wordsout by godfrey rust
Collections of poems and readings   


Welcome To The Real World

Collected Poems & Performance Pieces, 1980-2000.
Wordsout, 2000, ISBN 0952021218

[ about this collection ] [ introduction ]


Act One

Out of Eden

Welcome to the Real World 

Saved in Japan

Absalom

Love reaches out

Light of the world

Baby crying

Bring on the dancing vicar

Crabs

Come on in the sofa's lovely

An exponent of the Prosperity Gospel replies to the Beatitudes

Paul's first fax to the Thessalonians

Song at the start of a century

Glasnost, 1993

Brief encounter

Creed

Dear son

Nursery haiku

The last straw

     The fall

     The promise

     The word

     The annunciation

     The nativity

     The shepherds

     The magi

     The flight into Egypt

Adore your door

Reaching

Keys

Pleasure

Maps

Magi

     The seekers

     The journey

     The gifts

     The epiphany

Bernhard Langer approaches Sarajevo

Truce with the Furies

Postcards from Florence

     Duomo

     Santa Croce

     Donatello

     Savonarola

     Angelico

No rest for the wicked

Galileo and the four moons of Jupiter

The astronomers

About time

Strawberry Lodge

Choosing a wife

Fancy that

Dark Rider collects the newspaper

At Mawgan Porth

Harvest

Maureen

The Trinity Monologue

The poem's cv

Oh, hell

Normandy

Invocation

31.12.99

Detached

Skin

The driving seat

Ride on

Judas calls Room Service

Communique

The cure

Fixed

Only wood

From where she lies

Five candles

Postmodern

Postscript

The printed book also includes all of Breaking The Chains, including the sonnet sequence The sailing of the ark.