Ebook: Hoyoot: Collected Poems and Songs

For Tom Pickard poetry is a free, and freeing, space. His pen?demands / complete autonomy', and finds it as it explores both harsh and lyrical realities with a northern working-class sensibility. A lifelong counter-cultural figure, Pickard transcends formal and thematic barriers with a lightness of touch that is informed both by anger and by love.;Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; 1 1968-1978: High on the Walls The Order of Chance Dancing Under Fire; Birthplace Bronchitis; Unemployed; Scrap; The Horny Blues; Penny Blacks and One Pound Deals; Shag; Willy Wank; Puberty; Coast Line; First Fuck; Me Your Ape; So Sad; City Song; Adultery; Factory; Shipyard; The Tongue; The Bodies are Touching; New Body; Refreshment; Bunk; Wings; I Dreamt I Died; Rural Sex; Murmurs; Snake Dawn; Storm; Forbidden Birth; To My Unborn Child; The Gift; Fire of Reflection; The Bairn; Matthew; The Game Bird; Death is an Owl.