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16 Occasional Poems
1990–2000

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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1 - First of March 1990
2 - Winter Housekeeping
3 - Waiting in Galway
4 - South Africa April 1994
5 - Genesis
6 - Postmodernism
7 - Dear Colleague
8 - Epitaph 1998
9 - Eden
10 - Biblical Themes (shuffled like dreams)
11 - Agamemnon's Return
12 - Tales from the Polish Woods
13 - Bosnian Heads
14 - No Way
15 - Alba
16 - To Tom Leonard

A postscript on what occasioned the foregoing verses


First of March 1990
appeared in Vier + Four, Druckwerkstatt Berlin,
and Glasgow Print Studio, 1990,
and in West Coast Magazine, 1997

Winter Housekeeping, Waiting in Galway, South Africa April 1996
appeared in New Writing 5
Vintage Press and the British Council, 1996

Postmodernism appeared in
The Times Literary Supplement, 1997

Eden, Biblical Themes, Agamemnon's Return, Tales from the Polish Woods, Bosnian Heads, No Way, Alba
appeared in The Artist in his World:
Prints 1986-1987 by Ian McCulloch,
Argyll Publishing, 1998

Dear Colleague
appeared in West Coast Magazine, 1998

Final versions of these 12 with four hitherto unprinted poems were published by Morag McAlpine, 2 Marchmont Terrace, Glasgow G12 9LT, who holds the copyright. Typesetter: Joe Murray. Printer: Clydeside Press. On this website Genesis has been slightly condensed, the order of Genesis and Postmodernism transposed.

  
  
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