
Collected Poems
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- Intro
- DESCRIPTION
- TITLE PAGE
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- CONTENTS
- ROGER GARFITT: Ken Smith: The Poet Reclining - LIFE & WORK, 1: 1938-1986
- JON GLOVER: Ken Smith: Terra to Shed - LIFE & WORK, 2: 1986-2003
- from THE PITY (1967)
- Fossil
- Grass
- Means
- Both harvests
- Family group
- Country: Keld to Reeth
- The pity
- The Humanities, Dept of Literature
- Lorca
- Translation
- Train
- Between us
- The hunter
- Water
- Europe:
- The street
- The past
- Leaving
- A fragment
- from WORK, DISTANCES / POEMS (1972)
- Poems 1967-1969
- Exiles
- Suburb
- She speaks
- The child's version
- Age
- Bitter
- The boss
- The son*
- Gravedigger*
- A good fox
- Beyond breath
- Persistent narrative
- Skull
- Somewhere else
- Old mill, Newton St Cyres
- The Amana Colonies
- Inventory/Itinerary
- Farmer
- Figures at daybreak
- Going
- L.A.
- Poem 1
- Poem 2
- The stone poems (1971)
- The stone poems*
- Death Songs / Death Dances
- Dream journeys
- From the Nahua
- On the north coast, Barnstaple
- Where winter begins
- Abandoned village
- Song for the whites
- The Sioux cleared from Minnesota
- Here
- Crying woman
- Ghost songs
- Ghost dances
- In this place
- Where did I learn such quiet
- In Pennsylvania, winter's end
- Little notes
- After a journey
- The Eli Poems
- The marsh
- The third month
- Eli's poem
- The rooming house
- His lament
- The obsession
- What was done
- The door
- Half songs, 1790*
- The Wild Turkey
- Wild Turkey One
- Wild Turkey Two
- Living in the Danelaw
- The author, a teacher of petomania, reflects on the shortcomings of his students
- The visit
- Wild Turkey Six
- Another part of his childhood
- A description of the Lichway or corpse-road across Dartmoor
- A farewell to the city of Exeter in south-west England
- In the Americas, so the tale goes
- A journey through part of western Pennsylvania
- Wild Turkey Twelve
- Wild Turkey Thirteen
- The dream
- from THE POET RECLINING: SELECTED POEMS 1962-1980 (1982)
- Wolf vision
- Hawk vision
- Remembering when he was a wolf
- Another night of muttering
- Tales of Urias the shape-shifter
- My father fading out
- Valley
- Childhood in the lowlands
- Sunk Island, that winter
- Old postcards of the river
- The swan
- Playing field observations
- The Tivoli Bar
- Federico
- Maria the thief
- Caesar Caesar
- Reports from the east
- To survive
- Bowl
- Wants
- The veterans
- Peasant
- Duck at Haldon Ponds
- Fly
- Lake
- Crocus
- From the southern river
- Winter occasions
- At the Western Beacon, the second of the songs of Urias
- Moiré effect
- Tristan Crazy (1978)
- One for sorrow
- Two for nobody
- Three: tales of the hunter
- Four, being a prayer to the western wind
- Five, which is here by the river
- Six: the wife's complaint
- Seven: when he can't sleep for thinking
- Eight. The singer
- Nine: Shorty's advice to the players
- Ten: the tale unfinished
- Fun City Winter (1977)
- A red carnation
- The town, a general description
- The stone gatherer
- By the northern sea, a farewell to one woman
- Apocrypha from the Western Kingdom
- 1 Six items heard in three locations in Leeds and Exeter
- 2 At the collège des beaux arts Escanceaster six further items imagined
- 3 Surprised again beside the river
- 4 Some unfinished movements
- 5 Old business: the drowned bride
- 6 A right curse on the enemy
- The clearing
- The clearing
- Fox Running (1980)
- Fox Running
- The Poet Reclining
- Spartan communiqué
- From the Vale of White Horse: some news
- Being the third song of Urias
- In transit
- Hunéus the shoemaker
- Operations undertaken at or near the surface
- Shallow dreaming
- Old movies
- Transcription of the crying woman
- Planting aloes
- Mouth
- Tongue
- The Ubi Sunt variations
- The poet reclining
- The night music
- Fox in October
- from BURNED BOOKS (1981)
- Recitation at the burned books
- San Quixote of the cinders
- Some notes on Perdu
- Lost letter to Didot
- A survivor
- Fragment: memo to Milto
- Nicholson's advice
- Hunter's piece
- The discovery of metal
- From Belmont, a ghetto song
- From the plain
- From the book of changes
- A note to his landlady
- Towards a coda
- Perdu: his last appearance in history
- from ABEL BAKER CHARLIE DELTA (1981)
- the pussy willow song
- without lime that is
- abel baker ashore
- supposing it's friday
- his appearance in the white hart
- remember young squire
- now there's a subject
- and as for you lot
- charlie delta adrift
- sight of the enemy
- then there's my publications
- nice one
- where francis drake did drink
- the one you got three days for in achiltibue
- charlie growing old
- no reply to that
- and finally
- from TERRA (1986)
- Hawkwood
- Colden Valley
- Roads in the north between two seas
- Commercial break: RSK Porsche
- Communiqué from desk 19
- Lilith
- Het achterhuis
- Letters from a lost uncle
- Bogart in the dumb waiter
- Three from the freak house
- 1 The Tattooed Woman
- 2 Tiger Lill
- 3 Tom Peeper
- Hatred of barbers
- The ballad of Eddie Linden at Earl's Court
- The London Poems
- After Mr Mayhew's visit
- Encounter at St Martin's
- The meridian at Greenwich
- Movies after midnight
- In Silvertown, chasing the dragon
- Beyond hope and the Lea River
- Clipper service
- Message on the machine
- Unfinished portrait
- Out West
- Leaving the Angel
- At the Barbican
- The talk at the big house
- Dosser
- Slow dancer's epitaph
- The house of the androgynes
- Of things past
- Tube talk
- Nobody's apartment
- Your friend the drifter
- Talking with God
- The window of vulnerability
- A bad day at HQ
- Drinking at Dirty Dick's
- The soldier's tale
- A case of medals
- Absolutely no selling
- The Botanic Garden Oath
- Not talking on the Circle Line
- Person to person transatlantic
- The John poems
- Ignore previous telegram
- The Olympic Year
- Aggie's advice
- The actor
- Eva's story
- Autumn with full summer
- Old Westerns
- How to get a job
- Two parts haiku
- The Russians
- The program
- At the rostrum
- The 1984 Tour of Britain
- Visiting Americans
- The previous telegram
- Message from the Basque country
- The black report
- Bonnie over the ocean
- Conditions in the west
- Nielsen's visit
- Living with the boss
- The space salesman
- Snobby Roberts' message
- Remembering the Fifties
- Graffiti in the hall of athletes
- Long distances
- The relay runner
- Disco dancing in Streatham
- To exorcise a blackbird
- Gone for gold
- Suburb city
- Departure's speech
- from WORMWOOD (1987)
- For Nicki in December
- Airport silences
- From my American period
- Fun City encore
- The rope
- Serbian letters
- A theme of razors
- The wanderer Yakob
- As it happens
- On the swings
- Wormwood
- For the lost boys, sleepless:
- in the house of green ginger
- the remembered city
- in the flats, flat voices
- Elsewhere, the same night:
- As it happens
- you owe me
- it happens
- Talking with the censor
- My father with two knives
- Towards daylight:
- The bee dance
- Cain's songs
- For the boys on the wing
- What the righteous don't know
- Bodies
- Timekeeper
- At the solstice
- The night whispers
- Carteret plage
- from THE HEART, THE BORDER (1990)
- In the Evangelical Cemetery, San Michele, Venice:
- Dorothea Extempore
- Writing in prison
- Greetings from the Winter Palace
- Jack's postcards
- The pornographer
- Figures in three landscapes
- One: Brady at Saddleworth Moor
- Two: Hungerford nights
- Three: Murder at White House Farm
- Against the grain
- Three Docklands fragments
- 1 The Enterprise Zone
- 2 Of things to come
- 3 Yuppy love
- The New Management
- Running on empty
- Imaginary confrontations
- Intercepted letters: Harry inside
- Intercepted letters: Harry on the road
- Back from Leah's country
- The spectator's terrace, Gatwick
- Then the heart
- First echo
- Braille transcripts
- The furniture game
- Epitaph for a gardener
- The annunciation
- Venetian pieces
- The Chamber of Torment
- Casanova in the room of the Inquisitors
- Sinistra
- The baron regrets
- Neapolitan interiors
- Views around the bay
- Ercolano's message
- A traveller's question
- Postscript: nunc pro tunc
- The magic of Poland
- One:
- Two, the waitresses in Old Town
- Three, the music of the Emperor
- Four, the photograph
- Monument
- Zoo Station midnight
- Katja's message:
- The Wall
- Passing through
- Chinese whisper
- After Brecht
- from TENDER TO THE QUEEN OF SPAIN (1993)
- Tender to the Queen of Spain
- Milly's end
- The other elegy
- The painter Mannfred Otto
- Jack remembering
- Brother Scratchwood
- One of Milly's gifts
- Three in a play
- Woman without a name
- Part of something else
- Later in the tea-room
- The blue time
- Accounts
- Brief encounter on the Yellowdog
- The bad news
- Film noir
- Beginning again with a line heard in the street
- Another day another dollar
- Scenes from metropolitan life
- The lives of the saints
- The maker of fakes
- Johannes from Dresden
- Insomnia 1, 2, 3
- The emigrant
- Filmclip: Leningrad, October 1935
- A survivor's memoir
- By the Master of Jakabfalva, 1480
- No reply from the East
- His epistle to the Tatars
- Poem ending in frogs
- Essential Serbo-Croat
- Lovesong for Kate Adie
- The fat man's movie
- Task 17
- Task 18: The unmasking procedure
- Positive identification
- The Chicken Variations
- Her mirror
- The road to Henrietta's house
- In praise of vodka
- The carpenter's confession
- The man who ran away from the circus
- Interrogating the egg-timer
- Unaccompanied singing
- from WILD ROOT (1998)
- Eddie's Other Lives
- Absent
- Country music
- Chief
- When that cop come
- Joy #1
- In the next street
- Joy #2
- Poem to which the answer is no
- More stick
- Joy #3
- Joy #4
- The geography of clouds
- East of here, west of here
- Noises off
- Joy #5
- Speech
- A dream of disaster
- Dead trousers
- The theft
- Joy #6
- The telephone is in the key of C
- Before the Lisbon Tribunal
- Poem without a title
- Part of the crowd that day
- With a name like Spratt
- Suspicion of reporters
- White noise
- Body Cakes
- Archive footage
- First and last, Alderney
- Poem for translation
- For Julia, 1910-1996
- Looking for the constant
- No one
- Countryside Around Dixton Manor, circa 1715
- The Great Hat Project
- Go tell the honey ant
- Columbus to Isabella
- Days on Dog Hill
- Here
- Night at the Blind Beggar
- The gracenote
- Narrow Road, Deep North
- Blue Prague: the worst you can say in Czech
- Journey without maps
- 1 Night train
- 2 September distance
- 3 What Feri said
- 4 Glimpse
- 5 Flatlands
- 6 Closed border, Slavonia
- 7 TV in the East
- 8 Waking in Heroes' Park
- Moscow dogs
- Georgia, Georgia
- Hungarian quartets
- The night anywhere
- Sándor the poet
- Misi's song
- Dmitri's song
- The Shadow of God
- Wire through the heart
- Where the scythe has been
- Signed sealed & delivered
- The Secret Police
- Intermezzo, Sub-Carpathia, May 97
- In any case
- Hucul
- Heaven's dust
- Border theatre
- Malenki robot
- SHED (2001)
- Trillium
- The Millennium near Barking
- The other shadow
- The land of Cockaigne
- South
- Paperwork for the Consul
- Little lost poem
- Bodega de carne
- From Lorca
- Coda: Montezuma's Revenge
- The Watch
- El Pacifico
- The wife's sister
- So be it
- Midnight Angst
- Asleep
- The story so far
- Reflections, shaving
- The neighbour
- The shed in question
- After the storm
- Mail from the Campania
- The afternoon
- Midday, Anna
- Interim
- Evening primrose
- Wall dreams
- Transit
- Thé dansant
- Fast forward
- Just one of you
- The Donegal Liar
- YOU AGAIN (2004)
- Late night call
- Ancient Lights
- You again
- The 72 virgins question
- Bin Laden is Ken Smith
- From semtex to anthrax
- The Ring
- Almost
- IM Izet Sarajlic
- Everything, almost
- Begins like this
- Nema problema
- Nightbird
- Listening
- Split interlude at deadmouse.com
- Night coming
- Things
- Seafarer
- On the other hand
- Old man's advice
- For Jan Morris
- A night of many dreams
- Almost not a sonnet
- I rest my case
- Poverty's prayer
- The white chair
- APPENDICES
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- COLLECTED POEMS
- INDEX OF TITLES & SUB-TITLES
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
- COPYRIGHT
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