport you are Soap 4/05/04
The Velvet Sun That Shines On Me 6/05/04 50 *
Here Comes Gabrielle With The Cocoa
21/5/04 * Vealona 24/5/04
Josie's Java 4/6/04
The Bluebird of Happiness 11/6/04*
Terminal 2 30/6/04
Untitled # 9 Liverpool London Paris (edited) 5/7/04*
GesqOui Poem (Part II) 13/7/04 *
The
Impact Of Death On The Sunrise* /7/04
Sundlaugin 21/7/04 58
Don't Forget The String 26/7/04
Light Blue Puffin Roundabout 28/7/04
Look for Another Place 3/8/04
The Avant-Garde of Coffee Bars 17/8/04
62
Songs of Love and Transport 21/8/04 *
Spanish Notes 6/9/04
Because He Needs Her Just Like He Needs Medicine 14/9/04
65
Readymade Doghouse (An Art II) 20/9/04
I'm
Getting Really Cold (Afraid Not Scared) 20/9/04
Take
Your Litter Home 20/9/04
68
This Is Really Happening (Love Is Hell) 20/9/04
Even If You Can't Hear My Voice (Wonderwall) 22/9/04
Keep Me In Your Thoughts, Don't Disappear 22/9/04 71
Security Cabin 29/9/04
Turn The Lights Out When You Leave
8/10/04
Like Geese Calling In The Night 12/10/04 74
October 12/10/04
Conker i.m. David Hurley 15/10/04
The
Wind Is Turning Distinctly Cold i.m. John Peel 27/10/04 77
To A Fox II 9/11/04*
Epic 10/11/04 79
Guide
24/11/04
Consecrate The Pavement With Coffee
1/12/04
Yarg 14/12/04
2005
You Know What 3/1/05
If You See Frank Say Hello 4/1/05 84 *
The Raindrops Are Melodies And The Snow Is Drums 19/1/05
They Say That You See Great Things From The Valley And
Small Things From The Peaks 21/1/05 86
Lodge Store Camp 87
Anchor Steam 1/2/05
Sierra Nevada 11/2/05
West Cliff Drive 14/2/04
Likeness II 15/2/05 91
Pale Sigh 25/2/05
Mother 15/3/05
A Poetry of Place 24/3/05 94
Runs Via 29/3/05
Elegiac Stanzas 14/4/05 96 *
How Animals Work 16/4/05 97
Chicken Pig 26/4/05 98
For The Dead 26/4/04 99 *
It Is In The Lines 3/5/05 100
Post Thesis Poems
Angled Sheen Sky 5/5/05
of life 15/05/05
Summer's Arc of Sun 20/06/05
Catalf 28/07/05
Lavender Air 8/8/05
Mosaic & Buddleia 20/8/05
Flash of Yellow 17/8/05 *
Accident ?/9/05
Bandit 28/9/05 *
Hut Painting 12/10/05
A Poetry Now 1/11/05 *
2006
In Amsterdam
with You 14/2/06
as they scatter the birds 2/5/06
Wedding # 1 22/5/06
Of love and
friendship 14/6/06
Just Enough To
Breath 5/9/06
A Snowy Night
in Greenwich Village 22/11/06
Sturnis
Vulgaris 22/11/06
The Familiar
28/11/06
Clamour
28/11/06 *
The Earth
Cleans Her Feathers 28/11/06
To The Birds
7/12/06
2007
A Contained
Rapture 30/1/07 (Loft Space Residency)
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