Contents
00 Chronology of writings
02-External links
Beings
1990
1990/07/02 Song: Necessity
2000
2000/06/06 Wolf
Note
2002
2002/12/03 The King of Clowns and the Happy Man’s Shirt
2003
2003/01/03 Inventory
2003/01/15 Exultation
2003/01/16 Emotional sobriety
2003/01/20 Counterblast
2003/07/13 The personal is political
2003/07/19 The personal is political
2003/07/13 Here for a season
2003/07/13 Skysong
2004
2004/08/24 Seedtime and harvest
2004/09/02 Hope
Blessings
1991
1991/05/28 Song: The lion and the lamb
1993
1993/06/05 Song: You have brought me home
1994
1994/09/03 A Blessing
Original version
1996
1996/06/21-1996/07/08 Leaflets
‘I did it my way’ - and look what a mess we've made of it!
Are you ready for the end of the world?
What the Bible says about the end of the world
Christians are sick
Everybody lives for ever, worse luck
What the Bible says about the party that goes on for ever
Forget the Ten Commandments
God is a natural high
What the Bible says about addictions and the Holy Spirit
God is for life, not just for Christmas
What the Bible says about the everyday God
God should be ashamed
What the Bible says about how we must make a fresh start
God’s not in heaven
What the Bible says about where God is
He wasn’t a wimp
What the Bible says about the tough love of Jesus
Here’s how to win: give in
Hotline to the Maker
What the Bible says about talking to God
If God loves us, why does he punish us?
What the Bible says about punishment
Love is more powerful than hate
What the Bible says about how love overcomes hate
Love is not just a three-letter word
What the Bible says about love and sex
Miracles don’t happen
What the Bible says about performing miracles
One thing you can know about God: you’re not him
What the Bible says about who God is
People aren’t animals
What the Bible says about humanity’s role on earth
Read the Book of Instructions
What the Bible says about itself, and how to read it
Religious people are no good
The world is a messed-up place
What the Bible says about the world, and our part in it
Time to stop praying - and start listening
We’re in a hole
What if you died tomorrow?
What the Bible says about eternal life
What we need is a revolution
What the Bible says about changing ourselves and the world
Which side are you on?
What the Bible says about the battle between good and evil
You can’t get into Heaven
What the Bible says about getting into Heaven
You don’t have to be a Christian to love Jesus
What the Bible says about non-Christians who get it right
1997
1998
Song: Dinah and the stranger
1999
1999/07/28 Letter: Churches in Kosovo
1999/08/19 Song: The ballad of Mary Magdalene
1999/08/31-1999/09/01 Do not adjust your mind, there is a fault in reality
Note
1999/09/01 The Twelves
1999/12/07 Millennium Blues
1999/12/13 A Millennium Stocking-Filler
1999/12/13 In year zero
1999/12/14 Song: Go where I send thee
Note
1999/12/25 Song: Millennium Eve, 1999
2000
2000/10/10 The legend of the nails
2003
2003/01/20 The voice of God
2003/04/14 Three poems for Good Friday
2003/07/17 Jacob
2003/07/17 Vote of thanks
2003/11/15-18 Wordless in Eden
The symbolism of the serpent
2004
2004/12/25 On Christmas Eve
Against Religion
02-The Cross and the sickle
A spiritual victory - but for whom?
04-Angry love, the revolutionary message of Jesus
"No saviours from on high deliver."
05 The dialectic of good and evil
The necessity for the devil
The necessity of God
06-A materialist approach to God
Karl Marx: Introduction, Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy
of Law
The fear and the fatwa
Unnatural selection
Critiques
00 Navigating through this database
1971
Singers of an empty day
1971 07-Bob Dylan: Freaking the media
Note
Omitted text
1975
1975 The Electric Muse
01-Contents
01-Realities of the revival
Note: The Red Megaphones
02-The three strains
03-Collecting: Apollo dissects Dionysus
04-The Instruments of tradition
05-Dionysus reborn
06-Folk, pop and the electric aesthetic
02-Album sleevenotes
01-From the acoustic roots
02-Neither folk nor electric
03-From reeling to rockin'
Note on Eibhli Gheal Chiún Ni Chearbhaill
04-Blues, baroque & beyond
05-Soho needless to say
06-Roll over Cecil
Note: Fire on the mountainside
07-The electric adventure
Note: "Pre-Christian"?
New Electric Muse
New Electric Muse II track listings
New Electric Muse track listings
1985
1985/12/21 And God spake Yorkshire
Converted - by atheists!
Entropy
1990
1990/12/11 Ending the Cult of "No Personality"
1994
1994/06/19 Aleksandr Blok: realist and mystic
1995
1995/02/06 Interview with the Vampire
1995/05/19 An interview with Dave Gilmour of Pink Floyd
The interview
Postscript
1995/11/14 Diana Rigg and the National Theatre's Mother Courage
Note on Mutter Courage
1998
1998/08/27 Molly Bloom
1999
1999/06/10 The Tom Clancy industry
01: What makes Clancy run?
02: Anatomy of an action
03: Just give 'em the facts, ma'am
04: The Clancy so far
05: Apart from that, how did you enjoy the war, Mr Clancy?
06: Will the real Tom Clancy stand up?
07: Elementary, my dear Clancy
1999/10/07 Peter Bellamy CD : Wake the Vaulted Echoes
1999/10/26 In Memoriam Hugh McDiarmid
Note on the last line
1999/11/16 Performing Blok
1999/12/14 Film: End of Days
1995/08/06 Is this poetry or what?
2000
2000/06/14 Poetry is
2001
2002
2002/01/19 The Bradford Chalk Circle
Note: Brecht's original text
2002/03/01 Reading Lawrence
2002/05/24 Opera North double bill: l'Enfant et les Sortilèges/Petrushka
2003
2003/01/02 Words
2003/02/10 The city and the river
2003/11/10 Film: Wagner (Tony Palmer, 1983)
2003/09/23 Poetasters
2003/09/30 Revenge of the savage
2003/12/16 The Celtic Myth, an aspect of globalisation
00: Note from a Sassenach
Note
01: 'Celtic globalisation'
Notes
02: The dialectic of the market place
Note
03: A Celtic style?
04: Classical observations
05: No rhyme, no strophing
06: Western European influences
07: Out with the old
08: Academic blindness
09: The Ossianic forgeries
10: The 'renaissance' of the Celtic harp
11: Unreliable sources
12: Conclusion
Notes
2004
2004
2004/01/06 Brueghel's Babel
2004/04/17 Zemlinsky's Dwarf
2004/04/13 Opera North: Eight Little Greats
2004/05/14 Opera North: Djamileh/The Seven Deadly Sins
2004/10/23 The Politics of the Folk Revival
00 Marx & Engels: RURAL IDIOCY
01. Revolution in a revolution?
02. Fakesong & 'folk song'
03. The 'hegemony' of Gramsci
04. Mediating what, and to whom?
05. The search for an English national identity
06. Strikes in the South
07. Were MacColl and Lloyd Marxists?
08. Not by Lloyd alone
09. The influence of Lomax
10. A metropolitan bias
11. Not of one mind
12. The classicisation of folk music
13. The role of the individual in the folk revival
14. Stalin's thesis
15. Thomson's Marxism & Poetry
16. Men and women, stand together!
17. The instrumental tradition – also neglected
18. We were all quasi-Marxists then
19. A method, not a belief-system
20. The positive effect of the Ossianic forgeries
21. Aunt Molly and Woody – Greenwich Village folkies?
22. The effect of the revival on one traditional singer
23. Vaughan Williams and The Amateur Whitewasher
24. Ralph Peer invents country music
25. Rock'n'roll as a folk music
26. The proletarian weekend
27. Another category: poplore
28. Is it a 'revival'?
29. Orality and the Hebrew Scriptures
30. Bardic techniques
31. So why do pagan rituals survive?
32. Tradition embraces innovation
33. A functional process
34. Group Theatre and folk theatre
35. Returning to the Africa within
36. The Roman Wall blues
37. Benefits of the ghetto
38. The traditional and the popular
39. The chimera of 'authenticity'
40. The dialectics of folk
41. Hybridity, true and false
42. Syncretism
43. Internal colonialism
Note: The Culture Industry - Enlightenment as Mass Deception
44. Please ignore us!
45. Marshall McLuhan - what're you doin'?
Not an ending
2004/01/08A burning question
00-Note on The Wicker Man movie
01-Song: The burning
02: A man-made myth
03: 'In the centre often stood a woman'
04: 'Concerning witches who copulate with devils'
05: Male forgeries and fictions
06: Matriarchy?
07: 'Goddess' figurines
08: Pre-patriarchal foragers
09: Agriculture and ritual
10: 'A dead man on a cross'
11: Celts and the 'wicca'
12: Not an old new religion - but a new one?
13: Conclusion
2006
2006/08/16 To an angry poet
2006/09/18 Sound sculpture
2006/09/21 String theory
Note on Dennis Potter and autobiography
Fictions
1999
1999/12/01 Fair Annie and Lovely Johnny
2002
2002/02/10 Song: The Lady from the West
Note: On Jessie L. Weston's From Ritual to Romance
2006: An extract from The Sacred Blade
2002/05/20 A Death
2002/10/11 Song: On the banks of the moorlands
Note
2002/11/12 The Heartsongs
2002/12/03 The King of Clowns and the Happy Man’s Shirt
2003
2003/06/-8 The New American Century
2004
2004/06/05 The goodbye
2004/09/21 '45a: an alternative reality
2005
2005/02/11 The joke
2005/04/08 The harder they fall
2005/04/09 Walk-on
2005/08/06 That woman
2006
06/03/27 The wedding picture
06/04/04 The return
2006/04/09 "Why not?"
2006/05/05 Sky is cryin'
Bloody Hell: Lee
2006/09/18 Double-agent
2006/05 26 The revolution never happened.
Note
Histories
01-Histories - no mystery
Notes
02-Return to the garden
Notes
03-A short history of popular music
1381
John Ball
Note
1485
Scene from a play about Richard III
The ballad of Richard III
1649
Two versions of a poem about the Levellers
The mutineer
The undefeated
1876
1876/06/25 Custer is a war criminal
1916
A dance of life, a dance of death
01-How this writing came about
A non-fiction version
01. Vicarage encounters of the folk kind
02. The deuyls morys
03. The German musicianers
04-'Isn't it lovely?' - Folksingers and their songs
05-Ambassadors from the East End
0-Synopsis
1924
Mister Mistery
01-Synopsis
02-Chapter 1: Cecil Sharp is frightened
03-Final Chapter: Judgement at Nürnberg
1943
1943/07/24 Song: The Hamburg floods
1942/08/19-1943/02/02 Why Stalingrad should always be called Stalingrad
1945
1945/08/06 Hiroshima Day
Poetry - a note
1953
1953/05/03 Song: Djugashvili
1953/05/03 The murder of Josef Stalin
1953/10/27 Song: The Arbroath Tragedy
1955
Song: The Family of Man
The Family of Man - Additions and corrections
The Family of Man - Some pictures from the exhibition
1958
1958/01/25 Song: The Smithfield Market Fire
1959
1959/05/17 Song: Kelso Cochrane
Note
1988
1988/07/06 NRB (The Bears’ Song)
1991
1991/09/01 The death of Tovarich Ivan
1991/12/31 The murder of the Soviet revolution
1991/12/25 Our flag is the flag of the world
1991/12/25 Gorbachev Speech
1992
1992/01/04 Theses for discussion
1993
1993/10/3 October 1993 - why the revolution never happened
Note
Penetration: the secret services & the left
02-The 'stay behind' guerrillas
03-'Pro-Chinese circles are suitable for infiltration'
04-Opposition to the 'historic compromise'
05-Swinging Labour behind the cold war
06-How the CheKa was created
07-'A militia of the entire people'
08-The social character of the party changes
09-The OGPU's greatest coup
10-The death of Stalin
11-A new Reichstag fire
12-'The liberating Red Army'
13-Elaborate improvisations
Notes on the sources
1999
1999/04/06 Song: Milica
2001
2001/04/09 Song of the demolitions at Khan Yunis
2001/10/01 Mathematics of death
2002
2002/06/18 Song of the Slaughtered Innocents
2002/06 SMS from Palestine
2002/06 SMS
2002/06/25 Jerusalem
2002/06/26 Jerusalem
2002/06/27 Leaving Jerusalem
2002/06/28 Nablus
2002/06/29 Nablus
2002/06/30 Nablus
2002/06/30 Ballad of a small victory
2002/07/01 Nablus
2002/07/02 Nablus
2002/07/04 Nablus
2002/07/05 Nablus/Jerusalem
2002/07/06 Travelling home
2003
2003/01/25 Song: Human shield
2003/01/26 A memorial service
2003/03/12 Crushed by a wheel
2004
2004/10/22 Watering the desert
2004/08/19 Colours of resistance
Livings
1991
1991/09/24 Obituary: Peter Bellamy
1991/09/24 Peter Bellamy - an appreciation
A response to criticism of an unfortunate use of the word
"fortunately"
1996
1996/01/01 Obituary: Hamish Imlach
1996/09/23 Obituary: Roy Guest
1999
1999/09/10 Obituary: Katie Webster
1999/10/12 Obituary: Frank Frost
2002
2002/05/04 Obituary: John Hasted
2002/05/04 John Hasted - Morning Star obituary
2003
2003/01/26 Graffito
2003/06/19 Obituary: Judith Piepe
2003/10/24 Old man blues
Lovings
00-Notes on the "Lovings" poem
01-Imagery
1960s
1960s Birthday
1960s The city Venus
1971
1971 Capricorn
1971 Song: Coming down to earth
1997
1997/11/29 Take my advice never court a young man
1997/12/08 My evening song
Note
1999
1999/03/29 If children danced in Centenary Square
Note: Banned by the anarchists!
1999/04/29 To Gloria, on her birthday
1999/05/17 Song: The fair maid and her garden
An alternative second part
Part II
1999/05/25 Two songs - New York, England
1999/06 20 A gentleman always stands for a lady
1999/06/03 The cairn
Notes on the cairn poems
1999/06/05 A sensitive subject
1999/06/05 The old songs
1999/06/11 Translations
1999/06/14 A man in love
1999/06/15 Persistence of vision
1999/06/15 The wild garden
I hate gardening!
1999/06/21 Return to a birth day
1999/07/30 A darkness
Note: in defence of anger
1999/08/04 Gratitude
1999/09/20 Unity in diversity
1999/09/01 Moonshadow
Note on the title
1999/09/01 Nevernot
01. Nowonly
02. Not other
03. Mustbe
04. Walkaway
05. Igrow
06. Nonotme
07. Truestanding
08. Itouch
09. Tobe not
10. Notend
1999/09/22 Song: Silver Dagger
1999/09/29 The broken
A reply
1999/09/30 A drink of water
1999/10/12 My exotic love
1999/11/22 An enchanted wood
1999/11/24 A 'bad performance'
1999/12/09-12 Woman singing
1999/12/31 End of the beginning
199/12/31 Gibberish
2000
2000/03/05 Anger
2000/03/16 So be it
2000/05/02 I hate love!
2000/05/15 A year
2000/06/30 Your presence
2000/08/19 Woman dancing
2000/09/22 Song: This really is the last waltz
2000/05/13 The haiku lady
Note on the haiku
2001
2001/02/10 Menstrual tensions
2001/02/12 A break-in
2001/02/13 Hair today
2001/02/13 Milk
Quote
2001/02/28 Fat Tuesday
2001/03/31 A Dance of Death
2001/05/30 Song: The windmill
Chords
2001/09/11 Djinn of Petra
2001/09/22 Chrysalis
2001/11/06 First step
Translation
2001/11/07 The end of a love affair
2001/11/21 Jaded lovesong
2001/12/14 Sweet as woodsmoke
2001/12/26 A Walk on Haworth Moor
2001/12/26 Constancy
2001/12/31 Key to my heart
2001/12/31 No fucking chance!
2001/07/31 Lovesong in 7/16 time
2001/12/04 Rhapsody on a grey morning
2002
2002/01/02 A Time of Tears
2002/01/02 Crocuses
2002/01/08 Riddle
2002/01/10-12 Song: A foolish old man
2002/01/11 Weather forecast
2002/01/13-14 Pilgrimage
01: Questions
02: A gift
03: A strange device
Longfellow: Excelsior
04: A carved tree
05: Celebration
06: Cusps of time
2002/01/15 Juicer
2002/01/16 Song: Christmas Eve
Traditional references
2002/01/19 Heartbeat
2002/01/19 Possibility
2002/01/19 Too late
2002/01/20 Crying Fit
2002/01/20 Sunday breakfast
2002/01/22 SMS
I can't remember who is the "you" in this message!
2002/01/23 Preamble to A year, 2002
2002/01/25 Mut'a
Mut'a - a note
2002/02/07 Obsession Blues
2002/02/08 Sing me the old songs
2002/02/10 Birthday Poem: The Cairn, 2002
2002/02/14 Valentine card
2002/02/16 An Occupation
2002/02/16 Love Is
2002/02/24 How warm
2002/02/24 Of a ring and a thing
2002/04/02 Sweets from Syria
2002/04/17 Betrayal
2002/04/19 More than vanity
2002/04/22 The word
2002/03/02 A sweet goodbye
2002/03/02 Cryptogram
2002/03/03 Re-reading Lawrence
2002/03/08 Blues for a lost love
2002/03/12 Funeral Song
2002/03/14 Graffitti
2002/03/18 Three months on
2002/03/20 Fidelity (Ruth's Song)
2002/03/20 Lust
2002/03/24 Song: The Cumbrian lass
2002/03/27 The meaning of your name
2002/03/29 To Aleppo gone
Macbeth quote
2002/04/07 The love thing
2002/04/10 Let her go
2002/04/14 Boundaries
2002/04/17 Forgiveness
2002/04/19 Business Deal
2002/04/23 Congratulations!
2002/04/24 You never danced with me
2002/04/27 Inconsistency
2002/05/01 Song: Savage Rose
2002/05/03 Thanks be to God
2002/05/04 Consequences
2002/05/06 Loss
2002/05/19 A Promise - or a Warning?
2002/05/23 Erectile Disfunction
2002/06/15 Carapace
2002/06/20 Chimera
2002/07/31 Agony in the Garden
2002/08/01 Dark Lady
2002/08/31 On seeing the 1999 eclipse on TV
2002/09/20 Instead of a funeral pyre
Note
2002/10/03 We don't know the half
2002/10/22 A sad dance
2002/11/27 Song: Why does love songs got to be so sad?
2002/12/31 A power greater than ourselves
2003
2003/01/15 An ideal woman
2003/01/15 Song: It looks like the end of the road
2003/01/16 Creative accounting
2003/02/08 Holiness
2003/02/10 Birthday
2003/03/08 The female Human Shield song
2003/03/17 A face in a passing crowd
2003/04/22 Lost & found
2003/05/05 Courtship
She said goodnight
2003/05/03 Only fools gamble with money
2003/05/18 Trans-Pennine Express
2003/05/23 The Manchester girl
2003/06/08 A bestiary of impossible loves
2003/05/09 Portrait of my love as a giraffe
2003/05/11 Portrait of my love as a bee
2003/05/11 Portrait of my love as a vulture
2003/05/12 Portrait of my love as a cat
2003/06/08 Portrait of my love as a bitch
2003/06/08 Portrait of my love as a serpent
2003/08/26 Portrait of my love as a snake
2006/08/05 Portrait of my love as a monkey
2006/08/07 Portrait of my love as a wolf
2003/06/30 Cante Hondo
01 She sings
02 He sings
03 The woman sings
2003/07/03 An end
2003/08/08 The symbol for infinity
Dedication
2003/08/15 50 million Americans are without electricity
2003/08/18 Boo-hoo-hooh!
2003/08/25 Memory
2003/08/25 These foolish things
2003/09/05 Job
2003/09/09 1 mile closer to Leeds
2003/09/09 Childhood
2003/09/12 Trinity
2003/10/26 Mermaid song
2003/10/31 Madness
Madness: an analysis
2003/11/07 Song
2003/12/02 Music of time: a quartet
2003/22/02 Memory, November 2003
2003/12/15 Roundelay
2004
2004/01/26 Bad day
2004/02/19 Poem from the past
2004/02/19 The breath of God
Notes on The breath of God
2004/02/19 The purpose of poetry
2004/04/15 The Seven Lively Virtues
2004/05/26 Pride
Still awaiting the other six
2004/04/15 Lust
2004/08/31 Txts
2004/09/30 First aid
2005
2005/11/05 The love bug
2005/09/23 Poetry is a kind of madness
2005/10/5-7 Celebration
2005/12/26 All black
2006
2006/04/13 Beloved friend
2006/04/22 Happy Pain
2006/05/15 Eternity
2006/05/17 Spring Song
2006/05/21 Dialectic
2006/05/23 The glass is half-full
2006/06/29 Back story: Unto Brigg Fair
2006/07/09 Obsession
2006/07/15 Darkness on a summer's day
I
II
2006/07/18 Bierley Hall Wood Ponds
2006/07/20 Star-crossed?
2006/08/03 Freedom
Poetry - a note
2006/08/06 Arseholes
2006/08/06 Demonstration
2006/02/19 Bereavement
2006/08/06 The wisdom of insecurity
Notes
2006/08/18 Ben Gunn
2006/09/11 Missing in action
2006/09/17 Magic spell
Theatre
2005
2005/06/28 Acts of love
Act 1
Act 2
Act 3
How I came to write this play
Translations
1974/04/06 The dawn
1994/06/10 The 12, by Aleksandr Blok
The 12: ONE
The 12: TWO
The 12: THREE
The 12: FOUR
The 12: FIVE
The 12: SIX
The 12: SEVEN
The 12: EIGHT
The 12: NINE
The 12: TEN
The 12: ELEVEN
The 12: TWELVE
2002/12 My dark-haired woman
00 On Logue's Red Bird
01 A woman’s body
01 Cuerpo de Mujer
02 At sunset
02 En Su Llama Mortal
03 An immensity of firtrees
03 Ah Vastedad de Pinos
04 Storms fill this morning
04 Es La Mañana Llena
05 When I want you to hear me
05 Para Que Tú Me Oigas
06 This is how I remember you
06 Tu Recuerdo Como Eras
07 Afternoon slopes down
07 Inclinado En Las Tardes
08 Drunk with honey
08 Abeja Blanca
09 Pissed like a meths-drinker
Note: Meths, not turps
10 Even this half-light
10 Hemos Perdido Aun
11 Almost out of the sky
11 Case Fuera Del Cielo
12 It is enough
12 Para Mi Corazon
13 Crosses of fire
13 He Ido Marcando
14 You play every day
15 Juegas Todos Los Días
15 I wish you to be still
15 Me Gustas Cundo Callas
16 In this half-light
16 En Mi Cielo Al Crepusculo
17 In the depths
17 Pensando, Enredando Sombras
18 I love you here
18 Aquí Te Amo
19 My dark-haired lady
19 Niña Morena y Ágil
20 Sad lines at night
20 Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche.
A dedication: On translating Neruda
Song of despair
La Canción Desesperada
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