Desperado Poetry
Subtitle: A Selection of Contemporary British Verse
Publisher: Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Bucharest, Romania
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 487
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: LIDIA VIANU: DESPERADO POETRY; title: DANNIE ABSE; title: The Moment; title: Return to Cardiff; title: Red Balloon; title: A Night Out; title: Not Adlestrop; title: Two Small Stones; title: Portrait of the Artist As a Middle-Aged Man; title: A New Diary; title: The Case; title: Miracles; title: The Silence of Tudor Evans; title: Cousin Sidney; title: A Winter Visit; title: The Doctor; title: X-Ray; title: Pantomime Diseases; title: Of ltzig and His Dog; title: Jottings 1; title: Jottings 2; title: Imitations; title: Joke; title: Phew!; title: In The Pelican; title: The Message; title: PETER ACKROYD; title: among school children; title: This beautiful fruit . . .; title: on the third...; title: madness. . .; title: opening ...; title: you do the best...; title: Foolish Tears; title: The great Sun ...; title: It was no longer ...; title: there are so ...; title: FLEUR ADCOCK; title: Knife-play; title: Incident; title: Unexpected Visit; title: For Andrew; title: Miss Hamilton in London; title: Composition for Words and Paint; title: Hauntings; title: Advice to a Discarded Lover; title: A Game; title: Afterwards; title: Grandma; title: Stewart Island; title: Tokens; title: Glenshane; title: Accidental; title: Send-off; title: Poem Ended by a Death; title: The Soho Hospital for Women; title: House-talk; title: The Chiffonier; title: The Keepsake; title: Loving Hitler; title: The Telephone Call; title: Excavations; title: Kissing; title: Double-take; title: Last Song; title: Counting; title: Libya; title: From the Demolition Zone; title: Romania; title: Smokers for Celibacy; title: The Video; title: A Visiting Angel; title: It's Done This!; title: Goodbye; title: JEAN BLEAKNEY; title: By Starlight on Narin Strand; title: Confessions of a Gardener; title: Ménage à Trois; title: The Physiscs of a Marriage; title: Every Little Helps; title: Afterwards; title: Backspin; title: Dangerous Driving; title: Why?; title: On Going without Saying; title: ALAN BROWNJOHN; title: ‘In this city...’; title: Peter Daines at a Party; title: Ballad for a Birthday; title: The Packet; title: White Night; title: Palindrome; title: Ruse; title: The Leap; title: A Witness; title: What She Required; title: Sonnet at Sixty-Four; title: CATHERINE BYRON; title: Adrift; title: Night Flight to Belfast; title: There Is No Way Home; title: By Ampney Crucis; title: Disappearance; title: Let-Down; title: After Propertius I.xix; title: Coco de Mer; title: Allowing the Animal; title: JULIA COPUS; title: Little Red-Cap; title: one day my heart turned bad; title: Child; title: Hymn to All the Men I'll Never Love; title: Widower; title: Conversation at One Metre (60 dB); title: Empty Shoes; title: In Defence of Adultery; title: Atrphy; title: Possibility; title: PETER DALE; title: The Rites; title: Retrospect; title: Vigil; title: Recognition; title: Answer; title: Visitation; title: Lullaby; title: Wishful; title: Poste Restante; title: Soliloquy of an Elderly Child-Minder; title: Face; title: Pact; title: Return; title: Voice Over; title: Stop Over; title: Envoy; title: MICHAEL DONAGHY; title: The Present; title: Cadenza; title: A Disaster; title: Inheritance; title: Liverpool; title: L; title: A Repertoire; title: Theodora, Theodora; title: The Excuse; title: 5:00/5:10/5:15; title: The Drop; title: The River in Spate; title: Annie; title: April 28th, 1940; title: MAURA DOOLEY; title: What Every Woman Should Carry; title: Night Driving; title: Pathetic Magic; title: Walking; title: N3/N6; title: Office; title: No, Go On; title: Drought; title: Flood; title: And I'll Get Back to You As Soon As I Can; title: Backwards into Wakefield Westgate; title: Up on the Roof; title: The Celestial Announcer; title: Gone; title: Biting Point; title: Mirror; title: The Playground; title: NICK DRAKE; title: Icons; title: The Man in the White Suit; title: Mystery Train; title: IAN DUHIG; title: The Lady Who Loved Insects; title: I’r Hen Iaith A'i Chaneuon; title: Come the Morning; title: Sam Goldfish; title: For Your Eyes Only; title: Chocolate Soldier; title: Jungle; title: RUTH FAINLIGHT; title: Sleep-Learning; title: Wide-Eyed; title: Two Blue Dresses; title: A Fairy Story; title: Vertical; title: The Other; title: The Fall; title: Burnt Paper; title: Other Rooms; title: My Position in the History of the Twentieth Century; title: The Cumaean Sibyl II; title: The Hebrew Sibyl; title: Introspection of a Sibyl; title: Trees; title: Deadheading the Roses; title: Childhood; title: It Must; title: Divination by Hair; title: Again; title: Animal Tamer; title: My Rings; title: Questions; title: Usually Dry-Eyed; title: The Distant View; title: Another Variation; title: To Break This Silence; title: Passenger; title: Here; title: Stubborn; title: Observations of the Tower Block; title: Author! Author!; title: Handbag; title: War Time; title: The Storm; title: In Memoriam H.P.F.; title: Archive Film Material; title: Spring in the City; title: The Music; title: Judgement at Marble Arch; title: August; title: Blossom and Technology; title: Keeper; title: Learning about Him; title: The Crescent; title: The Dead Sea; title: String; title: The Restlessness of Sunset; title: That Presence; title: The Poet –; title: The Author; title: Until You Read It; title: Lineage; title: Reflection; title: The Problem; title: Friends' Photos; title: Silly; title: Whatever; title: Chained Angel; title: Woodman; title: Ephemeral Lives; title: Thankful; title: Sunday Afternoon; title: The English Country Cottage; title: My Mother's Eyes; title: Those Days; title: Stranger; title: U.A. FANTHORPE; title: Casehistory: Alison (head injury); title: After Visiting Hours; title: Not My Best Side; title: Sisyphus; title: Half-term; title: Father in the Railway Buffet; title: The Unprofessionals; title: Painter and Poet; title: ROY FISHER; title: The Host; title: The Poetry of Place; title: They Come Home; title: Envoi; title: DAVID HARSENT; title: Dawn Walk; title: Home Movies; title: After Dark; title: Myth; title: Homecoming; title: Encounter; title: Zoological Museum; title: Dogfight; title: SELIMA HILL; title: My Sister and I Visit the Zoo; title: My Sister and I Finally Arrive at the Hospital; title: My Sister and I in the Lift; title: My Sister's Secret Rule; title: My Sister's Sister; title: Giant Cows; title: I Am Hers and She Is Mine; title: Please Can I Have a Man; title: The Fish Hospital; title: Red Cows; title: My Happiest Day; title: My Private Sky; title: I Know I Ought to Love You; title: Being Single; title: Chocolate Sardines; title: The World's Entire Wasp Population; title: Your Thumbs; title: Your Face; title: I Want a Lover; title: Your Blue Shirt; title: Your New Shoes; title: Home; title: Terrace Gardens; title: Taffeta; title: Running; title: Portrait of My Lover as a Flower Arrangement; title: Portrait of My Lover as a Great Dane; title: Portrait of My Lover as a Gun; title: Portrait of My Lover as a Hook; title: Portrait of My Lover as a Seraph; title: Portrait of My Lover as My Ex-Lover; title: KATLEEN JAMIE; title: Poem for a Departing Mountaineer; title: Risk; title: The Latter-day Noah; title: China for Lovers; title: Rooms; title: Prayer; title: Flower-sellers, Budapest; title: Song of Sunday; title: Suitcases; title: ALAN JENKINS; title: Crab; title: Imagine My Mother Dancing; title: Ties; title: Keep-Net; title: Nocturne; title: Moths; title: Aubade; title: Inheritance; title: Diary; title: Launderette: Her last Nightdress; title: MIMI KHALVATI; title: Family Footnotes; title: Blue Moon; title: No Matter; title: A Thank-You Letter; title: Christmas Greetings ii, iv; title: Whittington Hospital, March 1990; title: The Promenade; title: ENTRIES ON LIGHT:; title: Sunday. I woke; title: This book is a seagull whose wings; title: With finest needles; title: Moons come in all the colours; title: Why not mention the purple flower; title: They go right through you, smells.; title: When space is at its emptiest; title: Curling her tail; title: Staring up from his pram to the sky; title: All yellow has gone from the day.; title: Darling, your message on the phone; title: I'm reading with the light on; title: Air's utterly soft, back to its habitual; title: And suppose I left behind; title: My lover phones to say he's had enough of this; title: Writing Home; title: Childhood Books; title: Middle Age; title: Darling; title: The Coat; title: Just to Say; title: Song; title: Ghazal; title: MARY MICHAELS; title: Conversation; title: Candle; title: Late; title: The Square; title: Continuity; title: Unrealized; title: The Tin; title: Music; title: Sea Road; title: JOHN MOLE; title: The Cherry Tree; title: To His Love, Sleeping; title: When; title: A Different Dream; title: Stan Laurel; title: Dream Girl; title: The Present; title: The Toy Box; title: Wind-Up; title: Not About Roses; title: Going On; title: When did you start writing poetry?; title: The Cigarette; title: Simpleton; title: Grandmother's Advice; title: The Wolf-mask; title: The Loss; title: Last Look; title: TheWindbreak; title: High Summer; title: The Couples; title: Self Portrait in Middle Age; title: The Good Husband; title: The Mobile Rag; title: After Clearance; title: The Promise; title: Now; title: New Year’s Eve; title: SEAN O’BRIEN; title: Welcome, Major Poet!; title: At the Gate; title: The Eavesdroppers; title: Ravilious; title: Kanji; title: Heatwave; title: The Grammar School Ghost; title: Cities; title: Lines on Mr Porter's Birthday; title: Synopsis; title: BERNARD O’DONOGHUE; title: Ellen’s Clock; title: The Apparition; title: The State of the Nation; title: The Absent Signifier; title: The Fool in the Graveyard; title: Esprit de L'Escalier; title: Vanellus, Vanellus; title: Have the Good Word; title: Perseids; title: Stealing up; title: Staples; title: Carolling; title: The Youngest in the Class; title: Going without Saying; title: White Elephants; title: Pencil It In; title: Christmas; title: DON PATERSON; title: Heliographer; title: Seed; title: The Clearing House; title: Poem; title: 11:00: Baldovan; title: The Lover; title: Advice; title: A Memory of Childhood; title: The Eyes; title: Nothing; title: PASCALE PETIT; title: Self-Portrait with Fire Ants; title: My Father's Voice; title: The Horse Mask; title: The Sea Father; title: The Whale Father; title: The Magma Room; title: Woman-Bottle; title: PETER PORTER; title: Your Attention Please; title: A Consumer's Report; title: To Himself; title: PETER REDGROVE; title: Sweat; title: Serious Readers; title: On the Patio; title: Joy Gordon; title: Eight Parents; title: My Father’s Trapdoors; title: Esher; title: CAROL RUMENS; title: Stella; title: The Difference; title: A Moscow Wife, Waiting; title: Housewarming; title: Just as in 1914; title: The Arrival; title: Pietas; title: Pledge to the Freight Canvasser; title: Swedish Exchange; title: Portrait of God as a Creative Writing Student; title: The Omen Bird; title: Letter; title: The Fitting Room; title: Letters Back – 8. To a Young Narcissus; title: 11. To Any Poet or Would-Be Poet; title: The Turnstile; title: EVA SALZMAN; title: With Steve Ovett in Preston Park; title: Running Away from Home; title: Station-Waiting; title: Cheap Thrills; title: Forcing Flowers; title: Breakdown; title: Air Mail; title: Eden; title: Coming to Bed; title: Time Out; title: Spells; title: Remembering Before Forgetting; title: To the Enemy; title: Hand in Glove; title: FIONA SAMPSON; title: Into the Dark; title: How It Was; title: The Separation; title: Autumn Number; title: The X File; title: Drawing the Line; title: Draft for a Short Fiction; title: Fear of Drowning; title: Dear Emma; title: The Night of Loving Sleeplessly; title: The Science of Memory; title: By Your Self; title: ANNE STEVENSON; title: To My Daughter in a Red Coat; title: The Mother; title: Posted; title: The Minister; title: Temporarily in Oxford; title: After the Fall; title: Poem for a Daughter; title: Black Hole; title: Vertigo; title: Washing My Hair; title: Haunted; title: In Passing; title: MATTHEW SWEENEY; title: The Shoplifter; title: No Head; title: Cuba Street; title: A Scriptwriter’s Discipline; title: The Bats; title: The U-Boat; title: The Shadow Home; title: A Postcard of a Hanging; title: Pink Milk; title: Tube Ride to Martha’s; title: The Money Tree; title: Sugar; title: The Aunt I Never Met; title: Cacti; title: Hanging; title: Artificial Blood; title: A Boy; title: Try Biting; title: In a Field; title: The Hat; title: Ghost Story; title: Abandoned; title: Sweeney; title: GEORGE SZIRTES; title: The Coolest Room in the City; title: Soil; title: Bridge Passages V, Rain; title: Pigeon Chests and Alarm Clocks; title: Father in America; title: Iron Age Burial; title: ANTHONY THWAITE; title: Dust; title: Monologue in the Valley of the Kings; title: Simple Poem; title: Essays in Criticism; title: Imagine a City; title: The Return; title: Recreational Leave; title: Changing Ties; title: JOHN WHITWORTH; title: Drusilla; title: ...and Further Beastliness – i. The Crocodile; title: iii. The Piccadilly Toad; title: Are You Dancing? No, It's Just the Way I'm Standing; title: The First Bulletin from the Chalk Face; title: How DO They Do It?; title: Part Song for Indeterminate Voices; title: Atrabiliar; title: ’Tis But A Tale; title: Envoi; title: Poems For a Very Small Daughter, 8. A Birthday Present; title: THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PHOEBE FLOOD, Boring; title: The Gods; title: Something; title: Bibliography; title: By the same author