Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 3 • At the Caligula Hotel • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 4 • Lu Tai • [Chinese Exercises] • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 4 • Nocturne • [Chinese Exercises] • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 4 • Interval • [Chinese Exercises] • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 4 • Indecision • [Chinese Exercises] • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 4 • Journeying • [Chinese Exercises] • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 4 • Poems from a Later Dynasty III: Who Hears My Voice? • [Chinese Exercises] • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 7 • Exit Aquascutum • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 8 • While Feeding Parrots, November 9th • poem by Brian W. Aldiss (variant of While Feeding Parrots, November 9 1973) [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 9 • Winter Bites Deep • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 10 • Breughel's Hunters in the Snow • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 11 • Anau: The Well • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 12 • The Cynar, Istanbul • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 13 • Dawn in Kuala Lumpur • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 15 • Gauguin's Tahiti • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 19 • No, I Was Never Deaf or Blind to Her Music • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 20 • Toledo: Three Ladies • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 21 • Government • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 22 • Moonglow: For Margaret • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 23 • Alfie Cogitates on Life • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 24 • Memories of Palic • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 26 • Boars Hill: The Sycamores and the Oaks • (1988) • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 27 • All Things Transfigure • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 29 • Trapped in the Present • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 30 • The Path • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 31 • Suburban Sunday • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 32 • Nature Notes: Early September • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 36 • Willow Cottage • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 38 • Cold Snap • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 39 • Stoney Ground • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 40 • The Triumph of the Superficial • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 41 • The Twentieth Camp • (1988) • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 42 • Good Fortune • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 44 • Communication • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 45 • A Summery Meditation on Money • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 48 • A Moment of Suspense • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 49 • Fragment of a Longer Poem • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 53 • Short Stories • (1993) • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 54 • What Did the Policeman Say? • (1995) • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 55 • Hamlet Folk • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 56 • The Poor • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 57 • On Reading Poetry in Berkhamsted • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 59 • Poem Inspired by Scott Meredith • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 60 • I: Francis Bacon • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 60 • II: Fernand Khnopff • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 62 • Light of Ancient Days • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 63 • Mary Shelley, 1916 • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 64 • Victor Frankenstein on the Mer de Glace • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 66 • The Shelleys - To a Lady Who Spoke of Their 'Mystery' • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 67 • The Created One Speaks • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 68 • Mary in Italy • (1990) • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 69 • Looking It Up • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 70 • Rice Pudding • (1991) • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 72 • Writer's Life • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 77 • Greenhouse Sex • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 78 • Lunar Anatomy • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 79 • Monemvasia • (1995) • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 81 • Found • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 82 • Destruction of the Fifth Planet • (1988) • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 83 • Femalien • (1988) • poem by Brian W. Aldiss
• 84 • Thomas Hardy Considers the Newly-Published Special Theory of Relativity • (1981) • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 85 • Rhine Locks Are Closed in Battle Against Poison • (1987) • poem by Brian W. Aldiss (variant of 'Rhine Locks are Closed in Battle Against Poison') [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 86 • The Cat Improvement Company • (1988) • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 88 • The Expanding Universe • (1988) • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 89 • To a Triceratops Skull in the British Museum • (1988) • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 90 • The Light • (1987) • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 91 • Flight 063 • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 92 • I: A Brain Pursues Its Vanished Dream • [Precarious Passions] • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 92 • II: A Woman Marries the Southern Ocean • [Precarious Passions] • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 92 • III: Ascension Island Courts a Whale • [Precarious Passions] • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 92 • IV: A Refrigerator Proposes to a Musk Ox • [Precarious Passions] • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 92 • V: A Book Falls in Love with Its Reader • [Precarious Passions] • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 92 • VI: A Lamp Standard Courts the Stars • [Precarious Passions] • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 98 • Alphabet of Ameliorating Hope • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]