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.

Contents

Architecture

Design

Ideas & Criticism

Literature

Media

Music

Painting & Sculpture

Poetry

Theatre

        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

Corten Steel

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

Poundbury Pride & Ha’penny Hovels

Resurgam

Roofs

Roofus

Sashes & Splashes

Sluff

Slums by Design

Soffits Versus Crocketts

Sorry, Elizabeth

Subsidence

The Tower of Loser

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)

The National Fabric

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

Dear The Future

Death of the Artist

Disposable Fiancé

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 !

The Makings of an Artist

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

Motorway Dreamer

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

The Voice Speaks

Versificator Regis

Waifs & Fodder

A Waste of a Good Violin

The Words Become Flesh

You Are The Hero !

        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

The Home of the Angels

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

Pump Up, Soak In, Churn Out

Purity Error

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

The Canon of Carols

Carol of the Songs

Carol of the Winterbirds

Christmas Bells

Compulsory Mechanical Licence

Con Occhi Aperti

Concerto for Air Guitar

Deep & Meaningless

Delay Pedal

Desert Island Diss

Disco Demolition

The Drum Shop

Eurovision Song

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

The Lantern Carol

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

Pump Up, Soak In, Churn Out

The Rhythm of Life

Purple Requiem

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

All The Letters I Can Write

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

Mind the Gap

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

Parallel Paragraphs

Part-Time Poet

“Poems don’t have to Rhyme”

Poesy Posers

The Poets’ 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

Self-Promotion

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

Thank You For Your Submission

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

Pips in the Slips

Penwith Smith

Prithee, Sirrah ?

Saturnalian Salutations

Singalong

Sonnet for the Shrews

Spaghetti

Stagehand Biog

To the Baron

A Waste of a Good Violin

Wigging Out

When the Curtain Never Falls