Tom Raworth was born in London in 1938. During the 1970s he lived and worked in the US and Mexico. Since 1966 he has published more than forty books and pamphlets of poetry, prose and translations. He lives with his wife, Val, in Sussex. Miles Champion was born in Nottingham in 1968. He has published three books and several pamphlets of poetry, along with How I Became a Painter, a book-length illustrated interview with the English artist Trevor Winkfield. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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ContentsAcknowledgements xiiiIntroduction xviiA Note on the Selection xxviiiYou Were Wearing Blue 1Wedding Day 2Waiting 3But I Don' Love 4Morning 6Three 6The Blown Agent 7Ah the Poetry of Miss Parrot's Feet Demonstratingthe Tango 7Hot Day at the Races 8North Africa Breakdown 9You've Ruined My Evening/You've Ruined My Life 10Now the Pink Stripes 11Collapsible 11Love Poem 12These Are Not Catastrophes I Went Out of My Way toLook For 14Gitanes 15Tom Tom 16The Explosive Harpoon 17The University of Essex 18Going to the Zoo 20How Can You Throw It All Away on This Ragtime? 20Lion Lion 21Lemures 21South America 22Come Back, Come Back, O Glittering and White! 23On the Third Floor and a Half 23Claudette Colbert by Billy Wilder 24The Moon Upoon the Waters 25Purely Personal 26Notes of the Song/Ain't Gonna Stay in This Town Long 26Entry 27Blue Pig 27Lie Still Lie Still 28You Can't Get Out 28Stag Skull Mounted 29Greetings from Your Little Comrade 36Moonshine 36Taxonomy 37The Auction of Olson's Head 37Logbook 38Continued (Subtitles) 48Dreaming 50Friday 52Births of Images and Deaths 54In the Beginning Was the Word, and the Word Was withGod, and the Word Was God 55Art Is the Final Correction 56Rather a Few Mistakes than Fucking Boredom 57Drop in Existence 58Just Out of the Picture 58How to Patronise a Poem 59Tracking (notes) 62Faces Change and Changes Face Us 69True Confessions (notes) 71Songs of the Depression 75Gaslight 76Love and Pieces 78Wandering 79Bounce 80Patch Patch Patch 81Future Models May Have Infra-red Sensors 82Mirror Mirror on the Wheel 84Belt 85Chicago 85University Days 85Uncertain Steps 86From Time to Time in the Past 87Mixed 87xEverything 'Under' the Sun 88No Peace/Black Holes/Earth Cracks 88Laid Waste by the Luftwaffe 89The Ethical Artist 89Infinite Variety Stales 90New Year 90Cap 91Into the Wild Blue Yonder 91Boomerang 92Doctor Mends 92Not a Step Do I Stir until That Cat's Back to Its Colour 93A Blue Vacuum Cleaner 93The Beckoning Harpoon 93Out Takes 94Dormitory Life 97There Are Few People Who Put On Any Clothes(starring it) 98The Conscience of a Conservative 106Perpetual Motion 113Horse Power 118Variations on Horse Power 124Message Bottle 126Piety 132Skiey 132Never Mind 133Hearing 133The Dresden Codex 134Well 134Gracious Living "Tara" 135Eurode 136I Am Specious, Herr Kommandant 138A Silver Bullet Made from a Crucifix 138Everything I Have Is Yours 139Magnetic Water 140Lenin's Minutemen 141Pratheoryctice 142Proust from the Bottom Up 143Mordant Fleas 144Rome by Anonymous 145xiSleep, Perch 145Indian Giver 146The West 147No Idea at All 147English Opium 148August 1st 1982 148Electronic Atmospheres 149West Wind 150Descriptive Verse 171Creaking 171from Curtains 172Nothing 176The Vein 177All Fours 187Coal Grass Blood Night Emerald 190Dark Senses 192Out of a Sudden 195Death to a Star 196Unable to Create Carrier 200Cat Van Cat 201Landscaping the Future 202Suffering from Painful Trapped Mood 204Baggage Claim 206Never Entered Mind 208Caller 209Birthday Poem 223Seesound 224From Mountains and Gardens 226I Wasn't Before 227Title Forgotten 227Got On 228Stilled Motion Epitaph 236Asyndeton 236Surfing the Permafrost through Methane Flares 237Index of Titles 241Index of First Lines 245xii