Dad, the Donkey's on Fire

A mixture of stories, poems and autobiography: the donkey survives the fire, and the poet survives in a northern world where the sun does not shine equally or often on all and where Postman Pat pens a suicide note, maddened by his theme tune, but keeps on driving all the same. Ian McMillan is a regular radio and television presenter and contributor to "NMW" and other magazines.

Poems from A Chin?

Kake Yourself Comfortable

9

(1)

Why We Need Libraries

10

(2)

Pit Closure as Art

12

(2)

Lilian's Poem

14

(1)

Death's Feet

15

(1)

Husband and Wife

16

(1)

Tempest Avenue

17

(1)

Deaths from Ice Cream

18

(1)

Ted Hughes is Elvis Presley

19

(3)

Visit

22

(2)

Early Train, Rain, Wombwell Station

24

(1)

Poem Occasioned by the High Incidence of Suicide

25

(1)

Song for Roof Building

26

(1)

The Force of his Storm Knocked Me from my Stool

27

(1)

Moon River: Lives of the Great Comedians

28

(2)

Henry's Skeleton, George's Leg

30

(2)

Jesus Died from Eating Curtains

32

(1)

Stone, I Presume

33

(2)

Point of Transit

35

(2)

Still Life Life

37

(2)

Realism (Nothing is Ever Finished)

39

(1)

Dad, the Donkey's on Fire

40

(1)

Stories

Poetry Matters

41

(7)

The Route to Work

48

(4)

Whatever Happened to Freddie Galloway?

52

(6)

Grisp the Wheel at Ten Past Two

58

(6)

There's Always a Man in a Cardigan

64

(6)

Just Like Ours Except for the Ducks

70

(3)

Poems from More Poems Please, Waiter, and Quickly!

On the Closure of Cadeby Colliery

73

(1)

Title (Northumberland June 11th/12th 1987)

74

(2)

Slow Thaw

76

(1)

In Fear of Abstraction

77

(1)

Brief Encounter

78

(1)

The Day after Armistice Day

79

(1)

The Mirror in the Toilet

80

(1)

Essential Engineering Works

81

(1)

The er Barnsley Seascapes

Goldthorpe er Seascape

82

(1)

M1 Seascape near Hoyland: er it's a rough day

83

(1)

er Darfield Seascape

83

(1)

Little Houghton Seascape er like

84

(1)

An Old Seadog er Speaks

84

(1)

er from a Learned Paper about Seascapes

85

(1)

Seaview Video, Barnsley: Er Latest Offers

85

(1)

Seascape Could er Be Anywhere around here

86

(1)

The Christmas Tree's Press Conference

87

(2)

New Work

The Grimness

89

(4)

Modernism: the Umbrella Girl Forgets What She is Talking About

93

(1)

Burst Pipe with `A Level' Notes

94

(1)

Halifax!

95

(2)

Rotherham

97

(2)

Snails on the West Shore, August 1991

99

(2)

Three Boring Miles on the Exercise Bike

101

(1)

Smoke

102

(1)

Bosnia Festival: Your Full Guide by our Arts Reporter

103

(2)

The 70

105

(2)

Frog Dream

107

(1)

Dear Mr McMillan

108

(2)

A Cliche Defines the Moment in a Poem about Language and Oppression

110

(2)

Mining Town

112

(1)

A Discussion on Modern Poetry with Example: Postman Pat's Suicide Note

113

(1)

Bar Wars

114

(2)

Sonny Boy Williamson is Trying to Cook a Rabbit in a Kettle

116

(1)

The Scream on Stockport Station

117

(1)

My Caravan's got a Bontempi Organ in it

118

(2)

The Ice House

120

(1)

Epic, I Mean an Epic Feel to it

121

(1)

Grace

122

(1)

Top Row/Low Row, Woolley Colliery Village

123

(1)

George and Joe on a Bench: Wind-Symmetry

124

(1)

Brisk Coffee

125

(2)

Sunset Ovver Barnsley

127

(1)

The Next Poem I Write

128

(1)

Postmodernist Summer Nights in the Dearne Valley

129

(1)

The Literary Life

130

(2)

The Continuity Girl has Died

132

(1)

Great Dogs of History

133

(1)

The Veins in my Neck

134

(2)

Beethoven was Deaf, You Know

136

(2)

In a West Yorkshire Bus Queue

138

(1)

November 1963 in a Scotland of the Mind

139

(1)

The Making of the English Working Class

140

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