History – it’s what seperates us from the dinosaurs. Here are my takes on the past from the comfort of the present – catch them now before they’re repeated. It’s also a place to park my poems on politics, because nothing ages quicker than current affairs.
Poems about America:
America, We Need to Talk
Breaking the News
Cattle Prattle
Dream On
Every Winner gets a Free Shave
The High Cost of Living
Momma Tongue
The Star-Spangled Manna
Succession
A Trip to the Country
War of Words
Poems about the Ancient & Classical world:
Abiblos
Ancient & Modern
Barrow Boy
Before Year Zero
Brick for Brick
The Census of Quirinius
Damnatio ad Bestias
Decline & Fall
Et In Orcadia, Ego
A Few Hours Spare
Forty-Eight
Hierogryphs
I Am the Artifact
Margarita Time
Musings on the Nature of Hadrian’s Wall
Of Lost & Found Cities
1 AD
Pre-Decimal
Proctotryp
The Siren
The Uncarved Block
Verses in Hades
Witnesses
Poems about History in General:
The Corkscrew of History
Golden Ages Last For Ages
History Never Changes
The Inertia of Tradition
Insults are Written by the Winners
Month of Fertility
Mortal Remains
New Year’s Day
The Noble Art of Treachery
To the Future
Victus
Poems about the Middle Ages & Tudor times:
Adventures in Phantom Time
The Ballad of Evermore
Big Charters
Carcassong
Carcassonnet
Clause 50
Ecce Humanitas
Farewell, Athelstan
The Good Life
Graves, Worms, & Epitaphs
Gunpowder, Fizzle, & Pop
Harvest Song
Hogwash
Jellyfishes
The Layman of Shalott
Licence to Crenellate
A Malady of Arms
No Man’s Pie is Freed from his Ambitious Finger
Ophelia’s Pharmacy
Quarter Days
A Recipe for Iron Gall Ink
The Sheriff of Chelsea
Spectacles
Tartan Tarts
To His Cold Mitress
Via Metallum
White Rose, Red Leicester
Poems about Politics:
Backwards Flags
Balloteers
The Bogeyman
Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office
Clause 50
Con Spiracy
Credo
Crew of the Revolution
The Dandelion International
The Deep State of Fear
Deferred Divisions
Democracy in Action
Every Winner gets a Free Shave
Flying the Flag
The Green Tree Anthem
The Hustings Shuffle
James Somersett
The Knockers
Lightfast
Lokomotiviy
Mayday, Mayday !
Mutiny on the Waves
Noughts & Crosses
The Only Lefty in Poundbury
The Only Poll That Matters
The Peasants are Revolting
Pencil on a String
A point is all that you can score
Pride & Prejudice & Zombies
A Public Service Announcement
Referendum
Revolution of the Seasons
The Rigours of Indolence
Rue Britannia
The Singalong Song
The Slog
The Star-Spangled Manna
The State of the Nation
Strange Bedfellows
The Strongman & The Weakman
Succession
The Tolpuddle Tree
Trigger Warning
Us Too
Value Added Tax
“We’re All In It Together”
Winning the Defeat
Your False True-Colours
Poems about Royalty:
God save the Queen (but the Devil take the Plebs)
To the Future British Republic
Versificator Regis
White Rose, Red Leicester
Poems about the Twenieth Century:
Agit-Proper
Armistice Sunday Blues
Blown on the Windrush
Collaterals
Con Spiracy
Crew of the Revolution
Diesel
Ghost Town
Harvest Song
Jaxman
Jubilee
Lokomotiviy
Mate in One
Monte Rosa
Mutiny on the Waves
Pretenders
Red Like the Poppies
Reflections on the Imperial War Museum’s Great War Gallery
Royal Peculiar
Rue Britannia
Salient Thoughts
Spasibo
Value Added Tax
Y2 A-Okay
Poems about the Victorian age and the Enlightenment period:
America, We Need to Talk
April the 6th
Biblio Tech
Bottom of the Barrel
Carol of the Robins
Crew of the Revolution
The Engineers’ Plot
Fish & Physics
Fresh Pantoums, Only a Shilling !
Gingerbread Dickens
Horseguards
Hounslow Fast & Hounslow Slow
James Somersett
Little Drummer Boy
Manifest Destiny
The Merchantman Shanty
Mrs Silver
My First Imperial Adventure
Oak Apple Day
Obey in All Things your Masters According to the Flesh
Outpost
Purinoia
Put out to Pasture
The Queen of the Cockles
Queen of the Silk Road
The Rigours of Indolence
The Tolpuddle Tree
Train-Sporting
Transatlantic Cable 1 – The Wake
Transatlantic Cable 2 – Emigrants’ Song
Transatlantic Cable 3 – Slow News Days
Transatlantic Cable 4 – The Visionary
Transatlantic Cable 5 – The Senator’s Speech
Transatlantic Cable 6 – The Engineer
Transatlantic Cable 7 – The Businessmen
Transatlantic Cable 8 – Crafting the Cable
Transatlantic Cable 9 – Gutta-Percha
Transatlantic Cable 10 – Laying the Line
Transatlantic Cable 11 – Hooking the Cable
Transatlantic Cable 12 – The Messages
Transatlantic Cable 13 – The Future
Working-Class Absolution
You Bet Your Life
Rhyming Couplets 