Outside the narrative: Poems 1965 - 2009

This is a 2019 reprint published by his surviving family and intended to be as close to the original as possible. It contains work from his two main collections Intimate Voices (Poetry 1965-83) and access to the silence (Poems 1984-2004); also poems from Being a Human Being (2006) and work not in previous books including an elegaic sequence for his mother, a prose memoir of his father, a poem-suite "on the page" and a tri-part envoi to the collection. CONTENTS Pollok Poster 1 13 Six Glasgow Poems 14 The Voyeur 20 Dripping with Nostalgia 21 Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae 22 don't tell wordsworth 23 Four of the Belt 24 The Psycopath 25 The Appetite 26 Storm Damage 27 A Priest Came on at Merkland Street 28 an oxford dictionary 36 Poetry 37 Jist ti Let Yi No 38 Tea Time 39 Paroakial 40 A Summer's Day still life with creative writing teacher 41 Yon Night 43 Feed ma Lamz 44 The Qualification 45 The Dropout 46 Fireworks 47 Makars Society 48 Crack 49 Pfff 50 Moral Philosophy 51 My Parents' Living Room at Christmas 53 Fathers and Sons 54 Placenta 55 The Rainbow Of 56 breathe deep and regular with it 61 Rosebud 62 100 Differences between Poetry and Prose 63 The Evidence 64 Proem 65 who wants to be free 66 your eyes 67 An Ageing Writer 68 The Performance 69 epitaph 75 in the beginning was the word 76 from Unrelated Incidents 77 ma lungz iz fuckt 83 humpty dumpty 84 mehta physics 85 would thi prisoner 86 baa baa black sheep 87 commemorative stamp 88 yonza big wank 89 efturryd geenuz iz speel 90 right inuff 91 An Old Story 92 colorado mountain air 93 Honest 94 so whut day yi day wi yirsell then ih 98 yi surta 99 seen im? 100 Opting for early retirement 101 firmly 102 Skills 103 The underfunder's utopia 104 doon the close 105 Myths in These Parts106respite in the reading 107 the enemy without 108 a handy news standfor the next bombing 109 The Present Tense 110 ablative absolute 123 situations theoretical and contemporary 124 the press as bogus phatic communion 128 Blessed Trinity 132 leaning forward 133 1st Poster Poem against the criminal injustice bill 134 4 football haiku 135 a could eata hoarss 136 rest assured 137 glorious weather in a teacup 138 ahma hoarss 139 the mainstream a clerisy 140 nora's place: a Poem in 17 aspects 141 A night at the pictures 160 triptych: the ongoing memorial 163 to have access to the silence 170 in hospital 171 suite: On the Page 172 the case for lower case 178 the pact 180 June the Second 181 touching your face 182 kierkegaard 183 Remembrance Day 184 who want my smile 186 The Fair Cop 187 Wish you were Here 191 getting on with it 194 foodfor thought 195 plasma nights 196 The Proxy Badge of Victimhood 198 Litany: Blair's Britain 201 Epithalamium 203 Being a Human Being 204 An Ayrshire Mother 205 that each one be the subject 210 odysseus 212 A humanist 213 a life 214