Art Poems

Perspective of Eight Designs for Churches, with Plan

Perspective of Eight Designs for Churches by Joseph Gandy, showing designs by John Soane

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:

Aerialatrix

Arch-Angels

Biblio Tech

A Bout with a Snout

Breezeblock & Plasterboard

Brutalism

Building Slump

Constructivism

Dino-Golf

Dramatic Tension

The Engineers’ Plot

An Estate of Builder-Birds

Falling Standards

Follow Your Nosings

Ghetto

Ghost Town

Guttersprites

In Praise of ‘The Leaf’

Jacks-of-the-Green

Lazy Art

Mentmore-or-less

Moody Lintels

Musings on the Nature of Hadrian’s Wall

The Only Lefty in Poundbury

Parable of Architecture

Pocket Forecourts

Poet’s Corny

Portals

Resurgam

Roofs

Roofus

Sashes & Splashes

Sluff

Sorry, Elizabeth

Subsidence

The Tower of Pisa

Upward Spiral

Vaguely Georgian

        Poems about Design:

Aves Unblazoned

Dusty Jackets

A Malady of Arms

Graven Images

Mercator’s Projection (A Requiem)

Poster Apocalypse

Purple Haze

Too Many Mugs

Train-Sporting

Trick or Lure

Twopenneth Worth

Unspruced Pine

Vexillologically Vexed

Your False True-Colours

        Poems about Ideas & Criticism:

1% Inspiration

Æsthangelist

The Bland & The Brutal

Bletherskites

Challenging & Worthy

The Critic’s Lament

Death of the Artist

The Drop

Golden Ages Last For Ages

The High Cost of Knowledge

In-the-Pink Blues

Lazy Art

Make Your Damn Bed !

Miscellany

The Modernist Manifesto

Normanisation

Piratez Moi

Reflections on the Imperial War Museum’s Great War Gallery

Roses are…um…


Subsidence

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

Bright Satanic Mills

By George

The Confession of Giulietta de’ Cappelletti

Conjure-Less

The Daphne Shanty

Death by Elegance

Death by Plot Device

Deckle Edge

Fish & Physics

Five Loaves & Two Red Fishes

Flimsy were the Borogroves

Frontispiece

An Ideal Crony

Katya

The Layman of Shalott

Literary Voices

A Locked-Tomb Mystery

Losing the Plot

Lost Couplets from The Auguries of Innocence

Lullaby

More than a Footnote

Mrs Silver

My First Imperial Adventure

Nashtiche

Neater by the Dozen

Necessary Narcissism

Nice Try, Aesop

No Jeopardy But Me

Ophelia’s Pharmacy

Poet’s Corny

Posy Prosy

Pride & Prejudice & Zombies

Prithee, Sirrah ?

Punctilagogaloquociatude

The Raggèd-Rouser Novelist

The Rose & The Nightingale

Sex & Death

Sluff

Tick-Tock, Writer’s Block

Verses in Hades

Versificator Regis

The Voice Speaks

Waifs & Fodder

A Waste of a Good Violin

        Poems about Media:

And now, Here is the News

April Howlers

Bletherskites

Breaking the News

Compulsory Mechanical Licence

000

Dusty Jackets

Footnote

Heroic Verse

The High Cost of Knowledge

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 Shape of the Pear

The Spoils of Verse

Static

Subscription

“Tell me more of this Earth thing called kissing”

Vanity by Numbers

Yesterday’s Revolution

        Poems about Music:

Acid Verse

After the Aftermath

All the Best Tunes

Between the Grooves

Bluesless Blues

Christmas Bells

Compulsory Mechanical Licence

Con Occhi Aperti

Concerto for Air Guitar

Deep & Meaningless

Delay Pedal

Desert Island Diss

Disco Demolition

Eyebrow Stroking

Falling Standards

Fillers

Fit as a Fiddle

Four-Four Forever

A God-Awful Small Affair

Halal Hammer

Hickory Sticks

High C

Instrumental

The Knobs Turn Both Ways

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

None Shall Speak

One, Two, Three, Dead

ONE two THREE four

Oscillations

The Power of the Ballad

Purple Requiem

The Rhythm of Life

Rock Pocks

Rocket Roll

Sheep Mayn’t Safely Graze

Silicon Sideman

A Song for the Songless

Soundtracks to the Revolution

Squeal For Me

Static

That Old Old Song

Te Deum

Three Minute Pop

Tinny Tonic

Too Fast

Traps & Loops

Triet

A Trip to the Country

Tuneless

Unclip the Capo

Underproduced

Unstarted Symphony

Unsung

Verco Verco Brico

When Your Song is Sung

Yesterday’s Revolution

You Know What I Mean ?

        Poems about Painting & Sculpture:

A.I. Housman

Auto-Graffiti

Black Fives

The Clone of Beauty

Dürer’s-Rhino Syndrome

Fish & Physics

Gate-Keepers & Fate-Reapers

Graven Images

Green Park Gallery

Guttersprites

Heavy Canvas

How the Curlew got its Curl

Mercator’s Projection (A Requiem)

The Pessimist’s Camera

Plinth-Posers

Poster Apocalypse

The Scream

The Sky is Full of Idols

Sunflower Saviour

Sunnis & Cartoonies

Thousand-Year Stare

Throats

The Uncarved Block

Unsigned

Vanity

        Poems about Poetry:

Alphabet Soup

Calling All Stations

Circle Lines

The Click

Convergent Resonance

The Curious Case of Mr Smith

The Curse of the Couplets

Deep & Meaningless

Dry Rot

Epistophile

Epitaph

Et Ego in Ego

Eyebrow Stroking

The First Emoji

First Eight Lines of a Sonnet

Footnote

Foreword & Forewarned

Fractured Metre

Graduation Poem

Hashtag You’re It

Heroic Verse

How to Recite Right

Index of First Lines

Ivory Garrets

The Last Poem I’ll Ever Write

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

Poesy Posers

The Poet’s Almagnac

Poet’s Corny

Poetic Truth

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

Tell Me Four Times

Terminator Traitor

Through a Dark Glassly

Transient Verses

Tuneless

Uncoupled

Unfinished

Unvolted

Vanity by Numbers

The Verse That Goes Like This

Verses in Hades

Versificator Regis

The Voice Speaks

Writers’ Block, Writers’ Block

You Know What I Mean ?

Z for Zen

        Poems about Theatre:

After the Third War

Audience Participation

By George !

Curtain Call

Challenging & Worthy

Dramatic Tension

The Gods of Melodrama

Graves, Worms, & Epitaphs

An Ideal Crony

None Shall Speak

Nudging the Thing-a-ma-jig


Penwith Smith

Pips in the Slips

Prithee, Sirrah ?

Singalong

Stagehand Biog

To the Baron

A Waste of a Good Violin