Table of Contents

1 1

Winning 3

1989 4

The Dominican Friars Come to England 5

Hidden Track 7

Remembrance Days 8

Pantisocracy 10

The Exile of Delia Derbyshire 12

Playboy of the Western World 14

The Last Bhundu Boy 15

On the Proposed Renaming of St James's Park 16

On the Footbridge over the A12 at Leytonstone 18

Charlotte Withers 20

What Socialist London Would Look Like 22

II 23

British Poetry 2010s 24

New York Poems

i 25

ii 26

iii 27

iv 28

v 29

vi 30

Epitaph: Noughties Pop 31

The Beehive 32

Galileo 34

2 35

Chillingham Cattle 36

The Last Tape

3 39

Meaning of Life/VHS Rental 40

Cartoons 41

Year Out 43

Nothing Like My Ghost 44

The Last Tape 47

The Dance 48

Dad's First Walkman 49

North Sea Travelogue 50

Bonus Tracks 55

1 Jumbled Heirlooms of the 1970s: J.G. Ballard, Martin Amis, Martin Bax 56

2 The World is Still Waiting: The Significance of the Stone Roses Reunion 61

3 Not Simply For Those Moments' Sake: A Retroactive Manifesto for Late-Twentieth-Century Pop Music 67

Notes 78