OUR SON (Barry Tebb Poems)
Quarter to three: I wake again at the hour of his birth Thirty years ago and now he paces corridors ...
Barry Tebb Poems on Night (24 Poems)
POEM TO BE PLACED IN A BOTTLE AND CAST OUT TO SEA (Barry Tebb Poems)
for Ken Kesey and his merry pranksters in a bus called 'Further...' Dear _______ and here's where the problem begins ...
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 ...
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 ...
MARGINALIA (Barry Tebb Poems)
Here is a silence I had not hoped for This side of paradise, I am an old believer In nature's ...
SUMMER FEVER (Barry Tebb Poems)
The unsettled trees seem to share My tensions of body and mind: Unable to move before the shell of the ...
INFAMOUS POET (Barry Tebb Poems)
I never did fit in - at six or sixty one - I stand out in a crowd, too young ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
LETTERS TO FRIENDS (Barry Tebb Poems)
I Eddie Linden Dear Eddie we've not met Except upon the written page And at your age the wonder Is ...
THE PARIS COMMUNE (Barry Tebb Poems)
From the French of Andr? Fr?naud France was born there and it is from there she sings Of Joan of ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
SUMMER WITH MARGARET (Barry Tebb Poems)
When my mam had to go Up north to look after gran, Margaret's mam said I could Stop with them; ...
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 ...
TO MY WIFE (Barry Tebb Poems)
I You buy my freedom with your love. With every book you catalogue or stamp My imagination hacks a strand ...
DEATH OF A POET (Barry Tebb Poems)
for Wendy Oliver, who knew him I am the sick animal you dream you are caring for In the long ...
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 ...
INCOMPATABILITIES (Barry Tebb Poems)
For Brenda Williams La lune diminue; divin septembre. Divine September the moon wanes. Pierre Jean Jouve Themes for poems and ...
TO DAISY ABEY (Barry Tebb Poems)
In sleep I dream the gratitude I know I cannot say Now you are in a latitude where palm trees ...