Five Books: Poetry [Paperback]

Five Books is about what it is like to be alive in Oxford, UK, and the world for eighty years and to find your heart is beating fifteen beats per minute. And to survive with the help of a pacemaker, the love of a beautiful wife, and England.GHOSTS
Ghosts
Prescience
Flea Market
Different Places
Air Raid
Final Moves
Dates
Snap, Crackle, Pop
The Philosopher King
Happy
The Emperor Felix
Two Roads
Excitement
Great-grandfather
Compensations
Horizons
Insects
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Iguana Days
Positions in Bed
Bicycle
Waiting
Too Late
Betrayal
Song
Freeze
Ash
Games
Grandfather
Calling
Dusk and Dawn
THE SPACE OF JOY
The Solitary Life
Coleridge in Stowey
Arnold in Thun
The Rivals
Brahms in Thun
The Fifth Marquess
Wallace Stevens at the Clavier
Thun 1947
SONG & DANCE
SONG
Florio Drinking Song
New Knew
The Curse of the Glass Back Lanky Coolie
Song of Absence
The Only Got So Much Blues
Two Secular Hymns
How Far?
Rascasse
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My Life on the Margins of Celebrity
From The Spellchecker's Guide to Poetry
At a Distance
Fear of Naming
A Critic
Tower
Quicker by the Kleine
From The Spellchecker's Guide to Poetry 2
A dozen Victorian autograms
The Poet orders his Marriage at St Marylebone Church
The Trans-sexual Circus
Mechanism
Pleiades
Variation on Shapcott
Laurel-Crowned Deceptions
From The Spellchecker's Guide to Poetry 3
A Toast to James Fenton
DANCE
Invitation to the Dance
The Dance
The Armpit Waltz
The Captain's Galop
The Figue Maxixe
The Orbital Samba
The Quaquaversal Jig
The Final Dance
PEBBLE & I
Fragments of a Victorian Dialogue
Seven Vials
Three Times
Smiles
Yao Defen
The Chair
Small Room in a Hotel
Anecdote for an Amphibious Amateur
Flotsam
Fish Breakfast
The Love Thread
Idling
The Pagoda Revisited
The Swallolă&