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THE POETRY OF SEX
Contents
1 ‘So ask the body’
Saturday Morning – Hugo Williams
The Plague – Caroline Bird
The Elephant is Slow to Mate – D. H. Lawrence
On the Happy Corydon and Phyllis – Sir Charles Sedley
No Platonic Love – William Cartwright
I Who Am – C. H. Sisson
Leda and the Swan – W. B. Yeats
‘I, being born a woman and distressed’ – Edna St Vincent Millay
And – Alison Brackenbury
I Sing the Body Electric – Walt Whitman
Figs – D. H. Lawrence
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral – Naomi Foyle
Eve to the Serpent – Catherine Smith
A Woman Waits for Me – Walt Whitman
My Black Triangle – Grace Nichols
2 ‘Also those desires glowing openly’
‘If you were coming in the fall’ – Emily Dickinson
‘First, I want to make you come in my hand’ – Marilyn Hacker
I Feel – Elizabeth Jennings
He Asked About the Quality – C. P. Cavafy
Guacamole – Kaddy Benyon
Daniel Craig: The Screensaver – Rich Goodson
Hypothetical – Maria Taylor
Found Wanting – Rosie Sandler
Young Men Dancing – Linda Chase
Sandcastles – Richard Scott
Remember, Body … – C. P. Cavafy
Love & Sex & Boys in Showers – John Whitworth
Service – Gregory Woods
O Little One – Marilyn Hacker
Troilism – Roddy Lumsden
Assurance – Emma Lazarus
Losing It to David Cassidy – Catherine Smith
A Man Greets His Wife from Her Short Break Away – Rebecca Goss
Wanting to Think – Michael Schmidt
3 ‘A night picked from a hundred and one’
Imperial – Don Paterson
Viginty Alley – Tim Liardet
Outside – Robert Frant
The Wasp Station – Paul Johnston
And Looking Back – A. F. Harrold
Explode – John Etchingham
The Man in the Print Room – Sarah Salway
i like my body – e. e. cummings
Punctuation – Claire Dyer
On being in Bed with Your Brand-new Lover – Amy Key
The Platonic Blow (A Day for a Lay) – W. H. Auden
Rhetorical Questions – Hugo Williams
Haikus to Fuck to – Leo Cookman
The Sun Rising – John Donne
Flicker – Robert Frant
4 ‘All our states united’
Tying the Knots – Anna-May Laugher
Bicycle Pump – Irving Layton
Magnets – Jo Bell
Muse – Jo Bell
The Day He Met His Wife – Peter Sansom
Conception – Sarah Salway
After Making Love We Hear Footsteps – Galway Kinnell
Their Sex Life – A. R. Ammons
Featherlite – Neil Rollinson
Casanever – Nic Aubury
The Couple Upstairs – Nic Aubury
Putting in the Seed – Robert Frost
And So Today Take Off My Wristwatch – A. F. Harrold
An Epic in Me – Eva Salzman
Ménage à Trois – Neil Rollinson
Intimacy – Elizabeth Barrett
Embrace – Rhian Gallagher
Topography – Sharon Olds
Like the Blowing of Birds’ Eggs – Neil Rollinson
5 ‘But your wife said she’
The Faithful – Dan Burt
The Sting – Patience Agbabi
In the Victoria Hotel – John Saunders
‘For each ecstatic instant’ – Emily Dickinson
‘Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short’ – Gaius Petronius
The Marriage of Consonant and Vowel – Adam Horovitz
In Defence of Adultery – Julia Copus
Office Friendships – Gavin Ewart
Her News – Hugo Williams
Story of a Hotel Room – Rosemary Tonks
