Lawrence Upton

Visually-emphatic poetry

Revised February 2008



The order in which these poems are listed is, as far as possible and meaningful, chronological though many are developed over a number of years


Speakers of silence [early 1980s]

Get well poem

Huming 1 Huming 2 [mid-late 1990s]

Paper House [1998] [EXTERNAL LINK - seems unreliable and is being investigated]

from Textscapes [1999]

Naming for Jeff Nuttall [1999][EXTERNAL LINK]

from Game on a line [2000]

Sun [2000]

in the beginning [2000]

Poetry [2001]

from Voice Gestures [2001]

Initial dance [2001]

from San' [2001]

Razed Voices [2002]

Light [2002]

Let me have a word 1 2 3

Are you laughing? [2002]

Escape 1a 7a [2002]

f and g [2002]

Mirror [2002]

Autumn Poem [2002]

z & n [2002]

Scenes from the Life of St Ia [2002-2005]

from Cumbria Poems [2003]

as he speaks # 8 [2003]

Fear # 8 [2003]

West Penwith Photocopy Landscape [2003]

Song for two incompetents [2004]

Listen [2004]

from Q.E.V. [2004]

Mermaid [EXTERNAL LINK]

Walking poem [2004]

from NAMING (Pamela # 6) [2004]

from NAMING (Pamela # 13) [2004]

from NAMING (Pamela # 16) [2004]

NAMING William [2004]

NAMING (Anna) [2004]

picture from A BOOK OF THE DEAD [2004]

NAMING (Philip) [2004]

Dictat # 4 [2004]

Dictat # 21 [2004]

Alpha 1 2 3 & 4

Boogie Transform 10 12

Chun Song [2004]

Long E [2004]

Mermaid Boogie [2004]

Birthday poem for Roz 2004

from I myself [2005]

from Hades [2005]

Evidence [2005]

Can you speak? [2005]

In the railway truck [2005]

TEXTSCAPE revisited [2005]

Dancer triptych [2005 ?]

Postage stamp design [2005]

Close [2005]

Birthday Poem for Roz, 2005 # 1

Birthday Poem for Roz, 2005 # 2

Mild curse [2006]

January charms [2006]

NAMING for Ricki Redhead [2006][EXTERNAL LINK]

Watch Croft [2006] [EXTERNAL LINK]

An insect on a leaf [2006] [EXTERNAL LINK]

Multivoice poem for Roz [2006]

Newbridge Exclamations [2006]

NAMING for Lucio Agra [2007] [EXTERNAL LINK]

NAMING for Adrian Clarke [2007]

NAMING for William Blake [2007]

Birthday poem for Roz, duet [2007]