Syzygy (Around the Sun in Eighty Poems)
Out now.
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Being a collection of eighty poems from my twenty years in Oxford
(1992 - 2012)
alpha and omega
rock
and it came down to this
symbiosis
Strung out
thus do I cuckold
literary flirtation
ne te lave pas
S.T.D.
The Feline Zen Buddha of Suburbia
Rumi-nough (Coleman Barks Old Peculier remix)
A Grandfather's Blessing
Ruby Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday...
A quick ley-line
25 reasons why men should wear skirts and dresses
Hobo poet
DIY Walden Pond
Christopher Robbin's first psychotherapy session
Biblical certainty
welcome
March
An ancient pleasure
the muse returns
the first frisbee of spring
Three poets intercede
England sweet England (budget day mix)
Poem upon the 4th anniversary of disarming an F-111 fighter-bomber
Three interim legislative measures to help us along the road towards the abolition of war
The pacifist case restated
zen and the inevitable destruction of capitalism
Titled unpoem
April's clock
Platform 2
Farewell Florence Park
for the person who stole my bicycle (on my birthday)
Lunchtime recital (on full pay)
Greasing the Maypole
the night of day
Dragon Hill
Lurcher moon
One for the road
The Emperor's Same Old Clothes
tiananmen bicycles
we ain't marching any more
Inter-mammalian blessing amid the shadows of the ruins of Minster Lovell hall
(in honour of) Matthew the Cat
barefoot breakfast in the mulberry trees of Florence Park
Jerusalem (Glade remix)
God's spittle (doof doof mix)
sex & drugs & rock & roll
the mourning after pills
process schmocess
Irritable Vowel Syndrome
Cycling back from Kirtlington quarry along the Oxford Canal one early Sunday morning
all power to the allotments
(aka Happy Valley)
Mustn't grumble
bodhisattva dribble
Holy Mary
god she was
Baked Alaska
Thirsty to the well
A Father's Blessing
Sunday morning communion
One Time! (a blessing for my friends in South Africa)
Fire Water (King James Version)
Cape Wrath
Homesick Buddha Blues (Psalm 22 Authorized remix)
syzygy (Julian of Norwich remix)
Them Babylon Blues
In the commonwealth
Alvis Peace Camp
Pilgrim
The Realm of the Beggar King
Saint Sid of Corby
porkie pas?
triangular view of the end of the year
Closing Prayer
Bemused
(1992 - 2012)
alpha and omega
rock
and it came down to this
symbiosis
Strung out
thus do I cuckold
literary flirtation
ne te lave pas
S.T.D.
The Feline Zen Buddha of Suburbia
Rumi-nough (Coleman Barks Old Peculier remix)
A Grandfather's Blessing
Ruby Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday...
A quick ley-line
25 reasons why men should wear skirts and dresses
Hobo poet
DIY Walden Pond
Christopher Robbin's first psychotherapy session
Biblical certainty
welcome
March
An ancient pleasure
the muse returns
the first frisbee of spring
Three poets intercede
England sweet England (budget day mix)
Poem upon the 4th anniversary of disarming an F-111 fighter-bomber
Three interim legislative measures to help us along the road towards the abolition of war
The pacifist case restated
zen and the inevitable destruction of capitalism
Titled unpoem
April's clock
Platform 2
Farewell Florence Park
for the person who stole my bicycle (on my birthday)
Lunchtime recital (on full pay)
Greasing the Maypole
the night of day
Dragon Hill
Lurcher moon
One for the road
The Emperor's Same Old Clothes
tiananmen bicycles
we ain't marching any more
Inter-mammalian blessing amid the shadows of the ruins of Minster Lovell hall
(in honour of) Matthew the Cat
barefoot breakfast in the mulberry trees of Florence Park
Jerusalem (Glade remix)
God's spittle (doof doof mix)
sex & drugs & rock & roll
the mourning after pills
process schmocess
Irritable Vowel Syndrome
Cycling back from Kirtlington quarry along the Oxford Canal one early Sunday morning
all power to the allotments
(aka Happy Valley)
Mustn't grumble
bodhisattva dribble
Holy Mary
god she was
Baked Alaska
Thirsty to the well
A Father's Blessing
Sunday morning communion
One Time! (a blessing for my friends in South Africa)
Fire Water (King James Version)
Cape Wrath
Homesick Buddha Blues (Psalm 22 Authorized remix)
syzygy (Julian of Norwich remix)
Them Babylon Blues
In the commonwealth
Alvis Peace Camp
Pilgrim
The Realm of the Beggar King
Saint Sid of Corby
porkie pas?
triangular view of the end of the year
Closing Prayer
Bemused