The Spoonbill Generator Archive

An Olden Treasury of Collaborative Verse
1996–2007

Poems by Year: 1996 - 1997 - 1998 - 1999 - 2000 - 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 - 2006 - 2007

*** Hall of Fame — Alphabetical List of Titles — Index of First Lines

		Title	First line

Poem: Batterson
	1999 Nov 3	Implausible Emptiness in Andromeda Parkway	Without denying anything much
	1999 Nov 16	Billericay notwithstanding ...	Thus it remains, and the remainder thus
	1999 Dec 16	Bothering Without Etiquette	Give me back my luncheon-meat!
	2000 Feb 2	Negative Elbow	Champion of the photograph
	2000 Mar 9	Neptune's Missing Noonday Umbrellas Of Blossom	The photo showed the final phase
	2000 Nov 22	Exceptions That Shimmer	Mine is the cat that is eating your trout
	2000 Nov 25	Dustbins Spilt Diamonds	Brighter than the cabbages
	2001 Feb 8	Recant Nothing, Martyrs	Full fathom five the aardvark lies
	2001 Jul 29	My Oceanic History	A waterfall, in which the whale
	2001 Oct 7	The Duplicitous Dumpling	'Cusp' she spelt
	2001 Nov 16	Pancreatic Recreations	Her bashfulness, though not innate
	2001 Dec 6	Hopping Around the Fringes	Up, the new down
	2001 Dec 10	Inwardly, Yet Outwardly	This helicopter, whose neglect
	2001 Dec 17	Horse-Box Politics	The Devil's in the detail
	2001 Dec 30	Stapling Matilda (Augustinian Ballade)	Poet slain with paper knife
	2002 Jan 8	Three-thousand Tall Blonde Pastries	A box of lead, filled up with stones,
	2002 Jan 22	Heavier Than Hymnodists	BNW, dreaded term, infects my thought
	2002 Jan 23	Fustian Comfits	Portable women
	2002 Jan 28	The Gorse Sandwich	Gloag by name, Gloag by nature;
	2002 Feb 11	Marmot Receipts Multiply	The terebinth was singing, but its words were quite obscure -
	2002 Mar 4	Arquebus (Chaucerian View)	Her basin full of porridge, her stockings eek of holes,
	2002 Apr 29	Her Prophylactic Wednesdays (Compensatory Voucher)	In days before the Diceman
	2002 May 16	Apparent Crimes	A packet of cheese defies the knife,
	2002 Jun 17	Own Kempt Wonders	Once glutton, twice dry
	2002 Jul 3	After Misdemeanours	Fang by nature,
	2002 Oct 3	Evensong, worn thin through scraping	'Nautilus shall be my theme',
	2002 Oct 10	Chaos Theory Disproved	Carp for breakfast, hake for tea:
	2002 Oct 29	Cedric the Waitress	A notorious threnody pleases
	2002 Nov 6	Peeping Tomcat	To drill through the crust of The Hague
	2002 Nov 15	Pension Rites After Sex	My metaphor is drawn from ice
	2003 Mar 9	Pestilent Ploughshares, Deficient Turnips	These latter-day halfwits, invading the turf
	2003 Oct 21	Pam Sandwiches, Pruriently Sliced	The millimetre: squat, unclean
	2003 Nov 13	Oak-worm Veneer Heathcliff	Curtains for the front of house
	2003 Nov 17	Landscapes Fail	Just before the avalanche
	2003 Dec 1	Electra Syndrome	Ralibut of Halibut pretended to be mad,
	2004 Jan 3	Nipple Tussock	I did it for the sake of her
	2004 Jan 22	Omicron Froat	My usual muse has gone for good
	2004 Jan 27	If The Janitor, When Juggling...	Gorris!
	2004 Feb 13	Martyrs To The Biscuit Guardians	The bilemonger's bill
	2004 Feb 25	All My Cousins, Surely	Goatish hovels - for the poor?
	2004 Jun 3	Quenching Their Papyrus Of Filth	Saratoga springs eternal
	2007 Jan 27	Artisans, Ninepence Or Less	In his ochre jodhpurs
	2007 Feb 5	Escapades That Truncate Themselves	As with gladness men of old
	2007 Feb 17	Gates Shut By Accident	Stunned, stunned
	2007 Feb 18	Desire It	Whatever we choose
	2007 Mar 17	That Final Catheter	Why not howl at Saturn?
	2007 Mar 28	Sleeping is no Phenomenon	Tinctures of old lead

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The Spoonbill Generator Archive

An Olden Treasury of Collaborative Verse1996–2007

Poem: Batterson

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An Olden Treasury of Collaborative Verse
1996–2007