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
Rhyming Couplets 