Poems of a Backwater Visionary

Billy Childish



  • 1No Reason
  • 2We Are These People
  • 3I Am a Despret Man
  • 4Early Spring
  • 5Zoo
  • 6Gentle Men of Gentle Books Know This
  • 7That Strange Bravery
  • 8Pure As Spring Water
  • 9Woodblocks and This Poem
  • 10Being 10 Years Old
  • 11Like a God I Love All Things
  • 12And Also I Have Felt God
  • 13Thumb Print
  • 14Soho 1972
  • 15The Names of Those I've Wished Dead
  • 16The Silent Knowledge of Ants
  • 17Dead Funny
  • 18Waterloo Station
  • 19The Billy Childish
  • 20A Sad Donkey and a Fat Man Smiling
  • 21Failure
  • 2231st August 1997
  • 23Every Grain of Rice
  • 24Chatham Town Welcomes Desperate Men
  • 25Only Poets Piss In Sinks
  • 26Ants Moths and Picasso
  • 27The First Green Horse God Has Made
  • 28The Man Who Thought He Would Never Be a Father Is a Father
  • 29I Wear Broken Shoes In the Houses of Prostitutes
  • 30I Am the Strange Hero of Hunger
  • 31My Fathers Gift
  • 32You Have Always Been With Me
  • 33Love the Jaws of the Lion
  • 34We Have War Because We Love War
  • 35I Am an Angry Man
  • 36Huddie Poem (About Lien In the Blud Soaked Towles Cradling You In My Arms)
  • 37The Bitter Cup
  • 38Evidence Against Myself
  • 39The Shed
  • 40Car Alarms Weep for Me In the Nite
  • 41Summer Slugs
  • 42Fire Fire Fire
  • 43The Lion Tamer of Boundary Rd.
  • 44The Five Pound Note Tree
  • 45Rochester Bridge (Evening)
  • 46Knight of the Sad Face
  • 47I Am a Knight of Honour
  • 48Let Us Be Plain
  • 49The Extra Flesh of God
  • 50I Come With Shin Bone Like Knives
  • 51The Day Is Falling Against the Sun
  • 52Red Squirrels and Robins
  • 53The Approval of Others
  • 54Art Is Here
  • 55The Jewesses Hand In Formaldehyde
  • 56Joined By a Single Thread With Truth
  • 57Expectations of Myself
  • 58The Shoe Shine Boy of Lisbon Age 74
  • 59The Last Flies of Summer
  • 60I Have Been Lying All My Life
  • 61Woodcutter
  • 62Coelacanth
    • 2007 57 Productions