Selected poems, 1957-1994

The Thought-Fox

Song

The Jaguar

Famous Poet

Soliloquy

The Horses

Fallgrief's Girlfriends

Egg-Head

Vampire

The Man Seeking Experience Enquires His Way of a Drop of Water

Meeting

Wind

October Dawn

The Casualty

Bayonet Charge

Six Young Men

The Martyrdom of Bishop Farrar

Song from Bawdry Embraced

Mayday on Holderness

February

Crow Hill

A Woman Unconscious

Strawberry Hill

Fourth of July

Esther's Tomcat

Wilfred Owen's Photographs

Relic

Hawk Roosting

Fire-Eater

To Paint a Water Lily

The Bull Moses

Cat and Mouse

View of a Pig

The Retired Colonel

November

An Otter

Witches

Thrushes

Snowdrop

Pike

Sunstroke

Cleopatra to the Asp

Stealing Trout on a May Morning

Water

Memory

Tutorial

Trees

The Lake

A Match

Small Events

Crow Wakes

Thistles

Still Life

Her Husband

Cadenza

Ghost Crabs

Public Bar TV

Kafka

Second Glance at a Jaguar

Fern

Stations

The Green Wolf

The Bear

A Haunting

The Mascot

Wit's End

Two Minutes' Silence

The Red Carpet

Theology

Gog

Kreutzer Sonata

The Dream Time

'The dead man in his cave beginning to sweat'

Remembrance Day

New Moon in January

The Warriors of the North

The Rat's Dance

The Rat's Vision

The Rat's Flight

Heptonstall

Skylarks

Pibroch

The Howling of Wolves

Gnat-Psalm

Full Moon and Little Frieda

Wodwo

Two Legends

Lineage

Examination at the Womb-Door

A Childish Prank

Crow's First Lesson

That Moment

Crow Tyrannosaurus

The Black Beast

Crow's Account of the Battle

Crow's Fall

Crow and the Birds

Crow on the Beach

The Contender

Crow's Vanity

A Horrible Religious Error

In Laughter

Robin Song

Conjuring in Heaven

Owl's Song

Crow's Elephant Totem Song

Dawn's Rose

The Smile

Crow's Battle Fury

Crow Blacker than Ever

Revenge Fable

Bedtime Anecdote

Apple Tragedy

Crow's Last Stand

Fragment of an Ancient Tablet

Lovesong

Notes for a Little Play

The Lovepet

How Water Began to Paly

Littleblood

The Scream

The Executioner

The Knight

A Flayed Crow in the Hall of Judgement

Leaf Mould

Moors

Chinese History of Colden Water

Rhododendrons

Sunstruck

Curlews

For Billy Holt

When Men Got to the Summit

The Canal's Drowning Black

Cock-Crows

Mount Zion

The Long Tunnel Ceiling

Tree

Heptonstall Old Church

Widdop

Emily Bronte

Rain

Dehorning

Bringing in New Couples

Tractor

Roe-Deer

Sketching a Thatcher

Ravens

February 17th

Birth of Rainbow

Coming Down Through Somerset

The Day He Died

A Memory

Earth-Numb

A Motorbike

Deaf School

Life is Trying to be Life

Speech out of Shadow

from Seven Dungeon Songs

Tiger-Psalm

In the M5 Restaurant

That Star

Poets

Grosse Fuge

Children

Prospero and Sycorax

The Stone

TV Off

A God

Remembering Teheran

Bones

Do not Pick up the Telephone

Reckless Head

from Prometheus On His Crag

A Violet at Lough Aughresberg

Two Tortoiseshell Butterflies

Where I Sit Writing My Letter

Tern

The Honey Bee

Sunstruck Foxglove

Eclipse

In the Likeness of a Grasshopper

New Foal

The Hen

The Hare

The River

Milesian Encounter on the Sligachan

Low Water

Japanese River Tales

Ophelia

Strangers

The Gulkana

Go Fishing

Salmon Eggs

A Cormorant

An Eel

Performance

Night Arrival of Sea-Trout

October Salmon

That Morning

The Fool's Evil Dream

Nearly Awake

Tell

Dust As We Are

Telegraph Wires

Sacrifice

For the Duration

Under High Wood

The Atlantic

Little Whale Song

Sitting Bull on Christmas Morning

Nightvoice

The Ghost Dancer

Rain-Charm for the Duchy

Old Oats

The Last of the 1st/5th Lancashire Fusiliers

Anniversary

Chaucer

You Hated Spain

The Earthenware Head

The Tender Place

Black Coat

Being Christlike

The God

The Dogs Are Eating Your Mother

The Other

The Locket

Shibboleth

Snow

Folktale

Opus 131

Descent

The Error

Lines about Elias

A Dove.