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Vol XXXI, Long and other short poemsAlistair Noon |
Alistair Noon’s chapbooks of poetry include At the Emptying of Dustbins (Oystercatcher), In People’s Park (Penumbra), Animals and Places (Longbarrow), and Some Questions on the Cultural Revolution (Gratton Street Irregulars, forthcoming). Further details at www.myspace.com/alistairnoon. His translations of Osip Mandelstam will appear from Leafe Press in 2011. He lives in Berlin.
Some of these poems have been previously published, sometimes in earlier versions, in
BoXoN (France), Offerte Speciale (Italy), Poetry Scotland, Revue 4/5 (France).
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1. Tale
3: Week
4: Voyage
5: Titanic
6: Position
7: Long
Tale
bang
ball
lava
rock
dirt
seas
cell
weed
fish
bird
apes
walk
talk
time
From the Greek
Sisyphus stone slope roll
Sisyphus stone roll hilltop
Stone hilltop – stone roll
Sisyphus-soul hope fall
Sisyphus-hope – Zeus help
Sisyphus: Zeus! help haul!
Zeus: nope
Sisyphus-soul hope fall
Sisyphus stone slope roll
Sisyphus stone roll hilltop
stone hilltop – Zeus hilltop
stone roll – Sisyphus: stop!
Zeus: that’s hell
Week
toast
sarnie
pasta
kip
toast
toastie
tikka
kip
sarnie
pub
alu gobi
kip
biscuits
spliff
pizza
kip
toast
crisps
pub
chips
club
spliff
fry-up
club
kip
toast
spliff
kip
Voyage
after Columbus
dawn
ships
coast
sails
crew
calls
captain
course
ropes
rigging
charts
compass
biscuits
water
anchor
sail
wind
waves
west-
south-
west
land
behind
horizon
sea
sun
sea
wind
waves
leagues
charts
days
nights
fish
whales
dolphins
gulls
dusks
dawns
sky
sea
nights
days
sea
sea
leagues
west-
south-
west
sea
leagues
winds
waves
sea
sea
leagues
leagues
sea
leagues
leagues
sea
waves
wind
sea
sea
leagues
waves
sea
breeze
sweet
april
madrid
sea
sea
leagues
sea
petrels
terns
seaweed
crabs
sea
sea
sea
leagues
land
land
west
land
west
land
land
land
land
land
cloud
sea
sea
leagues
sea
leagues
sea
leagues
leagues
crew
complaints
leagues
sea
crew
complaints
sea
leagues
crew
complaints
complaints
leagues
leagues
sea
sea
sea
sea
sea
sea
japan
gloria
in
excelsis
deo
sand
sea
anchor
land
shore
trees
green
trees
trees
water
fruit
the natives
Titanic
willed
impelled
drilled
welded
hulled
filled
rolled
sailed
peopled
thrilled
propelled
swelled
lulled
fouled
stalled
holed
chilled
told
Position
down with up
and against for
over with under
and beyond before
instead of by means of
around and across
and through with between
(due to because)
out of in
and ahead with the rear
onwards from since
and away with near
into out
and to the left of right
towards without
(except beside)
Long
1
big sound
not listen
big light
not blink
big song
not sing
big thing
not think
2
in wine
truth
in tea
trust
3
here
thank
there
know
drink
will
cold
oh
4
milk
mug
mouth
bladder
earth
grass
cud
udder
milk
5
cow want grass
train want rail
wine want glass
dream want not fail
6
write
print
buy
read
like
keep
crap
bin
7
sun god
rain god
cow god
wine god
lot god
one god
not god
train god
8
one field
lot cow
one boat
lot crew
one road
lot car
one me
lot you