The Spoonbill Generator Archive
An Olden Treasury of Collaborative Verse
1996–2007
*** Hall of Fame — Alphabetical List of Titles — Index of First Lines
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The Spoonbill Generator ArchiveAn Olden Treasury of Collaborative Verse
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Poems by Year: 1996 -
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2007 *** Hall of Fame — Alphabetical List of Titles — Index of First Lines | |
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Title | First line | ||
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| 1999 Nov 30 | Under the auspices of the Mesopotamian tube-station in Epping | In a distant land called Pernia there ruled a mighty Peach | |
| 1999 Dec 24 | Subtle, Said the Maggots | Spent moons bestrew th'empyrean | |
| 2000 Jan 15 | Such Lucky Wickedness | Fortune fattens the brave | |
| 2000 Mar 6 | My Smothered Haggis | Cut away, cut away | |
| 2000 May 7 | Businessmen Halting Overhead | Give me some glue in pot coloured blue | |
| 2000 Jun 1 | Bangles in Temptation | As the bland computer whines | |
| 2000 Nov 25 | They Vanish Soon Enough | Pigmies and penguins like to dance | |
| 2001 Jan 9 | Her Northampton Boudoir | Bengeo is just the place to start a bitter feud | |
| 2001 Sep 3 | Delirium's Retchings | The rapid history becomes a page unturned | |
| 2001 Nov 15 | Entropy Without Harlots | Interlinear is the best | |
| 2001 Nov 22 | Once Knighted, Twice Blighted, Thrice Sighted! | A wooden Gospel, baked as bone | |
| 2001 Dec 12 | Behold Our Anglican Remainders | Chief among the mammals | |
| 2001 Dec 21 | Orphans Drinking Deftly | A glass of claret twice per day | |
| 2002 Jan 15 | The Oboe Omelettes | In the mountains outside Swindon | |
| 2002 Apr 15 | Maybe Not the Frozen Finger-Print | Jemima was a nurse-maid | |
| 2002 Apr 18 | Detonated Milk-bottle | Disorder met confusion | |
| 2002 Jul 24 | While All Those Has-Beens Dance | A brass ring through the eye-lid | |
| 2002 Jul 30 | Rotting Icebergs, Sketched by Proust | To tear the grimy Gospel | |
| 2002 Sep 25 | Whenever Scant Plenitudes Provide | He so rotten, she so vain | |
| 2002 Sep 29 | After the Empire, Nothing New | Cushions – when their time has passed | |
| 2002 Oct 10 | Laundresses, Basements, and Pythons | Gullible wretches, so polished and pure | |
| 2002 Nov 6 | Surlaw Sha'n't Contribute Veterinary Vouchers | Perhaps I'm not so odd | |
| 2003 May 12 | Our Sword Unsheathed by Metaphors | Rabid was the postman | |
| 2003 Aug 31 | Emilia And Her Tremendous Brainpower | In my cardboard cardigan | |
| 2003 Nov 2 | Recommendation To Decline Molloy's Meringues | A pound of grease is just the stuff | |
| 2003 Nov 9 | Etruscan! Tuscan! Bohemian! Persian! Theban? | Is it a source of insolent pride | |
| 2003 Nov 28 | Allegory Of Scandinavian Nuptuals | Rubbing out the guide-book | |
| 2003 Dec 5 | Saying Much, While Keeping Silent | He sponsored a Gonk | |
| 2004 Jan 3 | Cocker Mouthwash | A pot of glue left me unstuck | |
| 2004 Jan 20 | Nothing Will Prevail After The Neutrino | I think to make a piece of toast | |
| 2004 Jan 24 | Benedictine Evening Dresses | Poetic mis'ry in a name? | |
| 2004 Feb 3 | Jelly-Babies Prefer Jelly-Parents | Dr Who once gave me candy-floss to eat | |
| 2004 Feb 3 | Caspar Caged | A puma won't return the gaze of Rilke | |
| 2004 Feb 8 | The Oast-House Symposium | It moves an inch a minute | |
| 2004 Mar 30 | Rites For Responsible Raisins | My cummerbund was missing | |
| 2004 Jun 2 | Dunciad Variorum | 'Twas Pope who wrote that angels fear | |
| 2004 Jun 26 | M 32 Road Movie | These old molluscs, bought for tea, inscribe | |
| 2004 Jun 27 | The Braunschmidt Transponder | Palimpsest of things divine | |
| 2004 Jul 8 | The Parliamentary Parsley Supplier | Peel an onion? - for a jape? | |
| 2004 Jul 30 | Gloucestershire Throughout Devon | 'Tis the ebbing of the eyes | |
| 2004 Aug 27 | Florizel Inclined | Hide me, my darling, in your tresses! | |
| 2004 Sep 21 | Reunions That Plato Forgot | Selected for his miseries | |
| 2004 Oct 20 | His Lady Grammarian | Babbling as the brook in spate, | |
| 2005 Jan 16 | Boredom City | Sherbert, not Opopanax | |
| 2005 Jan 23 | Lichens | Just dethrone me, once per week, | |
| 2005 Mar 28 | Bertrand Of Nimes In Anguish | Halitosis hit me as he cut my hair | |
| 2005 Sep 4 | Ridicule Enough For Cherubim | Strong dominion, over whelks, | |
| 2005 Sep 20 | Subway Tools Again | Lucy Skeaping, queen of myst'ry, | |
| 2005 Nov 11 | iPods Crafted From Rusting Spanners Or Similar | You think of these as scones | |
| 2006 Jan 11 | How Silently, How Clumsily | Behold, the Fifth Amendment | |
| 2006 Mar 8 | Shogun Marmalade | Sveldt in someone's turban | |
| 2006 Mar 29 | Seeing As We Amuse Your Garden | Oh raucous bleating | |
| 2006 Apr 20 | Each Circle Will Shake | Judicious combination | |
| 2006 May 11 | White Hotels, Lakes Ablaze, And Blossoms All Falling | Made deaf by the sound of the sea | |
| 2006 May 23 | None Save The Meistersinger | First with the frost | |
| 2006 Jun 18 | His Lucky Skull Has Perished | In his ochre jodhpurs | |
| 2006 Sep 6 | The Surplus Blondes In Swindon | This poem is dedicated to the memory of Marmaduke Apsley | |
| 2006 Dec 15 | Hidden Works | Just a hint of twilight | |
| 2007 Jan 11 | Neck Up Fatty | Plates of goulash, on the deck, | |
| 2007 Feb 15 | Plutarch, Amnesia Abroad | Grievances and Remonstrance are my middle names | |
| 2004 Jun 16 | Stewed Sea-weed, Nothing More | Pip, as a boy, the marshes trod | |
| 2004 Aug 19 | Save Our Dickensian Surrogates | Scuttling from clime to clime | |
| 2005 Apr 21 | Vestments In Velvet Of Midnight | Only a quarter | |