Emergency Kit

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Emergency Kit

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Hamnavoe Market [George MacKay Brown]; No [Mark Doty]; Harold's Walk [Geoffrey Lehmann]; Owl [George MacBeth]; A Bee [Peter Didsbury]; The Heaven of Animals [James Dickey] (show all 207); Rat, O Rat [Christopher Logue]; My Rival's House [Liz Lochhead]; A Doll's House [Kit Wright]; The Condom Tree [Chase Twichell]; Smoke [Susan Mitchell]; Listen Carefully [Philip Levine]; 'More Light! More Light!' [Anthony Hecht]; I Am a Cameraman [Douglas Dunn]; Time Out [Maurice Riordan]; Mr and Mrs Scotland Are Dead [Kathleen Jamie]; Brief Lives [Olive Senior]; Apple Island [Robert Graves]; All Except Hannibal [Robert Graves]; Palm Tree King [John Agard]; Emergency Kit [Tanure Ojaide]; The Transportation of Clermont [Les Murray]; Mercian Hymns IX [Geoffrey Hill]; Bedtime Story [George MacBeth]; Mercian Hymns XII [Geoffrey Hill]; The Making of the Drum [Edward Kamau Braithwaite]; The Silent Piano [Louis Simpson]; The Horses [Edwin Muir]; Johann Joachim Quantz's Five Lessons [W. S. Graham]; Variations for Two Pianos [Donald Justice]; An American Roadside Elegy [Dave Smith]; The Dream of Wearing Shorts Forever [Les Murray]; Swineherd [Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin]; Studying the Language [Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin]; Diving into the Wreck [Adrienne Rich]; Punishment [Seamus Heaney]; A Disused Shed in County Wexford [Derek Mahon]; The Bright Lights of Sarajevo [Tony Harrison]; Listenings: viii [Seamus Heaney]; The Season of Phantasmal Peace [Derek Walcott]; From the Domain of Arnheim [Edwin Morgan]; Before [Sean O'Brien]; A Surprise in the Peninsula [Fleur Adcock]; The Visible Baby [Peter Redgrove]; Child Burial [Paula Meehan]; Cut [Sylvia Plath]; 'O little one, this longing is the pits' [Marilyn Hacker]; Ecstacy [Sharon Olds]; Maura [Thomas Lynch[; Behold the Lilies of the Field [Anthony Hecht]; Ye haue heard this yarn afore [Peter Reading]; Crusoe in England [Elizabeth Bishop]; Moon Landing [W. H. Auden]; Landing on the Moon [Odia Ofeiumun]; Outward [Louis Simpson]; The Painter [John Ashbury]; Skywriting [Jamie Grant]; Quiet Nights [Raymond Carver]; The Red Judge [D. M. Black]; Lighthouse [Gerard Woodward]; Popular Mechanics [Charles Simic]; Always [Mark Strand]; I Am a Finn [James Tate]; I Am Still a Finn [James Tate]; Consolation [Tanure Ojaide]; The Turtle [William Carlos Williams]; The Fish in the Stone [Rita Dove]; The Sea Eats the Land at Home [George Awoonor-Williams]; In the Country of the Black Pig [Christopher Logue]; Shame [Richard Wilbur]; The Applicant [Sylvia Plath]; Black March [Stevie Smith]; Badly-Chosen Lover [Rosemary Tonks]; Hydromaniac [Rosemary Tonks]; My Shoes [Charles Simic]; Dream Songs 4, 63 [John Berryman]; Henry By Night [John Berryman]; Memories of West Street and Lepke [Robert Lowell]; The Bight [Elizabeth Bishop]; Boat Poem [Bernard Spencer]; The Monuments [John Ash]; A Low Temple [Arun Kolatkar]; The Empty Church [R. S. Thomas]; The God of Live [George MacBeth]; Fantasy of an African Boy [James Berry]; The Ballad of the Shrieking Man [James Fenton]; A Grin [Ted Hughes]; Not Like That [Adriene Rich]; A Dream of Hanging [Patricia Beer]; Dance of the Cherry Blossom [Jackie Kay]; Death & Co. [Sylvia Plath]; Warm to the Cuddly-toy Charm of a Koala Bear [Gavin Ewart]; Dream of a Slave [Gavin Ewart]; Song [Peter Redgrove]; Hitcher [Simon Armitage]; Species [Charles Boyle]; Dreaming in a Shanghai Restaurant [D. J. Enright]; A Consumer's Report [Peter Porter]; When a Beautiful Woman Gets on the Jutiapa Bus [Belle Waring]; Being a Wife [Selima Hill]; Against Coupling [Fleur Adcock]; The Ecstacy of St Saviour's Avenue [Neil Rollinson]; The Sheep Child [James Dickey]; The Geranium [Theodore Roethke]; Before You Cut Loose [Simon Armitage]; The Strange Case [Michael Ondaatje]; Country Fair [Charles Simic]; Dancing in Vacationland [Stephen Dobyns]; 1668 [Dom Moraes]; Austerities [Charles Simic]; Nigger Sweat [Edward Baugh]; The Emigrant Irish [Eavan Boland]; The Woman on the Dump [Elizabeth Spires]; The Man Who Invented Pain [Craig Raine]; 'now is a ship' [E.E. Cummings]; The Italians Are Excited [Freda Downie]; The Railway Station [Arun Kolkatar]; Sleeping Compartment [Norman MacCaig]; The Taxis [Louis MacNeice]; A Sign Illuminated [Roy Fisher]; Death of a Farmyard [Geoffrey Grigson]; The Explosion [Philip Larkin]; Time [Tony Harrison]; The Scissors Ceremony [Michael Longley]; The Plain Sense of Things [Wallace Stevens]; Where Are the Waters of Childhood? [Mark Strand]; My Mother's Lips [C. K. Williams]; Calvin Klein's Obsession [Ciaran Carson]; A Private Bottling [Don Paterson]; Another Woman [Imtiaz Dharker]; Adultery [Carol Ann Duffy]; This Dead Relationship [Katherine Pierpoint]; Routine Day Sonnet [A. K. Ramanujan]; Raymond of the Rooftops [Paul Durcan]; From a Conversation During Divorce [Carol Rumens]; Onions [William Matthews]; Oatmeal [Galway Kinnell]; When I Grow Up [Hugo Williams]; Out West [Bill Manhire]; As It Should Be [Derek Mahon]; Script Conference [John Hartley Williams]; Aisle of Dogs [Chase Twichell]; On the Venom Farm [Ruth Padel]; The Sting [Tom Paulin]; Raptor [R. S. Thomas]; From the Childhood of Jesus [Robert Pinsky]; Caliban's Books [Michael Donaghy]; The Draft Horse [Robert Frost]; Street [Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin]; The Other [Ted Hughes]; The Old Fools [Philip Larkin]; I Go Back to May 1937 [Sharon Olds]; You Hated Spain [Ted Hughes]; An October Salmon [Ted Hughes]; Notations of Ten Summer Minutes [Norman MacCaig]; Soap Suds [Louis MacNeice]; A Sofa in the Forties [Seamus Heavey]; Ancient Evenings [Michael Hofmann]; My Second Marriage to My First Husband [Alice Fulton]; Lily Pond [Vicki Feaver]; Houdini [Moniza Alvi]; In Your Mind [Carol Ann Duffy]; The Letter [Andrew Motion]; Looking Up [Sujata Bhatt]; Knot [Susan Wicks]; Small Female Skull [Carol Ann Duffy]; Two Hangovers [James Wright]; Death of a Poet [Charles Causley]; Memento Mori [Billy Collins]; Death of an Irishwoman [Michael Hartnett]; Cups [Gwen Harwood]; Hospital Evening [Gwen Harwood]; The Tune the Old Cow Died of [Norman Nicholson]; The Patriot [Nissim Ezekiel]; The Sea [E. A. Markham]; The Birth [Paul Muldoon]; Balloons [Sylvia Plath]; The King of the Cats is Dead [Peter Porter]; The Broad Bean Sermon [Les Murray]; Homecoming [Bruce Dawe]; Fifteen Million Plastic Bags [Adrian Mitchell]; Presidents [Michael Heffernan]; Portraits of Tudor Statesmen [U. A. Fanthorpe]; Not My Best Side [U. A. Fanthorpe]; My Beloved Compares Herself to a Pint of Stout [Paul Durcan]; Margin Prayer from an Ancient Psalter [Ian Duhig]; The Lion for Real [Allen Ginsberg]; Underwear [Lawrence Ferlinghetti]; Black Silk [Tess Gallagher]; A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island [Frank O'Hara]; Prayer [Hugo Williams]; A Priest in the Sabbath Dawn Addresses His Somnolent Mistress [Peter Didsbury]; Stealing [Carol Ann Duffy]; The Congress of the Insomniacs [Charles Simic]; Mama Dot Learns to Fly [Fred D'Aguiar]; Seeing Off a Friend [Stephen Dobyns]; What the Doctor Said [Raymond Carver]; For and Against the Environment [D. M. Black]; Not Being Oedipus [John Heath-Stubbs]; Water [Philip Larkin]; Naked Vision [Gwen Harwood]; Finale [Judith Wright]; The Big Words [Brendan Kennelly]; The Tough Guy of London [Kojo Gyinye Kyei]; Depressed by a Book of Bad Poetry, I Walk Toward and Unused Pasture and Invite the Insects to Join Me [James Wright]; The Beast in the Space [W. S. Graham]; What the Chairman Told Tom [Basil Bunting]

Original publication date

1996

Epigraph

This strange century / With its slaughter of the innocent / Its flight to the moon - CHARLES SIMIC, 'Street Scene'