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 ...
Barry Tebb Poems (117 Poems)
TO FOUR PSYCHOANALYSTS (Barry Tebb Poems)
Richard Chessick, John Gedo, James Grotstein and Vamik Voltan What darknesses have you lit up for me What depths of ...
MY FATHER (Barry Tebb Poems)
I had a father once, the records say. He has gone away down the long avenue Of death, on the ...
ENTANGLEMENTS (Barry Tebb Poems)
Why is it that in dreams I have visited - As teacher or pupil - almost every college and school ...
OPEN LETTER TO ANDY C. (Barry Tebb Poems)
Sorry, Writer in Residence on the Great North Run The last thing I'd ever do is listen to your spin ...
GAUGUIN IN THE SOUTH SEAS (Barry Tebb Poems)
They have my own fear of the dark, Tupapau - spirits of the dead they call it; Returning late with ...
Bridge Over The Aire Book 1 (Barry Tebb Poems)
AGAINST THE GRAIN "Oxford be silent, I this truth must write Leeds hath for rarities undone thee quite." - William ...
THE DREAMER, THE SLEEP (Barry Tebb Poems)
L'orage qui s'attarde, le lit d?fait Yves Bonnefoy Here am I, lying lacklustre in an unmade bed A Sunday in ...
A GRIEF (Barry Tebb Poems)
Rivers, tow paths, caravan parks From Kirkstall to Keighley The track's ribbon flaps Like Margaret's whirling and twirling At ten ...
LEEDS 2002 (Barry Tebb Poems)
What ghosts haunt These streets of perpetual night? Riverbanks fractured with splinters of glass condominiums For nouveam riche merchant bankers ...
GROTTY AND THE QUARRYMAN (Barry Tebb Poems)
(To Paul Sykes, author of 'Sweet Agony') He demolished five doors at a sitting And topped it off with an ...
LEEDS (Barry Tebb Poems)
O my beloved city, How many times have I deserted you For the sights and sounds of Babylon? How often ...
SORRY I MISSED YOU (Barry Tebb Poems)
(or 'Huddersfield the Second Poetry Capital of England Re-visited') What was it Janice Simmons said to me as James lay ...
THE CARDINAL LOOKS BACK (Barry Tebb Poems)
I was a good father to my people, Their houses among the terraced hills Adored God every day, grape-clusters on ...
Bridge Over The Aire Book 2 (Barry Tebb Poems)
STANDING IN EDEN 1 Poetry claimed me young on Skegness beach Before I was born I answered her cry For ...
WITHOUT THE WHEREWITHALL (Barry Tebb Poems)
To Thushari Williams Dear Thushie, the six months you spent with us Will never be forgotten, the long days you ...
WELCOME HOME (Barry Tebb Poems)
'Leeds welcomes you' in flowers Garlanding the white stuccoed tower Of City Station: red on green As poetry's demon seizes ...
WINTER BLUES (Barry Tebb Poems)
For Penny Abraham I wish I had Auden's penchant For going about in carpet slippers Or the late HRH Margaret's ...
LETTER TO MICHAEL HOROVITZ (Barry Tebb Poems)
It is time after thirty years We had our Poetry Renaissance Rise, Children of Albion, rise! It is time after ...
TO BRENDA WILLIAMS ON HER FIFTIETH BIRTHDAY (Barry Tebb Poems)
The years become you as Oxford becomes you, As you became Oxford through the protest years; From Magdalen's grey gargoyles ...
DIRECTIONS/MISDIRECTIONS (Barry Tebb Poems)
I sit inside the train of tears The station mellow in shade Unoriginal phrases air-brush the canvas. Puzzling minds I ...
EVERYTHING IN ITS PLACE (Barry Tebb Poems)
Desks are straining on all fours, flanks Heaving to hurl the hunched riders Down crack and cranny, buck Finger-snapping lids, ...
Bridge Over The Aire Book 3 (Barry Tebb Poems)
THE KINGDOM OF MY HEART 1 The halcyon settled on the Aire of our days Kingfisher-blue it broke my heart ...
TO LEEDS BIG ISSUE SELLERS (Barry Tebb Poems)
When I come from the Smoke to visit my son on the ward I see you everywhere: by the station, ...
KISSING COBBLESTONES IN KEIGHLEY (Barry Tebb Poems)
I could bend and kiss them, everyone, Strong and securing As cunts are soft and beckoning. (Barry Tebb)
MY PERFECT ROSE (Barry Tebb Poems)
At ten she came to me, three years ago, There was 'something between us' even then; Watching her write like ...
A KIND OF DISTRACTION (Barry Tebb Poems)
You always disrupt me; When I ring you for comfort You wing me, send my Pudding of a mind A-splatter ...
HYMN (Barry Tebb Poems)
How I love the working-class girls of Leeds, Their mile-wide smiles, eyes bright as beads, Their young breasts bobbing as ...
FOR JAMES SIMMONS (Barry Tebb Poems)
Sitting in outpatients With my own minor ills Dawn's depression lifts To the lilt of amitryptilene, A double dose for ...
TOGETHER (Barry Tebb Poems)
for Brenda Your blue dressing-gown Lying on the chair back Like a tired arm. (Barry Tebb)