LETTER FROM LEEDS (Barry Tebb Poems)
Would 'any woman' find me difficult to live with? My tastes are simple: space for several thousand books, The smoke ...
Would 'any woman' find me difficult to live with? My tastes are simple: space for several thousand books, The smoke ...
( I ) for 'JC' of the TLS Nightmare of metropolitan amalgam Grand Hotel and myself as a guest there ...
At ten she came to me, three years ago, There was 'something between us' even then; Watching her write like ...
Composed of chalk dust, Pencil shavings and The sharp odour Of stale urine; It meets me now and then Creeping ...
We were three weeks Into term, Sheila, When you came Through the classroom door; Forty-four children Bent over books, Copying ...
(To Paul Sykes, author of 'Sweet Agony') He demolished five doors at a sitting And topped it off with an ...
It was like chucking-out time In a rough Victorian pub Cherubic Dylan was first to go Lachrymose but with a ...
Lavender musk rose from the volume I was reading through, The college crest impressed in gold, tooled gold lettering on ...
for Brenda Williams The dawn cracked with ice, with fire grumbling in the grate, With ire in the homes we ...
There was a hope for poetry in the sixties And for education and society, teachers free To do as they ...
(or 'Huddersfield the Second Poetry Capital of England Re-visited') What was it Janice Simmons said to me as James lay ...
Sitting in outpatients With my own minor ills Dawn's depression lifts To the lilt of amitryptilene, A double dose for ...
You were the one I wanted most to know So like yet unlike, like fire and snow, The casual voice, ...
To Thushari Williams Dear Thushie, the six months you spent with us Will never be forgotten, the long days you ...
AGAINST THE GRAIN "Oxford be silent, I this truth must write Leeds hath for rarities undone thee quite." - William ...
Why our son, why? Every morning the same dark chorus wakes me And I wonder how I am still alive. ...
for Daniel Weissbort Some poems meant only for my eyes About a grief I can't let go But I want ...
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