Art, architecture, music – long the attention of the poet’s lyrical wax. Naturally, I’m no exception. And of course, lots of poems about poems, because every artform is in love with itself.
Poems about Architecture:
The A300 Relief Road
Aerialatrix
Arch-Angels
Basilica Cistern
Biblio Tech
The Blue Mosque
A Bout with a Snout
Breezeblock & Plasterboard
Brick for Brick
Brutalism on a Cold Dark Night
Building Slump
Castles in the Air
Constructivism
Cusp & Foil
Dino-Golf
Dramatic Tension
The Engineers’ Plot
An Estate of Builder-Birds
Falling Standards
Follow Your Nosings
Fripperies
Funerary Minimums
Ghetto
Ghost Town
Guttersprites
Haunted Houses
The High Cost of High-Rise
Hotspots & Coldsores
In Praise of ‘The Leaf’
Jacks-of-the-Green
Mentmore-or-less
Moody Lintels
Musings on the Nature of Hadrian’s Wall
The Only Lefty in Poundbury
Parable of Architecture
The Pillars of the Earth
Pips in the Slips
Pocket Forecourts
Poet’s Corny
Portals
Resurgam
Roofs
Roofus
Sashes & Splashes
Sluff
Slums by Design
Soffits Versus Crocketts
Sorry, Elizabeth
Subsidence
Sweep
The Tower of Pisa
Upward Spiral
Vaguely Georgian
Vine-Clad
When the Curtain Never Falls
Poems about Design:
Aves Unblazoned
Chrissie Cards
Dusty Jackets
Fripperies
The Gloves Are Off
Graven Images
In Reply to the Handwriting Appreciation Society
Let Our Freak Flags Fly
A Malady of Arms
Mercator’s Projection (A Requiem)
Poster Apocalypse
Purple Haze
Too Many Mugs
Train-Sporting
Trick or Lure
Twopenneth Worth
Unspruced Pine
Vexillologically Vexed
Willow Pattern
The Words Become Flesh
Your False True-Colours
Poems about Ideas & Criticism:
1% Inspiration
Æsthangelist
Auto-Iconography
The Bland & The Brutal
Bletherskites
Challenging & Worthy
The Critic’s Lament
Death of the Artist
The Drop
Fork It !
Fripperies
Golden Ages Last For Ages
The High Cost of Knowledge
In Reply to the Handwriting Appreciation Society
In-the-Pink Blues
Lazy Art
A Legacy in Bits
Make Your Damn Bed !
Miscellany
The Modernist Manifesto
Normanisation
Piratez Moi
Plot Armour
Public Domain Day
Ragged
Reflections on the Imperial War Museum’s Great War Gallery
Roses are…um…
Slum-Makers
Submissions Policy
Subsidence
Sunk
Sunnis & Cartoonies
The Taste of Failure
There Are Only So Many Words
There is no Canon
Those Who Can’t
Trust Nobody
Turner Churners
The Uncarved Block
Versificator Regis
White Mice & Black Rats
Poems about Literature:
Abiblos
After the Third War
Adle Strop
The Bard & I
Biblio Tech
Blue Plaque Blues
Bright Satanic Mills
By George
Collaterals of Feminism
The Confession of Giulietta de’ Cappelletti
Conjure-Less
The Daphne Shanty
Death by Elegance
Death by Plot Device
Deckle Edge
Eternal Journal
Fishes & Physics
Five Loaves & Two Red Fishes
Flimsy were the Borogroves
From Mighty Acorns
Frontispiece
Hercule or Hercules ?
An Ideal Crony
Katya
The Layman of Shalott
Literary Voices
A Locked-Tomb Mystery
Losing the Plot
Lost Couplets from The Auguries of Innocence
Love Dreams & Blintzes
Lullaby
More than a Footnote
A Most Spirited Turn of Play
Mrs Silver
My First Imperial Adventure
Nashtiche
Neater by the Dozen
Necessary Narcissism
Nice Try, Aesop
No Jeopardy But Me
Nudging the Thing-a-ma-jig
Ophelia’s Pharmacy
Pilar’s Eyes
Poet’s Corny
Posy Prosy
Pride & Prejudice & Zombies
Prithee, Sirrah ?
Punctilagogaloquociatude
The Raggèd-Rouser Novelist
Ravelling
The Rose & The Nightingale
Sex & Death
Sluff
Sonnet for the Shrews
Those Two Impostors
Tick-Tock, Writer’s Block
Tom, Dick, & Hooray !
Verses in Hades
Versificator Regis
The Voice Speaks
Waifs & Fodder
A Waste of a Good Violin
The Words Become Flesh
Poems about Media:
All the World’s a Soundstage
And now, Here is the News
April Howlers
Bletherskites
Breaking the News
Compulsory Mechanical Licence
000
Dusty Jackets
Film Pluvieux
Footnote
Gate-Keepers & Fate-Reapers
Heroic Verse
The High Cost of Knowledge
In Reply to the Handwriting Appreciation Society
Index of First Lines
Kosher Slaughter
A Landrace of Snails
Matinee Angels
Miming
Mutiny on the Waves
News Snooze Cues Muse Schmooz
Newzak
Papyrichor
Plagiarised Love
A Recipe for Iron Gall Ink
RKO
The Seeing in Seahaven
The Shape of the Pear
A Space Ploddyssey
The Spoils of Verse
The Spotless Page
Static
Submissions Policy
Subscription
“Tell me more of this Earth thing called kissing”
Vanity by Numbers
Yesterday’s Revolution
Poems about Music:
A-wub-duh-dree-furr
Acid Verse
Across the Multi-Verse
After the Aftermath
All the Best Tunes
Between the Grooves
Bigger Than Jesus
Brook Street Jam
Carol of the Songs
Christmas Bells
Compulsory Mechanical Licence
Con Occhi Aperti
Concerto for Air Guitar
Deep & Meaningless
Delay Pedal
Desert Island Diss
Disco Demolition
The Drum Shop
Eyebrow Stroking
Falling Standards
Fillers
Fit as a Fiddle
Four-Four Forever
A God-Awful Small Affair
Halal Hammer
Hickory Sticks
High C
In-the-Pink Blues
Instrumental
Jingle-Worms
The Knobs Turn Both Ways
Lonely Cross
The Long, Long Chord
Losing my Wretchedness
The Merchantman Shanty
Miming
Music for Overthinkers
Music of the Ancients
Mutiny on the Waves
My Mind, She Runs
Nessun Parla
Octatonic
Once Upon a Tune
One, Two, Three, Dead
ONE two THREE four
Oscillations
Pastoral Symphony
The Power of the Ballad
Purple Requiem
The Rhythm of Life
Rock Pocks
Rocket Roll
Sheep Mayn’t Safely Graze
Sideman
Silicon Sideman
A Song for the Songless
Sound Systems
Soundtracks to the Revolution
Squeal For Me
Static
That Old Old Song
Te Deum
Three Minute Pop
Throw your Hands in the Air till it Cuts like a Knife
Tinny Tonic
Too Fast
Trad.
Traps & Loops
Triet
A Trip to the Country
Tuneless
Unclip the Capo
Underproduced
Unstarted Symphony
Unsung
Verco Verco Brico
Violin Violence
When Your Song is Sung
Yesterday’s Revolution
You Know What I Mean ?
Poems about Painting & Sculpture:
A Bout with a Snout
Auto-Graffiti
Auto-Iconography
Black Fives
Brook Street Jam
The Clone of Beauty
Dürer’s-Rhino Syndrome
Fishes & Physics
Fripperies
Graven Images
Green Park Gallery
Guttersprites
Heavy Canvas
How the Curlew got its Curl
Journeyman Artist
Just Another Face in the Choir
Lazy Art
Mercator’s Projection (A Requiem)
The Pessimist’s Camera
Plinth-Posers
Poster Apocalypse
Raised Eyebrows, Wobbly Club
The Scream
The Sky is Full of Idols
Slum-Makers
Sunflower Saviour
Sunnis & Cartoonies
Thousand-Year Stare
Throats
The Uncarved Block
Unsigned
Vanity
Willow Pattern
Poems about Poetry:
A.I. Housman
Across the Multi-Verse
Alphabet Soup
Archipelago
Calling All Stations
Circle Lines
The Click
Convergent Resonance
The Curse of the Couplets
Deep & Meaningless
Dry Rot
Epistophile
Epitaph
Et Ego in Ego
Eyebrow Stroking
Faffage in Five Acts
Fill Me
First Eight Lines of a Sonnet
The First Emoji
Footnote
Foreword & Forewarned
Fractured Metre
Gate-Keepers & Fate-Reapers
Graduation Poem
Hashtag You’re It
Heroic Verse
How to Recite Right
I’m a Poet, Not an Actor
In Reply to the Handwriting Appreciation Society
Index of First Lines
Ivory Garrets
Languid Curlicues
The Last Poem I’ll Ever Write
The Last of the Bards
Lost Quotations
Lurkers
Metres by the Foot
Middle-Class Decline
My Mind, She Runs
narrative conflict
Nashtiche
Necessary Narcissism
Night Shift
No Biography
Oh, this again…
The Old Poet to the Young
Oriental Droppings
Overwrought & Undercooked
Part-Time Poet
“Poems don’t have to Rhyme”
Poesy Posers
The Poet’s Almagnac
Poet’s Corny
Poetic Truth
Poetry Briefing
The Poetry Competition of my Dreams
Poetry No Thanks
Proem to a Poem
Scanning the Last Word of Lines
Set My Verses Free !
Sex & Death
The Shape of the Pear
Soap Bubbles
Some Things Are Beyond Rhyming
The Spoils of Verse
State of the Art
Submissions Policy
Tell Me Four Times
Terminator Traitor
Those Two Impostors
Through a Dark Glassly
Throw your Hands in the Air till it Cuts like a Knife
Transient Verses
Tuneless
Uncoupled
Unfinished
(untitled)
Unvolted
Vanity by Numbers
The Verse That Goes Like This
Verses in Hades
Versificator Regis
The Voice Speaks
Writers’ Block, Writers’ Block
Writing by Heart
You Know What I Mean ?
Z for Zen
Poems about Theatre:
After the Third War
Audience Participation
The Bard & I
Before the Movie
By George !
Challenging & Worthy
Closing Number
Collaterals of Feminism
Coming Attraction
The Confession of Giulietta de’ Cappelletti
The Curious Case of Mr Smith
The Curse of the Couplets
Curtain Call
Dramatic Tension
Faffage in Five Acts
The Gods of Melodrama
Got You Covered
Graves, Worms, & Epitaphs
Hot Air & Cold Fronts
I’m a Poet, Not an Actor
An Ideal Crony
Let’s Do The Show Right Here !
Love Dreams & Blintzes
Nessun Parla
Nudging the Thing-a-ma-jig
Ophelia’s Pharmacy
Penwith Smith
Pips in the Slips
Prithee, Sirrah ?
Singalong
Sonnet for the Shrews
Spaghetti
Stagehand Biog
To the Baron
A Waste of a Good Violin
When the Curtain Never Falls
Wigging Out
Poems about Architecture:
Poems about Design:
Poems about Ideas & Criticism:
Poems about Literature:
Poems about Media:
Poems about Music:
Poems about Painting & Sculpture:
Poems about Poetry:
Poems about Theatre:
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