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Contents - 2

Penguin Book of Poetry from Britain and Ireland Since 1945

TONY HARRISON 1937-
- Them & [uz]
- Book Ends
- Continuous
- Marked With D.
- Timer

ROGER MCGOUGH 1937-
- Goodbat Nightman

KEN SMITH 1938-
- The road to Henrietta's house

SEAMUS HEANEY 1939-
- Digging
- Punishment
- The Harvest Bow
- The Railway Children
- Seeing Things

MICHAEL LONGLEY 1939-
- Wounds
- The Linen Industry
- Detour
- An Amish Rug
- Ceasefire

PAULINE STAINER 1941-
- Sighting the Slave Ship

DEREK MAHON 1941-
- As It Should Be
- The Last of the Fire Kings
- Matthew V. 29-30
- A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford

EILEAN NI CHUILLEANAIN 1942-
- Deaths and Engines

DOUGLAS DUNN 1942-
- On Roofs of Terry Street
- The Come-on
- St Kilda's Parliament: 1879-1979
- Reading Pascal in the Lowlands
- Land Love

HUGO WILLIAMS 1942-
- A Picture of a Girl in a Bikini
- Standstill
- Old Boy

VICKI FEAVER 1943-
- Rope

TOM LEONARD 1944-
- The Voyeur
- from Unrelated Incidents
- hangup

CRAIG RAINE 1944-
- The Onion, Memory
- A Martian Sends a Postcard Home
- The Man Who Invented Pain

JEFFREY WAINWRIGHT 1944-
- As He Found Her

KIT WRIGHT 1944-
- I Found South African Breweries Most Hospitable

DAVID CONSTANTINE 1944-
- The Door
- Watching for Dolphins

EAVAN BOLAND 1944-
- Mountain Time
- The Black Lace Fan my Mother Gave Me
- The Dolls Museum in Dublin
- from Writing in a Time of Violence: A Sequence (I That the Science of Cartography is Limited)

PAUL DURCAN 1944-
- The Hay-Carrier
- In Memory of Those Murdered in the Dublin Massacre, May 1974
- Ulysses

CAROL RUMENS 1944-
- Stealing the Genre

SELIMA HILL 1945-
- The Significance of Significance
- The Unsuccessful Wedding-Night
- Cow
- Don't Let's Talk About Being In Love

BERNARD O'DONOGHUE 1945-
- O'Regan the Amateur Anatomist

WENDY COPE 1945-
- Waste Land Limericks
- Two Cures for Love

PETER DIDSBURY 1946-
- The Guitar
- The Shore
- An Expedition

PETER READING 1946-
- Midnight,
- from Ukulele Music

PENELOPE SHUTTLE 1947-
- Taxing the Rain

LIZ LOCHHEAD 1947-
- My Mother's Suitors
- What The Pool Said, On Midsummer's Day

JOHN ASH 1948-
- Unwilling Suspension
- Party Damage
- Early Views of Manchester and Paris: First View

DENISE RILEY 1948-
- Shantung

CIARAN CARSON 1948-
- Dresden
- Belfast Confetti
- Bloody Hand
- The Brain of Edward Carson

TOM PAULIN 1949-
- Settlers
- A Lyric Afterwards
- Peacetime

GILLIAN ALLNUTT 1949-
- Convent

CHRISTOPHER REID 1949-
- Stones and Bones

JAMES FENTON 1949-
- A German Requiem
- A Staffordshire Murderer
- The Ballad of the Imam and the Shah

JOHN AGARD 1949-
- Listen Mr Oxford don

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GRACE NICHOLS 1950-
- Thoughts drifting through the fat black woman's head while having a full bubble bath
- Mystery

BLAKE MORRISON 1950-
- from The Ballad of the Yorkshire Ripper

MEDBH MCGUCKIAN 1950-
- Slips
- Venus and the Rain
- Yeastlight

JOHN COOPER CLARKE 1950-
- beezley street

FRANK KUPPNER 1951-
- from A Bad Day for the Sung Dynasty

MENNA ELFYN 1951-
- Dyn Eira/Snowman

PAUL MULDOON 1951-
- Incantata

NUALA NI DHOMHNAILL 1952-
- Geasa/The Bond
- An tSeanbhean Bhocht/The Shan Van Vocht
- Ceist na Teangan/The Language Issue

LINTON KWESI JOHNSON 1952-
- Inglan Is a Bitch

ANDREW MOTION 1952-
- The Letter
- Bathing at Glymenopoulo
- On the Table

HELEN DUNMORE 1952-
- The dream-life of priests
- Wild strawberries

SEAN O'BRIEN 1952-
- Cousin Coat
- A Rarity
- Reading Stevens in the Bath

MATTHEW SWEENEY 1952-
- Blue Shoes

JO SHAPCOTT 1953-
- Phrase Book

ALISON BRACKENBURY 1953-
- Grooming

IAN DUHIG 1954-
- From the Irish

MONIZA ALVI 1954-
- Arrival 1946

MICHAEL DONAGHY 1954-
- Shibboleth
- Liverpool
- Reliquary

JOHN BURNSIDE 1955-
- Faith
- Dundee
- Science

JAMIE MCKENDRICK 1955-
- On/Off

PAULA MEEHAN 1955-
- The Man who was Marked by Winter

CAROL ANN DUFFY 1955-
- Warming Her Pearls
- Adultery
- Prayer
- Mrs Lazarus

ROBIN ROBERTSON 1955-
- Artichoke

SUJATA BHATT 1956-
- (Sherdi)
- What Is Worth Knowing?

MICK IMLAH 1956-
- Tusking

SARAH MAGUIRE 1957-
- Uisge Beatha

OLIVER REYNOLDS 1957-
- Anna Colutha in Suffolk

MICHAEL HOFMANN 1957-
- Between Bed and Wastepaper Basket

BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH 1958-
- Dis Poetry

MEG BATEMAN 1959-
- Aotromachd/Lightness

GWYNETH LEWIS 1959-
- Pentecost

FRED D'AGUIAR 1960-
- Mama Dot
- The Day Mama Dot Takes Ill

PETER SIRR 1960-
- Recognition

STEPHEN KNIGHT 1960-
- The Mermaid Tank

W. N. HERBERT 1961-
- Coco-de-Mer
- Morn-Come-Never

JACKIE KAY 1961-
- Brendon Gallacher (For my brother Maxie)

LAVINIA GREENLAW 1962-
- A World Where News Travelled Slowly

GLYN MAXWELL 1962-
- Helene and Heloise
- We Billion Cheered
- Either

KATHLEEN JAMIE 1962-
- Wee Wifey
- Arraheids
- Mr and Mrs Scotland are dead
- The Tay Moses

DON PATERSON 1963-
- Exeunt
- A Private Bottling

KATE CLANCHY 1965-
- Poem for a Man with No Sense of Smell

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