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These poems come from a special recording for the Poetry Archive:

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  "Tall in the Saddle"
  
  
• 1 -
  "The Soft White Pillowcase Boys"
  
  
• 2 -
  "Pushed Home when the Clouds were still Raw"
  
  
• 3 -
  "From the Section Dealing with the Loss of Grace"
  
  
• 4 -
  "The Tennis Ball Factory Poems"
  
  
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  5 -
  "The Meaning of Life"
  
  
• 6 -
  "SF Novel"
  
  
• 7 -
  "What Really Happened To The Buffalo"
  
  
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  8 -
  "For Me"
  
  
• 9 -
  "Why Are You Ringing"
  
  
• 10 -
  "Two Miners Pass in Opposite Directions at Daybreak"
  
  
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  11 -
  "The Texas Swing Boys' Dadaist Manifesto"
  
  
• 12 -
  "Resident"
  
  
• 13 -
  "Sessions"
  
  
• 14 -
  "Pushing, May 1984"
  
  
• 15 -
  "Coalpicking, Broomhill"
  
  
• 16 -
  "Visitors, Armthorpe August 1984"
  
  
• 17 -
  "Propp's Last Case"
  
  
• 18 -
  "Action"
  
  
• 19 -
  "From an Evening with the Model of "The Venus and the Shaving Brushes""
  
  
• 20 -
  "Move"
  
  
• 21 -
  "The Photographer's Subject"
  
  
• 22 -
  "Just the Facts, Just the"
  
  
• 23 -
  "Simple Story"
  
  
• 24 -
  "Man in Hotel Room with Stolen Fork"
  
  
• 25 -
  "Against Realism"
  
  
• 26 -
  "Some Poetry Presses I Will Certainly Set Up In The Next Three Weeks"
  
  
• 27 -
  "Landing Practice"
  
  
• 28 -
  "The Prince of Wales visits Alnwick"
  
  
• 29 -
  "Cracking Icicles in Totley Tunnel"
  
  
• 31 -
  "Kake Yourself Comfortable"
  
  
• 32 -
  "Why We Need Libraries"
  
  
• 33 -
  "Pit Closure as Art"
  
  
• 34 -
  "Lilian's Poem"
  
  
• 35 -
  "Husband and Wife"
  
  
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  36 -
  "Tempest Avenue"
  
  
• 37 -
  "Deaths from Ice-Cream"
  
  
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  38 -
  "Ted Hughes is Elvis Presley"
  
  
• 39 -
  "Visit"
  
  
• 40 -
  "Poem Occasioned by the High Incidence of Suicide amongst the Unemployed"
  
  
• 41 -
  "Song for Roof Building (Collected in South Yorkshire Light Industry Park, Barnsley)"
  
  
• 42 -
  "Moon River: Lives of the Great Comedians"
  
  
• 43 -
  "Henry's Skeleton, George's Leg"
  
  
• 44 -
  "Jesus Died from Eating Curtains"
  
  
• 45 -
  "Stone, I Presume"
  
  
• 46 -
  "Still Life Life"
  
  
• 47 -
  "Realism (Nothing Is Ever Finished)"
  
  
• 48 -
  "Dad, the Donkey's On Fire"
  
  

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