SONNET ARCHIVE

Sonnets Good and True

The Skill of Listening

The Inspiration

Words to Plead

CAESURA

OCD

PALIMPSEST

PETRICHOR

EPISTEME AND DOXA

DARVO

MANSPLAINING

DOOLALLY MAIL

SUBURGATORY

COPACETIC

Ukrainian Evidence

PRE-UKRAINE

WILL COST

WAR OF CHOICE

LAST DAYS

TOO MUCH LOST

Z

PUTIN’S VIEW OF UKRAINE

ATROCITY

‘WON’T STOP’, WAR

‘FROZEN’ WAR

MARIUPOL

Attraction Exhibits

THE BEST I CAN

BREATHTAKINGLY SO

I DON’T KNOW HOW SHE MANAGES IT

CLOSE FITTING ATTIRE

STACCATO

AWFUL

DRAMA QUEEN

AN ILLUSION (IMPOSSIBILITY OF IMAGINED LOVE)

WELL MET

GOLD DRESSES

MAJORELLE GIRL

Royally Under Oath

PAGEANTRY

BINGES

OATHS

CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY

IN THE VAULT

KING OF GLEE

‘OF HAPPY MEMORY’

DEATH OF THE OWNER

GLORY, GLORY, GLORY HALLELUJAH

DISPLAY OF POWER

PARLIAMENT

Artistic Motive

RESTORATION WORK …

DRUM BEATS

LANGUAGE OF GUILT (From the film Heartbeat Detector)

‘HARDTALK’

HANDS PLACED

CO-AUTHOR

MAGIC POEM

NYMPH-LIKE

PORCELAIN

ELIMINATION GAMES

CHILDRENS’ STORY

Political Cross Examination

VISITATION (YEMEN)

WHAT FIGHTING FOR

MUCH OF THE GOVERNED WORLD

HOW CAN THIS HAVE BEEN ALLOWED TO HAPPEN?

THAT’S LABOUR FOR YOU.

‘TRACTOR’

CONSIDER YOURSELF … (The Tory Appeal)

GOODNESS GRACIOUS ME. HOW AUDACIOUS.

ARGUMENTATIVE

A ‘FREE PLANET’

Personal Testimony

LOOK ALIKE

FUNNY

‘ENEMIES’

GENUINELY

ME, AND A JOKE

MILL-WEAVER’S DAUGHTER (At beginning based on Loretta Lynn’s ‘Born a Coal-miner’s daughter’)

GENEROUS

ONE MORE SAY

HALLOWEEN POEM

FORWARD AGLOW

Politics, Recall to the Stand

THE ABUSED POOR

CRUEL WITH MIGRANTS

WHAT MARINE LE PEN STANDS FOR

‘WHITE REPLACEMENT THEORY’

WHITE PRIVILEGE

WE’RE ALL DALITS NOW

PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY

WHITE MAN’S BLUES

ASPECTS OF INEQUALITY

OWE OUR SOULS

Amusing? Jury’s Out

INFINITESIMAL

MONKEYS

GULLS

FUTURE ‘RULERS’

F.L.R. (flr)

“JESUS IS WATCHING YOU”

‘ANYTHING’ … ‘WHATEVER’

GIRL ON PHONE

SNIFFING OUT A FEW WORDS

‘BUCKLE UP’

Death Sentence

‘IS THAT ALL THERE IS?’

A SPRIG OF ROSEMARY

BEWILDERMENT

‘A SLUMP DEATH’

MURDER IN THAT HOUSE

DEMATERIALISE

LEAVE THE SCENE … (The Swan)

RUNNING AHEAD OF FATE

WITH A NOD TO T S ELIOT’S FOUR QUARTETS

IT ‘HAPPENED TO BE’

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NOT A SIGNIFICANT BREAKTHROUGH YET

PONDERING

THREAD

THE PEOPLES’ POETRY

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