Contents
Acknowledgements
The TV Went Away Today
Poem to Order
We Don’t Do That One Anymore
A Nice School
The Teachers
a (o)
Wilberforce Grommett-Smith
The Fantasy Kid
If You Were Made Of Chocolate
Excuses
Morning Poem
Full
Sea
Dusk
Sunset
Days of Rain
River, in Flood
Snow
Frost
Tonight
Winter Triptych
Spider
Happy Hippy Poem
Timeless
Spiral Weld
Doctor Fizz
Alpine Zoo, Innsbruck
Found Animal Rights Poem
Teflon Finial And Alvin The Aardvark
Slugs
Poetic Blues
A Few Moments of Freedom
M6 Motorbike
Back Seat Driver
This Train
Truant & Fly
I Surfed Home On The Motorway
Who’s A Lucky Boy Then?
A Right Charlie
No One Made MashLike My Grandad!
Distant Relations
Glorious
Norfolk Broads
Keeping the Same Tension
Me and the Missus
The Pedlar of Winds
Tree Stump
November the Fifth Love Poem
Firework Finale
Missing Persons
Nobody
Clown
My Pebble
River
Poem For A Girl Putting A Starfish Back Into The Sea
Lullaby
Rupert Loydell's writing for young people is full of fun, and intelligence, and above all possibility: the possibilities of what language can do, of what poetry is for, of what words can achieve. There's compassion here, and empathy and, dare I say it, love. -- Ian McMillan Like The Fantasy Kid himself, Rupert Loydell chews language like gum, playing with the taste and feel of words as he rolls them round his tongue. Enjoy the taste and savour the flavours. -- Paul Cookson
Rupert Loydell is Senior Lecturer in English with Creative Writing at University College Falmouth, and the editor of Stride and With magazines. He is the author of many books of poetry, including A Conference of Voices and the forthcoming Boombox!, as well as several collaborative works; he also paints small abstract paintings. He lives in a creekside village in Cornwall with his family and far too many books and CDs.
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