Grassblade glintstreak in one of the last mornings, 199
Hammers and pinions, sockets, fatal faces, 209
Hellhound Memos, 185–92
her name was Bonney and although she wasn’t registered, 44
Her wild oregano, 61
Here We Go, 317
Himself Bright Starre Northern Within, 257
Homage to John Everett, Marine Painter, 1876–1949, 33
Hooray Demons Salute the Forever Lost Parliament,
How sweet today the scents and air perfumes, 249
I am gnawing jawface, furman, odd cove, 253
I am irregular as poker chips, 12
I could never speak, 210
If anyone knows about sullen loneliness, you do, 322
I had endless injections myself, 301
I knew Stalin and knew him well, 311
I’ll be down at the dock in the morning, 191
I Looked Down On a Child Today, 314
In with the Stasi, 233
Indigo robe her arm is wrapped within. Amber, 37
Influx of new crass mourning. Shrouds, 38
I put my walking stick, 53
Irish poets, 292
I smashed my wings, 195
I tear apart the smart brochures, 212
i walk to the annexe, 33
I write poetry at the age of seven and daddy wants to murder me, 225
Jim Morrison Ode, 37
John Bunyan to Johnny Rotten, 284
Jury Vet, 101
Just Twenty Two – And I Don’t Mind Dying, 20
Kein Eingang Liz gone hard from the broken phallic window, 95
La Rage, 292
Lash Ode, 53
Last night tells me today what went, 15
Let loose at morning from frost pockets the wind rips, 222
Let the Thunder Roll, 311
Let’s dab a double finger half-pissed kiss on Muddy’s lips. O, 230
Levellers and prince-fingerers quartered in the heather, 190
Linda Manning Is a Whore, 190
Listen, hark, attend; wait a moment, 196
Liz Hard, 95
Liz Hard II, 99
Looking Down From The West Window, 195
Lost Pearl, 213
Make your naked pencil mine. Play, 58
Make your naked phone call moan, listen, 57
Me the multiplex moron, multigenerational, 187
Mia Farrow, 61
Mony Ryal Ray, 200
Moon afloat, drunken opal shuggy boat, 215
Moon Ode, 39
Much desired landscape loved keenly several lifetimes, 320
My hands are in the clouds again, thumping the sun, 213
NAZI neon burned the blitzkrieg heart Liz hid, 99
New Ode, 37
Nil by Mouth: The Tongue Poem, 237
No Buses To Damascus, 201
No Such Thing, 199
Nothing Are These Times, 253
Now it’s time to put aside and forget, 246
Now that the vast furtherance of widespread publicity, 188
Ode, 43
Ode Black Spur, 60
Ode Grey Rose, 46
Ode Long Kesh, 41
Ode Peace Fog, 50
Ode:Resolution, 56
Odes, 35–72
Ode Stem Hair, 48
Ode to Beauty Strength and Joy and in Memory of the Demons, 218
Ode to the Unborn, 44
Ode White Sail, 59
of Barry and Jacqueline, 246
O hello, Othello, black and green bastardo, 266
O just to vex me inside the bottle the wind stayed still, 275
OKAY CRIMSON VARNISHED REDHEAD YOU’RE THE BIG ATTRACTION NOW, 101
O let me plunge my feverhands into his clotted throat. Let me free, 224
Once I was a quiet man before Eva, 311
On the Burning Down of the Salvation Army Men’s Palace, Dogs Bank, Newcastle, 14
O pulchritudinous orb de la dish scourer, 49
O pusilanimous orb de la Brillo, 47
O the rare gold, 207
Open your black-backed gull, 55
Orphan consorts & vipers under glass. Hair, 88
Panther Freckles, 49
Pasolini Demon Memo, 235
Pass the aconite, 56
Pearl, 192–216
Pearl Against the Barbed Wire, 249
Pearl Alone, 205
Pearl and Barry Pick Rosehips for The Good of the Country, 209
Pearl at 4 a.m., 215
Pearl: beautiful lustre, highly prized gem, 208
Pearl, I’m singing Fever to you, 203
Pearl In The Silver Morning (poem), 323
Pearl in the Silver Morning (sequence), 319–25
Pearl Says, 198
Pearl Suddenly Awake, 202
Pearl’s Final Say-So, 216
Pearl’s Poem of Joy and Treasure, 214
Pearl’s Utter Brilliance, 197
Peristalsis writhes a sudden knot &, 38
Phantom, phantom, 163
Postcards from Hitler, 309–12
Rain, rain, rain again and bonerolling bloodthunder, 248
Ranter (poem), 140
Ranter (sequence), 139–177
Ranter loping, 140
Ranter’s Reel, 163
Real Ode, 63
Rock litmus. Titration from Springfield, she, 20
rude unwelcome guest, 82
Sample the hardness, trite mania, 51
Selected from the gutter realm, 67
Shaking Minds with Robespierre, 190
She walks up. Stands in the air. It is raining, 39
Show me the door, 59
Shreds of Mercy/The Merest Shame, 231
Shunned, ignored, cast off, slung in the bin, 231
Skybrightness drove me, 200
sleek beasts, 40
Slit of light across the sky above the city: 7 a.m, 323
Smartism seems to be the best deal, 244
Snake Paint Sky, 45
Snipe Drumming, 159
So there you are lying down here breasts, 265
Spangled balconies abound, 52
Spout, pout, spout. Put my spittle all about, 214
Spurs of neonised leather, 60
Strap Down in Snowville, 266
Sunk at my crossroads, hellhounds baying, 186
Sunk in my darkness at daylight, 186
Swedenborg Ode, 38
Sweeno is two people – at least. Sweeno the night crawling homme man, 269
Sweeno, Sweeno, 269
Sweet Advocate, 304
Sweet Jesus: Pearl’s Prayer, 196
The Amazing Eagle Has Landed, 310
The bluebell sky, the sky of snowdrops, 310
The Book of Demons, 217–90
The feet are white boats. Hands are, 36
The Final Bavarian Hilltop Postcard, 310
the fire-crowned terrain, 23
The Horror, 242
The horror of the hospital for us both, 242
The Jesus Christ Almighty is a barely stripling bare-chested biker, 235
The Last Bud, 15
The long shadows of gold October stamped into the earth of England, 284
There is absolutely no record, 257
The Shells Her Auburn Hair Did Show, 204
The totemic fuse of non-events is rising like a fume, 315
The very low odour tough acrylic formula, 188
They stood smoking damp and salvaged, 14
This is the dirt, far, 54
Those Sandmartin Tails, 210
Time is a jagged mark upon the wrist. See, 37
Tom in the Market Square Outside Boots, 280
Tom you’re walking up & down the pill hill again, 280
Torchlit smoulderer, 170
Torpedo, 58
Totem Banking, 315
Trouble on all side today up and down, 189
Two hawks and a plover swoop, 36
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
Barry MacSweeney: Bibliography
POETRY
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)
PROSE
Elegy for January: A Life of Thomas Chatterton, Newcastle University Literature Lecture (Menard Press, 1970)
POETRY/ARTWORK
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)
Copyright
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Copyright © Literary Estate of Barry MacSweeney 2003
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