821.92 NOS · POEMS

Nostromo

95 poems, typed on cards and filed in the drawer. Pick a card to read the poem.

A
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NOSNo. 21
And then there were two.
‘For a few years there were three of them – …’
27 lines · 3 stanzas
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NOSNo. 20
Auntie Mabel.
‘She died in an Old Folks Home which was not …’
30 lines · with epigraph
B
4 cards
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NOSNo. 18
Bella.
‘I bundled her gently onto the back seat …’
29 lines · 2 stanzas
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NOSNo. 37
Blind spot, A.
‘My dad was in his forties when he bought …’
27 lines · 2 stanzas
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NOSNo. 25
Boris.
‘But some, I think, are trapped in a dream, …’
33 lines · with epigraph
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NOSNo. 79
Bronze statue in the park.
(Erected in Greenhead Park in 1905)
33 lines
C
5 cards
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NOSNo. 63
Catastrophe, A.
‘He was hoeing the ground with diligence …’
37 lines · 3 stanzas
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NOSNo. 12
Colonel Shaw.
‘They buried him . . .’
18 lines
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NOSNo. 34
Compositors A and B.
‘I suppose they could have been good friends, …’
33 lines · 2 stanzas
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NOSNo. 8
Contributions.
‘The usual struggle with words …’
22 lines · 2 stanzas
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NOSNo. 67
Creative pedestrians.
‘Together they walked out of Africa …’
23 lines · 2 stanzas
D
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NOSNo. 41
Distant mirror?, A.
‘The Jews will not be burned alive …’
34 lines · with epigraph
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NOSNo. 52
Double edged.
‘Somewhere in Holland in the rain …’
63 lines · 9 stanzas
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NOSNo. 95
Dream of a goodbye, The.
‘Future days are only guesswork - …’
32 lines · with epigraph
F
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NOSNo. 3
Fair question, A.
‘But where will you be?’ …
33 lines · 3 stanzas
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NOSNo. 27
Farage.
‘He has been around before, our Nigel – …’
14 lines · with epigraph
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NOSNo. 86
Fire.
‘I remember, when the lights were switched off …’
31 lines · 3 stanzas
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NOSNo. 60
First of April, The.
‘The world is holding its breath today …’
20 lines · 2 stanzas
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NOSNo. 94
Flowers.
‘The flowers decorating the room …’
7 lines · 1 stanza
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NOSNo. 7
For Megan and Kaecey.
‘You came to us in tender childhood - …’
25 lines · 2 stanzas
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NOSNo. 2
For Roman and Cole.
‘It seems so strange and unfair to me that …’
41 lines · with epigraph
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NOSNo. 72
Fragment of an obituary.
‘So strange how the words hold me - …’
24 lines · with epigraph
H
4 cards
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NOSNo. 22
He never was.
‘The Stones have picked up quite a bit of moss …’
16 lines · with epigraph
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NOSNo. 28
Holy man, A.
‘Pope Pius XII was a holy man it seems - …’
26 lines · with epigraph
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NOSNo. 30
Honour.
‘Yet some of them died in Henry’s England - …’
19 lines · with epigraph
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NOSNo. 92
How on earth?
‘How in God’s name did I get to be seventy five? …’
27 lines · with epigraph
I
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NOSNo. 56
I should have known.
‘I really can’t remember whether or not …’
29 lines · 4 stanzas
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NOSNo. 87
I should have said no.
‘A quiet country lane in Spring …’
36 lines · with epigraph
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NOSNo. 42
Invasion.
‘A cruel April if the virus invades …’
12 lines · 2 stanzas
J
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NOSNo. 31
Joshua fit but the walls didn’t tumble.
‘Boxers do not fear death …’
19 lines · 2 stanzas
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NOSNo. 51
Just another job.
‘Books enough to fill a lifetime of dreams …’
28 lines · 4 stanzas
K
4 cards
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NOSNo. 13
Ken Lambourne in the home.
‘My friend Ken spent twenty-odd years at sea. …’
28 lines · with epigraph
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NOSNo. 81
Kind of death, A.
‘The hillside of grass and ferns was covered …’
39 lines · 5 stanzas
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NOSNo. 35
Kind of love, A.
‘I can’t remember, though I’ve often tried, …’
40 lines · 14 stanzas
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NOSNo. 19
Kind of revolt, A.
‘Ten o’clock on a Monday morning. …’
34 lines · 4 stanzas
L
4 cards
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NOSNo. 36
Last drive.
‘He managed to drive home …’
26 lines · 2 stanzas
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NOSNo. 62
Long lost relatives.
‘Struggling in French to talk to the natives …’
33 lines · 2 stanzas
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NOSNo. 80
Longwood – a Northern England village.
‘When I was a boy in the village of Longwood …’
43 lines · 2 stanzas
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NOSNo. 70
Lost village, A.
‘In those days we would clock out early …’
41 lines · 2 stanzas
M
8 cards
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NOSNo. 73
Magna Via.
(An ancient pathway)
28 lines
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NOSNo. 29
Maiden name.
‘She gave it away without too much thought, …’
14 lines · 2 stanzas
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NOSNo. 33
Man’s world, A.
‘Edward Cliffe was Father of the Chapel.* …’
32 lines · 12 stanzas
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NOSNo. 49
Mers-el-Kebir.
‘No victories or defeats here – …’
23 lines · with epigraph
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NOSNo. 26
Mogg, The.
‘An oily, unctuous stick of a man …’
15 lines · with epigraph
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NOSNo. 76
Moon - just a visit – 1969, The.
‘For once the boot was on the other foot – …’
20 lines · with epigraph
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NOSNo. 44
More than statues.
‘The Taliban live to worship a god …’
18 lines · 2 stanzas
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NOSNo. 65
My first gift.
‘Suddenly, I realised which woods …’
37 lines · with epigraph
N
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NOSNo. 1
Neowise.
‘A comet was once the long-haired star …’
28 lines · with epigraph
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NOSNo. 16
Nicholas Winton.
(Who saved 669 children from the Nazis)
30 lines
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NOSNo. 91
Night to forget, A.
‘A cottage fit for a Dream of England – …’
27 lines · with epigraph
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NOSNo. 6
No more syrup.
‘The neighbours were away – …’
54 lines · 2 stanzas
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NOSNo. 23
No room at the inn.
Priti Mean
30 lines
O
5 cards
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NOSNo. 53
One Friday afternoon in school.
‘The last lesson on a Friday. …’
27 lines · 3 stanzas
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NOSNo. 84
One summer.
‘There were just two of us by Loch Lomond …’
23 lines · 2 stanzas
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NOSNo. 39
Only a slap.
‘Dad had left the mill early, mum said, …’
29 lines · 3 stanzas
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NOSNo. 4
Only a word.
‘Mum, why did you call him dad?’ …
26 lines · with epigraph
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NOSNo. 38
Only questions.
‘I suppose I knew when we were ushered, …’
24 lines · 2 stanzas
P
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NOSNo. 47
Phoney War?
‘Dya want to go on being ruled by Brussels?’ …
19 lines · 2 stanzas
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NOSNo. 5
Poor frog.
‘A few storm clouds were gathering …’
36 lines · 9 stanzas
Q
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NOSNo. 64
Queues.
‘Men queued, shivering in fear and terror …’
40 lines · 14 stanzas
R
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NOSNo. 61
Real world?, The.
‘The ‘phone call came out of the blue, …’
28 lines · 7 stanzas
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NOSNo. 77
Regret.
‘So many years have passed since we stood …’
39 lines · 2 stanzas
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NOSNo. 32
Relief.
‘The radio does not carbon date its …’
33 lines · with epigraph
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NOSNo. 89
Rondeaux, A.
Old Men On the Somme -1996
15 lines
S
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NOSNo. 71
Safer, perhaps - but diminished.
‘See them shuffle slowly as in a maze …’
24 lines · 2 stanzas
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NOSNo. 58
School lesson, A.
‘We can’t go sir, she’ll get into trouble.’ …
33 lines · 11 stanzas
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NOSNo. 11
Seamus.
‘Seamus Heaney was christened Irish – …’
26 lines · 2 stanzas
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NOSNo. 17
Shardlake’s world.
Created by C J Sansom
34 lines
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NOSNo. 57
Sharon.
‘Sharon sat in silence on the back row. …’
29 lines · 2 stanzas
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NOSNo. 68
Short sight?
‘The letters must have shrunk. …’
14 lines · 2 stanzas
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NOSNo. 75
Single, A.
‘How Noah must have smiled when the dove …’
14 lines · 1 stanza
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NOSNo. 50
So unreal.
‘The train came, as I expected, on time. …’
32 lines · 4 stanzas
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NOSNo. 59
Sod’s law.
‘Furious Fawlty gives his car a bollocking, …’
14 lines · 2 stanzas
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NOSNo. 78
Sort of pilgrim, A.
‘Sometimes the heart aches for that Spring morning …’
17 lines · 1 stanza
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NOSNo. 82
Spark Hall Junior School.
(for David Smith)
44 lines
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NOSNo. 74
Star Trek.
‘The crystal ball was always cloudy, …’
14 lines · 1 stanza
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NOSNo. 40
Stepping out.
‘In the fifties holidays meant Blackpool …’
29 lines · 2 stanzas
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NOSNo. 88
Stocks, The.
‘We all want it, I think, even crave it, …’
30 lines · with epigraph
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NOSNo. 93
Strange place, A.
(For Derrick Joad)
15 lines
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NOSNo. 85
Strange sort of snob, A.
‘In that lost hot metal world of the print …’
52 lines · 3 stanzas
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NOSNo. 66
Students.
‘They would stand by the Stone where the …’
27 lines · 2 stanzas
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NOSNo. 55
Such a clamour.
(For John Gledhill)
24 lines
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NOSNo. 90
Superman.
‘Born I think, not on the planet Krypton, …’
26 lines · 3 stanzas
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NOSNo. 83
Surprise in Ireland, A.
‘There were four of us that summer. …’
101 lines · 5 stanzas
T
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NOSNo. 54
Teaching is hard work.
‘I was mugged on a roundabout – …’
21 lines · with epigraph
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NOSNo. 15
Ted.
‘I sighed when I read the few lines which …’
30 lines · 10 stanzas
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NOSNo. 9
Thoughts in early December.
‘The last load of leaves carefully bagged …’
27 lines · 3 stanzas
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NOSNo. 46
Tiananmen Square.
‘Yevtushenko wrote that there were …’
24 lines · 2 stanzas
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NOSNo. 10
To Carolyn – on our Golden Wedding.
‘The years fade and merge in memory - …’
11 lines · with epigraph
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NOSNo. 14
To Nick.
(a friend diagnosed with Parkinsons)
16 lines
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NOSNo. 24
Trump.
‘Our shores are littered with rubbish …’
28 lines · with epigraph
V
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NOSNo. 43
Very English bank, A.
‘There are checks here, but only to ensure …’
22 lines · 1 stanza
W
3 cards
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NOSNo. 69
Wheel, The.
‘. . . when you’re down and out’ fades …
18 lines · 6 stanzas
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NOSNo. 48
Windermere Children, The.
(A drama-documentary simultaneously watched in Germany)
20 lines
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NOSNo. 45
Windrush.
for Amelia Gentleman
17 lines