1. TITLE PAGE
  2. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  3. ROGER GARFITT: Ken Smith: The Poet Reclining
    LIFE & WORK, 1: 1938–1986
  4. JON GLOVER: Ken Smith: Terra to Shed
    LIFE & WORK, 2: 1986–2003
  5. from THE PITY (1967)
  6. Fossil
  7. Grass
  8. Means
  9. Both harvests
  10. Family group
  11. Country: Keld to Reeth
  12. The Pity
  13. The Humanities, Dept of Literature
  14. Lorca
  15. Translation
  16. Train
  17. Between us
  18. The hunter
  19. Water
  20. Europe
  21. The street
  22. The past
  23. Leaving
  24. A fragment
  25. from WORK, DISTANCES / POEMS (1972)
  26. Poems 1967–1969
  27. Exiles
  28. Suburb
  29. She speaks
  30. The child’s version
  31. Age
  32. Bitter
  33. The boss
  34. The son*
  35. Gravedigger*
  36. A good fox
  37. Beyond breath
  38. Persistent narrative
  39. Skull
  40. Somewhere else
  41. Old mill, Newton St Cyres
  42. The Amana Colonies
  43. Inventory/Itinerary
  44. Farmer
  45. Figures at daybreak
  46. Going
  47. L.A.
  48. Poem 1
  49. Poem 2
     
  50. The stone poems (1971)
  51. The stone poems*
     
  52. Death Songs/Death Dances
  53. Dream journeys
  54. From the Nahua
  55. On the north coast, Barnstaple
  56. Where winter begins
  57. Abandoned village
  58. Song for the whites
  59. The Sioux cleared from Minnesota
  60. Here
  61. Crying woman
  62. Ghost songs
  63. Ghost dances
  64. In this place
  65. Where did I learn such quiet
  66. In Pennsylvania, winter’s end
  67. Little notes
  68. After a journey
     
  69. The Eli Poems
  70. The marsh
  71. The third month
  72. Eli’s poem
  73. The rooming house
  74. His lament
  75. The obsession
  76. What was done
  77. The door
  78. Half songs, 1790*
     
  79. The Wild Turkey
  80. Wild Turkey One
  81. Wild Turkey Two
  82. Living in the Danelaw
  83. The author, a teacher of petomania, reflects on the shortcomings of his students
  84. The visit
  85. Wild Turkey Six
  86. Another part of his childhood
  87. A description of the Lichway or corpse-road across Dartmoor
  88. A farewell to the city of Exeter in south-west England
  89. In the Americas, so the tale goes
  90. A journey through part of western Pennsylvania
  91. Wild Turkey Twelve
  92. Wild Turkey Thirteen
  93. The dream
     
  94. * These poems were not included in Work, distances but are from the same period and were printed with them in The Poet Reclining.
  95. from THE POET RECLINING: SELECTED POEMS 1962-1980 (1982)
  96. Wolf vision
  97. Hawk vision
  98. Remembering when he was a wolf
  99. Another night of muttering
  100. Tales of Urias the shape-shifter
  101. My father fading out
  102. Valley
  103. Childhood in the lowlands
  104. Sunk Island, that winter
  105. Old postcards of the river
  106. The swan
  107. Playing field observations
  108. The Tivoli Bar
  109. Federico
  110. Maria the thief
  111. Caesar Caesar
  112. Reports from the east
  113. To survive
  114. Bowl
  115. Wants
  116. The veterans
  117. Peasant
  118. Duck at Haldon Ponds
  119. Fly
  120. Lake
  121. Crocus
  122. From the southern river
  123. Winter occasions
  124. At the Western Beacon, the second of the songs of Urias
  125. Moiré effect
     
  126. Tristan Crazy (1978)
  127. One for sorrow
  128. Two for nobody
  129. Three: tales of the hunter
  130. Four, being a prayer to the western wind
  131. Five, which is here by the river
  132. Six: the wife’s complaint
  133. Seven: when he can’t sleep for thinking
  134. Eight. The singer
  135. Nine: Shorty’s advice to the players
  136. Ten: the tale unfinished
     
  137. Fun City Winter (1977)
  138. A red carnation
  139. The town, a general description
  140. The stone gatherer
  141. By the northern sea, a farewell to one woman
     
  142. Apocrypha from the Western Kingdom
  143. 1  Six items heard in three locations in Leeds and Exeter
  144. 2  At the collège des beaux arts Escanceaster six further items imagined
  145. 3  Surprised again beside the river
  146. 4  Some unfinished movements
  147. 5  Old business: the drowned bride
  148. 6  A right curse on the enemy
     
  149. The clearing
  150. The clearing
     
  151. Fox Running (1980)
  152. Fox Running
     
  153. The Poet Reclining
  154. Spartan communiqué
  155. From the Vale of White Horse: some news
  156. Being the third song of Urias
  157. In transit
  158. Hunéus the shoemaker
  159. Operations undertaken at or near the surface
  160. Shallow dreaming
  161. Old movies
  162. Transcription of the crying woman
  163. Planting aloes
  164. Mouth
  165. Tongue
  166. The Ubi Sunt variations
  167. The poet reclining
  168. The night music
  169. Fox in October
  170. from BURNED BOOKS (1981)
  171. Recitation at the burned books
  172. San Quixote of the cinders
  173. Some notes on Perdu
  174. Lost letter to Didot
  175. A survivor
  176. Fragment: memo to Milto
  177. Nicholson’s advice
  178. Hunter’s piece
  179. The discovery of metal
  180. From Belmont, a ghetto song
  181. From the plain
  182. From the book of changes
  183. A note to his landlady
  184. Towards a coda
  185. Perdu: his last appearance in history
  186. from ABEL BAKER CHARLIE DELTA (1981)
  187. the pussy willow song
  188. without lime that is
  189. abel baker ashore
  190. supposing it’s friday
  191. his appearance in the white hart
  192. remember young squire
  193. now there’s a subject
  194. and as for you lot
  195. charlie delta adrift
  196. sight of the enemy
  197. then there’s my publications
  198. nice one
  199. where francis drake did drink
  200. the one you got three days for in achiltibue
  201. charlie growing old
  202. no reply to that
  203. and finally
  204. TERRA (1986)
  205. Hawkwood
  206. Colden Valley
  207. Roads in the north between two seas
  208. Commercial break: RSK Porsche
  209. Communiqué from desk 19
  210. Lilith
  211. Het achterhuis
  212. Letters from a lost uncle
  213. Bogart in the dumb waiter
  214. Three from the freak house
  215. 1  The tattooed woman
  216. 2  Tiger Lill
  217. 3  Tom Peeper 
  218. Hatred of barbers
  219. The ballad of Eddie Linden at Earl’s Court
  220. The London Poems
  221. After Mr Mayhew’s visit 
  222. Encounter at St Martin’s
  223. The meridian at Greenwich
  224. Movies after midnight
  225. In Silvertown, chasing the dragon
  226. Beyond hope and the Lea River
  227. Clipper service
  228. Message on the machine
  229. Unfinished portrait
  230. Out West
  231. Leaving the Angel
  232. At the Barbican
  233. The talk at the big house
  234. Dosser
  235. Slow dancer’s epitaph
  236. The house of the androgynes
  237. Of things past
  238. Tube talk
  239. Nobody’s apartment
  240. Your friend the drifter
  241. Talking with God
  242. The window of vulnerability
  243. A bad day at HQ
  244. Drinking at Dirty Dick’s
  245. The soldier’s tale
  246. A case of medals
  247. Absolutely no selling
  248. The Botanic Garden Oath
  249. Not talking on the Circle Line
  250. Person to person transatlantic
  251. The John Poems
  252. Ignore previous telegram
  253. The Olympic Year
  254. Aggie’s advice
  255. The actor
  256. Eva’s story
  257. Autumn with full summer
  258. Old Westerns
  259. How to get a job
  260. Two parts haiku
  261. The Russians
  262. The program
  263. At the rostrum
  264. The 1984 Tour of Britain
  265. Visiting Americans
  266. The previous telegram
  267. Message from the Basque country
  268. The black report
  269. Bonnie over the ocean
  270. Conditions in the west
  271. Nielsen’s visit
  272. Living with the boss
  273. The space salesman
  274. Snobby Roberts’ message
  275. Remembering the Fifties
  276. Graffiti in the hall of athletes
  277. Long distances
  278. The relay runner
  279. Disco dancing in Streatham
  280. To exorcise a blackbird
  281. Gone for gold
  282. Suburb city
  283. Departure’s speech
  284. WORMWOOD (1987)
  285. For Nicki in December
  286. Airport silences
  287. From my American period
  288. Fun City encore
  289. The rope
  290. Serbian letters
  291. A theme of razors
  292. The wanderer Yakob
  293. As it happens
  294. On the swings
  295. Wormwood
  296. For the lost boys, sleepless
  297. in the house of green ginger
  298. the remembered city
  299. in the flats, flat voices
  300. Elsewhere the same night
  301. As it happens
  302. you owe me
  303. it happens
  304. Talking with the censor
  305. My father with two knives
  306. Towards daylight
  307. The bee dance
  308. Cain’s songs
  309. For the boys on the wing
  310. What the righteous don’t know
  311. Bodies
  312. Timekeeper
  313. At the solstice
  314. The night whispers
  315. Carteret plage
  316. THE HEART, THE BORDER (1990)
  317. In the Evangelical Cemetery, San Michele, Venice
  318. Dorothea extempore
  319. Writing in prison
  320. Greetings from the Winter Palace
  321. Jack’s postcards
  322. The pornographer
  323. Figures in three landscapes:
  324. One: Brady at Saddleworth Moor
  325. Two: Hungerford nights 
  326. Three: Murder at White House Farm
  327. Against the grain
  328. Three Docklands fragments:
  329. 1  The Enterprise Zone 
  330. 2  Of things to come
  331. 3  Yuppy love 
  332. The New Management
  333. Running on empty
  334. Imaginary confrontations
  335. Intercepted letters: Harry inside
  336. Intercepted letters: Harry on the road
  337. Back from Leah’s country
  338. The spectator’s terrace, Gatwick
  339. Then the heart
  340. First echo
  341. Braille transcripts
  342. The furniture game
  343. Epitaph for a gardener
  344. The annunciation
  345. Venetian pieces:
  346. The Chamber of Torment 
  347. Casanova in the room of the Inquisitors
  348. Sinistra
  349. The baron regrets
  350. Neapolitan interiors:
  351. Views around the bay
  352. Ercolano’s message
  353. A traveller’s question
  354. Postscript: nunc pro tunc 
  355. The magic of Poland
  356. One
  357. Two, the waitresses in Old Town
  358. Three, the music of the Emperor 
  359. Monument
  360. Zoo Station midnight
  361. Katja’s message
  362. The Wall
  363. Passing through
  364. Chinese whisper
  365. After Brecht
  366. TENDER TO THE QUEEN OF SPAIN (1993)
  367. Tender to the Queen of Spain
  368. Milly’s end
  369. The other elegy
  370. The painter Mannfred Otto
  371. Jack remembering
  372. Brother Scratchwood
  373. One of Milly’s gifts
  374. Three in a play
  375. Woman without a name
  376. Part of something else
  377. Later in the tearoom
  378. The blue time
  379. Accounts
  380. Brief encounter on the Yellowdog
  381. The bad news
  382. Film noir
  383. Beginning again with a line heard in the street
  384. Another day another dollar
  385. Scenes from metropolitan life
  386. The lives of the saints
  387. The maker of fakes
  388. Johannes from Dresden
  389. Insomnia 1, 2, 3
  390. The emigrant
  391. Filmclip: Leningrad, October 1935
  392. A survivor’s memoir
  393. By the Master of Jakabfalva, 1480
  394. No reply from the East
  395. His epistle to the Tatars
  396. Poem ending in frogs
  397. Essential Serbo-Croat
  398. Lovesong for Kate Adie
  399. The fat man’s movie
  400. Task 17
  401. Task 18: the unmasking procedure
  402. Positive identification
  403. The Chicken Variations
  404. Her mirror
  405. The road to Henrietta’s house
  406. In praise of vodka
  407. The carpenter’s confession
  408. The man who ran away from the circus
  409. Interrogating the egg-timer
  410. Unaccompanied singing
  411. WILD ROOT (1998)
  412. Eddie’s other lives
  413. Absent
  414. Country music
  415. Chief 
  416. When that cop come
  417. Joy #1
  418. In the next street 
  419. Joy #2
  420. Poem to which the answer is no
  421. More stick
  422. Joy #3
  423. Joy #4
  424. The geography of clouds
  425. East of here, west of here
  426. Noises off
  427. Joy #5
  428. Speech
  429. A dream of disaster
  430. Dead trousers
  431. The theft
  432. Joy #6
  433. The telephone is in the key of C
  434. Before the Lisbon tribunal
  435. Poem without a title
  436. Part of the crowd that day
  437. With a name like Spratt
  438. Suspicion of reporters
  439. White noise
  440. Body Cakes
  441. Archive footage
  442. First and last, Alderney
  443. Poem for translation
  444. For Julia, 1910-1996
  445. Looking for the constant
  446. No one
  447. Countryside around Dixton Manor, circa 1715
  448. The Great Hat Project
  449. Go tell the honey ant
  450. Columbus to Isabella
  451. Days on Dog Hill
  452. Here
  453. Night at the Blind Beggar
  454. The gracenote
  455. Narrow Road, Deep North
  456. Blue Prague, the worst you can say in Czech
  457. Journey without maps:
  458. 1  Night train
  459. 2  September distances
  460. 3  What Feri said
  461. 4  Glimpse
  462. 5  Flatlands
  463. 6  Closed border, Slavonia
  464. 7  TV in the East
  465. 8  Waking in Heroes’ Park
  466. Moscow dogs
  467. Georgia, Georgia
  468. Hungarian quartet
  469. The night anywhere 
  470. Sándor the poet
  471. Misi’s song 
  472. Dmitri’s song
  473. The Shadow of God
  474. Wire through the heart
  475. Where the scythe has been
  476. Signed sealed & delivered
  477. The Secret Police
  478. Intermezzo, Sub-Carpathia, May 97
  479. In any case 
  480. Hucul
  481. Heaven’s dust 
  482. Border theatre 
  483. Malenki robot
  484. SHED (2001)
  485. Trillium
  486. The Millennium near Barking
  487. The other shadow
  488. The land of Cockaigne
  489. South 
  490. Paperwork for the Consul
  491. Little lost poem
  492. Bodega de carne
  493. From Lorca
  494. Coda: Montezuma’s revenge
  495. The Watch
  496. El Pacifico
  497. The wife’s sister 
  498. So be it
  499. Midnight angst
  500. Asleep
  501. The story so far
  502. Reflections, shaving
  503. The neighbour 
  504. The shed in question 
  505. After the storm
  506. Mail from the Campania
  507. The afternoon
  508. Midday, Anna
  509. Interim 
  510. Evening primrose
  511. Wall dreams
  512. Transit
  513. Thé dansant
  514. Fast forward
  515. Just one of you
  516. The Donegal Liar
  517. YOU AGAIN (2004)
  518. LAST POEMS
  519. Late night call
  520. Ancient Lights
  521. You again
  522. The 72 virgins question
  523. Bin Laden is Ken Smith
  524. From Semtex to Anthrax
  525. The Ring
  526. Almost
  527. IM Izet Sarajlić
  528. Everything, almost
  529. Begins like this 
  530. Nema problema
  531. Nightbird
  532. Listening
  533. Split interlude at deadmouse.com
  534. Night coming
  535. Things 
  536. Seafarer 
  537. On the other hand
  538. Old man’s advice
  539. For Jan Morris 
  540. A night of many dreams
  541. Almost not a sonnet
  542. I rest my case
  543. Poverty’s prayer
  544. The white chair
  545. APPENDICES
  546. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  547. COLLECTED POEMS
  548. INDEX OF TITLES AND SUB-TITLES
  549. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
  550. COPYRIGHT