TO MARGARET, UNFORGOTTEN (Barry Tebb Poems)
Two nights I have dreamed of you Once as an adolescent, evanescent Yet tangible still to the spirit's touch, Then ...
Barry Tebb Poems (117 Poems)
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 ...
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; ...
TO THE MEMORY OF MY MOTHER (Barry Tebb Poems)
This is one spring you will not see. The fifty roses of your spray Smelt soft across that February day ...
CONSTRUCTIONS/RECONSTRUCTIONS (Barry Tebb Poems)
I Living in a land Where only the dying correspond I am borne on the wings of love II I ...
JAMES SIMMONS R.I.P. (Barry Tebb Poems)
You were the one I wanted most to know So like yet unlike, like fire and snow, The casual voice, ...
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 ...
UPON BEING ASKED WHY I AM NOT WRITING (Barry Tebb Poems)
Too much gone wrong - No Muse, no song. (Barry Tebb)
AUBADE (Barry Tebb Poems)
Dawn's my Mr Right, already Cocks have crowed, birds flown from nests, The neon lights of Leeds last night still ...
HUDDERSFIELD – THE SECOND POETRY CAPITAL OF ENGLAND (Barry Tebb Poems)
It brings to mind Swift leaving a fortune to Dublin 'For the founding of a lunatic asylum - no place ...
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 ...
REQUIESCAM (Barry Tebb Poems)
(May I lie in peace) Let there be grass and trees to blow And fold me in their shadow Branches ...
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 ...
SMILE, YOU ARE ON CCTV (Barry Tebb Poems)
Even the charity shops boast of the surveillance Mr Average is caught on camera a hundred times a day To ...
THE DAYS GO BY (Barry Tebb Poems)
for Daniel Weissbort Some poems meant only for my eyes About a grief I can't let go But I want ...
INSPIRATION FROM A VISITATION OF MY MUSE (Barry Tebb Poems)
Memories bursting like tears or waves On some lonely Adriatic shore Beating again and again Threshings of green sea foam ...
THE VANDAL (Barry Tebb Poems)
Someone has been tearing up the autumn, Its ripped leaves ripple across the road Flip liked hinged cards in the ...
THE PLAY HOUSE (Barry Tebb Poems)
We had a new house And split the decorating. You took the piled rolls of paper, While I stacked the ...
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 ...
RESURRECTION (Barry Tebb Poems)
I thought of my 'faculty of poetry' As of the eye The bream or white-bait showed In its hysterical dance ...
PLEA FOR A HISTORY OF WORKING-CLASS LEEDS (Barry Tebb Poems)
I want a true history of my city FUCK THE DE LACY FAMILY AND DOUBLE FUCK JOHN OF GAUNT ESPECIALLY ...
LETTER FROM HAWORTH (Barry Tebb Poems)
Poems do not always satisfy the soul, The feel of cobbles underfoot is at this moment more Than all of ...
HAPPY THIRTIETH BIRTHDAY CARCANET BOOKS (Barry Tebb Poems)
Sorry, I almost forgot, but I don't think Its worth the effort to become a Carcanet poet With my mug-shot ...
OBSTACLES (Barry Tebb Poems)
A thousand visits to the supermarket A thousand acts of sexual intimacy Spread over forty years. Your essence was quite ...
THE PHILOSOPHERS (Barry Tebb Poems)
Lavender musk rose from the volume I was reading through, The college crest impressed in gold, tooled gold lettering on ...
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 ...
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 ...
MY ONLY VALENTINE (Barry Tebb Poems)
Your voice on the telephone Hushes the storm in my heart Lightning strikes twice In the same place. I cannot ...
LETTER FROM KIRKHEATON (Barry Tebb Poems)
I have no camera but imagination's tinted glass I cannot pass this crumbling dry stone wall Without a break to ...
POET-IN-RESIDENCE (Barry Tebb Poems)
You are my dream Of the East You are my life In the West Fused in one You begin my ...