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Alastair Aisgill
James Aitchison
R.A. Allen
CB Anderson
Miggy Angel
A. Arcamone-Makinano
Leah Armistead
Keith Armstrong
Sebastian Barker
Andrew Barnes
Christopher Barnes
Rudy Baron
Richard Barrett
Brian Beamish
Gary Beck
Larry Beckett
Tim Beech
Sandy Benitez
Stefanie Bennett
Mike Berger
Jerome Berglund
Luis C Berriozabal
David Betteridge
Farid Bitar
Mircea Boboc
Patrick Bolger
Jan Bradley
Peter Branson
Ian Britton
Adrian Brown
Leon Brown
Michael D. Brown
Michael H. Brownstein
Nick Burbridge
David Butler
J.P. Celia
William Leo Coakley
Ken Champion
S. Chandramohan
Yuan Changming
Keith Chopping
Richard Copeland
Bernadette Cremin
Chris Crittenden
Andy Croft
Elaine Cusack
Alessandro Cusimano
Lexie Cracknell
Amir Darwish
Arjun Dahal
Tatjana Debeljacki
Francis Devine
José Hernández Díaz
Jude Dillon
Rani Drew
Olfa Drid
Stephen Philip Druce
Peter Dudink
Alan Dunnett
EGJ
Justin Ehrlich
Neil Ellman
Roger Ettenfield
György Faludy
Colleen M. Farrelly
Neil Fawcett
M.V. Feehan
Michael Fenton
Jim Ferguson
Chris Firth
R.G. Foster
James Fountain
Naomi Foyle
David Francis
Simon Freedman
Alex Galper
Jeremy Ganem
Sarah Gonnet
Joseph Goosey
Maria Gornell
Catherine Graham
Simon Haines
Anthony Hitchin
Clare Hill
Nigel Holt
Phil Howard
A.J. Huffman
Kathryn Jacobs
Colin James
Tom Jayston
Paul Jeffcutt
Spencer Jeffery
Kevin N. Jelf
Mike Jenkins
Simon Jenner
Dennis Joe
Antony Johae
Fred Johnston
Helen Jones
Nicky Jones
Strider Marcus Jones
Norman Jope
Dina Kafiris
Peycho Kanev
Laura Kayne
Rose Kelleher
Tom Kelly
Stephen Kingsnorth
Mark Kirkbride
George Korolog
Olecksandr Korotko
Karl Koweski
Craig Kurtz
David LaBounty
Thomas Ország-Land
Dorina Brândusa Landén
Roberta Lawson
Richard Layton
Michael Lee Johnson
Household Ghosts; Their Names; Behind the Waterfall
A Small Service; Take a Deep Breath; NEW: Spend It; Ain't Gonna Study Peace No More
Devillish Interruption of Mass; Short; Cafe 18
In The Hospice; Sectioned: Hospital Poems; The Welshman Singing Alone in Town
Splinters; A Prayer for the Loners; In the Department of Poetry; Marsden Rock; 55 Degrees North; Tell Me Lies about Northumberland; Peterlee; Sounds In The Night; Naked; Wallace's Right Arm; So Don't Come To My Funeral; Poem for a Local Historian; Folk Song for Thomas Spence; An Oubliette for Kitty; Fat Man Lodged On Dog Leap Stairs; For 'Cuny'; NEW: Museum of the History of the Revolution Moncada Barracks; Cuba, Crocodiles, Rain; Image of Che Guevara; A Prayer for the Loners; For Edward Elliot of Earsdon (1800-1867); For Joe Skipsey: The Pitman Poet of Percy Main (1832-1903); The Bird Woman Of Whitley Bay; My Friend Jack Common (1903-1968); Wallington Morning; Stella of Rose Street; The Golden Room; Folk Song for Thomas Spence; In the Department of Poetry; Outside Your Lonely Window; Lament For A Writer Dead; Fat Man Lodged On Dog Leap Stairs; Friends of the Graves; Hexham Riot 1761; William Blake in the Bridge Hotel
NEW: Cherophobia*; Vocal
from The Electric Chair Poems: Penalty; Death Power; Skin and Bones; High-Rise Frolics; Black Widow ™ Lipstick; Greenwich ™ Perfumes; Hatchful Ranges ™ Deliver; To Bethany Hun; Naturally, Mr. Ainsley Worth; Five Poems; “Putting You Through Now, Caller.” (35); TOWNSCAPE 41; TOWNSCAPE 42
Seymour; Popcorn; I don't like; Lines; NEW: FRAGMENTS 41, 42, 43, 44; DEAREST 41, 42, 43, 44
Lost in the Land of Plenty; NEW: Bitter Lesson
NEW: Boston; Trenton; Harriet Tubman; Jornada del Muerto
The Praise Singer; Blackthorn; Goss Moor; The Wood of the Suicides; The Ontological Argument; Kierkegaard; 25th June 1998
Waiting Room at the OB-GYN Clinic
The Soft Domestic Economy; Dear Reader; The Foreign Affair; After Jeff Wayne’s ‘Forever Autumn’
Tattered Child; Tears; NEW: Madrigal
Six Haikus; NEW: (‘Tesselation’ — String/Gunsaku)
Lost in the Dream; I Will Not Take Tylenol; The Hideous Humans
NEW: from Flight and Fall
NEW: Unexplained misery
NEW: Zombie Apocalypse
NEW: Evidence
Immortal; Untitled; To The Cloud Juggler
Red Shift; Cappuccino Smile; Errwood; Home Ground; Red Hill; On Red Hill; El Compañero; Poems 'n' Pints; Lethal Cargo; The Late Abortionist; CITY; CELEBRITY; Aftermath; Brotherhood; Roaring Meg; Enduring Freedom; The Force Be With You; First Signs; Dear Jane; Is Anybody Listening?; On Red Hill (2); Extraordinary Rendition; The Poet Speaks; Consumer Rant; Comic Cuts Bin Laden; For Tony Benn; September 15th 2011; "Lions Afters Slumber"; Senghenydd; Streetwise; Specials; The Deserted Village; This Life; Turn, Turn, Turn; Which Side Are You On?
Reading Baudelaire on Sunday; Tango Dancers; Today's Recipe; Alien Existence; The Cicadas of 2004; Listening to Roy Buchanan's Peter Gunn; Blackbirds; Footprints; For Salvadore Allende And Pablo Neruda; NEW: No Way Out
NEW: The Poster
Levy-tation; Chac-Mool; from The Ram in the Thicket
The Captive's Refrain; Perspective; Ceremony of Glass & Water (Aldrin's Thumb); Incense Angel; Man With Telescope and Mouse; Quadranglehold
NEW: Kenosis
Deregulating Strip Mining, Kentucky; With Sleep, Madness; NEW: Key
NEW: The Intelligence Officer’s Tale; Tour of Duty; The Whistleblower’s Waltz; Dirty War; Dirty Peace; Old Friends
NEW: Dockers, 1930
NEW: On Coming Upon A Discarded Piano; No Foul Thing
NEW: Disturbed Earth; Insects; Last Words; Armed Love; Died on the Voyage
First Day Back; Usherettes; Street Games; Victorian Whimsy; Chimneys; NEW: Marx in the Park; Retro; Houses: anthropomorphic; Utilitarian; A Brother's Death; Speech Balloon
NEW: Malls; Swastika mission to space; Apogee and Perigee; Fiscal apocalypse
NEW: Spiritual Physics
CELEB...CELEB; NEW: In Memory of Josef Herman
This Is Not A Sonnet; A Modern Prelude; November 5th; Late Night Opening; Sarajevo 1914; Thistles
Extracts from Sticky: Not So; Southwell Poems; Rotunda; Red Ellen; A Question of History
NEW: Good Girl; Haiku
NEW: The Nation; Queen of All Flowers; Excellent Madman; Amsterdam Wide Dreams
NEW: Walking to Russia; Recall; August
NEW: Imprisoned Tongues; Palestine; There must be a light at the end of this tunnel
NEW: To My Cigarette; The solitude of wisdom
NEW: Japan in April; To the uncaring
NEW: The Steamship Hare
NEW: Lilac
NEW: Whiskey bright betrayer –killer of time; You appear to have regained my senses; I’m ready for someone spoiled on lust and looks
NEW: Marital masquerade
NEW: The Gardener and the Rose; The Murmur of the Goose Machine
Civil War sequence: Start; Early (Bloody) Incursions; Practical; Return to Violence;
Instruction; Defeat; Burning the Land; In Chains; The Leader Seeks to Retire; No Mercy; Stand-Off; In This Light; NEW: Guillotine Blues; No More Killing
Alchemical Eyes; Nihilist Eurythmics; NEW: Sweet Dreams; Clippings; Mosquitoes; Nostalgia
Genocide; NEW: Elegies to the Spanish Republic
My father's funeral; Death by proxy; Taria; Ecosystem; End of love; NEW: Visiting Grandad
NEW: The Germans’ Mercenaries (tr. Thomas Ország-Land)
Teachings of a Street Prophet; Junkie Love; A Place Called Afghanistan; Sleeping; Beetle Bailey’s War; Portrait of Hope; Family Portrait; NEW: Haikus
Patronage; French Fields; The Glasgow Girl NEW: The Immortal Mosquito
NEW: Each Sovereign Kingdom; The First Bird
Evening Song; Flight; The Winding Way; Night Page; The Tower
The Cake; Post-Flood; Exultation; Besiegement; Anaemia; NEW: Uneasy Quartet; 1959+
excerpts from Glaciation: a poem sequence; Work Horses; Trio; Al Khobar at Night; NEW: Asking the Right Questions
Ancient History; Snapshuts; English Eccentrics In Love; Baiting the Barbarians; NEW: Grey Sunshine
Up to the Heavens; Brooklyn Siberia
NEW: Woodcut of John Davidson; Friedrich Nietzsche; Mappa dell’inferno from L’inferno dantesco;
NEW: I Beg to Apply for the Post
NEW: Summers Then; Wine of the Month – Pinot Noir
NEW: The Orkney Ferry; Glasgow
NEW: The Treasure
your photograph in the newspaper; In Afghanistan
Lost Continuum; Mourn Not Her Passing; In Retrospect
NEW: The Witch Sniffer; Mrs. Murphy
NEW: A Longer Journey; Dictator; Cabernet; Sadder Than Anything; Useless Thoughts; February
NEW: Leaving; Saucepan; Extraordinary Thing; Le Pin Doré; NEW: The City in Mind; The City Discovered; The City Exposed; The City Remade; What Other Thoughts Are Floating?; Curracloe; The House in the Forest; Theatre of the Absurd
Cactus; Dinner Guest; NEW: Family Tree
Chapeau; Insomnia Part II - the Sandman Deserts; Charlotte
Faith-full; Old Grounds; Gazan Candles; House Call; NEW: Ill Wind
NEW: Historiosophy; Alternative Histories
Any Shade of Redundance; Unmined Diamond; Wavering Wand; NEW: Abandoned Notes; Unstruck Match; I Am Arctic; Poppy
The Child that Was Me; In Memory of Someone Who Died Alone In Paris; Pathetic Existence; Memories of a Silent Child; NEW: Anxiety of a student
Reformation; Charismata; Red-Letter Day; Psalm; Come; unpersonage; unborn; NEW: this town is wrong; Out of your hand; A Front; The Lighthouse; Ash Wednesday Revisited; NEW: Incendiary; Dear Mr Demille
A Man I Once Knew; One Vote for Catastrophe; Survivors' Guilt
NEW: The Professional Witness, Here Comes What's His Name
Blank; The Piano Man; Downfall; A Losing Game; Your Prayer
NEW: Haunted Vessels; Observances
In County Derry: 'Masters of War'; The Tree Council; A Poem Cannot Be Graded; NEW: Slave Currency
June 7th, 1980; M Courtney Soper; March 6th; Number Six; 6 Somerhill Avenue; 1348; To Hartley Coleridge; The Live Things; Cavafy’s Headstone; Obituary Writer; Descended from a Line of Legs
The Ballad of the Poor White Boys
NEW: Rome Poem; Green Line; Streetwise
NEW: Testament
In Memory of Keith Bennett; Native Soil; The Photograph; Unending War; NEW: Borderlands
Weeds Left; NEW: Visigoth Rover; Pyramid Prison
Citadel; Tisnikar's Ravens; A Trial of Strength; Beldevere
NEW: the world lies down on its back
from Geordie; Green Clock; Walking Without Yeats; 'Nye Bevan Dies'; No Laughing Matter; Dad in the Rain; Breathed It Everyday; Hunga Hunga; Swan Hunter Cranes; At the 'Reduced to Clear'; Ken Loach- Please Be Dan Dare! Jarrow Crusade Poems; NEW: This small patch; Jobling’s Prayer; Th’ Slaaks; Bede & Temple meant nowt ti me; Thomas Cumiskey; Grandmother at that door, Jarrow 1913; Work; Sliver; NEW: Jarrow Tube Works; Unspoken Lives in Dreams; NEW: The Jobs; Gloriously New; Hope Street to brand new council house
Rain and Earth; Arnhem; For Drummond Allison; Ruby Courage; Lament for a Taliband Land; Driven; The Self-Obsessed; Fury; NEW: In Memoriam Salvador Allende
NEW: Facelift; Boot Scraper; Dereliction; Fast Track
Outsiders; World on my Shoulders
NEW: Edgemoor Gardens 1958; 30 May 1431
NEW: from War on Terror in Ukraine
NEW: The Elopement Note; Love's Tussle; Bouquet of Words; Synopsis of a Courtship; Victims
The Patriarch; Stateless; NEW: Instead of a Tombstone; Translation of Miklós Radnóti's War Diary (1935-36) Part 1 and 2; Translations of Heinrich Heine; NEW: Translations of Miklós Radnóti Mother, Edith, at 98; Gingerbread Lady; Harvest Time; Rod Stroked Survival with a Deadly Hammer; Charley Plays a Tune
NEW: Beginning of the Century; Art; Knife a Heedless Heart of the Day; Eyes
NEW: Cento; Winding-Down; Shopping List
NEW: I Am Old Frustrated Thought; Rose Petals in a Dark Room; NEW: Rose Petals in a Dark Room (new version)
NEW: Apartments; Let There Be Light
NEW: If You Want To Be Called A Human Being; Simple Words
Breaking In; Ocean Audience (2)
The Silence of the Suburbs; Lunchtime Black; Do What's Good For You
NEW: Epitaphs for the Blessed Margaret
NEW: Terrifying Fruit; Blind Night; Change; The Edifices of Tomorrow