| Title | Published | Publisher | ISBN | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Many Flies Have Feathers |
1973 | Trigram Press | ? |
This volume contains more poems than listed. The first column below reflects only those that are titled. The second adds those referred to from Dandruff.
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My Mother Has Two Red Lips.(D) A Love Poem Country Idyll Phonetic Poem To Giorgio Morandi The Purposeful Culinary Implements On One Hand There and Back - Via Sweden I Can See Abie's Neck |
I like sitting.(D) The forgetful fowl.(D) If everybody.(D) For sixpence.(D) I used to lie in bed.(D) If all the cornflakes.(D) My sock.(D) When I entered.(D) Two balls.(D) |
(D) Recorded on the LP Dandruff.
| Title | Published | Publisher | ISBN | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Flat Man | 1977 | Trigram Press | paper: 0 85465 053 9 cloth: 0 85465 054 7 signed: 0 85465 055 5 |
Ill. Phyllis King |
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Alone What? The Painful League I Ate a Lady's Bun Living Donkey A Modest Monument Excitement Bleeding Shoes The Darkness Blind When I Stand on an Open Cart Aquarium The Turn Irk The Dichotomy of Love |
Birdswing Empty Road at Little Bedwyn The Other Half Fistyman Dumb Dames The Bowling Green Patronage Search for Grace Garden Path at Filcombe True Courage Moist Flier Old Boots The Railway Sleepers The Long Way A Flat Man |
Your Smell Fish Three Sisters Shoes Deductive Lepidopteron Lean Stubborn Vassals Filcombe Cottage Brook Fair's Fair Gorbals 1930 British Museum Bread and Butter Smack! 5 Wise Saws Unexpected Join |
| Title | Published | Publisher | ISBN | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Private Habits | Arc Publications | 1981 | paperback: 0 902771 89 2 hardback: 0 902771 90 6 |
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The head of a Nail A varnished coathook The blonde mouse Clear liquor A pragmatist An ancient tamarisk Potato tune Really chewy A mouse and a tarantula Big ned & wee bob Private Habits Risotto The Keeper A man returns Winder cider Happy Hen The old lady danced If your breasts Stoned dates A black snake I built a road A shy lark Big enough That coat Heave ho Knickers In the park Do that again Drum skin Ladies' plaits Cheap chocolate Errata Hard croucher |
Fly sandwich Baker Moth move In Norway Bell breaks Path Here Good telecommunications Some substance Red button Spouse Greedy Miser Ten Years Nature Terrified Kookaburra The natural height of cloud A remote port I laid down the lump An ugly face See me For a lark Hair crack Kevin's clumsy touch Thin gruel Qualified nurse A robin and a rhea A brown shape Rheumaticy bush Demon Trouble Banana sandwich Tuck in Renaissance Parallelepiped |
Feeling the need On the day Big blue lid Fish professor Gaolbirls Disappointed Smell my breath Heel mark Touchstone In consequence Buffet Lunatic Scrabbly hard touch Melon Large & yellow An informed taste A successful interior designer O quartz! How do you do Dogged persistence Dirty sky Frustration Her darling A warp & a woof Tiny twists of the wrist Belly Jamboree Malice Polish the bell Naked Bird rain Eg A crafty burglar An unhappy medium |
| Title | Published | Publisher | ISBN | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LARGE et Puffy | 1984 | Arc Publications | paperback: 0 902771 701 hardback: 0 902771 71X |
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Use a brick Leisurely exchange Bad eye Mostly tins 3 men Her unwilling throat Late afternoon Her equipment A hen runs The gathering doubt The customs For practice Ready Only 17 Brenda (5) Still sore Just a nuance Fair is fair Grandpa's tales The wren Swollen Claw polish A great team Plucky Giant |
Nature note No. 1 (5) Brooch boat (M) Sandwiches A strip of land Wild hens The revelation Half way through Well meaning The laws of physics 2 feet thick Uncut moquette Jungle tip - piranhas Breathing regularly Regal occasion A land of penguin Ferrara Six nails Dying chrysanthemums My darling Whale badge Over you go Bending In a frame Duck plants Sandstone |
On the train Japanese poem Upstream Self-knowledge Hello below! A beautiful woman Vermin Full of goods Fried egg Birdhammer Creamy pumpkins A wooden one Down a treat Secret drinker Golf ball Jungle tip - killer bee A new home Swinging bird The darkness Large and puffy All the time The bend Country door |
(M) Guest recording on the LP Miniatures.
(5) Previously published in 5x5
| Title | Published | Publisher | ISBN | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fresh Carpet | 1986 | Arc Publications | paperback: 0 902771 68 X hardback: 0 902771 68(or 9?) 8 |
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God's Blessing A Frustrated Worshipper Jewish Jokes A Tough Marriage Laughter and Disbelief London Cycling Campaign Make it Private Beading Daddy-Long_legs Rings 2 in the Morning Local Natural Sounds Free Wood Whiskey Flask Elephant Sucking in Woollen Dove Bucket and Steam The Blessings of our Forebears Prune Jam Hard Croucher # 2 A Quiet Gray Bird Dear Matting |
Feeble Try With a Stone # 1 Cuckoo Sang Hill Out Cowboy Cutler List My Wee Pet Fresh Carpet Maturity Glutton's End Achilles' Heel God's Pet A Square Deal Breakout Feigning Ants Capillary Music Roget Herring Synagogue Nothing 30° The Conservation of Matter Hapless Non-Electronic Game |
Loneliness Stupid The Same Size Finger Flutter Clip Bark Only Dodo Feeble Try With a Stone # 2 The Other Way An Expert Aaron How You Been, Dora ? Scotch Fruit-Snake A Capital B Tooth Mince Oh Boy The Hoi Seven Summer Rain All Heart A Warm Bucket Odd Old Flora |
| Title | Published | Publisher | ISBN | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Nice Wee Present From Scotland | 1988 | Arc Publications | 0 902771 73 6 |
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Picking Your Nose Mishap Number Two Mishap Number Three Barrel Torsos Emasculated Broken Leather Tsuki-Yuki-Hana Go On Their Favourite Tree Dentist Stiff as a Meringue A Clear Littoral Beside the Fish Footsteps Green Light Biltong Croon Along Her Gland Where are my Underwriters Her Strange Brain Autin Metro Hee Haw The Two Coy Hinnies Serve Yourself Again and Again and Again Watch It Insect A Teaspoon A Holy PLace Seawood |
Beethoven Two Kippers The Following Squares and Exit Sideways Golden Globe Tilt Leopard Crossing The Game Soya Margarine Tea Sparked Off by Guillevic Deep Caring Triangles and Stars The Kind Nurse Horse Bison's Face Franz Liszt & Art Tatum The Train Stops A Friendly Smell In Praise of Insecurity A Hen's Throat A Dead Plant Come Back It Stinks The Mumbles A Young God Art Lesson at Puberty Empty Hotel |
Japanese Toggle Ticket Office Window A Surprise Steady On The Bitter Leaf Girls in Dorset Pram ¡Olé! The Lip Ettie Catfood Nothing Meals on Wheels Harry Gloves Cinema Street Smelt Imagine Bunch Filthy My Fangs A Coconut Shell A Fine Palps Clerkenwell Road One Eye My Skull A Clock |
| Title | Published | Publisher | ISBN | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fly Sandwich and Other Menu | 1991 | Methuen | 0 413 65940 2 | ill. Martin Honeysett |
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Moth Move (P) A Shy Lark (P) Leopard Crossing (N) Fly Sandwich (P) Elephant (FC) Not Many Flies Unexpected Join (FM) A Friendly Smell (N) Big Mice Tilt (N) Drum Skin Claw Polish (L) Filthy My Fangs (N) For a Lark (P) Ants (FC) Fish (FM) A Pragmatist (P) Buffet (P) |
Deductive Lepidopteron (FM) Frustration (P) A Black Snake (P) The Two Coy Hinnies (N) For Practice (L) Girls in Dorset (N) The Keeper (P) Jungle Tip - Killer Bee (L) Feeble Try with a Stone (#1) (FC) A Horde of Flies O Quartz! (P) Insect (N) Bird Rain (P) Cinema (N) The Wren (L) Still Sore (L) Potato Tune (P) God's Blessing (FC) |
Wild Hens (L) 2 in the Morning (FC) Gaolbirds A Young God (N) Come Back (N) Happy Hen (P) Fair Is Fair (L) Bison's Face (N) Birdswing (FM) Whale Badge (L) Do That Again (P) Duck Plants (L) Half Way Through (L) Daddy-Long-Legs (FC) A Robin and a Rhea (P) Lunatic (P) |
All but five of the poems in this collection had been previously published.
The previous publications are identified by the following key:
(M) A Flat Man
(P) Private Habits
(L) LARGE et Puffy
(FC) Fresh Carpet
(N) A Nice Wee Present from Scotland
| Title | Published | Publisher | ISBN | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Is That Your Flap, Jack ? | 1992 | Arc Publications | paperback: 0 946407 76 7 |
Sometimes listed as 'Terrific Fun' in some catalogues after one of the book's poems.
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The Sun Whiz-Kid Useful Bladder Timothy Sedate, Modest and Passive Down the Lane The Point My Farm Sticky Hands Disappointed Just for Fun Island Floating Loneliness Maquette Car Upholstery A Credit to the Community Snap an Apple The Flavour Was Gone Making Its Way Reading Blind Alley Men in the Fen French Windows All but Four Vernal Grass Squares of Toast The Novelty Detached the Leaf Last Poem No. 1 Hear the Chitin, Pop ? Balmy Juice Dry Cyclist Mr Burglar Einstein |
Cutler's Rap Cosmic Joke Organic Micrometer Spare Parts Cheated An Alien Growing The Smell Tom Dick and Harry The Little Mediaeval Striking-Machine Hot Twins Glad Entomological Menu Impression Shoeshine Children The Fidgets A Broken Jaw An Atlas Merriment A Large Marrow-Bone Your Hour Has Come First Recipe Punk A Profound Experience A Spring Washer Fresh Soda Water Nuts Inner Tube Blouses 20,000 Years I Love Men and Women Dinner's Up An Orange in the Sky The Lid 25,000 Miles |
Giddy and Sick Orbs of the Sky Lunar Cycle The Prisoner Tiptoed I Never See It A Puddle Your Side I'm Busy Stir a Hair Six Inches Off Coming to Terms with Being a Moth In Case God's Plan Hope for Men Oh, It Can't Be True ! Stumps "When I asked..." Pszczola Ros Vulgaris No Room "when I thought..." A High Treat Unwitting Bravery Unaware Invert Slut Sprawl Southwold His Ordinary Voice Terrific Fun A Dark-Brown Palanquin My top-twelve words Spreadeagled |
| Title | Published | Publisher | ISBN | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Stuggy Pren | 1994 | Arc Publications | paperback: 0 946407 94 0 | photo. Katrina Lithgow |
An Altavista search at Password Distribution gave this:
Ivor Cutler & Katrina Lithgow
A Stuggy Pren
Arc
July 1994. £7.95 paperback. 0 946407 94 0
After Katrina Lithgow's widely acclaimed exhibition of nudes she was invited to photograph Ivor Cutler. The result is a startling exposé of this very private man. Her portraits are illuminated by Cutler prose pieces. Cutlerisms are familiar to many people, and here are presented many new ones that any fan would be thrilled to read.
Here as never before are two picture makers presented together - one the presenter of image, the other the imager of the presenter.
| Contents | ||
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A Stuggy Pren Pure Love Not Enough The Other Half It Her Body Squashing Hard 1 Peck = 2 Gallons Five Or Seven A Long Fine Java The Cake Of Life A Perpendicular Attitude The Indian Conquest Eighty Metre Race Lucky Servants Laughing Poker |
Her Part Preventative Medicine The Grass Is Greener Love The Ugly Truth The Relief Of Motherkind (A Scottish Game) Naked And Proud A What? In The Olden Days Super Friends Reduced Rate The Final Thrust Humble Windfalls A Bargain Liquorice Allsorts |
Even More Two Stones A Slight Curve Miss Prim Growing Season The Coy Nymph What About The Horns? Duct The Great Reflector Dictum Falls Dialogue The Anti-Empiricist Hi Bud! The Sound Of Noise Philosophical Speculation |
| Title | Published | Publisher | ISBN | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Wet Handle | 1996 | Arc Publications | 1 900072 06 8 |
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You Call that Living On Holiday The Taste of Gunny A Blunt Yashmak The Kiddies The Specific Sundry Just Listen Ride Off A Great Albatross A Berd Half and Half Squeaky Oddly Comforting Original Sweet The Whole Forest She Ran Off Little Hetty A Loaf of Bread By the Bush My Vest The Thatcher Generation My Disposition It's Stupid Goosie When It Wants Her Zimmer The Farmer's Wife Bets |
Just in Time The Breaking-point Spring Back Hell A Man The Place Hello Explorer Not Asking His SLow Hand Local Creatures Heptagon Where's my Razor One Side Singing to my Foot Get of the Road A Fine Example Faces of People Stand Well Clear Naughty Sidney Perverse The Bargain Space Sandwich Baked Beetles Taking Hands Just Thursday Entities A Kitchen Knife |
Not from Hens The Carpet Beyond The Way Out To Take Butterfly The Bridge Snaps A Slice of Seedcake A Cosy Nest What a Funny Room Heavy Rock A Pain in the Neck Not Even Flat Thin Chests Tablets A Good Girl I Give Up My Window Box He Himself Uncrossing her Legs No, I Won't Greece Crete Her Tissues An American Drink One Day Out of Decency |
| Title | Published | Publisher | ISBN | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 x 5 an Anthology | 1981 | Trigram Press | 0 85465 067 9 | ed. Asa Benveniste |
This features five poems from five poets, including Ivor Cutler.
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'Introdiction' (sic) by Asa Benveniste 'The System' by Glen Baxter 'Callens' by Glen Baxter 'The Merest Dwindle' by Glen Baxter 'Lhasin' by Glen Baxter 'From a Baize Aspect' by Glen Baxter '9.5.1978' by Ian Breakwell '6.6.1979' by Ian Breakwell '3.8.1979' by Ian Breakwell '26.12.1979' by Ian Breakwell '21.4.1980' by Ian Breakwell 'A Sad Seaman' by Ivor Cutler 'Bell Town' by Ivor Cutler |
'Nature Note No.1' by Ivor Cutler (L) 'Dates & Bananas' by Ivor Cutler 'Brenda' by Ivor Cutler (L) '20.3.1980' by Anthony Earnshaw '19.4.1980' by Anthony Earnshaw '22.4.1980' by Anthony Earnshaw '24.4.1980' by Anthony Earnshaw '14.6.1980' by Anthony Earnshaw '1' by Jeff Nuttall '2' by Jeff Nuttall '3' by Jeff Nuttall '4' by Jeff Nuttall '5' by Jeff Nuttall |
| Title | Published | Publisher | ISBN | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poetry Postcard Quarterly | 1995 | Selected Syllables | ed. Peter Taylor |
This contains 3 poems from 1995 plus a portrait of Ivor Cutler painted
in 1989 by Peter Edwards.
Contact PPQ, PO Box 1435, London W1A 9LB.
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Upstairs Horse The Question |