Collected Poems
Published on 30. May 2013
320 pages
978-1-84777-965-6 (ISBN)
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Edwin Morgan 'catches in full sight' in his lyric epiphanies, in the focus and refocus of sequences, the wily relocation of words in concrete poems, the weird rhythms of sound poems. His transforming imagination is democratic, generous and inclusive. Even the sonnet form becomes a new experiment for a poet of questing and anarchic vision, unwilling to rest on rules.
'More than the work of most poets,' writes lain Crichton Smith, Morgan's poetry 'welcomes the twentieth century, with its gadgets, its paradoxes, graffiti, new languages, torn advertisements, unconscious jokes, voyages...' This volume includes Poems of Thirty Years, Themes on a Variation, and some fifty uncollected poems from 1939 to 1982.
'More than the work of most poets,' writes lain Crichton Smith, Morgan's poetry 'welcomes the twentieth century, with its gadgets, its paradoxes, graffiti, new languages, torn advertisements, unconscious jokes, voyages...' This volume includes Poems of Thirty Years, Themes on a Variation, and some fifty uncollected poems from 1939 to 1982.
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Edwin Morgan is a poet with experience of laureateship: he was made Glasgow's first poet laureate in the autumn of 1999. Born in that city in 1920, Morgan's work is often considered alongside that of other Scottish Modernists such as Norman MacCaig, George Makay Brown, Iain Crichton Smith and Sorley MacLean.What kind of a poet is he? A hard question to answer with simplicity, because his interests and techniques, over the years have been remarkably varied.
His Collected Poems, published by Carcanet in 1990, shows the range and scope of his work. In the 1960s he began to experiment with Concrete Poetry, where the typographic style, visual effect or the sound of the poem is as important as the words that make up the verse, the best known examples are probably 'The Computer's First Christmas Card' which begins:
Jollymerry
hollyberry
jollyberry
And The Loch Ness Monster's Song?
Sssnnwhufffll?
Hnwhufflhhnnwfl hnfl hfl?
His interest in technology can be seen in volumes such as Instamatic Poems (1972) and From the Video Box (1986); both books address the interaction between the word, the image and the intermediaries we can use to convey those words and images.
He was in the vanguard of Scots who began to address their urban landscape; his volume From Glasgow to Saturn appeared in 1973, eight years before Alasdair Gray's emblematic novel, Lanark. His experimentalism comes out of the solid ground of an understanding of poetic tradtion and form. He has written sonnets; he has imagined Lord Byron in the old age that the poet never reached; he has written librettos for opera and performed with the jazz saxophonist Tommy Smith.
Not for nothing, it would seem, is the Centre for Creative Writing at the Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde named after him. Not only has he translated poetry out of many languages - Russian, Hungraian, French, Italian, Portuguese, to name a few - his translations of classics into Scots have won him high praise; his version of Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac appeared in 1992; his Phedre, after Racine, in 2000.
One might reasonably ask whether the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom as a whole, Andrew Motion, need feel threatened by this appointment; certainly, it's true to say - and the poet himself would be the last to deny it - that Motion's work is rooted in a particularly English (rather than British) tradition. His critical work has focused on writers such as Philip Larkin and John Keats; the writers he most admires, he has said, are: Wordsworth, Edward Thomas and Larkin. Does this mean a narrow gaze? Not necessarily. It's worth nothing that it was as true of his most recent predecessors, Ted Hughes and John Betjeman. Art is strengthened by particularity and attention to detail; to range widely for the sheer sake of 'inclusiveness', would not necessarily be a virtue.
This appointment may be just another sign of devolution, but it is certainly a sign that there is room, in the literary and cultural landscape, for many voices. What does a Poet Laureate do? He or she addresses the nation through poetry; and speaks on behalf of poetry too. That there should be more powerful voices raised on behalf of art and what art can do for all of us, is surely no bad thing.
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Edwin Morgan (1920-2010) was born in Glasgow. He served with the RAMC in the Middle East during World War II. He became lecturer in English at the University of Glasgow, where he had studied, and retired as titular Professor in 1980. He was Glasgow's first Poet Laureate and from 2004 until 2010 served as Scotland's first Makar, or National Poet. He was made an OBE in 1982 and received the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2000. A Book of Lives (2007) won the Scottish Arts Council Sundial Book of the Year. Carcanet has published most of his work, including his Collected Poems, Collected Translations, plays such as A.D.: A Trilogy of Plays on the Life of Jesus Christ and The Play of Gilgamesh and his translations of Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac and Racine's Phaedra.
The Edwin Morgan Trust and partners will be celebrating Edwin Morgan's 100th year in 2020 - 2021.Commencing on Edwin Morgan's birthday, April 27, 2020 and continuing until April 2021. For more information on #edwinmorgan100, of their biannual Edwin Morgan Poetry Award and Translation Exchanges please visit their website.
The Edwin Morgan Trust and partners will be celebrating Edwin Morgan's 100th year in 2020 - 2021.Commencing on Edwin Morgan's birthday, April 27, 2020 and continuing until April 2021. For more information on #edwinmorgan100, of their biannual Edwin Morgan Poetry Award and Translation Exchanges please visit their website.
Content
Preface
Prologue: Sculpture
Dies Irae (1952)
Dies Irae
Stanzas of the Jeopardy
'What waves have beaten...'
A Warning of Waters at Evening
The Sleights of Darkness
The Sleights of Time
Sleight-of-Morals
Harrowing Heaven, 1924
From the Anglo-Saxon:
The Ruin
The Seafarer
The Wanderer
Riddles: Swallows; Swan; Bookworm; Storm
From the Middle English:
The Grave
The Vision of Cathkin Braes (1952)
The Vision of Cathkin Braes
A Courtly Overture
Ingram Lake or, Five Acts on the House
A Snib for the Nones
Verses for a Christmas Card
A Song of the Petrel
The Cape of Good Hope (1955)
The Cape of Good Hope
The Whittrick: a Poem in Eight Dialogues (1961; first published as a whole, 1973)
from Newspoems (1965-1971)
Notice in Hell
Notice in Heaven
Sick Man
Charon's Song
Forgetful Duck
Moebius's Bed
Come In Old Cock
Idyll
New English Riddles: 1
Advice to a Corkscrew
Unpublished Poems by Creeley: 2
Visual soundpoem
from Emergent Poems (1967)
Plea
Dialeck Piece
Nightmare
Manifesto
from Gnomes (1968)
Strawberry Fields Forever
Archives
Astrodome
The Computer's Second Christmas Card
The Second Life (1968)
The Old Man and the Sea
The Death of Marilyn Monroe
Je ne regrette rien
The Domes of St Sophia
The White Rhinoceros
The Third Day of the Wolf
Aberdeen Train
The Opening of the Forth Road Bridge
To Hugh MacDiarmid
To Ian Hamilton Finlay
An Addition to the Family
Canedolia
Starryveldt
Message Clear
Bees' Nest
French Persian Cats Having a Ball
Orgy
To Joan Eardley
Linoleum Chocolate
Good Friday
The Starlings in George Square
King Billy
Glasgow Green
The Suspect
In the Snack-bar
Trio
Pomander
Summer Haiku
Siesta of a Hungarian Snake
Boats and Places
Seven Headlines
The Computer's First Christmas Card
Opening the Cage
The Chaffinch Map of Scotland
The Second Life
The Sheaf
The Unspoken
From a City Balcony
When you go
Strawberries
The Witness
One Cigarette
The Picnic
Absence
Without It
The Welcome
O Pioneers!
Construction for I. K. Brunel
Unscrambling the Waves at Goonhilly
The Tower of Pisa
Spacepoem 1: From Laika to Gagarin
Chinese Cat
Islands
In Sobieski's Shield
From the Domain of Arnheim
For the International Poetry Incarnation
What is 'Paradise Lost' really about?
The Ages
A View of Things
from Penguin Modern Poets 15 (1969)
The Flowers of Scotland
The Horseman's Word (1970)
Arabian Nights Magic Horse
Clydesdale
Newmarket
Centaur
Eohippus
Kelpie
Hrimfaxi
Zane's
Hortobagy
Elegy
from Instamatic Poems (1972)
GLASGOW 5 MARCH 1971
('With a ragged diamond')
GLASGOW 5 MARCH 1971
('Quickly the magistrate')
NICE 5 MARCH 1971
CHICAGO MAY 1971
GERMANY DECEMBER 1970
NIGERIA UNDATED REPORTED OCTOBER 1971
LEATHERHEAD SURREY SEPTEMBER 1971
AVIEMORE INVERNESSSHIRE AUGUST 1971
MOUGINS PROVENCE SEPTEMBER 1971
VENICE APRIL 1971
LONDON JUNE 1970
ROCKALL INVERNESSSHIRE JUNE 1972
ELLINGHAM SUFFOLK JANUARY 1972
LANCASHIRE NOVEMBER 1971
WASHINGTON SEPTEMBER 1971
TRANSLUNAR SPACE MARCH 1972
BANGAON INDIA JULY 1971
GLASGOW OCTOBER 1971
BRADFORD JUNE 1972
CAMPOBASSO ITALY UNDATED REPORTED MARCH 1971
LONDON NOVEMBER 1971
('At the Festival of Islam')
GLASGOW NOVEMBER 1971
('It is a fine thronged...')
GLASGOW NOVEMBER 1971
('The "speckled pipe" of the MacCrimmons')
MILAN UNDATED REPORTED OCTOBER 1971
From Glasgow to Saturn (1973)
Columba's Song
Floating off to Timor
In Glasgow
Kierkegaard's Song
Tropic
Shantyman
Oban Girl
The Woman
The Apple's Song
Drift
Fado
After the Party
At the Television Set
From the North
The Milk-cart
Estranged
For Bonfires i-iii
Blue Toboggans
Song of the Child
Lord Jim's Ghost's Tiger Poem
Flakes
Hyena
The Loch Ness Monster's Song
The Mill
London:
I St James's Park
II Soho
III The Post Office Tower
Interferences: a sequence of 9 poems
Che
The Fifth Gospel
Afterwards
The Gourds
Last Message
Frontier Story
The Barrow: a dialogue
Thoughts of a Module
The First Men on Mercury
Spacepoem 3: Off Course
A Too Hot Summer
Itinerary
Boxers
Letters of Mr Lonelyhearts
A Jar Revisited
Pleasures of a Technological University
The Computer's First Dialect Poems
I The Furze Kidder's Bating (Northamptonshire)
II The Birkie and the Howdie (Lowland Scots)
The Computer's First Code Poem
Not Playing the Game
Rider i-v
Guy Fawkes Moon
Saturday Night
Death in Duke Street
Christmas Eve
Stobhill
Glasgow Sonnets i-x
The New Divan (1977)
The New Divan
Memories of Earth
Space Sonnet & Polyfilla
Polyfilla
Pictures Floating from the World
The Reversals
Twilight of a Tyranny
The World
A Girl
Three Trees
On John MacLean
Vico's Song
Sir Henry Morgan's Song
Shaker Shaken
Levi-Strauss at the Lie-Detector
Wittgenstein on Egdon Heath
Ten Theatre Poems
Five Poems on Film Directors
School's Out
Adventures of the Anti-sage
The Divide
Smoke
The Beginning
The Planets
The Question
Resurrections
Unfinished Poems
Star Gate: Science Fiction Poems (1979)
INSTAMATIC THE MOON FEBRUARY 1973
The Worlds
Particle Poems i-vi
Era
Foundation
A Home in Space
The Mouth
The Clone Poem
The Moons of Jupiter
Amalthea, Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto
Uncollected Poems (1976-1981)
The Rock
The Mummy
Five Waiting Poems
Instructions to an Actor
The Archaeopteryx's Song
A Good Year for Death
Migraine Attack
At Central Station
Winter
New Year Sonnets i-x
Surrealism Revisited
Interview
Ore
Stele
Gorgon
Fountain
Book
Mt. Caucasus
On the Water
Moving House
Home on the Range
On the Needle's Point
In the Bottle
Jordanstone Sonnets i-iii
Caliban Falls Asleep in the Isle Full of Noises
Iran
The Coals
On the Train i-iii
A Riddle
A Pair of Cats
Little Blue Blue
Eve and Adam
Grendel
Tarkovsky in Glasgow
Jack London in Heaven
Cinquevalli
Sonnets from Scotland (1984)
Slate
Carboniferous
Post-Glacial
In Argyll
The Ring of Brodgar
Silva Caledonia
Pilate at Fortingall
The Mirror
The Picts
Colloquy in Glaschu
Memento
Matthew Paris
At Stirling Castle, 1507
Thomas Young, M.A. (St Andrews)
Lady Grange on St Kilda
Theory of the Earth
Poe in Glasgow
De Quincey in Glasgow
Peter Guthrie Tait, Topologist
G.M. Hopkins in Glasgow
1893
The Ticket
North Africa
Caledonian Antisyzygy
Travellers (1)
Travellers (2)
Seferis on Eigg
Matt McGinn
Post-Referendum
Gangs
After a Death
Not the Burrell Collection
1983
A Place of Many Waters
The Poet in the City
The Norn (1)
The Norn (2)
The Target
After Fallout
The Age of Heracleum
Computer Error: Neutron Strike
Inward Bound
The Desert
The Coin
The Solway Canal
A Scottish Japanese Print
Outward Bound
On Jupiter
Clydegrad
A Golden Age
The Summons
from Selected Poems (1985)
Night Pillion
from The Dictionary of Tea
Cook in Hawaii
The Break-In
An Alphabet of Goddesses
From the Video Box (1986)
from Themes on a Variation (1988)
The Dowser
Variations on Omar Khayyam
Stanzas
The Room
Dear man, my love goes out in waves
Waking on a Dark Morning
The Gurney
The Bench
Nineteen Kinds of Barley
A Trace of Wings
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
A Bobbed Sonnet for Code Cobber
The Computer's First Birthday Card
Byron at Sixty-Five
Shakespeare: a Reconstruction
To the Queen: a Reconstruction
Chillon: a Reconstruction
True Ease in Writing: a Reconstruction
On Time: a Reconstruction
Not Marble: a Reconstruction
Halley's Comet
The Gorbals Mosque
Rules for Dwarf-Throwing
The Bear
Save the Whale Ball
Dom Raja
The Change
Vereshchagin's Barrow
Uncollected Poems (1949-1982)
'The Triumph of Life': a conclusion to Shelley's Poem
Making a Poem
Dogs round a Tree
Instant Theatre Go Home
A Child's Coat of Many Colours
The Fleas
Warning Poem
The Moment of Death
Blues and Peal: Concrete 1969
By the Fire
The Furies
Trilobites
An Arran Death
Heron
Blackbirds
Blackbird Marigolds
The Blackbird
The Dolphin's Song
Northern Nocturnal
The Glasgow Subway Poems
The Budgie
The Cat
The Giraffe
The Piranhas
By the Preaching of the Word
The Han Princess
From Cathkin Braes: a View of Korea
Friendly Village
Black and Gold
Hunger
Spell
Chicago North Side
The Demolishers
The Morning
A New Book by Wittgenstein
The Little White Rows of Scotland
The Day the Sea Spoke
Found Poem: the Executioner
Found Poems
My Uncle
My Dog
My Greenhouse
Found Poem: Glasgow
Found Poem: the Awakening
Found Poems
Small Holdings
Rough Neuk Quarry and Pond
Sta' o'Stable
Evandale Glow-worms at Night
Dunbar Highway at Night
'Jock Tamson's Bairns' at Dawn
Gowrie in the Gloamin'
Epilogue: Seven Decades
Index of Titles
Index of First Lines
Prologue: Sculpture
Dies Irae (1952)
Dies Irae
Stanzas of the Jeopardy
'What waves have beaten...'
A Warning of Waters at Evening
The Sleights of Darkness
The Sleights of Time
Sleight-of-Morals
Harrowing Heaven, 1924
From the Anglo-Saxon:
The Ruin
The Seafarer
The Wanderer
Riddles: Swallows; Swan; Bookworm; Storm
From the Middle English:
The Grave
The Vision of Cathkin Braes (1952)
The Vision of Cathkin Braes
A Courtly Overture
Ingram Lake or, Five Acts on the House
A Snib for the Nones
Verses for a Christmas Card
A Song of the Petrel
The Cape of Good Hope (1955)
The Cape of Good Hope
The Whittrick: a Poem in Eight Dialogues (1961; first published as a whole, 1973)
from Newspoems (1965-1971)
Notice in Hell
Notice in Heaven
Sick Man
Charon's Song
Forgetful Duck
Moebius's Bed
Come In Old Cock
Idyll
New English Riddles: 1
Advice to a Corkscrew
Unpublished Poems by Creeley: 2
Visual soundpoem
from Emergent Poems (1967)
Plea
Dialeck Piece
Nightmare
Manifesto
from Gnomes (1968)
Strawberry Fields Forever
Archives
Astrodome
The Computer's Second Christmas Card
The Second Life (1968)
The Old Man and the Sea
The Death of Marilyn Monroe
Je ne regrette rien
The Domes of St Sophia
The White Rhinoceros
The Third Day of the Wolf
Aberdeen Train
The Opening of the Forth Road Bridge
To Hugh MacDiarmid
To Ian Hamilton Finlay
An Addition to the Family
Canedolia
Starryveldt
Message Clear
Bees' Nest
French Persian Cats Having a Ball
Orgy
To Joan Eardley
Linoleum Chocolate
Good Friday
The Starlings in George Square
King Billy
Glasgow Green
The Suspect
In the Snack-bar
Trio
Pomander
Summer Haiku
Siesta of a Hungarian Snake
Boats and Places
Seven Headlines
The Computer's First Christmas Card
Opening the Cage
The Chaffinch Map of Scotland
The Second Life
The Sheaf
The Unspoken
From a City Balcony
When you go
Strawberries
The Witness
One Cigarette
The Picnic
Absence
Without It
The Welcome
O Pioneers!
Construction for I. K. Brunel
Unscrambling the Waves at Goonhilly
The Tower of Pisa
Spacepoem 1: From Laika to Gagarin
Chinese Cat
Islands
In Sobieski's Shield
From the Domain of Arnheim
For the International Poetry Incarnation
What is 'Paradise Lost' really about?
The Ages
A View of Things
from Penguin Modern Poets 15 (1969)
The Flowers of Scotland
The Horseman's Word (1970)
Arabian Nights Magic Horse
Clydesdale
Newmarket
Centaur
Eohippus
Kelpie
Hrimfaxi
Zane's
Hortobagy
Elegy
from Instamatic Poems (1972)
GLASGOW 5 MARCH 1971
('With a ragged diamond')
GLASGOW 5 MARCH 1971
('Quickly the magistrate')
NICE 5 MARCH 1971
CHICAGO MAY 1971
GERMANY DECEMBER 1970
NIGERIA UNDATED REPORTED OCTOBER 1971
LEATHERHEAD SURREY SEPTEMBER 1971
AVIEMORE INVERNESSSHIRE AUGUST 1971
MOUGINS PROVENCE SEPTEMBER 1971
VENICE APRIL 1971
LONDON JUNE 1970
ROCKALL INVERNESSSHIRE JUNE 1972
ELLINGHAM SUFFOLK JANUARY 1972
LANCASHIRE NOVEMBER 1971
WASHINGTON SEPTEMBER 1971
TRANSLUNAR SPACE MARCH 1972
BANGAON INDIA JULY 1971
GLASGOW OCTOBER 1971
BRADFORD JUNE 1972
CAMPOBASSO ITALY UNDATED REPORTED MARCH 1971
LONDON NOVEMBER 1971
('At the Festival of Islam')
GLASGOW NOVEMBER 1971
('It is a fine thronged...')
GLASGOW NOVEMBER 1971
('The "speckled pipe" of the MacCrimmons')
MILAN UNDATED REPORTED OCTOBER 1971
From Glasgow to Saturn (1973)
Columba's Song
Floating off to Timor
In Glasgow
Kierkegaard's Song
Tropic
Shantyman
Oban Girl
The Woman
The Apple's Song
Drift
Fado
After the Party
At the Television Set
From the North
The Milk-cart
Estranged
For Bonfires i-iii
Blue Toboggans
Song of the Child
Lord Jim's Ghost's Tiger Poem
Flakes
Hyena
The Loch Ness Monster's Song
The Mill
London:
I St James's Park
II Soho
III The Post Office Tower
Interferences: a sequence of 9 poems
Che
The Fifth Gospel
Afterwards
The Gourds
Last Message
Frontier Story
The Barrow: a dialogue
Thoughts of a Module
The First Men on Mercury
Spacepoem 3: Off Course
A Too Hot Summer
Itinerary
Boxers
Letters of Mr Lonelyhearts
A Jar Revisited
Pleasures of a Technological University
The Computer's First Dialect Poems
I The Furze Kidder's Bating (Northamptonshire)
II The Birkie and the Howdie (Lowland Scots)
The Computer's First Code Poem
Not Playing the Game
Rider i-v
Guy Fawkes Moon
Saturday Night
Death in Duke Street
Christmas Eve
Stobhill
Glasgow Sonnets i-x
The New Divan (1977)
The New Divan
Memories of Earth
Space Sonnet & Polyfilla
Polyfilla
Pictures Floating from the World
The Reversals
Twilight of a Tyranny
The World
A Girl
Three Trees
On John MacLean
Vico's Song
Sir Henry Morgan's Song
Shaker Shaken
Levi-Strauss at the Lie-Detector
Wittgenstein on Egdon Heath
Ten Theatre Poems
Five Poems on Film Directors
School's Out
Adventures of the Anti-sage
The Divide
Smoke
The Beginning
The Planets
The Question
Resurrections
Unfinished Poems
Star Gate: Science Fiction Poems (1979)
INSTAMATIC THE MOON FEBRUARY 1973
The Worlds
Particle Poems i-vi
Era
Foundation
A Home in Space
The Mouth
The Clone Poem
The Moons of Jupiter
Amalthea, Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto
Uncollected Poems (1976-1981)
The Rock
The Mummy
Five Waiting Poems
Instructions to an Actor
The Archaeopteryx's Song
A Good Year for Death
Migraine Attack
At Central Station
Winter
New Year Sonnets i-x
Surrealism Revisited
Interview
Ore
Stele
Gorgon
Fountain
Book
Mt. Caucasus
On the Water
Moving House
Home on the Range
On the Needle's Point
In the Bottle
Jordanstone Sonnets i-iii
Caliban Falls Asleep in the Isle Full of Noises
Iran
The Coals
On the Train i-iii
A Riddle
A Pair of Cats
Little Blue Blue
Eve and Adam
Grendel
Tarkovsky in Glasgow
Jack London in Heaven
Cinquevalli
Sonnets from Scotland (1984)
Slate
Carboniferous
Post-Glacial
In Argyll
The Ring of Brodgar
Silva Caledonia
Pilate at Fortingall
The Mirror
The Picts
Colloquy in Glaschu
Memento
Matthew Paris
At Stirling Castle, 1507
Thomas Young, M.A. (St Andrews)
Lady Grange on St Kilda
Theory of the Earth
Poe in Glasgow
De Quincey in Glasgow
Peter Guthrie Tait, Topologist
G.M. Hopkins in Glasgow
1893
The Ticket
North Africa
Caledonian Antisyzygy
Travellers (1)
Travellers (2)
Seferis on Eigg
Matt McGinn
Post-Referendum
Gangs
After a Death
Not the Burrell Collection
1983
A Place of Many Waters
The Poet in the City
The Norn (1)
The Norn (2)
The Target
After Fallout
The Age of Heracleum
Computer Error: Neutron Strike
Inward Bound
The Desert
The Coin
The Solway Canal
A Scottish Japanese Print
Outward Bound
On Jupiter
Clydegrad
A Golden Age
The Summons
from Selected Poems (1985)
Night Pillion
from The Dictionary of Tea
Cook in Hawaii
The Break-In
An Alphabet of Goddesses
From the Video Box (1986)
from Themes on a Variation (1988)
The Dowser
Variations on Omar Khayyam
Stanzas
The Room
Dear man, my love goes out in waves
Waking on a Dark Morning
The Gurney
The Bench
Nineteen Kinds of Barley
A Trace of Wings
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
A Bobbed Sonnet for Code Cobber
The Computer's First Birthday Card
Byron at Sixty-Five
Shakespeare: a Reconstruction
To the Queen: a Reconstruction
Chillon: a Reconstruction
True Ease in Writing: a Reconstruction
On Time: a Reconstruction
Not Marble: a Reconstruction
Halley's Comet
The Gorbals Mosque
Rules for Dwarf-Throwing
The Bear
Save the Whale Ball
Dom Raja
The Change
Vereshchagin's Barrow
Uncollected Poems (1949-1982)
'The Triumph of Life': a conclusion to Shelley's Poem
Making a Poem
Dogs round a Tree
Instant Theatre Go Home
A Child's Coat of Many Colours
The Fleas
Warning Poem
The Moment of Death
Blues and Peal: Concrete 1969
By the Fire
The Furies
Trilobites
An Arran Death
Heron
Blackbirds
Blackbird Marigolds
The Blackbird
The Dolphin's Song
Northern Nocturnal
The Glasgow Subway Poems
The Budgie
The Cat
The Giraffe
The Piranhas
By the Preaching of the Word
The Han Princess
From Cathkin Braes: a View of Korea
Friendly Village
Black and Gold
Hunger
Spell
Chicago North Side
The Demolishers
The Morning
A New Book by Wittgenstein
The Little White Rows of Scotland
The Day the Sea Spoke
Found Poem: the Executioner
Found Poems
My Uncle
My Dog
My Greenhouse
Found Poem: Glasgow
Found Poem: the Awakening
Found Poems
Small Holdings
Rough Neuk Quarry and Pond
Sta' o'Stable
Evandale Glow-worms at Night
Dunbar Highway at Night
'Jock Tamson's Bairns' at Dawn
Gowrie in the Gloamin'
Epilogue: Seven Decades
Index of Titles
Index of First Lines
