THE POETRY OF NICHOLAS HANCOCK

The Poet of Despair
Published by

The British Hancock Society
with the permission of the author


CONTENTS


Nicholas Hancock is one of those few writers who is so uncannily in tune with the reader (any reader) that one has the uneasy feeling that Hancock is not the real author at all - but you are. It is as if by some mysterious metaphysical alchemy the author of Metafizzical Essays and Others* has ransacked your brain of its ideative content, then flown off to his Liverpool roost to commit it to paper.

A Rapport with My Other Selves On the Same Page Making Room for the Past
A Pre-Birth Memory Hope Spring Song
Discontinued Book of the Dead In Every Sense
Fantasia in X Minor Rest Lullaboy
Testament The Phone Call A January Sky in Liverpool
What Are Calves For? An Organised Shower The Bartered Earth
Leaving My Scent A Diet of Cat Drifting Snow, Gulf of St Lawrence
Pilates Priapism Time Bomb Neatness in a Packaged Child
Second Goree Don Jaime and His Peones From Hashish to Hamas
Death of a Parent Refraction in Reverse Unwinding String
In Natural Wood Nouvelle Légende (in French) Wrap it in the Stars and Stripes
Avowal and Disavowal The Ballad of Tit for Tat The Gong Farmer
Brick-a-Brock The Masturbating Pen The Final Burial
Lest We Forget Death by Instalments Night at the Casablanca
Fire Drill The Glorious Eleventh How Happy, The Returns?
Not Far All Dawns are False Moth and Rust
Two Points of View Rolf's Journey into the Setting Sun The Death of Silence
Old Greenways School Cat Therapy Many a True Word
Dismembered Memory Horizon-Seeker Cato in Utica
Axis Mundi Barbed Wire and Cat Gut Sin-Stalkers
Equitable Life Wheels that Encompass the Earth On the Trail of a Face
Horse Miles Lunatic Soliliquies Creative Quotation
The Equalising Sleep Free Love An Ode to Litter
Love in a Portakabin Two Paintings by Olle Goude Easy Choice
Dinner For Two Gordonstoun On Not Taking a Picture
Walking Home From the Tandoori The Cathode That Reconciles Forgotton Army
Ancient and Modern Hymn My Love is a Pharmacopoeia A Fool's Cap
Homo Parturiens Forever More My First Ash Tree
Ephemera Golden Age Goldie Hawn's Response
I  Curse You, Apius The Three-Dimensional Mercator The Most Distinguished Order
No Laughing Matter Formula A Roll-Call of Inklings
A Stray Autumn Afternoon The Turning Tern Performance
A Green Thought in a Green Shade A Roll-Call of Greenways Staff After-Dinner Coffee
Upwaltham Great Ridge Odd Boy Out
The Old Greenways A Person is Born The Grandfather Clock
Jack O' Toms A Prayer of Names Pepper with Baked Beans
Old Gold Between Lunch and Tea Time Gateway
Floating on Air Two Inches Short of a Horse A Boy's Walk
Homage to a Matron Temple Enclosure Coming Down to Sherringham
Nail Varnish Rebellion of a Half-Baked Hamlet Biosphere
And They Were Ashamed One, Two, Three - In! A Grumbler's Year
Brotherhod of Man On the Death of Hugh - Stepfather Overload
They No Longer Speak Love Song of a Slug The UN Ceasefire Proposal
The Train Doesn't Stop here





The Poet of Despair - The Works of Nicholas Hancock