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POETRY, POLITICS, AND LANGUAGE
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Original Poetry
Series
The Chancellor and the Songstress (2020-2021)
Part 1 The Tale of Lily-White Riotess
Part 2 Hymn to the Flora of the World
Part 3 The Balloonists
Part 4 The Little Drummer Boy
Part 5 The Toppling of the Chairman of the Board
Part 6 Interlude — Dumbo in Cuckooland
Part 7 The Lion Unloosed
Epilogue— The Baby Song and the Baobab Tree
17 (2017-2018)
Section 1 – Prologue – Selva Oscura
Sections 2 and 3 – Picnic and Gas
Section 4 — Bangers Section 5 – Fall
Section 6 – She Section 7 – Park
Section 8 – Dogs Section 9 – Siren
Section 10 – Dot Section 11 – Dorothy Agonistes
Sections 13 and 14 – Mike and Michael Angel
Sections 16 and 17 – Purgatorio and Epilogue
64 (1991-2016)
Section 2 – Epithalamium—Parts 2 – 3
Section 3 – Ekphrasis Parts 4 – 8
Section 3 – Ekphrasis – Parts 9 and 10
Section 4 – Katabasis – Parts 11-17
Section 4 – Katabasis – Parts 18-23
Section 5 – Honeymoon – Parts 24-26
Section 5 – Honeymoon – Parts 27-29
Epilogue Parts 30-35
Sonnets on Autism (2003)
200 (2018-2020)
Section 1 – Prologue – Part 2 – Mental Arithmetic
Sections 3 and 4 – Newcomer – Miasma
Section 5 – Breakfast, Dinner, Tea
Section 7 – Kseniya and Zhenya
Section 8 – Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Dee
Section 11 – Song for the Opium Poppy
Sections 12, 13 and Intermission
Section 14 – Checkmate – Kseniya and Zhenya do the CIA
Section 15 – When Tweedle Dumb met Tweedle Dee
Section 16 – Hymn to Ammunition
Section 20 – Magic Act – Kseniya and Zhenya do Las Vegas
Section 23 – Bell at Seven Part 1
Section 23 – Bell at Seven Part 2
Section 24 Part 1 – Kseniya and Zhenya do Sunset Boulevard
Section 24 Part 2 – Zhenya Arrested
Section 25 – The Chancellor and the Fox
Section 27 – Zhenya does Yellowstone
Section 28 — Epilogue Parts 1-3
Unholy Sonnets (2001)
Collections
I Things Drawn from the Earth (1989-1992)
II Held in the Air (1993-1997)
III A Mind of Winter (1998-1999)
IV Inferno in a Teaspoon (2000-2001)
VI Elegy for a Punk Nightingale (2003)
Propertius Elegies III.iv
Propertius Elegies III.v
Propertius Elegies III.vi
VII The Filth in the Machine (2005)
VIII Fragments of Affairs (2006-2011)
Stuff Picked up at the Supermarket
X Seeing through Fog (2015)
Throwing the Postman out of the Pram
X Fun and Suffering (2016-2019)
Other Translations
João Cabral de Melo Neto
Manuel Bandeira
Rainer Maria Rilke
Pindar
Propertius
Experimental Poetry
Prose
Short Stories
Essays
Ten Differences Between Britain and Brazil
Novel
Literary Criticism
The Lizard and the Caterpillar
Encavernment in Beckett, Musil, and Kafka
William Carlos Williams in the American Grain
Amateur and Professional Poetry
John Berryman and the Male Gaze
Dogme in Poetry and Film Part I
Dogme in Poetry and Film Part II
The Devil in the em-dash: a reading of Emily Dickinson
Language
Series
For the Love of Prepositions (and Affixes)
Part 3 The F-words: ‘of’ and ‘off’
Part 9a Games with ge-, y- and a-
Part 9b Playing the Language Game
The Truth about English Verbs
Modal Verbs
Managing Capacity – Modal Verbs in the Real World
Miscellaneous Grammar
Governor Brewer’s Present Perfect
De-escalation and the Nature of the English Language
Grammar Lessons from Antonin Scalia
Ergativity in Trump White House Discourse
A Number of Issues Regarding Number
Vocabulary
Pronunciation
Punctuation
Teaching and Tests
Poorsplaining and True Education
Politics
General
Democracy as Alternation in Britain, France, the US, and Brazil
International
China, Russia, and the United States
Catalonia, Scotland, and Kurdistan
UK Politics
The British Labour Party and Scottish Independence
How not to Miselect a Government
US Politics
Honey and Bile: The Rhetoric of Sarah Palin
Ergativity in Trump White House Discourse
Brazilian Politics
Throwing the Bloody Book at Them
Other Topics
Math and Science
TV and Film
Dogme in Poetry and Film Part I
Popular Music