Contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Dedication
  3. Introduction
  4.  
  5. Cosmonaut
  6. The Milkman of Human Kindness
  7. To Have and to Have Not
  8. Richard
  9. A New England
  10. The Man in the Iron Mask
  11. The Busy Girl Buys Beauty
  12. Lover’s Town Revisited
  13. It Says Here
  14. The Myth of Trust
  15. From a Vauxhall Velox
  16. The Saturday Boy
  17. Island of No Return
  18. St Swithin’s Day
  19. A Lover Sings
  20. Between the Wars
  21. I Don’t Need This Pressure, Ron
  22. Scholarship Is the Enemy of Romance
  23. Walk Away Renée (Version)
  24. Greetings to the New Brunette (aka Shirley)
  25. The Marriage
  26. Ideology
  27. Levi Stubbs’ Tears
  28. Honey I’m a Big Boy Now
  29. There Is Power in a Union
  30. Help Save the Youth of America
  31. Wishing the Days Away
  32. The Passion
  33. The Warmest Room
  34. The Home Front
  35. She’s Got a New Spell
  36. Must I Paint You a Picture?
  37. Tender Comrade
  38. The Price I Pay
  39. Little Time Bomb
  40. Valentine’s Day Is Over
  41. The Only One
  42. The Short Answer
  43. Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards
  44. The Internationale
  45. I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night
  46. Accident Waiting to Happen
  47. Moving the Goalposts
  48. Cindy of a Thousand Lives
  49. You Woke Up My Neighbourhood
  50. Trust
  51. God’s Footballer
  52. The Few
  53. Sexuality
  54. Tank Park Salute
  55. Rumours of War
  56. Body of Water
  57. Ontario, Quebec and Me
  58. Sulk
  59. As Long as You Hold Me
  60. From Red to Blue
  61. Upfield
  62. Brickbat
  63. The Space Race Is Over
  64. The Fourteenth of February
  65. King James Version
  66. The Boy Done Good
  67. St Monday
  68. England, Half English
  69. NPWA
  70. Take Down the Union Jack
  71. Tears of My Tracks
  72. Yarra Song
  73. Old Clash Fan Fight Song
  74. I Keep Faith
  75. M for Me
  76. Something Happened
  77. January Song
  78. Handyman Blues
  79. Do unto Others
  80. Goodbye, Goodbye
  81. Tomorrow’s Going to Be a Better Day
  82. Song of the Iceberg
  83.  
  84. Notes
  85. Index of Titles and First Lines
  86. About the Author
  87. By the Same Author
  88. Copyright