Private Pleasures

by Bensley, Connie

• ISBN13: 9781852247560
• ISBN10: 1852247568
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-06-15
• Publisher: Dufour Editions

Summary

Sharply satirical poems often poking fun at social pretence and suburban pretension.

Table of Contents

Under your skin	p. 9
Awakening	p. 10
All the kissing we do now	p. 11
Biography	p. 12
Colouring book	p. 13
End game	p. 14
De-familiarisation	p. 15
First names ...	p. 16
Certainties	p. 17
Heartfelt	p. 18
Under the shawl	p. 19
Sibling	p. 20
Out of my mouth	p. 21
Background	p. 22
Deadheading	p. 23
Open plan	p. 24
Needs	p. 25
Date	p. 26
Lesson	p. 27
Advice	p. 27
A change in the weather	p. 28
Long-term residents welcome	p. 29
Loose connections	p. 30
Landscape with figure	p. 31
Extinction	p. 32
Alibi	p. 32
Recycling	p. 33
Marrying the car	p. 34
Vacillation	p. 35
Street theatre	p. 36
The big question	p. 37
Private pleasures	p. 38
A question of taste	p. 39
Nasturtiums	p. 40
The house opposite	p. 41
Waving	p. 42
Dove	p. 43
Brief encounter with a horse whisperer	p. 44
Song	p. 45
The case of the distracted postman	p. 46
Lovers in the London aquarium	p. 47
Piccadilly in the sunshine	p. 48
Dora	p. 49
Then	p. 50
Universal Primer	p. 51
To those people I've annoyed by my infatuations	p. 52
Page-turner	p. 53
Pack	p. 54
The speech	p. 55
Best before	p. 56
Funeral dog	p. 57
We are so many	p. 58
Those old gods	p. 59
Horticulture	p. 60
In a flash	p. 61
Single room	p. 62
Why didn't you tell me you were dead?	p. 63
Artefact	p. 64
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