David Barnett's poems

Here is an index to some of the poems I have written over the last few years...

• The First Term - Written by one of my alter egos, January 1995
• The Optical Indicatrix - And Why I Love It So Much - Written as an answer to one of James Jackson's vacation assignments (January 1995)
• Just Another Evening - These days, nothing goes on, and we make full use of those facilities... (February 1995)
• Ode to Arran - (April 1995)
• How's It Goin', Owen? - Inspired by my second-year room-mate... And a little bit rude (Summer 1995)
• The Title's In The Poem - (August 1995)
• Inspired by Oasis - A poem I wrote when feeling particularly morose in December 1995. To be sung to the tune of... Well, perhaps you can guess. I have left off the original dedication... I wonder if there's anyone who'll remember who it's likely to have been written for at the time... ;)
• Mapping Techniques - Just how desperate did things really get in that summer of 1996..?
• The Impossible Dream - Hmmm... Removed, for the greater good of humanity
• Bedrooms and Boyfriends - A decidedly random poem written over summer 1998
• What's it all about? - Here, despite the recommendation that I "keep it for the 50th anniversary of my death anthology..." (May 1999)
• Simple Simon and the Pye-Man - Mmm... Bullard people... (Summer 1999)
• The Queens' Bursars' Rent Rise Debate (a.k.a. "The Room Rent Boys") - Written for the Queens' Smoking Concert, 30 November 1999
• Glitter - "One of these days I'll get round to writing something cheerful." June 2000
• Pompous Ass - November 2000
• Tbi Lo-Pasp Dhit - A (spoof) Poet's Poem. And, as such, published in The Cambridge Student. Just how happy did that make me..? (November 2000)
• Coming of Age - or - Something to Count On - (February 2003)
• Seventeen - (August 2003)
• The Stalker - Essential reading for that MPhil in Stalking Studies... - (August 2003)
• Ode to a Turbidite. With a Mud Seal. - " ...Anyway, she likes writing poems, and challenged us to find a topic that she could write a poem about. I asked for a romantic poem about turbidite deposition, with a mud seal. It just occurred to me that maybe you could do better.... " - (April 2004)

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