Poems, 1960-2000 by Adcock, Fleur -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Description Title Page Table of Contents ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS THE EYE OF THE HURRICANE

Note on Propertius Flight, with Mountains Beauty Abroad Knife-play Instructions to Vampires Incident Unexpected Visit For Andrew For a Five-Year-Old Comment Miss Hamilton in London The Man Who X-Rayed an Orange Composition for Words and Paint Regression I Ride on My High Bicycle Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow Hauntings Advice to a Discarded Lover The Water Below Think Before You Shoot The Pangolin

HIGH TIDE IN THE GARDEN

A Game Bogyman Clarendon Whatmough A Surprise in the Peninsula Purple Shining Lilies Afterwards Happy Ending Being Blind Grandma Ngauranga Gorge Hill Stewart Island On a Son Returned to New Zealand Saturday Trees Country Station The Three-toed Sloth Against Coupling Mornings After Gas

THE SCENIC ROUTE

The Bullaun Please Identify Yourself Richey The Voyage Out Train from the Hook of Holland Nelia Moa Point Briddes The Famous Traitor Script In Memoriam: James K. Baxter St John’s School Pupation The Drought Breaks Kilpeck Feverish Folie à Deux Acris Hiems December Morning Showcase Over the Edge The Net An Illustration to Dante Tokens Naxal Bodnath External Service Flying Back Near Creeslough Kilmacrenan Glenshane

THE INNER HARBOUR

Future Work Our Trip to the Federation Mr Morrison Things A Way Out Prelude Accidental A Message Proposal for a Survey Fairy-tale At the Creative Writing Course The Ex-Queen Among the Astronomers Off the Track Beaux Yeux Send-off In Focus Letter from Highgate Wood Poem Ended by a Death Having No Mind for the Same Poem Syringa Dry Spell Visited The Soho Hospital for Women Variations on a Theme of Horace A Walk in the Snow A Day in October House-talk Foreigner In the Dingle Peninsula In the Terai River The Inner Harbour Immigrant Settlers Going Back Instead of an Interview Londoner To Marilyn from London

BELOW LOUGHRIGG

Below Loughrigg Three Rainbows in One Morning Binoculars Paths Mid-point The Spirit of the Place The Vale of Grasmere Letter to Alistair Campbell Declensions Weathering Going out from Ambleside

SELECTED POEMS

In the Unicorn, Ambleside Downstream The Hillside This Ungentle Music The Ring Corrosion 4 May 1979 Madmen Shakespeare’s Hotspur Nature Table Revision Influenza Crab Eclipse On the Border The Prize-winning Poem An Emblem Piano Concerto in E Flat Major Villa Isola Bella Lantern Slides Dreaming Street Song Across the Moor Bethan and Bethany Blue Glass Mary Magdalene and the Birds

HOTSPUR

Hotspur Notes

THE INCIDENT BOOK

Uniunea Scriitorilor Leaving the Tate The Bedroom Window The Chiffonier Tadpoles For Heidi with Blue Hair The Keepsake England’s Glory The Genius of Surrey Loving Hitler Halfway Street, Sidcup St Gertrude’s, Sidcup Scalford School Salfords, Surrey Outwood On the School Bus Earlswood Scalford Again Neston Chippenham Tunbridge Wells The High Tree Drowning ‘Personal Poem’ An Epitaph Being Taken from the Place Accidents On the Land Icon Drawings The Telephone Call Excavations Pastoral Kissing Double-take Choices Street Scene, London N2 Gentlemen’s Hairdressers Post Office Demonstration Witnesses Last Song

TIME-ZONES

Counting Libya What May Happen My Father Cattle in Mist Toads Under the Lawn Wren Song Next Door Heliopsis Scabra House-martins Wildlife Turnip-heads The Batterer Roles Happiness Coupling The Greenhouse Effect The Last Moa Creosote Central Time The Breakfast Program From the Demolition Zone On the Way to the Castle Romania The Farm Aluminium A Hymn to Friendship Smokers for Celibacy Mrs Fraser’s Frenzy Meeting the Comet

LOOKING BACK

Where They Lived Framed The Russian War 227 Peel Green Road Nellie Mary Derry Moses Lambert: The Facts Samuel Joynson Amelia Barber Flames Water A Haunting The Wars Sub Sepibus Anne Welby Beanfield Ancestor to Devotee Frances At Great Hampden At Baddesley Clinton Traitors Swings and Roundabouts Peter Wentworth in Heaven Notes Tongue Sandwiches The Pilgrim Fathers Paremata Camping Bed and Breakfast Rats Stockings A Political Kiss An Apology Festschrift Offerings Danger: Swimming and Boating Prohibited Risks Blue Footprints in the Snow Summer in Bucharest Moneymore The Voices Willow Creek Giggling Trio The Video

NEW POEMS

Easter High Society For Meg A Visiting Angel It’s Done This! Kensington Gardens

Index of titles and first lines

A, B, C D, E, F G, H, I J, K, L M, N, O P, Q, R S, T, U V, W, X Y, Z

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