The poems in my bookshelf

Some contrived, some entirely accidental. They make a kind of ‘poetic’ sense. The brain can’t help but make associations. I think of them as unruly haikus. (They are way off the required syllable count.)

Cod
Very Like a Whale
but beautiful

The White Goddess
Weeds
New Grub Street

Last Friends
Waiting for the Barbarians
In Patagonia

Philosophy 1
Metaphysics
The Inland Voyage

Black Swan Green
Loving
Cony Catchers and Bawdy Baskets

The Long March
Death at Intervals
Rule of the Bone

Lucy
Interpreter of Maladies
On the Road

Junky
Annie John
At the Bottom of the River

Bonnie and Clyde
Trout fishing in America
Cooking for Crowds

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
French Cheeses
The Adventures of Dougal

Ulysses
Surfacing
One Moonlit night

All my Sons
Wild
Mosquitos

The House of Whacks
Sex Habits of American Women
A Study in Scarlet

Bandits of Cisterna
Alamut
The Magick of Thelema

Rabbit Rich
V.
Rigadoon

Ratman of Paris
In the Skin of a lion
Eisenstein

Wide Sargasso Sea
Dark as the Grave wherein my Friend is Laid
Mimes et poètes antiques

The Red Widow Murders
The White Priory Murders
Forbidden Colours

The Painted Word
Nederlands zilver
The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

Some Prefer Nettles
Training the young horse
Cults: faith, healing and Coercion

Desperate characters
On Chesil Beach
Beyond Desire

We Fought them in Gunboats
Mr Stone and the Knights Companion
Lord Malquist & Mr Moon

The Witch’s Daughter
Reading the Cantos
Being good

Colette
A Girl at the Helm
Innocent Libertine

The Long Song
Nothing Like the Sun
In the Heart of the Sea

A Dead Man In Deptford
The Castle of Crossed Destinies
Conundrum

Bluff
What Life Could Mean to You
The Politics of Jesus

Listen to Danger
A Lesson before dying
Terrorist

The Kidnapped King
The Prince
Dragon Captives

On the Black Hill
The Yellow House
A Parcel of Trees

South Moon Under
Sands of Mars
Desert Solitaire

People of the Deer
The Charging Buffalo
From Adversaries to Comrades-In-Arms

A History of Spanish Firearms
Comrades
Men without women

Lucy
Save me the Waltz
The Price of my Soul

Hilbert
Working With Singing Bowls
Interaction Ritual

A High Wind in Jamaica
A House Unlocked
Muses Are Heard

Jane Steele
Girl, 20
Love’s Executioner

Heed the Thunder
Signalman’s Apprentice
To Sunset and Beyond

Marx
Cooking with Wine
Civilization and Capitalism

The Veiled Sun
Transparent Things
Pursuit of Signs

Recipes from the White Hart Inn
Everlasting Syllabub and the Art of Carving
The Chef at War

Graceland
Consumption
The Favourite Game

The Great ship from Amacon
Bloody Sun at Noon
The Living and the Dead

The Tiger’s Wife
Dreams from Bunker Hill
The Spoilt Kill

From Ritual to Romance
The Story of Juliette
The Elusive Embrace

Book of Ireland Folk
Tales of the Borders
The Gipsy’s Baby

The Singing Sands
The Stones of Venice
The divers of Acapulco

God Is Not Great
When You Are Engulfed In Flames
The Black Death

Guns, Germs & Steel
Politics
Murder, Inc.

The Tiger’s Wife
No Beast So Fierce
Without Feathers

The English Opium-Eater
A Taste of the Sun
Narcopolis

The Three Hostages
Theory of War
The Ideas behind the Chess Opening

Billiards at Half-Past Nine
41 Degrees
Fearless Symmetry

The British Museum is Falling Down
Picture
The Mermaids in the Basement

Sun Came Down
Between the World and Me
I’m Gone

Access To History: The British Empire, 1815-1914
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
The Anatomy of Disgust

Troubles
Running in the Family
Way of the World

The Last of England
Lions and Shadows
1066 And All That

Henri Rousseau
Scenes from the Back of Beyond
The Jungle

Pigeon
Flight to Arras
Distant Water

I, Leonardo
Borrobil
Shart

The Monkey’s wrench
Springhaven
The Catcher in the Rye

Pleasant Valley
Scenes of Clerical Life
The Blind Watchmaker

A Glass of Blessings
Cider with Rosie
Portable Utopia

Clandestine in Chile
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Envisioning Information

Tobacco Road
Nicotiana tabacum
Light Years

Hell’s Angels
A Long Way from Verona
O Pioneers!

The Porcupine
Views
His First Kangaroo

Emperor Julian
Spellbound
Soldier of the Great War

Drunkard’s Walk
Across the Common
The Bay Of Noon

Chairman Rolf Fehlbaum
The Man who went into the West
Living With Killer Whales, Bald Eagles, and Kwakiutl Indians

Elizabeth and Essex
Fiesta
That Night

The Worm in the Bud
Ladies of Llangollen
Geography of the Heart

Radical Evil
Little cabbages
When Least Is Best

All That Is
Wood and Stone
Labyrinths

Mr Peanut
A Single Man
The Outsider

Cock and Bull
Amazing Bone
Portnoy’s Complaint

Bring Me the Head of Willy the Mailboy
Sigmund Freud
Invitation To A Beheading

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Black Book and the Mob
The Devil in the White City

Life on Waller Creek
Soldiers’ Pay
Black Eagle Child

Mary Reilly
The Spirit Woman
Dreams from Bunker Hill

Tomorrow in the Battle Think Of Me
Picture
The Laughing Policeman

Beatrice and Virgil
Midnight’s Children
Journey to the End of the Night

Notes of a Native Son
In Darkest England and The Way Out
Hawksmoor

Earth and Water
The Sunlight Dialogues
The Universe for Beginners

Archipelago
Coral Reef Fishes
Learning to Dream

Indian Schintzes
Japanese Porcelain
The Web and the Rock

The American twenties
Scarface Al and the Crime Crusaders
Murder Michigan

Brazen Head
Thomas Willis
Up in the Old Hotel

The Sutra on the Eight Realizations of the Great Beings
The Gate of Angels
Inner Circle

Captain Conan
Robinson Crusoe
The Discoverers

Clock Without Hands
Of light and sounding brass
The Infinite Plan

The Plough and the Stars
Poetry of resistance in occupied Palestine
Today the Struggle

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