Poems 1960-2000 (30 page)
Authors: Fleur Adcock
- Barber
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242 - Beanfield
,
247 - Beauty Abroad
,
17 - Beaux Yeux
,
94 - Bed and Breakfast
,
260 - Being Blind
,
41 - Being in Mr Wood’s class this time,
170 - Being Taken from the Place
,
176 - Below Loughrigg
,
118 - Bethan and Bethany
,
143 - Bethan and Bethany sleep in real linen,
143 - Binoculars
,
119 - Birthday Card
,
278 - Blue Footprints in the Snow
,
265 - Blue Glass
,
143 - Bodnath
,
79 - Bogyman
,
35 - Books, music, the garden, cats,
70 - Boss-eye, wall-eye, squinty lid,
110 - Briddes
,
65 - ‘Briddes’ he used to call them,
65 - British, more or less; Anglican, of a kind,
61 - ‘But look at all this beauty,’
44 - Butterfly Food
,
278 - But there’s no snow yet: the footprints,
265
- Camping
,
259 - Can it be that I was unfair,
262 - Carrying still the dewy rose,
17 - Caterpillars are falling on the Writers’ Union,
156 - Cat’s-Eye
,
110 - Cattle in Mist
,
195 - Central Time
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206 - Checking Out
,
279 - Chippenham
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171 - Choices
,
184 - Clarendon Whatmough
,
36 - Clarendon Whatmough sits in his chair,
36 - Clear is the man and of a cold life,
103 - Come, literature, and salve our wounds,
209 - Coming out with your clutch of postcards,
156 - Comment
,
22 - Composition for Words and Paint
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24 - Corrosion
,
130 - Counting
,
192 - Country Station
,
48 - Coupling
,
204 - Crab
,
135 - Creosote
,
206
- Danger: Swimming and Boating Prohibited
,
264 - Dear Jim, I’m using a Shakespearian form,
68 - Dear posterity, it’s 2 a.m.,
136 - Dear So-and-so, you’re seventy. Well done,
263 - Death by drowning drowns the soul,
174 - December Morning
,
75 - Declensions
,
123 - Demonstration
,
188 - Discreet, not cryptic. I write to you from the garden,
89 - Don’t think I didn’t see you in the apple tree,
278 - Doom and sunshine stream over the garden,
131 - Double-take
,
183 - Downstream
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128 - Drawings
,
179 - Dreaming
,
141 - Dreamy with illness,
134 - ‘Drink water from the hollow in the stone…’,
60 - Droppings
,
276 - Drowning
,
174 - Dry Spell
,
100
- Failing their flesh and bones we have the gatepost,
236 - Fairy-tale
,
92 - Festschrift
,
263 - Feverish
,
72 - Finding I’ve walked halfway around Loughrigg,
120 - Fiona’s parents need her today,
212 - First she made a little garden,
48 - First there is the hill,
112 - Flames
,
242 - Flight, with Mountains,
15 - Flying Back
,
80 - Folie à Deux
,
73 - For a Five-Year-Old
,
21 - For Andrew
,
21 - Foreigner
,
107 - Forget about the school – there was one,
167 - For Heidi with Blue Hair
,
161 - For her gravestone to have been moved is OK,
246 - For Meg
,
273 - 4 May
1979,
131 - Framed
,
234 - Frances
,
248 - From the Demolition Zone
,
209 - Future Work
,
84
- Half an hour before my flight was called,
95 - Half the things you did were too scary for me,
273 - Halfway Street, Sidcup,
166 - Handful
,
277 - Happiness
,
204 - Happy Ending
,
40 - Hauntings
,
28 - Having No Mind for the Same Poem,
98 - He gurgled beautifully on television,
132 - He had followed her across the moor,
142 - He is lying on his back watching a kestrel,
124 - He is my green branch growing in a far plantation,
44 - Heliopsis Scabra
,
200 - He looked for it in the streets first,
240 - Help! It’s hidden my document,
275 - Here are Paolo and Francesca,
77 - Here are the ploughed fields of Middle England,
202 - Here, children, are the pastel 50s for you,
272 - Here is a hole full of men shouting,
181 - Heron
,
277 - Her very hand. Her signature,
248 - High Society
,
272 - His jailer trod on a rose-petal,
65 - Hotspur
,
148 - House-martins
,
200 - House-talk
,
107 - How can I prove to you,
198 - ‘Hoy!’ A hand hooks me into a doorway,
243
- I am in a foreign country,
81 - I am sitting on the step,
45 - I am the dotted lines on the map,
120 - Icon
,
178 - I got a Gold Star for the Pilgrim Fathers,
258 - I have made my pilgrimage a day early,
79 - I have nothing to say about this garden,
20 - I met an ancestor in the lane,
243 - Immigrant
,
111 - I’m still too young to remember how,
177 - I mustn’t mention the hamster’s nose,
269 - Incident
,
19 - Influenza
,
134 - In Focus
,
95 - In her 1930s bob or even, perhaps,
138 - In Memoriam: James K. Baxter
,
68 - In my love affair with the natural world,
279 - Inside my closed eyelids, printed out,
95 - Instead of an Interview
,
115 - Instructions to Vampires
,
19 - In the Dingle Peninsula
,
108 - In the dream I was kissing John Prescott,
262 - In the interests of economy,
178 - In the Terai
,
108 - In the Unicorn, Ambleside,
128 - I raise the blind and sit by the window,
75 - I Ride on My High Bicycle
,
26 - Is it the long dry grass that is so erotic,
88 - It has to be learned afresh,
133 - It is going to be a splendid summer,
84 - It is not one thing, but more one thing than others,
100 - It is not only the eye that is astonished,
119 - It’s Done This
,
275 - It’s hard to stay angry with a buttercup,
197 - It’s the old story of the personal,
175 - It was going to be a novel,
130 - It was the midnight train; I was tired and edgy,
42 - It went like this: I married at 22,
241 - It will be typed, of course, and not all in capitals,
136 - It would be rude to look out of the car windows,
210 - It would not be true to say she was doing nothing,
22 - I want to have ice-skates and a hoop,
128 - I wish to apologise for being mangled,
176 - I would not have you drain,
19 - I write in praise of the solitary act,
49
- Lantern Slides
,
140 - Last I became a raft of green bubbles,
128 - Last Song
,
190 - Late at night we wrench open a crab,
135 - Leaving the Tate
,
156 - Less like an aircraft than a kettle,
176 - Let’s be clear about this: I love toads,
196 - Letter from Highgate Wood
,
96 - Letter to Alistair Campbell
,
122 - Libya
,
193 - Light the Tilley lamp,
259 - Listen to that,
41 - Literally thin-skinned, I suppose, my face,
124 - Londoner
,
116 - Look, children, the wood is full of tigers,
31 - Looked better last time, somehow, on a wet weekday,
267 - Looking through the glass showcase,
76 - Loving Hitler
,
165
- Madmen
,
131 - Mary Derry
,
238 - Mary Magdalene and the Birds
,
145 - May: autumn. In more or less recognisable,
208 - Meeting the Comet
,
222 - Mid-point
,
120 - Milkmaids, buttercups, ox-eye dasies,
168 - Miss Hamilton in London
,
22 - Mist like evaporating stone,
121 - Moa Point
,
64 - Moneymore
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267 - Mornings After
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50 - Moses Lambert: the Facts
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240 - Mr Morrison
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86 - Mrs Fraser’s Frenzy
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217 - Mud in their beaks, the house-martins are happy,
200 - My ancestors are creeping down from the north,
254 - My angel’s wearing dressing-up clothes,
274 - My Father
,
194 - My great-grandfather Richey Brooks,
62 - My name is Eliza Fraser,
217 - My turn for Audrey Pomegranate,
172
- Nature Table
,
132 - Naughty ancestors, I tell them,
252 - Naxal
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78 - Near Creeslough
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81 - Neighbours lent her a tall feathery dog,
105 - Nelia
, 64 - Nellie
, 237 - Neston
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170 - Next Door
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199 - Ngauranga Gorge Hill
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43 - Nor for the same conversation again and again,
98 - Note on Propertius
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14 - Not pill-boxes, exactly: blocks,
63 - November ’63: eight months in London,
111 - Now that there are no sparrows,
277 - Nuns, now: ladies in black hoods,
166
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