The Mud Fort: (Salt Modern Poets)

This book draws together a major selection of poems from 1984--2004. Including works on London, sport, boats, cartoons, food, the classics, the mystical, history, crime, and the North. A taut, rhythmic verse, with respect for word-sound and a cheering disregard for consensus on history, language and 'poetry'.

Table of Contents:
The Mud Fort Reflection Shim Gets His Apartment Back The Teddy Bear to Jay Awake How Shim Found a Box of Skyscrapers Reverie Bob Cobbing in London A Tale of a Head Back Garden In the Suburbs The Best Jigsaw Speedway Riding By At the Junction with the Slough Arm The Trip Up the Stort Shanties Coast Poem The Ship The Festival Boat Telly Conan Conan in Trouble Kamandi Spider Man Bee-Bike In a Heap Abroad Jingle In the Larder “De Apio” Citrus Note Tokaj Cake Found Potato Poem Reverie Shopping The Sprout Carrots Moretum The Primrose City Introduction to a Library Like Greek The Labyrinth Claudian on Dragons On Providence On Nature and Contemplation and the One MFV Golden Arrow A Science Hanuman Xmas 1 Xmas 2 Xmas 3 Xmas 4 Xmas 5 Nativity The Flight Zero Beyond Metamorphoses On the Sun Self-Analysis Planning for the Future #Astrolabe The Miracle The Brothers Dance Nocturns and Diurnes Hand Complex Last Judgement From My Cave Evolving From Toy World Histories Grief that the Palestinians are Treated like a Tribe of Onions Benin Ushabtis Transition A Few Oran In Malaya In Kenya The Mineral World To the Edge N.I. Predicting Medical Histories Hungary Medcal Report The Peacock Variations The Fate of King Alfred The Toxteth Riots The Profession of Gypsydom Umbro Liam’s Song Star Fish Jail How Highpoint is Better than Wandsworth Quad Sequence Colchester Carnival NY 1 NY 2 NY3 Darren in the Alps In the Himalayas Local Iin the Ealy Hours In Walls The Genesis of Iron Achievement On the Platform at Stockton In the Great North Forest At the Gateshead Garden Festival Birthday Poem In the Attic Uptown Starting Up with Doves The Box-Eggs Reverie 6. Reverie no. 9. In the Rush to Man the Shields Lifeboat Ballad of Orgreave In the Coral Year The Tug

About the Author :
Bill Griffiths (1948-2007) was born in Middlesex. He began writing poetry and publishing in 1970, benefitting from the guidance of Eric Mottram, Bob Cobbing, and many others on the little press scene. He went on to study Old English at King’s College, London, obtaining a PhD in 1987. He was Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Northern Studies, Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne and lived in Seaham, County Durham. He died on 13 September 2007.