Alan Dixon
Variations on a theme of Max Jacob
Réparateur perclus de vieux automobiles
Secretive importer of avant-garde periodicals,
The poet has padlocked his gate, climbed back to his nest.
By my chin pepper my Cambridgeshire days are safe in the past!
His cracked pipework spouted against my ankles.
His long overcoat has an Assyrian look about it
And his grave beard and Wellingtons go well with the outfit.
In his loft the porridge burns, there's no itch to be happy.
Warning!... There is a letterbox but it's tight and snappy.
The poet has padlocked his gate, climbed back to his nest.
By my chin pepper my Cambridgeshire days are safe in the past!
His cracked pipework spouted against my ankles.
His long overcoat has an Assyrian look about it
And his grave beard and Wellingtons go well with the outfit.
In his loft the porridge burns, there's no itch to be happy.
Warning!... There is a letterbox but it's tight and snappy.
magazine list
- Features
- zines
- 10th Muse
- 14
- Acumen
- Agenda
- Ambit
- Angel Exhaust
- ARTEMISpoetry
- Atlas
- Blithe Spirit
- Borderlines
- Brando's hat
- Brittle Star
- Candelabrum
- Cannon's Mouth, The
- Chroma
- Coffee House, The
- Dream Catcher
- Equinox
- Erbacce
- Fabric
- Fire
- Floating Bear, The
- French Literary Review, The
- Frogmore Papers, The
- Global Tapestry
- Grosseteste Review
- Homeless Diamonds
- Interpreter's House, The
- Iota
- Journal, The
- Lamport Court
- London Magazine, The
- Magma
- Matchbox
- Matter
- Modern Poetry in Translation
- Monkey Kettle
- Moodswing
- Neon Highway
- New Welsh Review
- North, The
- Oasis
- Obsessed with pipework
- Orbis
- Oxford Poetry
- Painted, spoken
- Paper, The
- Pen Pusher Magazine
- Poetry Cornwall
- Poetry London
- Poetry London (1951)
- Poetry Nation
- Poetry Review, The
- Poetry Salzburg Review
- Poetry Scotland
- Poetry Wales
- Private Tutor
- Purple Patch
- Quarto
- Rain Dog
- Reach Poetry
- Review, The
- Rialto, The
- Second Aeon
- Seventh Quarry, The
- Shearsman
- Smiths Knoll
- Smoke
- South
- Staple
- Strange Faeces
- Tabla Book of New Verse, The
- Thumbscrew
- Tolling Elves
- Ugly Tree, The
- Weyfarers
- Wolf, The
- Yellow Crane, The