Chapters (148)
- Cover
- Title page
- Dedication
- Introduction
- From Perceptions of the Pen (1985)
- Well ‘I’
- Mother
- Ain’t No
- Scream
- So Near and yet So Near
- As Is Life
- From Tender Fingers in a Clenched Fist (1988)
- African Metaphor
- Listening
- Nursery Rhyme
- Some Quotes from Neatherton Man found in Deepest England Somewhere between 1974 and 1980
- Negotiations
- Englabetween
- What Have We Got
- Moods of Rain
- Wasita
- Sing a Song of Sick Penance
- The Black Writers’ Workshop
- Understanding Difference
- The Day Will Come
- The Invasion of the Mancunoids
- The Red Death of Edgar Allan Poe
- Trying Me
- Dead Wood Poetry
- Fell Off and Fell Out
- Bad Trip – L.S.D.
- Burn My Book (Burn In Illusion)
- Tense Tattered Tortured Tried Tested and Torn
- Mother Thatcher
- Today Will Pass
- Spell Bound
- Gold from the Stone
- Everything Is Rhythmical
- Sleep Is a Songbird
- Director’s Notes (For the Daily Shun and Daily Killer)
- She Read as She Cradled
- City Sigh
- Spell Me Freedom
- Interim and Cost
- Ace Under My Sleeve
- Traces
- The Show Goes On
- From Rebel without Applause (1992)
- Bearing Witness
- Remember How We Forgot
- Fingerprints
- Occupations
- Boiling Up
- Instant Consciousness
- Airmail to a Dictionary
- The Customs Men
- Mind-Walking
- For My Headstone
- Love Poem
- Flowers in the Kitchen
- Suitcases and Muddy Parks
- The Nest
- Pass It On
- Going Places
- Gil Scott-Heron
- Godsell
- Flushed
- I Hate You
- Professional Black
- Pretoria Pit
- Uncle Tom and the 1990s
- Clear as Day Storms
- My Brother
- Children and Company
- Writer’s Blockocks
- The Black Moon
- Brinkley Park
- Rage
- From Morning Breaks in the Elevator (1999)
- The Waitress and the Nights of the Round Table
- Colour Blind
- Charlie’s Playing Blackjack
- Invisible Kisses
- Slipping
- Murdering Bill
- Immigration R.S.V.P.
- Fair
- The Repossession: Lot 67
- Baptism in Mire
- Controlled Explosions
- Children’s Home
- Walking in Circles
- My Dad Is a Pilot
- Guilt
- Sandwich Love
- The Elevator
- A Flock of Sound
- The Graduate and Her Secret Thesis
- The Bruise
- Quiet Places
- Mourning Breaks
- From Listener (2008)
- Let There Be Peace
- Rain
- The Actor’s Voice
- Patterns
- Laying the Table
- Perfect
- Gambian Holiday Maker
- Listener
- Ricochet
- Elephant in the Room
- Architecture
- Moving Mountains
- Manchester Piccadilly
- Some Things I Like
- The Lost Key
- **** This
- Magpie
- Before We Get Into This
- Advice for the Living
- The Battle of Adwa, 1896
- The Gilt of Cain
- Applecart Art
- I Will Not Speak Ill of the Dead
- Transistor
- This Train (Sing Along)
- Spring: Mayday Mayday
- Barley Field
- The Boxer
- Torch
- New Poems
- What If
- Whale Translation
- The Spark Catchers
- Shipping Good
- Open Up
- Night Mails
- Lock and Quay
- Listening Post
- Fallen
- Belong
- Rest
- Adventure Flight
- Endnotes
- Index of Titles
- Index of First Lines
Director’s Notes (For the Daily Shun and Daily Killer) ref1
Elephant in the Room ref1
Email ref1
Englabetween ref1
Everything Is Rhythmical ref1
Fair ref1
Fallen ref1
Fell Off and Fell Out ref1
Fingerprints ref1
Flowers in the Kitchen ref1
Flushed ref1
For My Headstone ref1
Gambian Holiday Maker ref1
Gil Scott-Heron ref1
Godsell ref1
Going Places ref1
Gold from the Stone ref1
Guilt ref1
I Hate You ref1
I Will Not Speak Ill of the Dead ref1
Immigration R.S.V.P. ref1
Instant Consciousness ref1
Interim and Cost ref1
Invisible Kisses ref1
Laying the Table ref1
Let There Be Peace ref1
Listener ref1
Listening ref1
Listening Post ref1
Lock and Quay ref1
Love Poem ref1
Magpie ref1
Manchester Piccadilly ref1
Mind-Walking ref1
Moods of Rain ref1
Mother ref1
Mother Thatcher ref1
Mourning Breaks ref1
Moving Mountains ref1
Murdering Bill ref1
My Brother ref1
My Dad Is a Pilot ref1
Negotiations ref1
Night Mails ref1
Nursery Rhyme ref1
Occupations ref1
Open Up ref1
Pass It On ref1
Patterns ref1
Perfect ref1
Pretoria Pit ref1
Professional Black ref1
Quiet Places ref1
Rage ref1
Rain ref1
Remember How We Forgot ref1
Rest ref1
Ricochet ref1
Sandwich Love ref1
Scream ref1
She Read as She Cradled ref1
Shipping Good ref1
Sing a Song of Sick Penance ref1
Sleep Is a Songbird ref1
Slipping ref1
So Near and yet So Near ref1
Some Quotes from Neatherton Man found in Deepest England Somewhere between 1974 and 1980 ref1
Some Things I Like ref1
Spell Bound ref1
Spell Me Freedom ref1
Spring: Mayday Mayday ref1
Suitcases and Muddy Parks ref1
Tense Tattered Tortured Tried Tested and Torn ref1
The Actor’s Voice ref1
The Battle of Adwa, 1896 ref1
The Black Moon ref1
The Black Writers’ Workshop ref1
The Boxer ref1
The Bruise ref1
The Customs Men ref1
The Day Will Come ref1
The Elevator ref1
The Gilt of Cain ref1
The Graduate and Her Secret Thesis ref1
The Invasion of the Mancunoids ref1
The Lost Key ref1
The Nest ref1
The Red Death of Edgar Allan Poe ref1
The Repossession: Lot ref1 ref2
The Show Goes On ref1
The Spark Catchers ref1
The Waitress and the Nights of the Round Table ref1
This Train (Sing Along) ref1
Today Will Pass ref1
Torch ref1
Traces ref1
Transistor ref1
Trying Me ref1
Uncle Tom and the 1990s ref1
Understanding Difference ref1
Walking in Circles ref1
Wasita ref1
Well ‘I’ ref1
Whale Translation ref1
What Have We Got ref1
What If ref1
Writer’s Blockocks ref1
Index of First Lines
Index of First Lines
**** this, **** all that ref1
2. Have ref1
A girl clasped by the sinews of vicious storms ref1
A lost number in the equation, ref1
A man shot a man who was a father, ref1
A stray sunshot caught ref1
Ain’t no clothes to wear, no ref1
Airwaves transmit, vocals translate, ref1
All the same. ref1
And if you were the evaporating tears ref1
Another ref1
As the pastor dragged the ‘forgiven’ ref1