Contents

Title Page

Preface

 

By the Round Pond

The Uncertainty of the Poet

The Sitter

Les Vacances

 

Tich Miller

Names

Present

On Finding an Old Photograph

 

A Christmas Poem

Loss

From June to December (1, 3, 5, 6)

My Lover

Rondeau Redoublé

Bloody Men

Valentine

Nine-line Triolet

Favourite

Another Unfortunate Choice

As Sweet

In the Rhine Valley

Postcards

Seeing You

The Orange

After the Lunch

The Aerial

Defining the Problem

Two Cures for Love

Faint Praise

Some More Light Verse

Differences of Opinion

Flowers

On a Train

Being Boring

Timekeeping

The Christmas Life

30th December

Spared

If I Don’t Know

Tulips

Haiku

Haiku: Looking Out of the Back Bedroom Window

The Month of May

Leaving

 

A Nursery Rhyme (as it might have been written by William Wordsworth)

A Nursery Rhyme (as it might have been written by T. S. Eliot)

Waste Land Limericks

A Policeman’s Lot

Budgie Finds His Voice

Uisce Beatha

The Lavatory Attendant

Duffa Rex

God and the Jolly Bored Bog-Mouse

Strugnell’s Sonnets (i, iv, vii)

Strugnell’s Haiku

Reading Berryman’s Dream Songs at the Writers’ Retreat

Reading Scheme

Proverbial Ballade

Exchange of Letters

Stress

An Attempt at Unrhymed Verse

Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis

 

Sonnet of ’68

An Anniversary Poem

How to Deal with the Press

A Hampshire Disaster

Greek Island Triolets (2, 3)

Limerick

The Stickleback Song

Traditional Prize County Pigs

Kindness to Animals

 

Notes

About the Author

Copyright