Chronology: Composition (1981-1998)

J. C. Hoyte: Ohinemutu Village (1873)

Poetry Chronology
(1981-1998)

Statistics:

1981 - 238
1982 - 38[276]
1983 - 54[330]
1984 - 75[405]
1985 - 55[459]
1986 - 18[516]
1987 - 15[531]
1988 - 14[545]
1989 - 12[557]
1990 - 10[567]
1991 - 16[583]
1992 - 3[586]
1993 - 3[589]
1994 - 2[591]
1995 - 3[594]
1996 - 31[625]
1997 - 58[683]
1998 - 90[773]

Appendix (18/5/84)

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[Dates of Composition:]


1981

Sundry Poems Addressed to the Moon (1981)

(Auckland):
1. March: The Ascetic and the Visionary
2. March: Conversation between Two Customers before a Theatre
3. March: La Mancha Stems
4. March: On Two Modern Greek Poets
5. March: Poems in Both My Methods
6. March: The Body Imprecise
7. March: Reminiscence
8. March: “Lashes an Abandoned”
9. March: A Further Patterning
10. March: Still No Crow

(Auckland to Los Angeles):
11. Saturday, 28th March: TE 006 (Y): Dragon’s Seed

(London):
12. Sunday, 5th April: South Kensington to Richmond Green
13. Sunday, 5th April: The Queen’s Beasts
14. Sunday, 5th April: Time and the Hour Runs through the Roughest Day
15. Sunday, 5th April: Letter to K. M. Ross
16. Wednesday, 8th April: The Watchman’s Drum
17. Friday, 10th April: The Ruling House of Portugal
18. Friday, 10th April: Too Early in the Season

(France):
19. Sunday, 12th April: Pro Patria – Confusion
20. Thursday, 16th April: Tassin la demi-lune
21. Thursday, 16th April: Théâtre antique d’Orange (16/4/81)
22. Thursday, 16th April: A Link
23. Friday, 17th April: Van Gogh’s Provence
24. Saturday, 18th April: Sea Warfare 1805
25. Saturday, 18th April: Full Circle

(Italy):
26. Sunday, 19th April: Penthouses dell’Italia
27. Sunday, 19th April: Landscape Notes
28. Sunday, 19th April: Border Precedence
29. Monday, 20th April: Firenze alla Toscana
30. Wednesday, 22nd April: Dogboys of Calabria
31. Wednesday, 22nd April: Monte Cassino
32. Wednesday, 22nd April: Naples
33. Thursday, 23rd April: Replete
34. Thursday, 23rd April: Le isole di Elba
35. Friday, 24th April: Night Fishermen upon the Adriatic
36. Friday, 24th April: Ravenna and the North
37. Friday, 24th April: Autostrada

(Austria):
38. Monday, 25th April: The Alps
39. Monday, 25th April: Apology I
40. Monday, 25th April: Our Travellers were soon
41. Monday, 25th April: Ötztaler Spring

(Switzerland):
42. Sunday, 26th April: La Suisse
43. Sunday, 26th April: Apology II
44. Monday, 27th April: Apology III
45. Monday, 27th April: Barbarossa
46. Tuesday, 28th April: The Colony
47. Tuesday, 28th April: Switzerland

(France):
48. Friday, 1st May: L’Envoi
49. Saturday, 2nd May: Ballad of Charleville

(Belgium):
50. Saturday, 2nd May: The Sky of Belgium
51. Saturday, 2nd May: [Jack's Metamorphoses:] Bruxelles
52. Saturday, 2nd May: An Aviator Shooting
53. Saturday, 2nd May: The Heart that Beats
54. Sunday, 3rd May: The Thick Brown Earth of Flanders
55. Sunday, 3rd May: Hooge Crater Cemetery

(France):
56. Sunday, 3rd May: Dunkirk

(Calais to Dover):
57. Sunday, 3rd May: Channel Crossing
58. Sunday, 3rd May: As Endlessly Propelled

(England):
59. Monday, 4th May: A Loss
60. Monday, 4th May: Ode on a Distant Prospect of Portchester Castle
61. Thursday, 7th May: New Forest Rhyme
62. Friday, 8th May: The Rufus Stone
63. Friday, 8th May: Swanage Beach in Dorset
64. Friday, 8th May: A Death and Landscape Poet
65. Friday, 8th May: A Female Grave at Maiden Castle
66. Friday, 8th May: The Dance of Death at Evening
67. Friday, 8th May: For Centuries the Gallows
68. Friday, 8th May: The Ghost
69. Friday, 8th May: John Cowper Powys
70. Friday, 8th May: Portland Bill
71. Friday, 8th May: In Lieu of Polished Stones
72. Saturday, 9th May: Dartmoor and Environs
73. Saturday, 9th May: The Grass has Overgrown
74. Saturday, 9th May: Plymouth
75. Saturday, 9th May: Cornwall
76. Saturday, 9th May: Dubiously So
77. Saturday, 9th May: Penzance
78. Sunday, 10th May: St Ives
79. Sunday, 10th May: A Tract of Woods Resembling
80. Sunday, 10th May: River Camel
81. Sunday, 10th May: Tintagel: The Approaches
82. Sunday, 10th May: Boscastle Port
83. Sunday, 10th May: War Memorial, Kilkhampton, Cornwall
84. Sunday, 10th May: Devon Road
85. Sunday, 10th May: Devon Wood
86. Sunday, 10th May: Westward Ho!
87. Sunday, 10th May: John Ridd
88. Sunday, 10th May: Kentisbury Ford
89. Sunday, 10th May: [Jack's Metamorphoses:] Exmoor and Lorna Doone (10/5/81)
90. Monday, 11th May: Glastonbury Tor and Abbey
91. Monday, 11th May: Monday in Glastonbury
92. Monday, 11th May: Wells Cathedral
93. Monday, 11th May: Devizes
94. Monday, 11th May: The Wansdyke
95. Monday, 11th May: The Plain
96. Monday, 11th May: University City
97. Monday, 11th May: Logs of Wenceslas
98. Monday, 11th May: Two Birds Flashed by
99. Monday, 11th May: Avebury Ring
100. Tuesday, 12th May: Outside Cambridge (12/5/81)
101. Wednesday, 13th May: The Sun Sinks in the Sky
102. Wednesday, 13th May: They Shoulder
103. Thursday, 14th May: City of York
104. Thursday, 14th May: Spender
105. Thursday, 14th May: The Rolling Country
106. Friday, 15th May: Corbridge: Corstopitum
107. Friday, 15th May: Brunton Turret
108. Friday, 15th May: Hadrian’s Wall
109. Friday, 15th May: The Wall
110. Friday, 15th May: The Dictate of a Fool

(Scotland):
111. Friday, 15th May: The Borders
112. Friday, 15th May: Forth Bridge
113. Friday, 15th May: The Face of the Hill
114. Saturday, 16th May: The Valves
115. Sunday, 17th May: Poem to Will Maclean
116. Sunday, 17th May: The Child with His Dead Porter ...
117. Sunday, 17th May: Edinburgh
118. Sunday, 17th May: The Night is a Country
119. Sunday, 17th May: Dim Apparitions (I Have Never Seen
120. Monday, 18th May: Consider Applegate
121. Tuesday, 19th May: A Flag Upon
122. Tuesday, 19th May: Crossgates
123. Tuesday, 19th May: The Immense
124. Tuesday, 19th May: Edinburgh
125. Tuesday, 19th May: The Trains Produced
126. Tuesday, 19th May: The Face behind the Camera
127. Tuesday, 19th May: The Sanctity of Nightmare
128. Wednesday, 20th May: Seven Grim
129. Wednesday, 20th May: Edinburgh by Train
130. Thursday, 21st May: An Interesting Speculation
131. Thursday, 21st May: Castle Campbell
132. Saturday, 23rd May: When Senile, Eberhart
133. Saturday, 23rd May: Anon.
134. Saturday, 23rd May: The Mines (Obscurity’s Defence)
135. Sunday, 24th May: And If Ye Gae
136. Sunday, 24th May: The Flock of Crows
137. Sunday, 24th May: A Once Delivered Tale
138. Sunday, 24th May: “But Chiefly I Remember ...”
139. Monday, 25th May: Pitmedden
140. Monday, 25th May: An Earlier Defence
141. Tuesday, 26th May: The Clod
142. Tuesday, 26th May: Fort George
143. Tuesday, 26th May: Culloden Moor
144. Tuesday, 26th May: Everything Resolves Itself
145. Friday, 29th May: The Black Isle
146. Friday, 29th May: We Construct
147. Friday, 29th May: To Whom the Sight
148. Saturday, 30th May: Diaspora
149. Saturday, 30th May: Road-signs
150. Saturday, 30th May: Loch Ness – Reflections
151. Saturday, 30th May: Urquhart Castle: Phallic Imagery / Evidence of Ache
152. Saturday, 30th May: Offertory
153. Sunday, 31st May: Just in Time
154. Sunday, 31st May: Kiltearn
155. Monday, 1st June: Coigach
156. Monday, 1st June: Corrieshalloch
157. Monday, 1st June: Ullapool
158. Monday, 1st June: Dialogue
159. Monday, 1st June: Polbain
160. Tuesday, 2nd June: Polbain
161. Tuesday, 2nd June: The Clachan
162. Tuesday, 2nd June: I Tramped down through
163. Tuesday, 2nd June: Defeat – The Wind Might Seize
164. Tuesday, 2nd June: L’Inferno
165. Wednesday, 3rd June: But Anyway [One Version of Pastoral] (3/6/81–15/8/96)
166. Wednesday, 3rd June: Tanera Beag (3/6/81)
167. Wednesday, 3rd June: Tanera Mor
168. Wednesday, 3rd June: I Can Vouch for
169. Thursday, 4th June: Unilever
170. Thursday, 4th June: Words
171. Friday, 5th June: Old Dornie
172. Friday, 5th June: Altandhu
173. Friday, 5th June: Culnacraig
174. Friday, 5th June: Admission to
175. Friday, 5th June: The First and the Second-to-Last
176. Saturday, 6th June: Æschylus
177. Sunday, 7th June: “And Pompous in the Grave”
178. Sunday, 7th June: The Sacrifice
179. Monday, 8th June: Achiltibuie
180. Monday, 8th June: The Pipe Line
181. Wednesday, 10th June: Loch Duich and Five Sisters
182. Wednesday, 10th June: The Great Glen
183. Wednesday, 10th June: Interesting Spinal
184. Wednesday, 10th June: Inland Promise
185. Wednesday, 10th June: A Pretty Compliment
186. Wednesday, 10th June: The Speech
187. Thursday, 11th June: Living is Inseparable
188. Thursday, 11th June: That Side of It

(England):
189. Friday, 12th June: Ullswater [First Love] (12/6/81-18/9/97)
190. Friday, 12th June: Derwentwater
191. Friday, 12th June: A Lava Flow
192. Friday, 12th June: Bernadotte
193. Monday, 15th June: Where are the Lines
194. Monday, 15th June: Personally I Choose
195. Tuesday, 16th June: The Heir
196. Tuesday, 16th June: Alkaline
197. Tuesday, 16th June: Factory Chimneys

(Wales):
198. Tuesday, 16th June: Menai Bridge
199. Wednesday, 17th June: Beside Snowdon
200. Wednesday, 17th June: 1912

(England):
201. Wednesday, 17th June: Snowdon to Shrewsbury
202. Wednesday, 17th June: Cerulean Adversity
203. Thursday, 18th June: No Fire Can Deceive
204. Saturday, 20th June: Focus
205. Tuesday, 23rd June: “And the Sea Shall Give up Her Dead”
206. Wednesday, 24th June: The Sons of Man

(Auckland):
207. Wednesday, 1st July: But Not for the Moment
208. Saturday, 4th July: Compassion Liberate
209. Sunday, 5th July: In Immense Preparation
210. Sunday, 5th July: The Bailiff
211. Monday, 6th July: Tenuous Displacement
212. Wednesday, 8th July: I Don’t Know Why
213. Wednesday, 8th July: Adversity Solidifies
214. Wednesday, 8th July: The Inconceivable Wastes
215. Wednesday, 8th July: The Animated Dead
216. Thursday, 9th July: Okay to Run
217. Sunday, 12th July: Inconsequential
218. Sunday, 13th July: Immense
219. Sunday, 26th July: Three Centuries of Dust
220. Tuesday, 28th July: Columbus Dead
221. Thursday, 30th July: Analogy of Spades
222. Thursday, 30th July: Interview

Colloquial Incantations (August to December, 1981)


223. As He is
224. Entry
225. Hans in Italy
226. I Shall Survive
227. Lash Her
228. Baked Here
229. Reprise
230. Genuflections
231. Advertisement
232. I See
233. Regrettable
234. In Egypt
235. Obsolete (December 1981)
236. Decisions
237. The Fierce Sun
238. No Wine


1982

The Visions of the Shaman (January to June, 1982)

(Auckland):
239. Pope Joan
240. Charlemagne
241. The Shaman (January 1982)
242. Anactæon
243. The Rabbit-Headed God
244. Ballad: The Watchman and the Thief
245. Love of Woman
246. From Bosky Auckland
247. An Image
248. Amun-Re
249. Chelsea
250. Entities
251. The Famine
252. For 750 Years
253. P.E.P. 1981

Burning a Play (June to August, 1982)


254. The Third Circle
255. Harbour-Light
256. In the Desert
257. Habitats
258. All
259. The Day
260. Pauvre Jacques
261. Afterwards
262. In the Park
263. The Danes
264. Punch and Judy
265. Apollinaire
266. Impossible to Be Free
267. Predictions
268. Where Are We Going?
269. Nothing

5 Poems (1982)


270. Lunchtime
271. Booby-prize
272. Espionage
273. Primitive
274. The Charterhouse
275. Likewise
276. Cheap Perfume


1983


Poems in Traditional Metres (1983)

(Auckland):
277. Sunday, 20th March: This Wednesday Afternoon
278. Sunday, 27th March: Canzone
279. Sunday, 3rd April: Adventure in the Colonies I & II
280. Sunday, 10th April: Pindaric Ode
281. Sunday, 17th April: Quatrains
282. Sunday, 17th April: Ottava Rima
283. Sunday, 24th April: Song
284. Sunday, 1st May: My Love Enchained
285. Sunday, 8th May: Ballad or Drinking Song
286. Sunday, 8th May: In Brazil
287. Sunday, 15th May: Cultivation
288. Sunday, 15th May: Not Here
289. Sunday, 22nd May: Topical Satire
290. Sunday, 29th May: Auckland by Night
291. Sunday, 29th May: Cormorants: Another of the Same
292. Sunday, 5th June: On the Occasion of Wet Snow (5/6/83-7/9/96)
293. Sunday, 12th June: Narrative Poem
294. Sunday, 19th June: Dramatic Poem
295. Sunday, 26th June: Apostrophe
296. Sunday, 26th June: All My Sense
297. Sunday, 26th June: My Ankle
298. Sunday, 3rd July: Reconstituted Fragments
299. Sunday, 10th July: Personages I-IV
300. Sunday, 17th July: The Present Tense (17/7/83-18/4/97)
301. Sunday, 24th July: The Statement
302. Sunday, 24th July: Sea Shanty
303. Sunday, 31st July: Imprisoned as the Titans
304. Sunday, 7th August: The Ghost of a House
305. Sunday, 14th August: Poem for Midsummer
306. Sunday, 21st August: Doggerel
307. Sunday, 21st August: Why
308. Sunday, 21st August: He Turns on Lights
309. Sunday, 28th August: Moonlight
310. Sunday, 28th August: Winter in New Zealand
311. Sunday, 4th September: Malory
312. Sunday, 11th September: The History of a Lightbulb
313. Sunday, 18th September: Some Sort of Trumpet-Call
314. Sunday, 18th September: Dante
315. Sunday, 25th September: Three a Night
316. Sunday, 2nd October: Because
317. Sunday, 9th October: Dialogue
318. Wednesday, 12th October: Flyting
319. Sunday, 16th October: Another Sort of Gull
320. Sunday, 23rd October: Fable (with Moral Attached)
321. Sunday, 23rd October: Dichtung und Wahrheit

Regeneration and Other Poems (1983-84)


322. Sunday, 30th October: Regeneration
323. Sunday, 6th November: Credo (Epilogue)
324. Sunday, 13th November: A Roman Thought
325. Sunday, 20th November: As a Salvage-Worker
326. Sunday, 27th November: What Use?
327. Sunday, 4th December: The Level
328. Sunday, 11th December: White and Straight
329. Sunday, 18th December: Sympathetic Magic
330. Sunday, 25th December: I’m Bleeding from the Back


1984

(Auckland):
331. Sunday, 1st January: A Sexual Wound
332. Sunday, 8th January: Hommage à W. B. Yeats
333. Sunday, 15th January: Mounting
334. Sunday, 22nd January: The Pain
335. Sunday, 22nd January: Instructions to a Cat
336. Sunday, 29th January: Office Space
337. Sunday, 5th February: Yawn
338. Sunday, 12th February: Mechanism
339. Sunday, 19th February: Ringing Off
340. Sunday, 19th February: A. E. H.
341. Sunday, 26th February: One Man’s Flowers
342. Sunday, 4th March: A Life beyond the Grave
343. Sunday, 11th March: A Whiff of Foul Air
344. Sunday, 18th March: A Song of Overcoming
345. Sunday, 25th March: Horses
346. Sunday, 25th March: There is a Serpent
347. Sunday, 1st April: Beyond a Doubt
348. Sunday, 1st April: Love Song
349. Sunday, 8th April: À l’Ombre
350. Sunday, 15th April: Euripides
351. Sunday, 22nd April: Good Friday Poem
352. Sunday, 29th April: Myza
353. Sunday, 29th April: What Have I Done Wrong
354. Sunday, 6th May: No Alternatives
355. Sunday, 13th May: Calligrammes
356. Sunday, 13th May: Very Poor
357. Sunday, 13th May: Variations on an Already Propounded Theme

Miscellaneous Poems (1984)


358. Sunday, 20th May: Bayswater Cemetery – 13/5/84
359. Sunday, 27th May: Who Knows
360. Sunday, 27th May: And ...
361. Sunday, 3rd June: A Starlight Night
362. Sunday, 10th June: Mortality, or, The Bells of Elfland
363. Sunday, 17th June: Afterthoughts (A Pertinent Suggestion)
364. Sunday, 24th June: Ouvriers – Imagine My Surprise!

La Vita Anziana (1984)


365. Sunday, 30th June: Saturday Night (prose)
366. Sunday, 1st July: The Less I Know ...
367. Wednesday, 4th July: Wednesday Evening (prose)
368. Wednesday, 4th July: The Same (prose)
369. Sunday, 8th July: If There’s Any Reluctance ...
370. Tuesday, 10th July: Tuesday Night (prose)
371. Wednesday, 11th July: Wednesday Morning (prose)
372. Wednesday, 11th July: The Same (prose)
373. Sunday, 15th July: ‘Rapunzel, Rapunzel ...’
374. Sunday, 15th July: In Pride of Eye ...
375. Sunday, 22nd July: What Did You Say ...
376. Sunday, 22nd July: Sunday Morning (prose)
377. Sunday, 22nd July: The Same (prose)
378. Sunday, 22nd July: Sunday Night (prose)
379. Friday, 27th July: Friday Morning (prose)
380. Sunday, 29th July: A Special Scrawl ...
381. Sunday, 29th July: Be-ography ...
382. Sunday, 5th August: To Date We’ve Spent ...
383. Sunday, 12th August: Hey Man ...
384. Sunday, 12th August: Sunday Night (prose)
385. Sunday, 19th August: Oh God I Can’t Escape ...
386. Sunday, 26th August: Some Gibbering Mouthing Moron ...
387. Sunday, 2nd September: It Looks Pretty Good ...
388. Sunday, 9th September: The Wrath of God ...
389. Sunday, 16th September: A Bird Can Take a Bath ...
390. Sunday, 23rd September: “Non, Je ne regrette rien!” ...
391. Sunday, 23rd September: “900 Heroic Days”
392. Sunday, 30th September: I’m Surprised You Dared ...
393. Sunday, 7th October: Newdigate Prize Poem ...
394. Sunday, 14th October: It’s Impossible to Tell ...
395. Sunday, 21st October: Sight is Less Insidious ...
396. Sunday, 28th October: On a Set Topic ...

Car Broken Down (1984-85)


397. Sunday, 4th November: Deluged
398. Sunday, 11th November: What It All Means
399. Sunday, 18th November: The New “Michael Fowler” Centre
400. Sunday, 25th November: A Connoisseur
401. Sunday, 2nd December: Smokey
402. Sunday, 9th December: Eye-Splitting
403. Sunday, 16th December: Naive Acumen
404. Sunday, 23rd December: He’s Full of It
405. Sunday, 30th December: Who Will?


1985

(Auckland):
406. Sunday, 6th January: My Dick out
407. Sunday, 13th January: Complex
408. Sunday, 20th January: Veracity
409. Sunday, 27th January: In the Valley of the Fat
410. Sunday, 3rd February: That Cadaver
411. Sunday, 10th February: The Fall of Troy
412. Sunday, 17th February: Vignette (d’aprés Marin Marais)
413. Sunday, 17th February: Misha the Cat
414. Sunday, 24th February: Process of Fate

Poems Without Titles (1985)


415. Sunday, 3rd March: ‘Just by the perilous alchemy of style
416. Sunday, 10th March: In subterranean grottoes of the sea
417. Sunday, 17th March: Car Broken Down
418. Sunday, 24th March: Is God watching me – as I pick my nose?
419. Sunday, 31st March: Right order ... trampled in the dust
420. Sunday, 7th April: The drought is broken, blessed be the rain ...
421. Sunday, 14th April: Warring impulses

Defender of the Green (1985)


422. Sunday, 21st April: Defender of the Green
423. Sunday, 28th April: I’m too obsessed with this, I fear –
424. Sunday, 5th May: Shoelaces
425. Sunday, 12th May: I don’t want to search for fear
426. Saturday, 18th May: ‘Come on in, the water’s fine!’
427. Sunday, 26th May: To Lewis in China
428. Sunday, 2nd June: It’s become a reflex
429. Sunday, 9th June: Bus timetables must be metaphors for something
430. Sunday, 16th June: Asphalt courts are glistening with rain
431. Sunday, 23rd June: One has to steal up on them
432. Sunday, 30th June: Motorhead. – Big guns. – My typewriter
433. Sunday, 7th July: Your comment’s noted, but
434. Sunday, 14th July: Rainer Maria Rilke prepared himself for years
435. Sunday, 21st July: It is quite useful, that box – not
436. Sunday, 28th July: Raindrops crossing swords
437. Sunday, 4th August: Notes on nothing in particular.
438. Sunday, 11th August: O promises – designed to reassure ...
439. Sunday, 18th August: I’ve been building it up for quite a while,
440. Sunday, 25th August: That’s tons of them for this week
441. Sunday, 1st September: ‘Hey hey hey! – Look who’s here!’
442. Sunday, 8th September: Entire lives go on by
443. Sunday, 15th September: Flight is a powerful image, so
444. Sunday, 22nd September: Everyone likes:
445. Sunday, 29th September: Mistletoe ... I’ve never seen it
446. Sunday, 6th October: The Space Race
447. Sunday, 13th October: I’m feeling good,
448. Sunday, 20th October: She gives a little hop & skip & jump
449. Sunday, 27th October: Its triviality makes it worthy of record
450. Sunday, 3rd November: There are parts of my nature
451. Sunday, 10th November: Red men – Indians – on far-off prairies
452. Sunday, 17th November: Red shirts are all the rage, I
453. Sunday, 24th November: Middle English Alliterative Poetry
454. Sunday, 1st December: The dead are so unreasonable
455. Sunday, 8th December: Fancy that – I would’ve thought there’d be more.
456. Sunday, 17th December: In the Dream-time, men were undecided
457. Sunday, 22nd December: A Eulogy on the Glory of His Sex
458. Thursday, 26th December: Voyage to Cythera (after Baudelaire)
459. Sunday, 29th December: Books


1986

(Auckland):
460. Friday, 3rd January: Villon’s Quatrain (translation)
461. Sunday, 5th January: It’s awfully hot these summer nights,
462. Sunday, 12th January: Smoking
463. Sunday, 19th January: What does one generally have to eat
464. Sunday, 26th January: Mokau Landscape
465. Sunday, 2nd February: I feel a bit like a pharaoh

Khruschev Forgets (1986)


466. Sunday, 9th February: To Any Hero after a Thousand Years
467. Sunday, 16th February: Abominable Lust
468. Saturday, 22nd February: Beowulf, ll.1-11 (translation)
469. Sunday, 23rd February: Song
470. Sunday, 2nd March: Khrushchev Forgets
471. Sunday, 9th March: Deception
472. Sunday, 16th March: "The University is a Paradise ..."
473. Thursday, 20th March: Villon’s Ballade (translation)
474. Sunday, 23rd March: Doctors
475. Sunday, 30th March: Overheard
476. Sunday, 6th April: Arabian Night
477. Sunday, 13th April: Winthrop's
478. Sunday, 20th April: Fleas and Gibbets
479. Sunday, 27th April: Heat
480. Sunday, 4th May: Super ... Super
481. Sunday, 11th May: Innocence
482. Sunday, 18th May: Journey by Bus to a Vivaldi Concert
483. Sunday, 25th May: Plateau Poems I
484. Sunday, 1st June: Handel
485. Sunday, 8th June: The Late Romances: Pericles [I] (8/6/86-7/1/2025)
486. Sunday, 15th June: To Be in Someone Else's Poem
487. Sunday, 22nd June: To Claudia Marquis
488. Sunday, 29th June: The Late Romances – Pericles, IV
489. Sunday, 6th July: The Late Romances – Pericles, V
490. Sunday, 13th July: The Late Romances – Pericles, VI
491. Sunday, 20th July: The Late Romances – Pericles, II
492. Sunday, 27th July: The Late Romances – Pericles, III
493. Sunday, 3rd August: U-Can c.
494. Sunday, 10th August: Giant Forms
495. Sunday, 17th August: Marina
496. Sunday, 24th August: The North Ship

Women (1986-87)


497. Sunday, 31st August: Dido and Aeneas
498. Sunday, 7th September: A Secular Oratorio

(Edinburgh):
499. Sunday, 14th September: Freud
500. Sunday, 21st September: Sonnet (with 14 lines)
501. Sunday, 28th September: Freshers' Week, Edinburgh 1986
502. Sunday, 5th October: To Alison Fox
503. Sunday, 12th October: The Crystal Age
504. Sunday, 19th October: The Lift
505. Saturday, 25th October: Failure to Write a Rebuttal to Norman MacCaig
506. Sunday, 2nd November: Cultural Insensitivity (My Own)
507. Saturday, 8th November: Adjunct
508. Saturday, 8th November: Memorial to a Friendship, I
509. Thursday, 13th November: Memorial to a Friendship, II-V
510. Sunday, 16th November: Cheryl
511. Monday, 17th November: In Love at Last, I-V
512. Saturday, 22nd November: Train Poems, I
513. Sunday, 30th November: Kneel Down, Stand Up
514. Monday, 8th December: Winter Thoughts in Edinburgh, I
515. Sunday, 14th December: Winter Thoughts in Edinburgh, II
516. December: Aubade (after Apollinaire) (12/86)


1987

(Edinburgh):
517. Sunday, 11th January: Winter Thoughts in Edinburgh, III
518. Monday,19th January: Winter Thoughts in Edinburgh, IV
519. Sunday, 25th January: Conversation with Alison, I
520. Sunday, 15th February: Edinburgh in the Posthumous Works of Elizabeth Bishop, I
521. Sunday, 22nd February: Edinburgh in the Posthumous Works of Elizabeth Bishop, II
522. Sunday, 1st March: Conversation with Alison, II
523. Sunday, 8th March: Conversation with Alison, III
524. Sunday, 15th March: Conversation with Alison, IV

Edinburgh Poems (1987)


525. Sunday, 22nd March: Scatological
526. Sunday, 29th March: Home Thoughts from Abroad
527. Wednesday, 29th July: Stanzas of Consolation in Despair (29/7/87)
528. Sunday, 6th September: Apologies Presented to Debbie Gallagher, I
529. Sunday, 15th November: Incest
530. Sunday, 22nd November: The Mirror, II
531. Sunday, 29th November: The Mirror, I


1988

Journal Poems (1988)

(Edinburgh):
532. Thursday, 4th February: The Encyclopædists: Last Sonnet from China
533. Wednesday, 24th February: Graffito I
534. Sunday, 26th June: Failing, again, to ...
535. Sunday, 10th July: On Failing to Meet the Zen Master (10/7/88)
536. Sunday, 17th July: On Failing to Meet the Zen Master, II
537. Sunday, 24th July: On Failing to Meet the Zen Master, III
538. Sunday, 7th August: Dieting while Reading Conrad, I
539. Sunday, 14th August: On Failing to Meet the Zen Master, IV
540. Thursday, 18th August: Graffito II
541. Sunday, 21st August: Dieting while Reading Conrad, II
542. September: [Ancestral Voices:] You are walking … (9/88-12/9/90)
543. Sunday, 11th September: Dieting while Reading Conrad, III
544. Sunday, 2nd October: Dieting while Reading Conrad, IV
545. Sunday, 2nd October: Coda
546. Friday, 25th November: To Suzanne Gruber


1989

(Edinburgh):
547. Wednesday, 12th July: Cassandre I (after Ronsard) (12/7/89)
548. Thursday, 13th July: Cassandre II (after Ronsard) (13/7/89)
549. Friday, 14th July: Cassandre III (after Ronsard) (14/7/89)
550. Tuesday, 18th July: [Ancestral Voices:] First Day of Spring (18/7/89-14/3/01)
551. Saturday, 29th July: The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, I (29/7-4/8/89)
552. Friday, 4th August: The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, II (29/7-4/8/89)
553. Thursday, 10th August: Inscription in a Copy of The Tale of Genji (10/8/89)
554. Wednesday, 4th October: The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, III

Dream Poems (1989)


555. Wednesday, 4th October: Stalin’s Raven (4/10/89-18/12/06)
556. Friday, 20th October: Party in the SCR (20/10/89-5/2/09)
557. Tuesday, 24th October: Book-Sale (24/10/89-5/2/09)
558. Wednesday, 25th October: A Glastonbury Romance (25/10/89-5/2/09)


1990

(Edinburgh):
559. Saturday, 27th January: Dame Edna [Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?] (27/1/90-5/2/09)
560. Friday, 9th February: Concrete Poem
561. Monday, 12th February: Early Valentine's Poem (12/2/90)
562. Sunday, 15th April: A Reaction to the Line: '"We've come too far" ...'
563. Saturday, 28th April: Epithalamion (28/4/90)
564. Sunday, 6th May: After Reading Berryman’s Sonnets (6/5/90)
565. Monday, 21st May: Jackie-Anne's Dream [Claire's Dream] (21/5/90-5/2/09)
566. Tuesday, 22nd May: Malcolm O (22/5/90-5/2/09)
567. Monday, 30th July: Verse

Auckland to Palmerston & Back (1990-91)

(Auckland):
568. Saturday, 3rd November: Farewell to Edinburgh, I


1991

(Palmerston North):
569. Saturday, 23rd March: Farewell to Edinburgh, II
570. Saturday, 23rd March: Auckland Again, I
571. Friday, 29th March: A Few Precepts for English Metre
572. Saturday, 30th March: Auckland Again, II-III
573. Sunday, 31st March: Quick with New Growth, Fecund
574. Saturday, 6th April: English Lit I
575. Thursday, 18th April: Elegy for Ames (18/4/91)
576. Wednesday, 19th June: The Massey English Department: A Rogues' Gallery
577. Thursday, 27th June: Jingle Bells
578. Wednesday, 24th July: Ugolino (24/7/91-5/2/09)
579. Thursday, 25th July: Canto 72 & Canto 73 (after Ezra Pound) (25/7/91-5/97)
580. Saturday, 27th July: Big Game
581. Saturday, 27th July: The Ice Dildo
582. Sunday, 28th July: Poem for Cheryl, I-II
583. Monday, 5th August: Tod und Verklärung, I (5/8/91)
584. Friday, 9th August: Tod und Verklärung, II, III & IV (9/8/91)


1992

(Auckland):
585. Thursday, 19th March: The Common Room, English Dept, Arts I
586. Saturday, 25th July: Life on Ætna
587. Thursday, 8th October: To Alan Loney, On the Occasion of His Staff Seminar


1993

(Auckland):
588. Wednesday, 24th February: Prothalamion (24/2/93)
589. Saturday, 24th April: Life in a Chinese Novel (24/4/93-17/4/97)
590. Friday, 5th November: Lines on an Unfortunate Incident ...


1994

(Auckland):
591. Tuesday, 18th January: Dream [The War] (18/1/94-18/12/06)
592. Tuesday, 31st May: Jack's Dream [Finland] (31/5/94-5/2/09)


1995

(Auckland):
593. Monday, 19th June: Lion’s Head (19/6/95-18/12/06)
594. Friday, 30th June: Metaphors of The 1001 Nights (after Borges) (30/6/95-2/8/03)
595. Wednesday, 1st November: On Composing Another C.V.


1996

Killing Time (1996)

(Auckland):
596. Sunday, 28th January: Sexual Positions III (translation)
597. Sunday, 4th February: Sexual Positions I (translation)
598. Thursday, 8th February: Spleen (after Baudelaire) (8/2/96)
599. Monday, 8th April: Sexual Positions II (translation)
600. Thursday, 18th April: Auckland by Night (18/4–29/6/96) /
601. Saturday, 8th June: Brussels by Day

(Edinburgh):
602. Saturday, 6th July: At Linlithgow Palace
603. Saturday, 6th July: For Walter Jensen (6/7/96)
604. Sunday, 7th July: The God Abandons Antony (after Cavafy) (1/96-7/7/96)
605. Monday, 8th July: [Ancestral Voices:] We’re only tenants here (8/7/96-14/3/01)
606. Tuesday, 9th July: Troilism on Lothian Rd
607. Friday, 12th July: Anger, Sadness, Hope

(Auckland):
608. Wednesday, 7th August: The Dream (7/8-8/10/96)
609. Thursday, 15th August: One Version of Pastoral (3/6/81–15/8/96)
610. Tuesday, 20th August: The Paper-Nickers
611. Sunday, 25th August: The Prospect of the Bungy-Jump (25/8/96-2/1/97)
612. Monday, 2nd September: Morning at a Language School (2/9-5/9/96)
613. Saturday, 7th September: On the Occasion of Wet Snow (5/6/83-7/9/96)
614. Sunday, 8th September: A Road through Pylons (8/9-18/10/96)
615. Tuesday, 10th September: Killing Time (10/9-18/11/96)
616. Tuesday, 22nd October: Recovery, I & II (22/10/96-15/1/97)
617. Tuesday, 22nd October: [Nightingale Fever:] Fever, nagging pain … (22/10/96-26/7/2000)
618. Friday, 25th October: [Servants of the Wankh:] Dogs and Flies (25/10/96-24/1/03)
619. Tuesday, 29th October: [Servants of the Wankh:] Punch and Judy (29/10/96-24/1/03)
620. Tuesday, 12th November: Modem not Responding (12/11/96)
621. Wednesday, 13th November: Letter to Jackie-Anne (13/11/96-24/1/97)
622. Saturday, 30th November: Burn Old Diaries (30/11/96-27/6/2000)

Caliban Ogles the Girls (1996-97)


623. Wednesday, 4th December: Laura I (after Petrarch) (4/12/96-1/1/97)
624. Mid-December: Dressing Down (12/96)
625. Sunday, 15th December: Coda (15/12/96)
626. Monday, 23rd December: God’s Spy IV - Safe House (23/12/96)


1997

(Auckland):
627. Wednesday, 1st January: Laura II & III (after Petrarch) (1/1/97)
628. Thursday, 9th January: Angel (9/1/97)
629. Friday, 17th January: Margarita’s (17/1/97)
630. Friday, 17th January: Desperation
631. Friday, 24th January: End of the Year at the End of the World (24/1/97)
632. Thursday, 27th February: Sex-Talk (27/2/97)
633. Early March: Depression
634. Sunday, 9th March: Water-slides (9/3-2/4/97)
635. Friday, 14th March: Reading the Entrails (14/3/97)
636. Friday, 11th April: [Two Kaipara Poems:] Baylys Beach Revisited (11/4/97)
637. Friday, 18th April: Spirit of ’87 [The Present Tense] (17/7/83-18/4/97)
638. Monday, 21st April: Distraction
639. Monday, 21st April: [The Perfect Storm:] Grating your hand … (21/4/97)
640. Tuesday, 29th April: The Rooftop Cavalier (29/4/97)
641. Saturday, 10th May: Poem for My Nephew (10/5/97)
642. Sunday, 18th May: Poets at Seven Years Old (after Rimbaud) (7/91-18/5/97)
643. Tuesday, 20th May: City of Strange Brunettes, I (20/5-6/6/97)
644. Monday, 26th May: Insomnia – 3 a.m. (26/5/97)
645. Friday, 30th May: City of Strange Brunettes, II (20/5-6/6/97)
646. Friday, 6th June: City of Strange Brunettes, III & IV (20/5-6/6/97)
647. Saturday, 14th June: [Two Kaipara Poems:] Muriwai 1997 (14/6/97)

Jack's Metamorphoses (1997)


648. Sunday, 15th June: Jack's Metamorphoses, III – Orpheus in the Bays (15/6/97)
649. Sunday, 15th June: On the Edge (15/6/97)
650. Monday, 16th June: East Coast Bays, Winter (16/6/97)
651. Saturday, 28th June: Waitakeres (28/6-9/11/97)
652. Monday, 7th July: Bilingual Recipe for Big Macs (7/7/97)
653. Tuesday, 15th July: Dumb (15/7/97-22/11/98-29/10/01)
654. Thursday, 24th July: Albany, Quad Block 8 (24/7/97)
655. Friday, 25th July: Bayswater, Night (25/7/97)
656. Tuesday, 29th July: Fashion ‘97 (29/7/97)
657. Friday, 1st August: Before the Rain (1/8/97)
658. Tuesday, 5th August: Jack’s Metamorphoses, III – Orpheus in the Bays (5/8/97-27/2/98)
659. Thursday, 19th August: Jack's Metamorphoses, II – A dark place (19/8/97)
660. Friday, 20th August: Unpardonable Sins (20/8-4/11/97)
661. Monday, 1st September: Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady (1/9/97)
662. Sunday, 14th September: Conversation Pieces, III – Waiwera (14/9/97)
663. Thursday, 18th September: First Love (12/6/81-18/9/97)
664. Friday, 19th September: Jack's Metamorphoses, I – Prologue (19/9/97)
665. Sunday, 28th September: Jack's Metamorphoses, I – True Thomas (28/9/97)
666. Monday, 29th September: Unsent Letter to a Celeb (29/9/97)
667. Monday, 3rd October: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (3/10-8/11/97)
668. Wednesday, 5th October: Sig.na Greta Eta Meets Sigmund Freud (5/10/97)
669. Wednesday, 15th October: After Rilke (15/10/97)
670. Wednesday, 15th October: Jack's Metamorphoses, III – Orpheus. Eurydike. Hermes (17/8-15/10/97)
671. Tuesday, 28th October: Jack's Metamorphoses, III – Ritual dance (28/10/97)
672. Thursday, 30th October: Jack's Metamorphoses, III – Pronunciation (30/10/97)
673. Thursday, 30th October: [Servants of the Wankh:] Klaus Kinski / Krazy Kat (30/10/97-24/1/03)
674. Monday, 10th November: Rough Day on the Gulf (10-19/11/97)
675. Monday, 10th November: A Dash of Bitters (10-19/11/97)
676. Monday, 10th November: Windy Day (10/11/97)

Evenings in the Blackout (1997-98)


677. Wednesday, 19th November: Influenza (19/11/97)
678. Thursday, 27th November: The Mooring of Starting Out (27/11-6/12/97)
679. Thursday, 27th November: Conversation Pieces, II – Erosion
680. Friday, 12th December: [Jack's Metamorphoses:] Labyrinths I – Theseus (after Borges) (12-15/12/97)
681. Friday, 12th December: [Jack's Metamorphoses:] Labyrinths II – Minotaur (after Borges) (12-18/12/97)
682. Friday, 12th December: [Jack's Metamorphoses:] Labyrinths III – Ariadne (after Borges) (12/12/97-19/2/98)
683. Monday, 22nd December: Antipodes I – Midsummer Xmas (22/12/97)
684. Friday, 26th December: Midnight Mass (26/12/97)
685. Tuesday, 30th December: Life Support (30/12/97-14/1/99)


1998

(Auckland):
686. Sunday, 3rd January: Antipodes II – Strange Meeting (3/1/98)
687. Tuesday, 5th January: Antipodes IV – Commuter (5/1/98)
688. Sunday, 10th January: Late-Nite Movie at Wairau Park (10/1-19/9/98)
689. Monday, 11th January: Antipodes III – Morning Swim (11/1/98)
690. Saturday, 16th January: The Romantic Poet’s Credo

(Christchurch):
691. Monday, 18th January: Akaroa
692. Tuesday, 19th January: Ashley Gorge (18-19/1/98)
693. Tuesday, 26th January: Travel Sonnets I – On the Road (26/1/98)
694. Wednesday, 27th January: Travel Sonnets II – Reading U. K. Le Guin (27/1/98)
695. Saturday, 30th January: Travel Sonnets III – In the Takaka Valley (30/1/98)
696. Tuesday, 2nd February: Travel Sonnets IV – Sumner (2/2/98)
697. Wednesday, 3rd February: Travel Sonnets V – Simple (3/2/98)
698. Friday, 5th February: Travel Sonnets VI – Bus [37.2% le matin] (5/2/98)
699. Monday, 8th February: Travel Sonnets VII – Rental (8/2/98)
700. Thursday, 11th February: Travel Sonnets VIII – Ghost (11/2/98)

Courting Chantal (1998)

(Auckland):
701. Saturday, 20th February: Bronze (20/2-2/12/98)
702. Saturday, 20th February: God’s Spy I – Cover (20/2/98)
703. Friday, 5th March: God’s Spy III – Stories (5/3/98)
704. Saturday, 6th March: God’s Spy II – Code (6/3/98)
705. Wednesday, 17th March: Except Once (17/3/98)
706. Sunday, 22nd March: Jack's Metamorphoses, III – Sonnet
707. Saturday, 28th March: Some More of Your Friends from Nevada (28/3/98)
708. Saturday, 28th March: Poetry Weekend I-III (28/3/98)
709. Saturday, 28th March: Language School Picnic (28/3/98)
710. Saturday, 28th March: Renga: Out of the Light
711. Sunday, 29th March: Situations iii: Poetry Festival (29/3/98)
712. Thursday, 1st April: Elegy: Miriel Kyle (1/4/98)
713. Tuesday, 21st April: Wharfbury Dogs (21/4/98)
714. Monday, 27th April: God’s Spy V – Signs (27/4/98)
715. Friday, 31st April: God’s Spy VI – The Opposition (31/4/98)
716. Friday, 1st May: God’s Spy VII – Inside (31/4/98)
717. Tuesday, 5th May: Meditation Exercise (5/5/98)
718. Wednesday, 6th May: La Fille que j’ai abandonnée (6/5-9/7/98)
719. Wednesday, 20th May: God’s Spy VIII – Blown (20/5/98)

(Millerton):
720. Friday, 3rd July: Aeroplane Poems I & II (3/7/98)
721. Saturday, 4th July: Body Fictions [iii]: The music of the rain (4/7-14/10/98)
722. Thursday, 9th July: Tips on Stress from Seddonville (9/7/98)
723. Thursday, 9th July: Kylesque [City Face] (9/7/98)
724. Thursday, 9th July: In the Ngakawau Gorge (9/7/98)
725. Tuesday, 7th July: A Clearer View of the Hinterland: (7-10/7/98)
726. Friday, 10th July: Leicester at Millerton (7-10/7/98)
727. Friday, 10th July: Aeroplane Poems III (10/7/98)
     (Auckland):
728. Saturday, 11th July: Conversation Pieces, I – A One-Way Trip to Palookaville
729. Monday, 13th July: The Consolations of Shonagh, 1 – Mute (13/7/98)
730. Monday, 13th July: Situations ii: Auckland nach dem Regen (13/7/98)
731. Friday, 17th July: Henry Fool (17/7-13/10/98)
732. Tuesday, 21st July: Situations i: Edge City (21/7/98)
733. Friday, 24th July: A Previously Uncollected Posthumous Work of Bukowski (24/7/98)
734. Friday, 31st July: Situations ii: Between “The Newton Boys” and “The Big Hit” (31/7/98)
735. Saturday, 22nd August: M.C. (22/8/98)
736. Saturday, 22nd August: NZ Writing: the NeXt Wave (22/8/98)
737. Tuesday, 1st September: Conversation Pieces, IV – Whitianga
738. Wednesday, 2nd September: Situations iv: Coromandel (2/9/98)
739. Wednesday, 9th September: Journey to the West, II & III (18/6-9/9/98)
740. Thursday, 10th September: Situations i: Between OR and Main Campus (10/9/98)
741. Friday, 11th September: Situations iii: Girls on Film (11/9/98)
742. Thursday, 17th September: The Consolations of Shonagh, 3 – The Mask of Zorro (17/9/98)
743. Sunday, 20th September: Journey to the West, I (18/6-20/9/98)
744. Monday, 28th September: Phoenix (after Giordano Bruno), 2 (28/9/98-29/4/99)
745. Thursday, 31st December: [Nightingale Fever:] A million ways … (31/12/98)
746. Monday, 12th October: Body Fictions ii: Insight in ... (12/10/98-16/1/99)
747. Monday, 12th October: The Old School after Twenty Years (12/10/98)
748. Thursday, 15th October: The Consolations of Shonagh, 4 – Bound (15/10/98)
749. Thursday, 15th October: The Consolations of Shonagh, 5 – Aztec (15/10/98)
750. Friday, 16th October: The Consolations of Shonagh, 2 – Walk Back (16/10/98)
751. Friday, 23rd October: Necrophiliac Variations
752. Tuesday, 27th October: Evenings in the Blackout, 1 – Documentary (27/10-18/11/98)
753. Tuesday, 27th October: Evenings in the Blackout, 2 – Triptych (27/10-18/11/98)
754. Saturday, 7th November: The Road to Oratia (7/11/98-26/2/2000)
755. Tuesday, 10th November: Bookmarks (10-24/11/98)
756. Friday, 13th November: A Town Like Parataxis, 2 – Walking Home on a Clear Evening (13/11/98-1/4/2000)
757. Tuesday, 19th November: Evenings in the Blackout, 3 – Home Beach (17-19/11/98)
758. Friday, 4th December: E-Mailing Venus (4/12/98)
759. Friday, 4th December: [A Patina of the Antique:] Car Broken Down (4/12/98)
760. Friday, 4th December: [A Patina of the Antique:] The Information (30/4/99)
761. Sunday, 6th December: A Woman Named Intrepid (6/12/98)
762. Sunday, 6th December: On this day I complete my 36th year (6/11/98-21/3/2000)
763. Friday, 11th December: Shonagh at an Opening (11/12/98)
764. Friday, 11th December: Shonagh’s Housewarming (11/12/98)
765. Friday, 11th December: Christmas Cards – Tension Headache – The Madwoman in the Bus – Her Plastic Shopping Bags – Thoughts of Jackie-Anne (11/12/98)
766. Sunday, 20th December:There’s Something about Shonagh … (20/12/98)
767. Tuesday, 22nd December: The Longest Day (22/12/98)
768. Tuesday, 22nd December: Lock, Stock , and … (22/12/98)
769. Wednesday, 23rd December: All at Sea (23/12/98)
770. Monday, 28th December: Proverbial Philosophy (28/12/98)
771. Tuesday, 29th December: Boi-Boi on Karaoke (29/12/98)
772. Wednesday, 30th December: Like a Japanese Christmas Card (30/12/98)
773. Wednesday, 30th December: [Ancestral Voices:] the tarseal isn’t beautiful (30/12/98-14/3/01)
774. Thursday, 31st December: [Nightingale Fever:] A million ways … (31/12/98)
775. Thursday, 31st December: NZ Golf (and English) Academy (31/12/98)
776. Wednesday, 30th December: [Ancestral Voices:] Celebrating Fresh Ideas (30/12/98-14/3/01)

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Appendix

Facts & Chronology (1984):

I began writing poetry seriously in 1978, in the 6th form, – my early efforts are contained in the small white book entitled ‘The Works of Jack Ross 1977-79’, vol. II (vol. I covers 1975-1978 & is of no interest, vol. III contains miscellaneous lyrics up to beginning the play in 1980).

‘The Wolves’ was begun at the end of 1978, & followed by ‘The Crusader’ & ‘The Philosopher’s Stone’, although it was not finally revised and completed until after ‘Seven songs of Death’, in 1979. At the end of that year I wrote ‘Son of the Morning’, and, in 1980, “Chüeh-Chü”. I then began on the play, (some of the lyrics for which had already been composed in the Christmas Holidays). This occupied me till 1981 – though, during its composition, I wrote ‘Antichrist’ & ‘Socrates, Johann Kepler & George Orwell’ – at the end of 1980.

The completion of the play in February 1981 was immediately followed by ‘Sundry Poems’ – which includes all of my poems until July 1981. Then came ‘Colloquial Incantations’, followed by ‘The Visions of the Shaman’, completed (& mainly written) the next year, 1982.

Chronology:

• mid-1978:– ‘Wolves’ begun.
• – ‘The Crusader’ (some time that year)
• early 1979:– ‘The Philosopher’s Stone’
• mid-1979:– ‘7 Songs of Death’
• late 1979 (?):– ‘Wolves’ completed (or abandoned).
• 1979-1980:– ‘Son of the Morning’
• early 1980:– ‘Chüeh-Chü’
• c.March 1980:– ‘Ashford’ begun
• late 1980:– ‘Antichrist’
• early 1981:– ‘Socrates, Johann Kepler & George Orwell’
• – ‘Epistle’
• end of Feb 1981:– ‘Ashford’ completed.
• March-July 1981:– ‘Sundry Poems’ (not fully rewritten
  till Christmas 1983)
• late 1981:– ‘Colloquial Incantations’
• early 1982:– ‘The Visions of the Shaman’
• late 1982:– ‘Burning a Play’ – poems written
  up to about August.

All was abandoned until March 1983, when I rewrote my remaining poems from 1982 (The ‘Jack Pepper Poems’ are still remaining , in 1984) for:

• – ‘Poems in traditional Metres’ – still ongoing.
• – ‘Regeneration & other poems’ – begun 30/10/83, finished 13/5/84.

Which is the situation, now, on 18/5/84.

•