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Unknown soldier
after the Unknown Soldier Monument, Munich . . . 'We have covered him with real flowers/ . . . ' from Passengers to the City, Hale & Iremonger, 1985 |
The Long Reach Out of War
An anti-war poem . . . from Passengers to the City, Hale & Iremonger, 1985 |
The Last War
1945 -- 'There was only one war, and it was finishing / any day soon . . . ' from Circus-Apprentice, Arc Publications, 2006 |
Circus-Apprentice
'I'm walking the high-wire, making my mark/ poised, balanced, don't look away -/ you are my gravity's other edge.' Circus-Apprentice, Arc Publications, 2006 |
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Hedge The forsythia hedge - 'a yellow furore, . . . tree-certainty, tree-silence.' from Circus-Apprentice Arc Publications, 2006 |
Passengers to the City Commuters . . . .'He is silent as a guard, and she/ never speaks. Are they together, some pair/ perfectly joined by silence?...' from Passengers to the City, Hale & Iremonger, 1985 |
Concerning the Fauna Concerning the Fauna - a poem from the 1960s satirising the UK tendency to see Australian culture in terms of kangaroos and koalas . . . from Passengers to the City, Hale & Iremonger, 1985 |
Distances Distances - a poem for my mother who said, 'There are many kinds of love,/ and I have lived some of them.' . . . from Passengers to the City, Hale & Iremonger, 1985 |