Verses from Various Sources: 1981–1990
TABLE OF CONTENTS
From A MURAL in Ten Kelvin Drive, West Glasgow 19641 – The Vanity of Human Wishes
From LANARK 19812 – Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, translation of first verse in Chapter 433 – The End
From TICKLEY MINCE 1982: A Review4 – I Don’t Like it Enough to Practice Enough To Do it Very Well
From THE PIE OF DAMOCLES 1983: A Review5 – A Sentimental Song
From UNLIKELY STORIES MOSTLY 1983 6 – The Emperor’s Injustice, in ‘Five Letters from an Eastern Empire’7 – We Weep to Be, in ‘Logopondancy’8 – Two Dramatic Fragments, in ‘Prometheus’
From a proposed PRINT SEQUENCE 19869 – The Scottish Hippo
From SALTIRE SELF-PORTRAIT 198810 – Of The Forgotten
From POOR THINGS 199211 – The End Of The Thunderbolt, attributed to Rudyard Kipling
From A HISTORY MAKER 199412 – A Gangrel Folk Song, attributed to Anon
From THE BOOK OF PREFACES 200013 – Genesis, attributed to Caedmon, translation of the start14 – The Dream of the Cross, attributed to Bishop Cynewulf, translation of the start15 – Beowulf, by Anon, translation of the start16 – The Earth Tramper, by Anon, translation of the start17 – Gawain and the Green Knight, by Anon, translation of the second verse
From THE ENDS OF OUR TETHERS 200318 – Proem (19 – Outing .(all three attributed to Luke Aiblins20 – A Spell Against Envy (
