A companion volume to `Blue Coffee: Poems 1985-1996' (available from Dufour), `Heart on the Left' brings together poems from Mitchell's earlier books, thirty years worth of poetry straight from the heart.
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About Suffering They Were Never Wrong The Old Mistresses
The Accountant In His Bath
Action And Reaction Blues
Activities Of An East And West Dissident Blues
Adrian Mitchell's Famous Weak Bladder Blues
The Airline Steward's Spiel
All Darks Are Alike In The Death
All Fool's Day
All Night Long
All The World's Beauty
Ancestors
And Some Lemonade Too
The Angels In Our Heads
Another Peaceful Day (from The Siege)
Another Prince Is Born
Answer
Apeman As Tourist Guide
Apeman Gives A Poetry Reading
Apeman Keep Thinking It's Wednesday
The Apeman Recollects Emotion In Tranquillity
The Apeman Who Hated Snakes
The Apeman's Hairy Body Song
The Apeman's Motives
Apeman's Science Fiction Dream
Appendix Iv
As I Write There Is A Procession Passing My Window
Astrid-anna
Autobahnmotorwayautoroute
Automnobile
Back In The Playground Blues
A Ballad Of Human Nature
The Ballad Of Sally Hit-and-run
The Ballad Of The Death Of Aeschylus
Ballade Of Beans
Banana
Barred From Every Decent Pub
Beattie Is Three
The Beggar
Bessie Smith In Yorkshire
Birthday Song For Spike Hawkins, The Unholy Ghost
Birthdays
The Blackboard
A Blessing For Kenneth Patchen's Grave
The Brave Emergency Poet
Brazil Nut In Edinburgh
Briefing
Bring Out Your Nonsense
Buddy Bolden
The Bum-collector's Song (from Mind Your Head)
Bury My Bones With An Eddy Merckx
Bus Station (from A Seventh Man)
Buy A Sprig Of Haggis For Bad Luck, Sir
Byron Is One Of The Dancers
C'mon Everybody
The Call (or Does The Apple Tree Hate Plums)
Calypso's Song To Ulysses (from Lash Me To The Mast)
Canine Canto
Cardboard Rowing Boat (from The Siege)
Carol During The Falklands Experience
The Castaways Or Vote For Caliban
Ceasefire
Celia Celia
A Child Is Singing
The Children Of Blake (from Tyger Two)
Chile In Chains
The Christians Are Coming Goodbye Goodbye
Closing Time
Coming Back
Common Bloody Market Poem
Confession
A Country Diary
Crusoe Dying In England
A Curse Against Intruders
A Curse On My Former Bank Manager
Daydream Number 157,423
Daydream One
Daydream Two
Dear Sir
December Cat
Decree To All Members Of The Church Of England
The Dichotomy Between The Collapse Of Civilisation And
Dinner With The Dons Of Saint Abysmas' College, Oxbridge
Discovery
Display Advert
Divide And Rule For As Long As You Can
Dream Chant
Dumb Thursday
The Dust
Early Shift On The Evening Standard News Desk
The Eggs O' God
English Scene
Epithalamium For Maeve And Gordon Binchy-snell
Falling Feathers
Family Planning
Farm Animals
Fascist Speaker
Fifteen Million Plastic Bags
Final Chant
The First Journey (from Houdini)
First Poem Composed In A Dream
First Tribute To Mark Twain
Flag Day -- But Not For The Revolution
Footnotes On Celia Celia
For A Medical Dictionary
For Basil Bunting
For David Mercer
For Gordon Snell -- My Best, First And Finest Friend On 50th
For Julietta, Who Asked For An Epitaph
For My Son
For Nigel And Delyth
For Rachel: Christmas 1965
For The Eightieth Birthday Of Hoagy Carmichael
Forster The Flying Fish
Found Poem: An Englishman Comments On The Return Of Roger
Four Sorry Lines
From Rich Uneasy America To My Friend Christopher Logue
From Riches To Riches
From The Statement Of A Vietnamese Buddhist Monk
Future Poem
G.i. Joe
Gardening
Gaston The Peasant
Gather Together (from We)
A Girl Called Music
Give It To Me Ghostly
Good Day
A Good Idea
Good Question
Goodbye
Goodbye Richard Nixon
Gossip Column
The Great Bell In Paul Robeson's Chest
A Gublisher Is An Expensive Indian Settee Made Of Dark Red
The Hairy Men From The Hills
Happy Birthday William Blake (from Tyger Two)
Happy Fiftieth Deathbed
Have Another
Hear The Voice Of The Critic
Hello Adrian
The High School Bikeshed
Historical Poem
Holding My Water Under Breath
How To Be Extremely Saintly, Rarefied And Moonly
How To Kill Cuba
I Passed For Sane
I Tried, I Really Tried
Icarus Schmicarus
Illumination
Improvisation Time In The Rehearsal Room
In Other Words, Hold My Head
The Institution
Involvement
Io, Io, It's Off To Work We Go
It Ain't What They Do It's What The Apeman Do
It All Shines
It's A Clean Machine
It's Five O'clock In The Morning
Jake's Amazing Suit (from Silent Chorus)
Jimmy Giuffre Plays The Easy Way
John Keats Eats His Porridge
Just Off Charing Cross Road There Are Alleys Of Crocodiles
Lady Macbeth In The Saloon Bar Afterwards
Lament For The Jazz Makers (from We)
Lament For The Welsh Makers
Land Of Dopes And Loonies
A Leaflet To Be Dropped On China
Leaflets
Let Me Tell You The Third World War Is Going To Separate
The Liberal Christ Gives A Press Conference
Life On The Overkill Escalator
Look At The View
Loony Prunes
Loose Leaf Poem
Lord Home The Foreign Secretary
Love For Tony
Loyal Ode To Myself On My Installation Prince Of Yorkshire
Lullaby For William Blake
Lying In State
A Machine That Makes Love And Poems And Mistakes
Man At Large
Many Many Many Mansions
Marie Lloyd
Marry Your Mother (from Mind Your Head)
Medical (from A Seventh Man)
Midnight Mary From Llandudno
Miserable Sinners
Money And Booze
Most People
My Dog Eats Nuts Too
My Parents
My Shy Di In Newspaperland
My Uncle Superhubert
Naming The Dead
Nearly Nothing Blues
New Skipping Rhymes
Night Lines In A Peaceful Farmhouse
Norman Morrison
Nostalgia -- Now Threepence Off
Now We Are Sick
The Obliterating Prizes
The Observer
Ode To Enoch Powell
Ode To George Melly
Ode To Her
Ode To Money
Ode To Sponsors Of British Appeal Committee Of Europalia '73
Official Announcement
Old Age Report
Old Testament New Testament Or His Eye Is On The Blonde
On The Beach At Cambridge
On The Verses Entitled Farm Animals
One Bad Word
One More Customer Satisfied
One Question About Amsterdam
The Only Electrical Crystal Ball I Ever Saw
Open Day At Porton
The Open Savage
Order Me A Transparent Coffin And Dig My Crazy Grave
Oscar Wilde In Flight
Out
The Owl Song
The Oxford Hysteria Of English Poetry
A Party Political Broadcast On Behalf Of The Burial Party
Peace Is Milk
Please Keep Off The Dead
Poem On The Occasion Of Return Of Her Majesty From Canada
Poetry (from Tyger Two)
A Prayer For The Rulers Of This World
The Pregnant Woman's Song (from The Blue)
Press Photographs
The Prince Of Wailers
Private Transport
Programme For An Emergency
Question Time In Ireland
Quit Stalling, Call In Stalin
Quite Apart From The Holy Ghost
Reassuring Song If Your Name Is Mitchell
The Reindeer Rider In An Old Russian Photograph
Remember Red Lion Square
Remember Suez
Reply To A Canvasser
Revolution
Riddle
Ride The Nightmare (from The Hot Pot Saga)
Ring Of Dirty Water
Roger Mcgough The Travel Courier
The Royal Prerogative Of Mercy
Royal Whodunnit
Sally Go Round The Ombelibus On A Thursday Afternoon
Sardinia, 1979
The Savage Average
Saw It In The Papers
Screws And Saints
Second Poem Composed In A Dream
Second Tribute To Mark Twain
Self Critic
Self-congratulating, Self-deprecating, Auto-destructive Blue
September Love Poem
Sex Maniac Him Good (from The Second Mrs Tanqueray)
Shoot-out At The Hebden Bridge Saloon
Slogan Time
A Slow Boat To Trafalgar
Small Adventure
Smilers
Snaps
Snow Wheat, Snow What
So Don't Feed Yur Dog Ordinary Meat, Feed Him Pal, Pal Meat
Social Being
Solid Citizens
Sometimes I Feel Like A Childless Mother
Sommuting The Wrong Way Round Early Morning
Song About Mary
A Song Of Liberation (from Houdini)
Sorry Bout That
South Kensington Is Much Nicer
Speedwell (from Houdini)
A Spell To Make A Bad Hour Pass
A Spell To Make A Good Time Last
Staying Awake
The Sun Likes Me
Sunday Poem
A Sunset Cloud Procession Passing Ralph Steadman's House
The Swan
Take Stalk Between Teeth Pull Stalk From Blossom Throw Bloss
Taming A Wild Garden
Ten Ways To Avoid Lending Your Wheelbarrow To Anybody
Thank You Dick Gregory
There Are Not Enough Of Us
There Are Too Many Of Them
Thinks: I'll Finish These Gooks By Building Electronically
Third Opinion
This Friend
Time And Motion Study
To A Critic
To A Godly Man
To A Lady
To A Russian Soldier In Prague
To Charles Windsor-mountbatten
To Elizabeth Quinn On First Night Children Of Lesser God
To Michael Bell
To My Friends, On My Fiftieth Birthday
To Nye Bevan Despite His Change Of Heart
To The Organisers Of A Poetry Reading By Hugh Macdiarmid
To The Silent Majority
To The Statues In Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey
To Whom It May Concern (tell Me Lies About Vietnam)
To You
Top-notch Erotic Moment Thank You
A Tourist Guide To England
Toy Stone
The Tribe (from Man Friday)
Tribute To Monsieur Verne
The Truth (from Love Songs Of World War Three)
Tv Talk
Two Dances
Two Good Things
Two Paintings By Manuel Mendive
U-s-s-r Spells Happy
Uncoll. Works Volcano J: Chanteuse And The Obsolete Beast
Uncoll. Works Volcano J: Composer God Save The Noble Czar
Uncoll. Works Volcano J: Silver Jubilee Tribute
Uncoll. Works Volcano J: There Is A Green Hill On Top Of Us
Uncoll. Works Volcano J: What About National Theatre Then?
Uncoll. Works Volcano J: What I Did In The Silver Jubilee
Uncoll. Works Volcano J: What I Think Of Some Of My Rivals
Under Photographs Of Two Party Leaders, Smiling
Unfulfilled Suicide Note
Veteran With A Head Wound
Victor Jara Of Chile
The Violent God
Vroomph! Or The Popular Elastic Waist
A Warning
Wash Your Hands (from Mind Your Head)
We Call Them Subnormal Children
We Moved To A Farmhouse In The Yorkshire Dales
A Wedding Song For My Niece Ruth Mitchell And Her Husband
The Weighing Machine (from A Seventh Man)
What Is Poetry?
What It Means To Be A Man In London
What Men Fear In Other Men
What Men Fear In Women
What The Mermaid Told Me
What To Do If You Meet Nijinsky
Whitman On Wheels
Who Goes Where
The Widow's Song (from Mowgli's Jungle)
A Wise Woman
World Cup Song
Would You Mind Signing This Receipt
Written During The Night Waiting For The Dawn
You Get Used To It
You Got Twins (from The Siege)
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
About Suffering They Were Never Wrong The Old Mistresses
The Accountant In His Bath
Action And Reaction Blues
Activities Of An East And West Dissident Blues
Adrian Mitchell's Famous Weak Bladder Blues
The Airline Steward's Spiel
All Darks Are Alike In The Death
All Fool's Day
All Night Long
All The World's Beauty
Ancestors
And Some Lemonade Too
The Angels In Our Heads
Another Peaceful Day (from The Siege)
Another Prince Is Born
Answer
Apeman As Tourist Guide
Apeman Gives A Poetry Reading
Apeman Keep Thinking It's Wednesday
The Apeman Recollects Emotion In Tranquillity
The Apeman Who Hated Snakes
The Apeman's Hairy Body Song
The Apeman's Motives
Apeman's Science Fiction Dream
Appendix Iv
As I Write There Is A Procession Passing My Window
Astrid-anna
Autobahnmotorwayautoroute
Automnobile
Back In The Playground Blues
A Ballad Of Human Nature
The Ballad Of Sally Hit-and-run
The Ballad Of The Death Of Aeschylus
Ballade Of Beans
Banana
Barred From Every Decent Pub
Beattie Is Three
The Beggar
Bessie Smith In Yorkshire
Birthday Song For Spike Hawkins, The Unholy Ghost
Birthdays
The Blackboard
A Blessing For Kenneth Patchen's Grave
The Brave Emergency Poet
Brazil Nut In Edinburgh
Briefing
Bring Out Your Nonsense
Buddy Bolden
The Bum-collector's Song (from Mind Your Head)
Bury My Bones With An Eddy Merckx
Bus Station (from A Seventh Man)
Buy A Sprig Of Haggis For Bad Luck, Sir
Byron Is One Of The Dancers
C'mon Everybody
The Call (or Does The Apple Tree Hate Plums)
Calypso's Song To Ulysses (from Lash Me To The Mast)
Canine Canto
Cardboard Rowing Boat (from The Siege)
Carol During The Falklands Experience
The Castaways Or Vote For Caliban
Ceasefire
Celia Celia
A Child Is Singing
The Children Of Blake (from Tyger Two)
Chile In Chains
The Christians Are Coming Goodbye Goodbye
Closing Time
Coming Back
Common Bloody Market Poem
Confession
A Country Diary
Crusoe Dying In England
A Curse Against Intruders
A Curse On My Former Bank Manager
Daydream Number 157,423
Daydream One
Daydream Two
Dear Sir
December Cat
Decree To All Members Of The Church Of England
The Dichotomy Between The Collapse Of Civilisation And
Dinner With The Dons Of Saint Abysmas' College, Oxbridge
Discovery
Display Advert
Divide And Rule For As Long As You Can
Dream Chant
Dumb Thursday
The Dust
Early Shift On The Evening Standard News Desk
The Eggs O' God
English Scene
Epithalamium For Maeve And Gordon Binchy-snell
Falling Feathers
Family Planning
Farm Animals
Fascist Speaker
Fifteen Million Plastic Bags
Final Chant
The First Journey (from Houdini)
First Poem Composed In A Dream
First Tribute To Mark Twain
Flag Day -- But Not For The Revolution
Footnotes On Celia Celia
For A Medical Dictionary
For Basil Bunting
For David Mercer
For Gordon Snell -- My Best, First And Finest Friend On 50th
For Julietta, Who Asked For An Epitaph
For My Son
For Nigel And Delyth
For Rachel: Christmas 1965
For The Eightieth Birthday Of Hoagy Carmichael
Forster The Flying Fish
Found Poem: An Englishman Comments On The Return Of Roger
Four Sorry Lines
From Rich Uneasy America To My Friend Christopher Logue
From Riches To Riches
From The Statement Of A Vietnamese Buddhist Monk
Future Poem
G.i. Joe
Gardening
Gaston The Peasant
Gather Together (from We)
A Girl Called Music
Give It To Me Ghostly
Good Day
A Good Idea
Good Question
Goodbye
Goodbye Richard Nixon
Gossip Column
The Great Bell In Paul Robeson's Chest
A Gublisher Is An Expensive Indian Settee Made Of Dark Red
The Hairy Men From The Hills
Happy Birthday William Blake (from Tyger Two)
Happy Fiftieth Deathbed
Have Another
Hear The Voice Of The Critic
Hello Adrian
The High School Bikeshed
Historical Poem
Holding My Water Under Breath
How To Be Extremely Saintly, Rarefied And Moonly
How To Kill Cuba
I Passed For Sane
I Tried, I Really Tried
Icarus Schmicarus
Illumination
Improvisation Time In The Rehearsal Room
In Other Words, Hold My Head
The Institution
Involvement
Io, Io, It's Off To Work We Go
It Ain't What They Do It's What The Apeman Do
It All Shines
It's A Clean Machine
It's Five O'clock In The Morning
Jake's Amazing Suit (from Silent Chorus)
Jimmy Giuffre Plays The Easy Way
John Keats Eats His Porridge
Just Off Charing Cross Road There Are Alleys Of Crocodiles
Lady Macbeth In The Saloon Bar Afterwards
Lament For The Jazz Makers (from We)
Lament For The Welsh Makers
Land Of Dopes And Loonies
A Leaflet To Be Dropped On China
Leaflets
Let Me Tell You The Third World War Is Going To Separate
The Liberal Christ Gives A Press Conference
Life On The Overkill Escalator
Look At The View
Loony Prunes
Loose Leaf Poem
Lord Home The Foreign Secretary
Love For Tony
Loyal Ode To Myself On My Installation Prince Of Yorkshire
Lullaby For William Blake
Lying In State
A Machine That Makes Love And Poems And Mistakes
Man At Large
Many Many Many Mansions
Marie Lloyd
Marry Your Mother (from Mind Your Head)
Medical (from A Seventh Man)
Midnight Mary From Llandudno
Miserable Sinners
Money And Booze
Most People
My Dog Eats Nuts Too
My Parents
My Shy Di In Newspaperland
My Uncle Superhubert
Naming The Dead
Nearly Nothing Blues
New Skipping Rhymes
Night Lines In A Peaceful Farmhouse
Norman Morrison
Nostalgia -- Now Threepence Off
Now We Are Sick
The Obliterating Prizes
The Observer
Ode To Enoch Powell
Ode To George Melly
Ode To Her
Ode To Money
Ode To Sponsors Of British Appeal Committee Of Europalia '73
Official Announcement
Old Age Report
Old Testament New Testament Or His Eye Is On The Blonde
On The Beach At Cambridge
On The Verses Entitled Farm Animals
One Bad Word
One More Customer Satisfied
One Question About Amsterdam
The Only Electrical Crystal Ball I Ever Saw
Open Day At Porton
The Open Savage
Order Me A Transparent Coffin And Dig My Crazy Grave
Oscar Wilde In Flight
Out
The Owl Song
The Oxford Hysteria Of English Poetry
A Party Political Broadcast On Behalf Of The Burial Party
Peace Is Milk
Please Keep Off The Dead
Poem On The Occasion Of Return Of Her Majesty From Canada
Poetry (from Tyger Two)
A Prayer For The Rulers Of This World
The Pregnant Woman's Song (from The Blue)
Press Photographs
The Prince Of Wailers
Private Transport
Programme For An Emergency
Question Time In Ireland
Quit Stalling, Call In Stalin
Quite Apart From The Holy Ghost
Reassuring Song If Your Name Is Mitchell
The Reindeer Rider In An Old Russian Photograph
Remember Red Lion Square
Remember Suez
Reply To A Canvasser
Revolution
Riddle
Ride The Nightmare (from The Hot Pot Saga)
Ring Of Dirty Water
Roger Mcgough The Travel Courier
The Royal Prerogative Of Mercy
Royal Whodunnit
Sally Go Round The Ombelibus On A Thursday Afternoon
Sardinia, 1979
The Savage Average
Saw It In The Papers
Screws And Saints
Second Poem Composed In A Dream
Second Tribute To Mark Twain
Self Critic
Self-congratulating, Self-deprecating, Auto-destructive Blue
September Love Poem
Sex Maniac Him Good (from The Second Mrs Tanqueray)
Shoot-out At The Hebden Bridge Saloon
Slogan Time
A Slow Boat To Trafalgar
Small Adventure
Smilers
Snaps
Snow Wheat, Snow What
So Don't Feed Yur Dog Ordinary Meat, Feed Him Pal, Pal Meat
Social Being
Solid Citizens
Sometimes I Feel Like A Childless Mother
Sommuting The Wrong Way Round Early Morning
Song About Mary
A Song Of Liberation (from Houdini)
Sorry Bout That
South Kensington Is Much Nicer
Speedwell (from Houdini)
A Spell To Make A Bad Hour Pass
A Spell To Make A Good Time Last
Staying Awake
The Sun Likes Me
Sunday Poem
A Sunset Cloud Procession Passing Ralph Steadman's House
The Swan
Take Stalk Between Teeth Pull Stalk From Blossom Throw Bloss
Taming A Wild Garden
Ten Ways To Avoid Lending Your Wheelbarrow To Anybody
Thank You Dick Gregory
There Are Not Enough Of Us
There Are Too Many Of Them
Thinks: I'll Finish These Gooks By Building Electronically
Third Opinion
This Friend
Time And Motion Study
To A Critic
To A Godly Man
To A Lady
To A Russian Soldier In Prague
To Charles Windsor-mountbatten
To Elizabeth Quinn On First Night Children Of Lesser God
To Michael Bell
To My Friends, On My Fiftieth Birthday
To Nye Bevan Despite His Change Of Heart
To The Organisers Of A Poetry Reading By Hugh Macdiarmid
To The Silent Majority
To The Statues In Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey
To Whom It May Concern (tell Me Lies About Vietnam)
To You
Top-notch Erotic Moment Thank You
A Tourist Guide To England
Toy Stone
The Tribe (from Man Friday)
Tribute To Monsieur Verne
The Truth (from Love Songs Of World War Three)
Tv Talk
Two Dances
Two Good Things
Two Paintings By Manuel Mendive
U-s-s-r Spells Happy
Uncoll. Works Volcano J: Chanteuse And The Obsolete Beast
Uncoll. Works Volcano J: Composer God Save The Noble Czar
Uncoll. Works Volcano J: Silver Jubilee Tribute
Uncoll. Works Volcano J: There Is A Green Hill On Top Of Us
Uncoll. Works Volcano J: What About National Theatre Then?
Uncoll. Works Volcano J: What I Did In The Silver Jubilee
Uncoll. Works Volcano J: What I Think Of Some Of My Rivals
Under Photographs Of Two Party Leaders, Smiling
Unfulfilled Suicide Note
Veteran With A Head Wound
Victor Jara Of Chile
The Violent God
Vroomph! Or The Popular Elastic Waist
A Warning
Wash Your Hands (from Mind Your Head)
We Call Them Subnormal Children
We Moved To A Farmhouse In The Yorkshire Dales
A Wedding Song For My Niece Ruth Mitchell And Her Husband
The Weighing Machine (from A Seventh Man)
What Is Poetry?
What It Means To Be A Man In London
What Men Fear In Other Men
What Men Fear In Women
What The Mermaid Told Me
What To Do If You Meet Nijinsky
Whitman On Wheels
Who Goes Where
The Widow's Song (from Mowgli's Jungle)
A Wise Woman
World Cup Song
Would You Mind Signing This Receipt
Written During The Night Waiting For The Dawn
You Get Used To It
You Got Twins (from The Siege)
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
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He is not thoughtful. He is not measured. He is not RESIGNED. His poetry is not chiseled or polished or lapidary or balanced or civil or precious or LEGAL! He shouts He rages He loves with embarrassing intensity He laughs until he falls over backward He fences with every windmill he can find He hates passionately, breathes deeply, gives up in despair, and rises again in flames. He speaks in a cultured roar or a delicate rumble.(Well, what did you come out to see, a poet, or a reed shaken by the wind?) Rise up! Cast off your shackles! Laugh 'til you fall over backwards! Cry 'til your eyes melt! Freeze in recognition! It is the English language as it ought to be used. Read this book. Protect all the children from the bullies. Read this book. Fall in love with the air. Read this book. Mate with your mate and Read This Book! If you are the same after you read this book, either there is no hope for you or you read only Urdu. I wonder if I have adequately conveyed my enthusiasm for this book?
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