Poetry Catalogue
POEMS ARE LISTED ACCORDING TO THE DATE(S) EACH POEM HAS BEEN POSTED AND REPOSTED:
29.2.24: A SENTIENT PLACE; THE BELVEDERE; THE RECLINING GARDENER; AT THE END OF THE PATH; DULCE DOMUM
25.1.24: REMEMBERING GAZA; THE WAR ON TERROR; THE SKELETON ARMY OF STEVEN STREET; THE ISLE OF PORTLAND; THE HAZARD OF FAILURE
24.11.23: HISTORY LESSON; AT WORLD’S END; ARMADA; OCTOBER MOON; BACKSTORY
26.10.23: THERE IS AN EDGE BIG CITIES HAVE; MANHATTAN PYSCHO; EMPIRE STATE; HOME THOUGHTS; PACIFIC BATHOS
12.10.23: THE JOYSTERS; ON THE TRAMP; FAITH; CONSUMERISM; TREASON OF THE CLERKS
14.9.23: THE CASTLE AMUSEMENTS; THE JESSE TREE; HOMEWARD BOUND; ROYALE DE LUXE; FROM AN ARMCHAIR
23.8.23: THE GREENING OF CRETE; WORLD HERITAGE; VERY IMPORTANT PROBLEM!; LOKK ON MY WORKS; WHEN THE WIND BLOWS
27.7.23: CAPTAIN FLINDERS’ CAT: PROPERTY AS THEFT; THE BRIDGE AT HOUGH; A VICIOUS FARCE; THE USUAL SUSPECTS; A PIECEMEAL CRISIS
25.5.23: THE SHIP OF THESEUS AND THE HOUSE OF WINDSOR; ON THE RWANDA PLAN; ‘DARKWATERS’, TATE LIVERPOOL, 2023; IN DEFENCE OF WHATABOUTERY; THE ATLANTIC ARCHIPELAGO
30.3.23: MARIGOLDS, KLIPTOWN, 2003; RELIQUIES; MIRROR, MIRROR; NORTH; THE SUMMERHOUSE
23.2.23: AT THE BRIDGE; CONVERT OR DIE; LONGING AND DUTY; ANGELS AND VANDALS; ST COLUMBA AND THE CURLEWS
27.1.23: DEAD ELEPHANTS; THE WEIRD SISTERS; THAT MEMORABLE SCENE; SIMONSTOWN, FALSE BAY, SOUTH AFRICA; MADAGASCAR
29.12.22: AFTER THE PANTOMIME; ALMA MATER; SNOWDROPS; STILL LIVES; THE YEAR’S MIDNIGHT
24.11.22: THE WALKING STICK PHILANTHROPIST; SUFFER THE LITTLE WALLABIES; RETURN OF THE NATIVE; AMONG THE TRUMPETS; FIELD AND FOUNTAIN, MOOR AND MOUNTAIN
27.10.22: SOMEBODY DIED; VICTORIA TOWER GARDENS; THE TECHNOLOGY OF CONJUNCTIONS; THE GREAT STINK; THE NOSE IN QUESTION
29.9.22: SHIPS OF FOOLS; ART; SOCRATIC DANCING; NUMBER 6; FUTILITY
24.8.22: TRAETH LLANDWYN; HELL’S MOUTH; CILAN UCHAF; NORTH CARDIGAN BAY; PORTH LLECHOG 2022
27.7.22: S.S. LUSITANIA ON HER SEA TRIALS 1907; NORTH COAST, ANGLESEY; INCIDENT AT BULL BAY; SEASCAPE; LEGERDEMAIN
23.6.22: THE OCCASIONAL JUBILEE; KEEPING THE ASPIDISTRA FLYING; THE OLD RAPTURES; ‘CROSSING THE BROOK’: J.M.W.TURNER; REFLECTIONS ON BURLESQUE AND CALAMITY
26.5.22: FROM AGINCOURT TO MARIUPOL; THE LITHOGRAPH; THE MAKING OF HISTORY; EXCEPTIONALISM; WHEN THE TIMES DARKEN
28.4.22: A FAR AWAY COUNTRY; THE POET AND THE BATTLESHIP; MAÎTRE JACQUES; SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI; A FAMOUS VICTORY
24.3.22: BLOODLANDS; THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT; COMETH THE HOUR; THE TOPOGRAPHY OF THE HEART; A POEM FOR MY GRANDDAUGHTER
24.2.22: THE RIVER; CORMORANTS; THE GROVES; SALMON LEAP; COURAGE
27.1.22: CROSBY BEACH, MERSEYSIDE, 2030; LAKE URMIA; UNDER THE TREES; THE OLD MEN AT THE LIBRARY; DISCONNECTS.
31.12.21: THE COMEDY OF LOVE; BEING EEYORE; ALL OF IRELAND’S AMBIGUOUS AIRS; AT THE WORLD’S EDGE; THE WHISTLER’S GRANDMOTHER
26.11.21: CIA HQ, AFGHANISTAN, 2021; DOUBLETHINK; ‘CHILDREN PLAYING ON OMAHA BEACH’: DAVID SEYMOUR; NO SURRENDER; CIRCUSES WITHOUT THE BREAD
28.10.21: THE ROAD TO THE WEST PIER; STERKFONTEIN CAVES; WHITE PLAINS; PANTELLERIA; 17TH OCTOBER 1961
30.9.21: THE FOURTH ANGLO-AFGHAN WAR; HIMALAYAN CHARNEL; THE NATURE OF MEN; A MEMORY OF MUSHROOMS; BENLLECH BAY LATE SPRING 2021.
26.8.21: A SORT OF KADDISH; FROM A BALCONY; THE MOLD CAPE; SERMON ON THE MOUNT; NEXT YEAR
20.7.31: THE NETHER PORTAL; ON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE; IN PRAISE OF HERB ROBERT; CELEBRITY; THE MERMAID’S PURSE
24.6.21: THE NAKBA; THE SKY ABOVE; ON LITTLE EYE; FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF HISTORY; BLOOMSBURY – OTHER PEOPLE’S FLOWERS: ‘TWELVE POEMS’ BY CLIVE WATKINS
27.5.21: THE CARIBBEAN EXPERIENCE; FROM THE TERRACE; APHORISMS AND INDEMNITY: AN IDEA OF AMERICA; THE TRICKSTER; INCONSEQUENTIAL – OTHER PEOPLE’S FLOWERS: ‘THREE POEMS’ BY ALAN HORNE
29.4.21: OLD EUROPE’S SLOW DEMISE; PEN BARRAS PASS; THE ABUNDANT DARK; NO PASSAGE LANDWARD; MYTHS AND PHOTOGRAPHS: ‘THE POINT OF VANISHING STABILITY’ BY JOHN HUDDART
25.3.21: IN PRAISE OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB; HOME TIME; THE BROKEN BRANCH; A CHORUS OF ZITHERS; ECO-WARRIOR
25.2.21: BIRTHDAY GIRL UNDER HOUSE ARREST; A SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION; LOCKDOWN; HINDSIGHT; SUN SETTING ON WINTER’S DAY
28.1.21: YOUNG VOICES CONCERT, MANCHESTER, JANUARY 2020; THE PRICE OF FISH AND THE VALUE OF NOTHING; CLOSE ENCOUNTERS; FOOTSTEPS; AND WITH EVERY BREATH
17.12.20: THE PLOT AGAINST THESE ISLANDS; TOWARDS A DEFINITION; CONFLUENCE; PROPHETS; THE WRONG TROUSERS?
8.11.20: CAPTAIN TILLY PARK, QUEENS, SEPTEMBER 2001; THE GUN EMPLACEMENT; D-DAY CELEBRATIONS; THE RÜSSELSHEIM MURDERS; 174629.10.20: APPLES AND PEARS;DESTINATIONS & DESTINIES; AUTUMN; ROSEBUD; CONFUSED ALARMS
29.10.20 APPLES AND PEARS; DESTINATIONS & DESTINIES; AUTUMN; ROSEBUD; CONFUSED ALARMS
24.9.20: ON BENLLECH BEACH 2020; THE NET; MAM CYMRU; THE PICNIC; AT ROSCOLYN.
27.8.20: MANY A SUMMER; DRIVING INTO THE DARK; THE CLARINET; THE BANDED DEMOISELLE; CIRCUS
23.7.20 THE LAST TASMANIAN TIGER…; THE GREAT UNCONFORMITY; WHAT THE HEART REMEMBERS; THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS: WINDOWS OF DISCOURSE; ALPHABET
25.6.20: A SORT OF EDEN; PHILLIS WHEATLEY: 1753-1784; THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL; THE SORES OF WAR; THE COLSTON BUN.
28.5.20: CONTAGION; THE TOP OF THE RISE; GUESTS OF LIFE; THE SICK MAN OF EUROPE; WAITING AT THE GATE
23.4.20: THE TEARS OF CHRIST; A RIGHT CHARIVARI!; BANK HOLIDAY; BILLY GOATS GRUFF; APOCALYPSE
26.3.20: DANCING ON AIR; SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND; TO SEE A WORLD; UNDER THE PLUM TREE; HOME TIME
28.2.20: LAMENT FOR THE FOURTH ESTATE; THE GLOBALISATION; PASTORALE; FALLACY OF WARNINGS; THE BLACK CARAVAN
31.1.20: NEW YEAR, BUDAPEST; INTERSECTIONS; VIEW FROM THE BASTION; BÖLCS VAR: THE HOUSE OF WISDOM; ALWAYS WITH YOU
27.12.19: 2019; MARTIN MERE WETLAND, LANCASHIRE; LORD WOOLAVINGTON’S HOUSE PARTY, AUGUST 1922; OUTLASTING KINGS; ON THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE NATO ALLIANCE
28.11.19: APPLES AT ERDDIG: A GLIMPSE OF AVALON; THE FOX; OF VANITY; ORGANISED CRIMES; POPPIES.
24.10.19: OMENS; OCTOBER 4TH ; FROM THE PERCH ROCK CAUSEWAY, NEW BRIGHTON; THE FIVE GIANTS; WINTERING
26.9.19: OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS; THE POET’S EYE; THE GRAIN LOFT; ARS POETICA; WHAT IS IT THAT STARTS A POEM?
29.8.19: PAINTING PARADISE; ORGANISED CRIMES; ALL IS BUT A DREAM; ACROSS THE ESTUARY; OUT OF THE EARTH.
20.7.19: SAME OLD, SAME OLD; DAY BREAKING; ORGANISED CRIMES; WALKING HOME; WATCHING THE STORM.
28.6.19: DOWN THE LINE; THE LION OF KNIDOS; CONVALESCENCE; ASYLUM SEEKER; THE BRIDGE.
28.5.19: AN AFTERNOON IN MAY; THE MUSEUMS; HIGHWATER; ‘MARILYN MONROE READING ULYSSES‘: EVE ARNOLD (1955); UNDER THE LIME TREES.
25.4.19: A SHORT HISTORY; FAR ABOVE RUBIES; WISHES; EZRA POUND IN VENICE; OH YES THERE IS! [All the poems have been previously published on the site – please see below. They have been re-published to mark the tenth anniversary of the launch of the site].
28.3.19: A POLITICAL EDUCATION; 53 WILLIAM STREET; THE BOX BROWNIE; CENSUS; THE VICISSITUDES OF HISTORY.
22.2.19: THE PIER, BEAUMARIS; LLANDWYN, YNYS MÔN; HOLYHEAD BREAKWATER COUNTRY PARK ; SOUTH STACK, HOLYHEAD ISLAND; REGATTA, MENAI STRAITS
24.1.19: GRASSALKOVICH PARK, BRATISLAVA; CHANGING THE GUARD; THE RABBI AND THE EMPEROR; THE SKATER; A VIEW FROM THE CASTLE
28.12.18: WATER SELLERS, BROOKLYN BRIDGE; WINTER; BY ANY OTHER NAME; BREAK AN EGG!; NO LESS LIQUID
29.11.18: THE ABATTOIR AT MAZINGARBE; STAPLETON COTTON 1ST VISCOUNT COMBERMERE; THE FORK IN THE ROAD; THE GARIBALDI STATUE, VENICE; THE OUTING.
26.10.18: THE ROPE SWING; AT LOGGERHEADS; AUBADE; FEARLESS ARIAS; A BIT LATE TO THINK OF KAFKA.
27.9.18: ACCADEMIA BRIDGE; CITY OF ART; FRUITS OF THE SEA; GRANDE HÔTEL DES BAINS; LA FENICE; O BRAVE NEW WORLD; THE FISH MARKET; THE GHETTO; THE GULLS OF VENICE; THE LAGOON
30.8.18: A WINNING HAND; HESPERIDES; STUDIES IN BLUE: PADDLING POOL, LLANDUDNO; GERTRUDE BELL AND THE TREATY OF SÈVRES; OF PLUMS AND FIGS
20.7.18: A TOKEN OF A COVENANT: MARCH 16TH 2018; THE JIG’S UP; KITCHENER’S ISLAND; NOW WE ARE SEVENTY FIVE; THE OLD LIME TREES AT ERDDIG
29.6.18: AT CHESTER CROSS; A NEW YORK TALE; LEVITICUS; RESURRECTION; A DEATH IN GASCONY
28.3.18: A CHEESE BY ANY OTHER NAME; IN CAMERA; INSPIRATION; THE TAXIDERMY; ANOTHER PLACE REVISITED AT LOW WATER.
22.2.18: VALENTINE WEATHERS ; CARROG; OPUS 40; AFTER DINNER; THE OFFICE OF THE DEAD.
26.1.18: OF JOY; THE STORM; A DAY OUT; THE SEAS AND THE STARS; ENCHANTMENT.
29.12.17: THE LAST OF BRITAIN; OCCAM’S RAZOR; MONKS AND TOURISTS; AS GOOD AS IT GETS; A WINTER’S JOURNEY.
25.11.17: THE SHROPSHIRE LAD; THE SORES OF WAR; RIVA DEI SETTE MARTIRE, VENICE; MOUNTAIN VIEW; JEWISH TUNES.
27.10.17: AT LENIN’S TOMB; THE RED SHOES; THE BOURBAKI PANORAMA; CODA; AMONG THE RUSSIANS.
29.9.17: WITH THE EYES OF THE SUN; THE CIRCUS HORSE; MYTH MAKING; ALMS; KISMET.
24.8.17: A VIEW OF THE STRAITS; THE DEARTH OF HONEY; TEATRO DEI REUNITI; THE TARRY WHALE; THE ANATOMY OF PILGRIMAGE.
28.7.17: ANOTHER PLACE REVISITED; A TERRIBLE SILENCE; AT CHESTER CROSS; THE KING’S WORKS IN WALES; SEA URCHINS, HARLECH BEACH.
28.6.17: THE SEA HAWK AND THE NEEDLEFISH; JOHN’S GRILL; ORIENTATION; ALCATRAZ; AT THE END OF THE PIER.
26.5.17: A POEM FOR MY DAUGHTER; AMAZING GRACE; AT PEAK’S POND, GUILDFORD CASTLE; UNPREMEDITATED ART; 1967.
28.4.17: A SHORT HISTORY; FOLLOWING THE CHAIN; LIVERPOOL 3RD MAY 1941; THE RULES OF THE GAME; ‘EAST END GIRL DANCING THE LAMBETH WALK’: BILL BRANDT, 1939.
24.3.17: INTIMATIONS; NOW YOU ARE THREE; INTENSIVE; IN THE MOOD; MADELEINE MOMENTS.
24.2.17: MEMENTO VIVERE; WAITING BY THE RIVER; A LETTER TO ARTHUR RANSOME; THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY; SOMETHING OF SPRING.
27.1.17: THE SCENERY OF DREAMS; AN END OF INNOCENCE; A SILK PURSE: THE EVERYMAN THEATRE, LIVERPOOL; BRUEGEL: ‘RETURN OF THE HUNTERS’; A WINTER’S JOURNEY.
27.12.16: THE SILVER SCREEN; LESSONS FROM HISTORY; HORIZONS; THE FAULT; THINKING OF AMERICA.
25.11.16: THE FALL OF EUROPE; BLIGHTY WARD; AT THE ELEVENTH HOUR; WITNESS THIS ARMY; THE GOOD WAR.
21.10.16: FOR I WILL CONSIDER MY CAT JEFFROY; THE PAINTER; ACROSS THE WATERS; PLAY STATION; ABERFAN.
30.9.16: A ROOM WITH A VIEW; CROSSING THE COMPASS; SEAFORTH BEACH, SIMONS TOWN, 2009; ON BECOMING TWO; THE ARMENIAN MONASTERY, SAN LAZZORO, VENICE.
24.8.16: THE RECLINING GARDENER; NATURAL SELECTION; THE HEREDITARY PRINCIPLE; THE MINER’S WELFARE INSTITUTE, LLAY; GOLDEN.
22.7.16: A GOOSE IN THE BAMBOO; LENIN AND THE BOURBAKI PANORAMA; GLIMPSING THE STARS; ACHILLES’ HEELS;
ONLY TO BE OPENED
30.6.16: PASSING THE PARCEL; EUREKA!; AT THE END OF THE PIER; HUMAN HANDS; THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME.
20.5.16: A PUBLIC MAN; THE CATCHER IN THE RYE; INNER MARSH FARM HIDE, BURTON MERE WETLANDS; SOWETO 2012; ALMOST ABOVE THE TREES.
25.4.16: FOLLOWING THE CHAIN; A MATTER OF MATHEMATICS; DYSTOPIA: A WORK IN PROGRESS; ET IN ARCADIA EGO; THE RULES OF THE GAME.
26.3.16: EASTER 1916; TRAFFICKING IN MOCKERY; NASTY, BRUTISH AND SHORT; FROM THE RUINS; LEITH HILL PLACE, SURREY.
27.1.16: LOVE IN ITS ELEMENT: YNYS LLANDWYN; LOVELOCKED; THE COMEDY OF LOVE; SIDE BY SIDE; PAPER ANGEL.
30.1.16: BRITISH VALUES; THE LEGACY OF THE CLERKS; ODYSSEUS; CROW CASTLE; ORACLE.
22.12.15: AN AWFULLY BIG ADVENTURE; BREAK AN EGG!; A SUICIDE; SERENDIPITY; THE JOSEPHLESS NATIVITY.
6.11.15: AMONG THE TRUMPETS; THE AQUEDUCT; TRIUMPH OF THE WILL; SOME CORNER OF A FOREIGN FIELD; AYLAN KURDI.
23.10.15: BLOOD MONTH; HYMN; HELTER-SKELTER; COED BODLONDEB, CONWY; ALL SOULS.
24.9.15: GUILT; THE GATES OF MERCY; EUREKA!; OVER THE RAINBOW; FIFTEEN MINUTES.
29.8.15: BAMBURGH; A REALLY BIG CONVERSATION; REMEMBERING… ; LEAVES AND LOVERS; ZODIAC.
29.7.15: JULY…; CONCRETE MYTHS; POETIC JUSTICE; MIRAGE; PHILLIS WHEATLEY: 1753-1784.
20.6.15: LIKE A FIRE BELL IN THE NIGHT; CAER LÊB, YNYS MÔN; STILL LIFE; KRITI; THE WAY .
21.5.15: EXTERMINATE THE BRUTES; WATCHING THE LAMBS; LA PALMA; THE GARLAND; A PUBLIC MAN.
25.4.15: DEDHAM VALE REVISITED; ONLY ONE IN STEP; EAST END GIRL; MUSIC OF THE SPHERES; THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS; A POET IN WARTIME – the three most and three least visited pieces since the site was launched in April 2009.
20.3.15: March; Mercy; The Circus Horse, The Solitary Angler; Spring, Afon Menai.
30.1.15: To Write Of Love; Rome; Buffalo Bill On The Roodee, Chester, 1903; Civil Wars; The Buzzard In The Sun.
20.12.14: Alchemy; Collateral Damage; Shoah; Lethe; Love and Marriage.
25.11.14: The Last Caliph; Never Such Innocence; Cardinals and Giants; At The Eleventh Hour; Drummer Rigby.
17.10.14: La Perruche Et La Sirène; In My Craft Or Sullen Art; The Deserted Wagon; Something Lost in Translation; Of Cat and Mouse; Figures of Speech.
29.9.14: Adrift; The Second Time As Farce; Iconoclasts; Via Salita Giafari; The Ear Of Dionysus.
28.8.14: August 4th, 2014; The Christmas Box; The Outing; The Abbatoir at Mazingarbe; Piper Laidlaw of Loos.
22.7.14: July…; Sea Airs; Castle Playground, Beaumaris; Moral Tales; Coincidence…
27.6.14: Parish Church, Burford; We Prisoners; Lost; Children’s Hour; Ezra Pound in Venice – all first published June 2009;
16.6.14: Ubuntu [Note: June 16th in Youth Day in South Africa.
25.5.14: Six Degrees: The May Blitz, Liverpool, 1941; Swifts; A Fly (And Infinity); The Lane; The Playmaker.
25.4.14: Poverty, Poverty Knock; The Last Clock; Such People To Love; Dark Soul Of The Night; The Fall Of Sparrows.
22.3.14: Charity; The Coat Hanger; Only Artifice Will Remain; Of Least Concern; Waiting For The Bus Fare.
26.1.14: The Roofs Of Marrakech; Surveillance; Poet And Professor; Rivers Of Blood; Poor Dappled Fools.
20.12.13: Winter; Silent Pool, March, 2013; Ennui; 1913; At The Year’s Turning
7.12.13: Robben Island.
26.11.13: Camelot; POW Camp 57…; The Troubles; Standing Fast; The Edge Of History.
29.10.13: The End Of Days; Autumn; Burton Mere Wetlands; Suburbia; The Fall Of Empires.
29.9.13: Without End; Dawn Chorus; Labor Day; La Pieta; As Flies To Wanton Boys.
7.9.13: Seamus Heaney: A Liverpool Memory.
28.8.13: Kites Flying; The Sudden Rat; West Kirby, Wirral; A Lone Frog; The Redundant Mahout.
30.7.13: Far Above Rubies; The Same Shared Ground; Confederate Cemetery, Alton, Illinois; Virtually Birdless In Assisi; The Measure Of All Things. [Note: the poems were originally published on the site in July 2009. Far Above Rubies has also been published in ‘A Jar of Sticklebacks’ – Armadillo Central and posted on Third Sunday Blog Carnival.
27.6.13: A Hog In Armour, A Pig In Lipstick…; The City And The River; Laissez Faire; St James Cemetery; After The Riots. [Note: After The Riots was originally published on the site in April 2010].
28.5.13: Beastliness; The Valley Of The Amarici, April 2006; Who Laughs Last; Kliptown, Soweto, April 2010; Cecil And Precious. [Note: The Valley… and Kliptown… were first published in ‘A Jar of Sticklebacks’ –Armadillo Central]
27.4.13: The first five poems published on DAVIDSELZER.COM – A Short History; Unbidden; ‘East End Girl Doing The Lambeth Walk’: Bill Brandt; Portrait Of The Artist; The Outing – are re-posted today to mark the fourth anniversary of the launch of the site.
23.3.13: Errdig: Reflections On Patrimony; The Optimism Of Engineers; And With A Little Pin; The Wreck Of The SS Rothesay Castle; Bryn Celli Dhu, Ynys Môn.
26.2.13: Less The Price Of The Medal.
28.1.13: A Modest Proposal; I Remember…; The Dead; Flying To Johannesburg; A Jar Of Sticklebacks [Note: the poem was first published by Armadillo Central.
15.12.12: A DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF VENICE: La Serenissima; Piazza Di San Marco; Bacino Di San Marco; Decline And Fall; A Continuing City.
11.11.12: The Barnston Monument; The Abattoir At Mazingarbe; La Place De La Libération, Auch; Unintended Consequences; Sleepless In Waziristan§.
29.10.12: Music Of The Spheres; Persephone; Safely Through The Dark [originally published on the site in October 2009 as Bulkely Hotel, Beaumaris, Ynys Môn; The Cure of Folly [originally published in December 2011].
9.10.12: Marjorie Beebe’s Bottom – re-published for International Marjorie Beebe Day.
24.9.12: Lost Tribes; Another September; Accidents; The Garden Of Earthly Delights; Cecil And Precious.
29.8.12: A Parable; The Hare And The Stone; Valle Crucis Abbey, Llantysilio, Llangollen; Surely; Bathing At Llanddwyn.
23.7.12: Ambition; Angel of The North; On Becoming Two; An Abridged History Of The World; All That Remains.
28.6.12: The Street Party; In Memoriam Miss J.H.; An Absence Of Starlings; Sisyphus; La Cathédral Sainte-Marie D’Auch.
29.5.12: Jubilee; ‘East End Girl Dancing The Lambeth Walk’: Bill Brandt; Virtutis Fortuna Comes; Trigger At The Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool, 1954§; On The Nature Of Things.
25.4.12: Dedham Vale Revisited; A Ship of Fools; Only One In Step; Most Wanted, Most needed; Privilege. [Note: Dedham Vale Revisited and Only One In Step have been previously published on the site and are two of the most visited poems].
21.3.12: A Terrible Place; Llwechwed Slate Caverns, Gwynedd; Rites; Here Endeth; A Virtuous Circle.
28.2.12: The Belvedere§; Who Would Anticipate; Pedagogy; Landfall; Innocence In Its Second Year.
24.1.12: Between The Monkey And The Snake§; The Matter Of The Heart; Aberffraw, Ynys Môn; The Inverted Eucalyptus; Cecil And Precious.
27.12.11: Harlequin and Columbine§; The Path Of Life; A Cure Of Folly; Garden Of Earthly Delights; Encounters With History.
29.11.11: Poppy Day; North Waziristan, India, 1937; Johnson’s War; A Place And A Name; The Citizens’ Army.
29.10.11: Looking For Puffins: South Stack Revisited – A Poem For Our Daughter; Only One In Step; Marjorie Beebe’s Bottom§; Trigger At The Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool, March, 1954§; Wishes.
24.8.11: Sapphire§; Primates§; On First Reading ‘The Gulag Archipelago’; A Poet In Wartime.
22.7.11: Shazam!; Lament For Bersham Ironworks; Carlton Centre, Johannesburg – April 2009§; Bologna La Grassa; Of Golden Days.
25.6.11: Larkin Revisited; The Surpriser; Crossing The Pennines; Once Upon A Time In An Aviary; Marjorie Beebe’s Bottom§.
25.5.11: A Commonplace; At Jodrell Bank; A Wedding; Which Passeth Understanding; Something Of Summer§.
29.4.11: Ezra Pound In Venice§; ‘East End Girl Dancing The Lambeth Walk’: Bill Brandt; The Heart’s Testimony; Far Above Rubies§; The Embrace Of Nothing. [Note: These are the five most visited poems since the site was launched in April 2009].
26.3.11: At Gayton Sands; Summers of Violence; Southgate, Johannesburg, November 2002; My Uncle Tom; Revelations.
15.2.11: Un Dimanche Apres-midi À l’Île De La Grande Jatte; The Swellies, Afon Menai, St Valentine’s Day; The Memories Of Slaves; Poetic Justice; Dinas Brân, Llangollen.
26.1.11: Afon Menai; Gateshead/Newcastle; Crosby; Llanbadrig; Holy Island.
18.12.10: Trigger At The Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool, March 1954; The Suburbs Of Folly; Herons In Their Habitats, Lovers In Their Lives; Local Authority; Not Anything To Show More Fair.
28.11.10: Under November Skies; A Neighbourhood Of Strangers; Pro Patria Mori; ‘A Windy Day’ & ‘A Calm Morning’; In The Compass Of A Pale.
27.10.10: La Clef Des Champs; Beastliness; The War On Terror; On The Nature Of Things; While You Were Sleeping.
28.8.10: Here; Reprise; Seasonal Greetings; Virtutis Fortuna Comes; Intimations.
31.7.10: Bearings; Perspectives; Are We Nearly There?; The Drowned Field; Zeleznik’s Theory of Knowledge.
June 2010: no postings owing to Orange broadband failure.
30.5.10: A Book of Hours; Dulce Domum; The Fall of Europe; Orpheus; Chuzpah.
18.4.10: Aliases; After the Riots; The Last Refuge; Only One in Step; The Disguised Republic.
28.3.10: Oh Yes There Is!; The Price; Prepositions II; The Greatest of These; Parting the Ways.
22.2.10: A Life; Saudade; The Classical Tradition; Freedom; Wishes.
31.1.10: Fido; George Gershwin at Chirk Castle; Witness this Army; Prepositions; Good Hope.
20.12.09: Looking for Puffins: South Stack Revisited – A Poem for our Daughter; At Mycenae 1984; A Bit of a Shambles; The Embrace of Nothing; The Spider at the Door.
29.11.09: Accidents; Love, Again; The Wreck of the Rothesay Castle; The Poker; Bestiary.
30.10.09: Bulkeley Hotel, Beaumaris, Ynys Môn; Dedham Vale Revisited; Epiphanies; 1951; Visiting Mother in Bedlam.
17.9.09: And With A Little Pin; Bryn Celli Ddu, Ynys Môn ; For Those In Peril; In Memoriam; Wildness.
21.8.09: 4th August 1944; A Neighbourhood Of Strangers; First Date; La Pietà; The Heart’s Testimony.
23.7.09: Far Above Rubies; The Same Shared Ground; Confederate Cemetery, Alton, Illinois; Virtually Birdless in Assisi; The Measure of All Things.
22.6.09: Parish Church, Burford; We Prisoners; Lost; Children’s Hour; Ezra Pound in Venice.
27.4.09: A Short History; Unbidden; ‘East End Girl Dancing the Lambeth Walk’: Bill Brandt; The Outing; Portrait of the Artist.
§These poems have subsequently been published at Third Sunday Blog Carnival.
Geoffrey Wall
January 4, 2010Reading your South Stack Revisited – love the churlish Larkinesque opening moves with the forlorn erotic comedy of youth and age – but then something from elsewhere – tenderly appreciative – like one of Hardy’s memory-poems of place-revisited- AND I do think there ought to be a collected Selzer by now – so boldly sending the link to Paul Keegan at Faber.
David
January 5, 2010What a start to the New Year and the new decade! Such comparisons with exalted favourites – and such an expression of faith! Humbling. Thank you.