Wolf Tongue (30 page)

• Underneath the western starres, my heart is sore,
  295
  
• Up a Height and Raining,
  275
  
• Urals postmaster, this is your,
  43
  

• Vapour rises from the ducts and flues, ashen and feathered,
  192
  
• Viper Suck Ode,
  62
  
• Vixen Head / What Small Hands,
  54
  

• Wank-fever ran the world before I came,
  310
  
• We Are Not Stones,
  325
  
• Wedding rings & tears. You are on,
  63
  
• We Offer You One Third Off Plenitude,
  224
  
• We would sit alone in the Eagle’s Nest,
  312
  
• Whatever Madness There Is Is,
  312
  
• what would life be without Johann Boetticher,
  39
  
• When the Candles Were Lit,
  248
  
• When The Lights Went Out A Cheer Rose in the Air,
  301
  
• Wild Knitting,
  132
  
• Wing Ode,
  36
  
• Wisdom flew upon me tonight like a bat’s wing,
  190
  
• Woe, Woe, Woe,
  211
  
• Woke up this morning,
  263
  
• Wolf Tongue,
  68
  
• Wonder Pearl distemper pale, queen,
  201
  
• Wringing the Shingle,
  191
  

• Yes, I am not emitting articulate sound,
  205
  
• Your Love Is a Swarm and an Unbeguiled Swanne,
  265
  

The Boy from the Green Cabaret Tells of His Mother
(Hutchinson, 1968; McKay, New York, 1969)

The Last Bud
(Blacksuede Boot Press, 1969)

Joint Effort,
with Pete Bland (Blacksuede Boot Press, 1970)

Flames on the Beach at Viareggio
(Blacksuede Boot Press, 1970)

Our Mutual Scarlet Boulevard
(Fulcrum Press, 1971)

12 Poems and a Letter,
with Elaine Randell (Curiously Strong, 1971)

Just 22 and I Don’t Mind Dyin’: The Official Poetical Biography of Jim Morrison, Rock
Idol
(Curiously Strong, 1971; Turpin Press, 1973)

Brother Wolf
(Turret Press, 1972)

Fools Gold
(Blacksuede Boot Press, 1972)

Five Odes
(Transgravity Advertiser, 1972)

Dance Steps
(Joe Dimaggio Publications, 1972)

Six Odes
(Ted Kavanagh Books, 1973)

Fog Eye
(Ted Kavanagh Books, 1973)

Black Torch
(New London Pride Editions, 1977)

Far Cliff Babylon
(Writers’ Forum, 1978)

Odes
(Trigram Press, 1978)

Blackbird
[Book 2 of Black Torch] (Pig Press, 1980)

Starry Messenger
(Secret Books, 1980)

Colonel B
(Colin Simms, 1980)

Ranter
(Slow Dancer Press, 1985)

The Tempers of Hazard,
with Thomas A. Clark & Chris Torrance (Paladin Re/Active Anthology No.3, published
& destroyed 1993)

Hellhound Memos
(Many Press, 1993)

Pearl
(Equipage, 1995)

Zero Hero
in
etruscan reader III
(etruscan books, 1996; republished 1997) [with ‘Finnbar’s Lament’ and ‘Blackbird’]

The Book of Demons
[with
Pearl
] (Bloodaxe Books, 1997)

Pearl in the Silver Morning
(Poetical Histories no.49, Cambridge, 1999)

Postcards from Hitler
(Writers Forum, 1999)

Sweet Advocate
(Equipage, 1999)

Wolf Tongue: Selected Poems 1965-2000
(Bloodaxe Books, 2003)

Horses in Boiling Blood: MacSweeney, Apollinaire: a collaboration, a celebration
(Equipage, 2003)

Elegy for January: A Life of Thomas Chatterton,
Newcastle University Literature Lecture (Menard Press, 1970)

Your Father’s Plastic Poppy,
12 silkscreen prints with artist Roger Lunn (Goldsmiths’ College, London, 1969)

Ode to Coal,
poetry poster (South East Arts, 1978)

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