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Poetry M-W

Jonathan Mackenzie

Steve Mann

Donal Mahoney

Sean J. Mahoney

Robert Marsland

V. Martynovitch

Anthony Mason

 

Richie McCaffery

Michael McAlaron

Austin McCarron

 

John McKeown

 

 

 

David McLean

Joan McNerney

Charles March III

Stephen Mead

 

Joshua Meander

Nigel Mellor

Judith Mensch

Stephen Middleton

R.C. Miller

 

Ray Miller

James Mirarchi

Mark J. Mitchell

Elfriede Mollon

Adam Moorad

George Moore

Helen Moore

P.A. Morbid

 

Jim Morris

Alan Morrison

 

 

 

Keith Moul

J.B. Mulligan

Jemma Murat

Sheila E. Murphy

Jim Newcombe

James B. Nicola

Alistair Noon

Daniel North

Ashok Nyogi

Alan O'Brien

John O'Donoghue

Mary O'Dwyer

Liam O'Neill

Ruary O'Riochain

Sergio A. Ortiz

Antony Owen

Matt Panesh

Ihor Pavlyuk

Neal Pearce

J.R. Pearson

Douglas Penick

Si Philbrook

Mair De-Gare Pitt

Kenneth Pobo

Douglas Polk

Frederick Pollack

John Porter

Steve Pottinger

Frank Praeger

Gillian Prew

Alan Price

Judith Quaempts

John Quicke

Mike Quille

Terence Quinn

Sam Rapth

Angela Readman

Patrick Reen

Philippa Rees

Kevin Reid

Moss Rich

Sally Richards

Jacob Richardson

Colin Robinson

Moya Roddy

Robert Ronnow

Anick Roschi

Lisa Rossetti

Pauline Rowe

 

M. Rua-Larsen

William Ruleman

Philip Ruthen

Vanessa Sadri

Bernard Saint

Chrys Salt

Clare Saponia

Partha Sarkar

 

Kevin Saving

Gordon Scapens

 

Eduard Schmidt-Zorner

Joel Schueler

James Scully

LB Sedlacek

Anthony Seidman

John Seed

Sanjeev Sethi

Sam Silva

Ken Simpson

Fiona Sinclair

Ron Singer

George Slone

Barry Smith

Benjamin Smith

Ian C. Smith

Felino Soriano

Serena Spinello

Constance Stadler

 

Derek Stanford

Geoff Stevens

Paul Stevens

Peter Street

Ray Succre

Paul Summers

John Sweet

Hanna Szenes

Tanner

Laura Taylor

Barry Tebb

 

Kalyani Thakur

Michael Thorne

 

Michael Tinarwo

Angela Topping

David Trame

David Trippas

Chris G.

Vaillancourt

 

Carrie Viens

Jane Shay Wald

William Walters

Christian Ward

J.S. Watts

Alan Weadick

D.H. Wheatley

Lee Whensley

Julie Whitby

Lynn White

Petra Whiteley

Daniel Wilcox

 

Ben Willems

Brenda Williams

Gwilym Williams

Richard Wink

Doog Wood

Phil Wood

Abi Wyatt

MichaelWyndham

Downtrodden; NEW: Return to Eden

world mental health; true friendship; Zymotic Capitalism; Sunday nineteen; Uncle Herod's Best; 3 Words

Caseworker Takes Notes; Griggs' Bar and Grill; NEW: A Critic  Comes To Dinner

For a moment this afternoon; NEW: A Tangle of Mangroves

Buzzard; Sun and Rose

The Builder of Corrals; Sargent; Nobel

On the Subject of the Stars; Ephemerealms; Black Snow; If Shadows Could Bruise; Silent Movie in Black and White

Dad

turning; bittersweet; the night's laughter; NEW: Wound

Immigration; The Hypnotist; Great War Poem; NEW: The Torturer, Now Captive; In the Name of London; Soup Kitchen

Long-Term Relationships; The Spirit of Dublin; An Irish Funeral; Suburbia; Waitress in Cafe Imperial, Prague; The Hundred Years Sex War; Backbone of the Nation; Dodging the Virgin; Keeping Up; NEW: The Wild Sea; Not Working; Consanguinity; Silver Birch; The Straits; Florescence

when words shut up

Wintry Bouquet; December; Blue your eyes

NEW: A Human Furnace

Wrapping; I Sent a Letter to My Love; Paris Windmills; Vessel of Light; Figura Rerum; NEW:

Your Suicide; Father & Son

Pagan Mass; Cry, Baby

The re-burial of Lord Haw Haw; At Times Like Spain; Opposition; Clouds; Interrogation

Assessment; I Closed Up the Summer Porch Today; Untitled #6

Panic in the Desert, 2013 (for Albert)

A Different War; Taxidermy for the Sportsman; Weird Flashlights in the Deer Feed; Thomas Edison Service Area; Their Pools

Analgesia; Donkey Jacket;  NEW: Gone to the Country

The Animator; NEW: Syringes

Remembering the Sixties; Dialectic

There Was A War; Recondite Scourge; NEW: Autistic Innocence

silo; chinese dry-wall

Two Lives; Map of the High Byang Sang, Tibet; Crossing into Afghanistan

Hedge Fund; capitalism, a sonnet

Street Life; Netherfields, Sunday 8th of April 2007; Dark in a bright place: Albert Park; A walk with my brother England; Identification; Haiku; My Friend; The Life of a Smackhead; Dole Day; EnCounter; Tempestuous Times; The Town Intellectual; NEW: Strange Meeting

Rats, Cats and Kings; Where Banshees Brought Me; Few Never Envy; My Life in the Shade; Tales of the Empty Larder; The Recusants; Wood Panel Parliament; Four Acrostics; Digger Hinges; Two Gloucestershire Mauves; Poem for Jeremy Corbyn; Light Shining in Lanarkshire

Consider It All; 3$ Bill; Elder Prerogative; NEW: Olympic Discovery Trail Monday Questions; Forest Disciple Stripped  The Beak Penetrates; Midwesterner as Tourist; Las Vegas, Refuge

for a Christian Nation; Reconstruction, a Conversation; NEW: A Story of Pseudo-Factual Distractions; Colorless Night Pressing without Demand 

death of a monster; summa humanitis; from far away; parade of the victims;

on rotting vines; NEW: the only good Muslim is a Good Muslim; public use of reason; most of the war over war

Broken Water

NEW: from Ghazals for 2023 76/ 77/ 78/ 79

NEW: The Rise of Leviathan

But Poetry is Metal Work, in Fine; The Sheath; Twilight is the Meetest; Heraclitus; Marmorata; In Defense of Dorothy Parker; Rhyme #2: The Thing About Rhyme; New Age; NEW: Please Don't; On “ethnic cleansing”; Lament; Band Aids

from “station / street”

Doing It For Charity

Mizmaze

NEW: Labour Estranged 2010

London Sundays; NEW: The Padre's Prayer

Fear of Birds; Music in the Nursing Home; Clouds; Balloon; A Storm in a Tea-Pot

NEW: The Railings of Government Buildings

South of Spain; Terminal Oil Choice; Quetzaltenango; Force Feeding

Hard Shove into the Void

NEW: Afghan hospitality; Afghanistan

St George

The Old Water Flows (Стара Вода); The Word Is Not An Apple (Слово — Не Яблуко...); Wolf Berries (Вовчі Ягоди); from Polyissa: Chronicler (Літописець), At Home Again (Знову Вдома)

Bridget; Circle; Last Thursday it was

NEW: Drop

NEW: Blanqui Unknowing Loss

Memory of Me; a different beauty

NEW: Crimson Lady; Italian Retrospective; Blodeuwedd

Myself Starring in Bergman’s Cries and Whispers

Devotions; NEW: The Game

Billionaire; The Liberal; The Forest; NEW: Thesis; Results May Vary

NEW: My eyes; Sleepers; Dissolving; Dry heat; Baby walking

NEW: Enough

Inches Away; Larger Issues; A Thousand Years End; The Welter of the Fragmentary; A Summer's Rage; A Tad Too Far; Gated Neighborhoods & ID Checks; Antique or Junk; Slight Inclines; Never So Incisive; Getting It Right; Start Over; Slackening But Not Impatient; Time Slots; Acceptance; Rhetoric for the Ordinary; Crickets, Robins and Flies; For All Those Whom Gustav Klimt Painted: Adele Bloch-Bauer I, Emilie Floge, Mada Primavesi, Fritza Riedler, Unnamed Models, Et Al.; However Desperate No Longer Quiet; And a Fitful Wind; NEW: Indolent Interlude

mobile canto; remember red; momentum

Three Views of Old Baltic Prisons; Sacrifice; Communion; Film Poems; NEW: Enid; Jessie; Dorothy; Edith; Miss X

Beyond This Point Lie Demons; Good Catholic Girl–Circa 1950; Teaching Demons to Sing

Sand; Above Beauchief Abbey; The Citadel; Jazz at the Alcazar; NEW: Keller in Hollywood

NEW: People; Occupy the Churches; I Am Chavez

New Model Poetry

NEW: The Words

Closing Time; Plastering; Portraiture; Margaret; NEW: The Day the Letters Burnt

Of the Windswept Umbrella

Squatter; The Market

Madam Oil

Memories and Greeting Cards

just how it is; Abandoned: Mogolinio Children’s Institute, Bulgaria; Emperor Dragonfly; Dandelion; All good things...; The Bigger Issue; Mount wood pond; Midnight Refugee; A glass or two at the weekend; A Change of Perspective; NEW: Spring at Hopesay; Edison

NEW: Quantitatively Eased

Sandgropers

NEW: The Girls on my Street

NEW: Numerous Blue Notes

Clandestine; Homage to Aung San Suu Kyi: Orchid; Capital Ground; Vaccines; Kevin Heaton; NEW: Stones

NEW: Sand Dog; Surplus; Sophie; The Youngest Son; Housewife 49 Revisited; The Haul

Modern Love

And Every Breath A Test

NEW: For The Kings of This World.../ Die Könige der Welt sind alt... (Rilke); The Outlier; Lines Written In Spain’s Baza National Park; A Success of Sorts; Rage Against Those Who Sow Despair; One Who Can No Longer Play The Game

Parity - NHS; NEW: Election Day; Tour de Grace

NEW: Fog of reality

Marcus Aurelius on the Poetry Reading; A Piercing; Horace Ode Xxv Flip-Gendered; Marcus Aurelius in Luton Airport Meditates; NEW: Petronius; An Urban Myth; Café In The Quarter; A 'House'; Marcus Aurelius Arrested

NEW: Lost; The Shadow Knows; What can a poem do at times like these?

A Market for Adhesives; for England; The Uneventful; the pacifist Pacifist; Illegal Illness; Finger-Mouse; Waste Disposal; Tahrir – Before the Tambourines

I do not wish such victory; The atonement; The digital consideration; NEW: Three-fourths

of the sins; Cumulative sins for the century

Dog Otter; Ex-Patriot; Gordon Brown; Death of a Hedgehog; Autumnal; Headland; Directions; False Spring; No Equinimity; Six Epigrams; Walking in a Pinter Hinterland; Baby Blues Ballad; Public Safety Announcement; This Is Not Depression; Lonely Guy; Pro Patria; Rejection Villanelle; NEW: Blair Acrostic; Sonnet for Lost Innocence

All That Jazz; Summing It All Up; My Thoughts Are So Loud; Reaching The End; Checklist;
A Simple Man;
Racial Prejudice; Counting Nightmares; Helpline to the Gods; My Cremation;

NEW: Explaining Progress; Fading Away; She Will Never Be Less; Ukraine Conflict

NEW: Bergen Belsen; Drowned in the Danube; During the Blitz

NEW: Finding Form

NEW: All That Is Solid

The Headache Room

Two Allegiances; The Trilobite

NEW: in time of “the breaking of nations”

NEW: Knockabout; Ballot; Terigiversation; Marginalia; Lifeblood

Judas as the Silver Messiah; In the Lonely Winter of This Strange Nation; The Voices of Christian Men Out There; Quick Mart Evangelicals; For All the May Day Fools; Beneath the Sacred Marble; Children of a Different Yule; Waking Up to Haiti; Song Of The Private First Class; Unto the Third Generation; Jesus Dies on a Park Bench Somewhere; A Different Kind of Judgement; What the Shy Coward Thinks of Evening; The Educated Spirit; In A Building Where Appointments Are Made; China; Muses of Infinity; The Litter of the Abandoned; Modern Melodies in China; For All of Our Soft Drink Nihilisms; The Virgin Plans Her Abortion; The New American Century; The Anexoric Christian; The Art and All of its Glory; The Romantics; All of These Too Young Crosses; A Symphony for the New World; MONEY; Illness; Things Becoming Academic; On the Safer Side of Madness; Valuing the Soul; The Music of the Soul; Words As A Strange Religion; Dream Land; Like a Tired Child at the Circus; Two Things That Never Change; Lovers; Whitman's Babylon; End of a New South Story; Crosses Made of Plastic; At the Charity Lunch; Three Haiku For The Lonely; The Rise and Fall of Lonely Men; Prelude To An Oriental Caesar; During My Wild Twenties; The Holocaust of the Many; NEW: Finally Looking Eastward; NEW: Children of An Evil Calling; The Plague

NEW: Anger; The Cost of Constant War

NEW: Satan spends Sunday at a boot sale; Clothed in Memories; Sheffield Steel

NEW: Sabaoth, Lord of Hosts

NEW: Capitalist University; Apostate; A Teaching Philosophy; Mind-Blowing

NEW: Strictly X-factor: The Return of Dirty Den

NEW: Mouth; Fluoxetine Visions; Pond-life; Fish Supper by the Fire; Silk City

NEW: Spirit of Progress; When as a boy; The things we did for money

Painters' Exhalations 21 and 22; NEW: Painters' Exhalations 128, 129 and 131

Recreant Ruler

washing machine; The Slam; Dendrochronology; Connotative Parlay; NEW: Insomniac; Ymdaith

Fields of Knowledge

Home Help; Bugbear: the lost age of the folding pushchair; NEW: Merry Isthmus

The suicide bomber who loved me; Gargoyle

Sheep Inheritance; Selected War Poems

Vigor

hamstrung; haven; ourobor; NEW: fish quay fugues i, ii & iii; the age of mediocrity

NEW: among the crippled and without grace; Noyes

NEW: The Spark (tr. Thomas Ország-Land)

NEW: when-; we're hiring!

NEW: Right Hand/ Wrong Ink

My First Poem in Three Years; The Vandal; Measures of Science; Reflections on Local Election Day 2014; NEW: Brenda Williams; Your Dying; NEW: Years; The Divine Pity

NEW: Poem number: 33

An Evening on the Roof in Fez; And Suddenly Alone; The Suspect; The Deepest Void;

The End of Necessity; Innocence; On Seeing the Unedited Footage of War; NEW: The July Sun; My Other Eye; The Museum of Antiquities; LoversCorniche (Cairo)

NEW: A Ruthless Man; Running from Homelands

Trapped; Atlantic Whale Fishing; In His Eyes; NEW: First Married Christmas 1933

Heaven

NEW: It's days like these, you sign on all year for; A country pub back garden

Outside World and Freedom; Tiny Apple; A Certain Surrender; Boxes; Reaching; Aries Ram; Trees Swaying and Swishing Like Plastic Glasses; Smog; NEW: This Nonsense I Began; The Woman Ticking Her Own Clock; Dangling; Trains; Changing of the Guard

Urban Scenery; Dusseldorf

NEW: En Route to Buenos Aires; Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires

NEW: But Woe Unto You Who Are Rich

Rebirth In The Age Of ID Cards; Anthem for Obedient Youth; The Conservative Poets

NEW: Go the Way of Democracy; Ellipsis

NEW: The Workshop

NEW: Desecration (empty pages)

Capitalism

Mute Darkness (i.m. Derek Stanford); The Colours That You Bring; "The Big Issue"; An Oriental Eye; Rotting Fabrics; Holy Rose; Lights

NEW: Gaza in Fall; Ground Force Gaza

The Hours; Communion Switch; Eyes in the ground; The Blackout; NEW: Ars Gratia Artis; Rainsticking

Shell Casings; The Dog's Bite; NEW: a few blasphemies; The Winged Ones; Black Light; Concerning this 500th Anniversary Of John Calvin And his Tongues of Fire

NEW: In Area C

NEW: Words towards an Obituary for Poetry; Untitled; The Closed Door

On the Feldherrenhalle Steps; Attending a Poetry Reading 

Kizza Me; Poker; During the Recession

from Old Men Forget

Accidents Happen At Sainsbury's; Street Theatre; Dowd's Wharf; Pneumoconiosis; Aberfan; Rainy Day; NEW: Paying for our Heritage; Elysium

NEW: Mother Hubbard’s Lament

Harry's Firm; The Great British Ritual; Kate Sharpley; NEW: A Night In January 1991

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