SOME OF MY POETRY...
- to you, gran, upon your eightieth birthday (4/03)
- The Shock and Awe Song (3/03)
- Centrelink (12/02)
I
wrote this while I was meant to be watching the video called 'Now You're
Unemployed'.
- The Truth About Auden (11/02)
Reading
a bio about Auden, I was inspired to write another poem about him - see the
earlier tribute in 'The Modernists'
- Some poems from 2001
I
clumped these together for no good reason. But similar themes
emerge.
- Break-up (12/00)
Hopefully
one can see development in the persona. Also, these are completely
imaginary, of course.
- The Modernists (5/00)
This
is what doing poetry with Professor Frodsham inspired me to - some of my 'smart[ars]est'
work. See Auden's poem 'In Memory of W.B. Yeats' to fully understand 'In
Memory of W.H. Auden'. 'What the raindrops said' is a rewriting of T.S.
Eliot's 'What the thunder said', the final part of 'The Waste-Land'.
This trilogy of mine is to be published by Studio.
- 2000 Fragments (1/00)
My
take on the millennium. I don't know if it works or not.
- Watching American Beauty (2/00)
I
gave up law because of this film.
- Humility (2/00)
...and
my first day of theology was like this! A coming down.
- SCHEDULES (4/00)
A
manifesto that I am very fond of.
- Lost Highway (12/99)
I
think this is the best poem I have ever written. Published by
Studio. The title and the poem owe a lot to the David Lynch film.
- This love was beauty and beauty is loss (10/99)
And
this is the second best. A troubled time, but it brought me some inspired
moments.