Contents
To Meccano
To My Violin
To Poetry Please
To Bedtime Stories
To Contact Lenses
To Deya
To Advice Given to Aspiring Writers
To Airplanes
To Writer’s Block
To Haiku
To My Old Addresses
To Macca’s Trousers
To Larry David
To Mistaken Identity
To Absence
To Wisdom Teeth
To Religion
To Temptation
To My Final Poem
Beau Geste
‘Street Urchins’
Press Save
Eternal Rest
Carpe Diem
I Am Not Sleeping
A Fine Romance
Queue Music
Love in the Launderette
The Collection
Not to Mention the Reader’s
The Wrong Beds
The Lucky Ones
Jockeys, a Perspective
One Liner
A Real Live Poet
On Good Authority
Je est un Auto
Paradise Lost
Shearing on the Côte d’Azure
The Flag’s Proud Boast
The Poet on Fire
In Case of Hire
Zen and the Art of Poetry
Lost Property Office
The Care Less Cat
Mr Nightingale
Mr Sappho
Mr of Arc
Mr Blyton
Lord Godiva
Mr Mae West
Monsieur Piaf
The After-dinner Speaker
Dylan the Eavesdrop
An Almighty Gloosh
ITZ
Quiet Zone
Payback Time
Try This For Size
Being Careful
Not a Page-turner
How to Escape from Prison
One after Another
The Dada Christmas Catalogue
Welcome Winter
A Bull in a China Shop
Yak ad Infinitum
Acknowledgements