John Heath-Stubbs was born in 1918 and educated at Queens College, Oxford. A critic, anthologist and translator as well as a poet, he has received the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry and the prestigious St Augustine Cross. Carcanet published seven previous collections by Heath-Stubbs, as well as a Collected and Selected Poems and a collection of his literary essays. In 1988 he was awarded the OBE. His poetry was published by Carcanet for almost thirty years. He died in London on 25th December 2006.

The Don Juan Triptych	p. 9
Tschaikowskian Poem	p. 14
An Heroic Epistle	p. 16
For the Nativity	p. 17
The Divided Ways	p. 18
Hart Crane	p. 19
Ibycus	p. 20
Address Not Known	p. 21
Shepherd's Bush Eclogue	p. 21
Churchyard of St Mary Magdalene, Old Milton	p. 22
Elegiac Stanzas	p. 25
Care in Heaven	p. 25
Bird-Song in New England	p. 26
Canso	p. 27
The Lady's Complaint	p. 28
Girl with Marionettes	p. 29
Epitaph for Thais	p. 30
The Cave of the Nymphs	p. 31
Not Being Oedipus	p. 32
Plato and the Waters of the Flood	p. 33
Titus and Berenice	p. 34
Ars Poetica	p. 35
Lament for the 'Old Swan', Notting Hill Gate	p. 39
Variation on a Theme by George Darley	p. 39
The Timeless Nightingale	p. 40
Mozart and Salieri	p. 42
Song of the Death-Watch Beetle	p. 44
Purkis	p. 44
Bevis of Hampton	p. 45
Old Mobb	p. 47
Jankynmass	p. 48
Simcox	p. 50
A Crow in Bayswater	p. 51
Hornbills in Northern Nigeria	p. 51
The Watchman's Flute	p. 52
Homage to J.S. Bach	p. 53
Christus Natus Est	p. 54
The Gifts	p. 54
Golgotha	p. 55
Broken Lyres	p. 55
Celebration for a Birth	p. 56
For Vernon Watkins 1906-1967	p. 58
Lyke-Wake Dirge, 8 September 1963	p. 58
An Elegy	p. 59
Winter in Illyria	p. 60
In Return for the Gift of a Pomander	p. 60
To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence	p. 61
Apologia for a Plastic Gnome	p. 62
Send for Lord Timothy	p. 63
The Frog and the Nightingale	p. 64
Linnaeus Naming the Beasts	p. 64
Wishes for the Months	p. 67
Shelley's Balloon	p. 68
For the Nine-Hundredth Anniversary of Winchester Cathedral	p. 68
Christmas Poem	p. 69
Poems for a Calendar	p. 70
Further Adventures of Doctor Faustus	p. 73
Casta Diva	p. 74
The Hunt	p. 75
Funeral Music for Charles Wrey Gardiner	p. 76
Letter to David Wright	p. 77
This is Your Poem	p. 78
Greensleeves	p. 79
The Green Man's Last Will and Testament	p. 80
Fez	p. 81
Bee-Easters in Tangier	p. 82
Romulus	p. 82
In the Sabine Hills	p. 83
Saint Benedict at Subiaco	p. 85
Saint Cuthbert and the Otter	p. 85
Timur	p. 86
A Pocket Life of William Shakespeare	p. 87
Nixon, the Cheshire Prophet	p. 90
House Spirits	p. 92
Robert Herrick's Pig	p. 93
Couperin at the Keyboard	p. 94
La Cenerentola	p. 95
The Log of the Beagle	p. 96
Saint Francis Preaches to the Computers	p. 97
All the Fun of the Fair	p. 99
The Story of Orph	p. 100
The Life and Poetical Remains of the Reverend Simon Simplex	p. 102
The True History of Little Miss Muffet	p. 105
The Frog's Return	p. 107
Poem to be Written on a Cheque, for Charity	p. 109
To Whom it May Concern	p. 109
For George Barker at Seventy	p. 110
In Memory of Fr. Geoffrey Curtis C.R.	p. 111
Inscription for a Scented Garden for the Blind	p. 112
A Little Zodiac	p. 112
Two Fishes	p. 113
Two Poems for the Epiphany	p. 113
Before Dawn	p. 114
from Theatre of Insects	p. 115
from Bird's Plenary Session	p. 121
The New Dance of Death	p. 135
The Great Yahoo Revolution	p. 139
Moving to Winter	p. 142
On the Demolition of the Odeon Cinema, Westbourne Grove	p. 142
Martinmas	p. 143
Holy Innocent's Day	p. 143
Four Dragons	p. 144
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