A FINE MADNESS (Barry Tebb Poems)
Any poets about or bored muses fancying a day out? Rainy, windy, cold Leeds City Station Half-way through its slow ...
Barry Tebb Poems on Light (19 Poems)
AN EVENING WITH JOHN HEATH-STUBBS (Barry Tebb Poems)
Alone in Sutton with Fynbos my orange cat A long weekend of wind and rain drowning The tumultuous flurry of ...
MEMORIES OF THE FIFTIES (Barry Tebb Poems)
Eggshell and Wedgwood Blue were just two Of the range on the colour cards Dulux Tailored to our taste in ...
THE PRISM (Barry Tebb Poems)
Through the windows the sun's light Turns to amber, the moon's to jade; All night long I lie awake, wondering ...
PORTRAITS FROM MEMORY (Barry Tebb Poems)
I Through my bedroom window The coal carts jolted over the cobbles A slow heavy rhythm full, Light and fast ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 THE SOUND OF VIOLINS (Barry Tebb Poems)
Give me life at its most garish Friday night in the Square, pink sequins dazzle And dance on clubbers bare ...
PULLED FROM A LIFE SOME LEAVES (Barry Tebb Poems)
Pulled from a life some leaves in evergreen Or dressed like fragrant crinoline draped Over shadows by di Chirico, stolen ...
Bridge Over The Aire Book 5 (Barry Tebb Poems)
MOORING POSTS 1 The mooring posts marked on the South Leeds map Of 1908 still line the Aire's side, huge, ...
THE GIFT (Barry Tebb Poems)
We were three weeks Into term, Sheila, When you came Through the classroom door; Forty-four children Bent over books, Copying ...
Bridge Over The Aire Book 6 (Barry Tebb Poems)
THE WALK TO THE PARADISE GARDENS 1 Bonfire Night beckoned us to the bridge By Saint Hilda's where we started ...
WINTERLIGHT (Barry Tebb Poems)
Let us, this December night, leave the ring Of heat, the lapping flames around the fire's heart, Move with bodies ...
LEFTOVERS (Barry Tebb Poems)
Empty chocolate boxes, a pillowcase with an orange at the bottom, Nuts and tinsel with its idiosyncratic rustle and brilliant ...
THE ROAD TO HAWORTH MOOR (Barry Tebb Poems)
for Brenda Williams The dawn cracked with ice, with fire grumbling in the grate, With ire in the homes we ...
A MEMORY AT SIXTY (Barry Tebb Poems)
They have vanished, the pop men with their varnished crates Of Tizer and dandy, American ice-cream soda and one percent ...
TO BRENDA WILLIAMS ‘WRITING AGAINST THE GRAIN’ (Barry Tebb Poems)
It was Karl Shapiro who wrote in his 'Defence of Ignorance' how many poets Go mad or seem to be ...