Poetry Publications
Please Don’t Bomb the Ghost of My Brother
Please Don’t Bomb the Ghost of my Brother is international in scope and tirelessly ludic. The poems engage with the Covid pandemic, the war in Ukraine and personal loss. Stannard’s poems sing and weep in equal measure: a poetry of wretchedness and hilarity, of discombobulation and the bizarre, mindful of lacerating loss and the redemptive power of strangeness, a special type of humour. They supply a feast of stories.
Publisher: Salt (15 Aug. 2023) Language: English Paperback: 128 pages ISBN-10: 1784633062 ISBN-13: 978-1784633066 Dimensions: 12.9 x 0.94 x 19.8 cm
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Confessio Amantis
Boneless Leg of Lamb Slow Cook Recipe
Love in the Time of Corona
Zoom Time
Bird Mother
Keep Two Meters Apart, Save Lives It Said
Radio Requests
Duck Corner
Better Now or Better Now or Better Never?
Buttocks
A Bobby Dazzler for Alan Brownjohn
A Gash in Hour Head
The Crossing
Escalator City
Thud
Who Stuffed Veronica Hackett?
Suffolk Roulette
Summer Pudding
Miss Lady Macbeth
Jamaica Road
I See
Hips and Haws
I’m Afraid the Loan Advisor Won’t Be Able to See You
Not A City But A Beautiful Catastrophe
Piazza Della Lepre
Goffredo Miglietta – Professor of English
Miracle in Lorsica
Mistress
Madonna dell’ Orto
Quartet in C
Tutus
The CLA
Pimpinella
Please Don’t Bomb my Bed
Please Don’t Bomb my City
Please Don’t Bomb my Head
Please Don’t Bomb my Black Dog
Please Don’t Bomb my Ivory Tower
Please Don’t Bomb the Ghost of My Brother
Beyond
The El Supremo
The Magnificence of Death
SS Nevasa
The Committal
Heat Wave
Heat Wave is a form of poetic cabaret,‘What good is sitting, alone in your room?/ come hear the music play!’ If a cabaret is full of high jinks it can also land punches – truth can be masked by the burlesque and the grotesque: ‘Tell all the truth but tell it slant’.
Publisher: Salt (15 April 2020) Language: English Paperback: 96 pages ISBN-10: 178463218X ISBN-13: 978-1784632182 Dimensions: 12.9 x 0.79 x 19.8 cm
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Lesson Plan
Whoopsee
The University of Lanyard
Exam Board
Plan
Victor Hugo’s Octopus
Shirley Hight Street
I Know When To Stay In
Dark Night of the Soul
Sixty People with Flickering Lamps
From Warsaw to Krakow
Dross
Takeaway
The Glaswegian Book of Uncles
Billings to Minneapolis
Between Opalescence and Obsession
Turkey Blues
The Crucible
I Can Feel You
Pigs in Suffolk
Toby’s Singing
Heat Wave
Kim
An Itch in the City
Bushel
Boxing Day
Berrylands
Any Tickets Please?
Trolley Man
Glasgow/ Six of One
Seven Sisters
Bus Replacement 2
Snazzy
Eau Sauvage
Z took Lucy the Do to Work
Bollocks and Teeth
The Road to Bastardo
The Lavender
The Perfect Italian Subjunctive
Zombie Riviera
Sebastian the Golden Dog
Goodbye Blackbird
Sopraelevata
Apollo and Marsyas
Tenement Nights
Love
Average is the New Fantastico
A conversation between two friends, poems and paintings side by side, not illustrating or responding, but increasing meaning and adding new depths. ‘These poems…are about the unquenchability of human appetite. They make the best of things and ultimately, they promise us a benign philosophy. Roma Tearne’s subtle paintings offer a counterpoint to the text…in groups, in reverie, in celebration…these idiosyncratic figures intrigue us and catch us by surprise.
Publisher: Green Bottle Press (2019) Language: English Paperback: ISBN: 9781910804179
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The Trolley Man
Whoopsee
The Road to Bastardo
Dark Night of the Soul
The Crucible
Stations of the Cross
Sampierdarena,1990
The Blessing of the Octopus at Lerici
The Seabirds of Pimlico Hanker After Sapphires
I Know When to Stay In
Bruno Cuts My Hair in a Place Called Ether
The Nightingale Sings in Bucharest
Lunch with Fleur
Burlington Arcade
Closed
Dinner with Val
Alakefic
Takeaway
Saint Anna’s Funicular
New Wave Heat Wave 2018
Z Took Lucy the Dog to Work
I’m Homesick for Being Homesick
Soup
From Warsaw to Krakow
Between Opalescence and Obsession
The Lavender
Sottoripa
In Genoa, Stannard finds a dark and mysterious world, infinitely suggestive, between the pain of living, the absurd, wonder, fun. From this meeting comes one of the most original and captivating poems of our times, while he ideally revisits the city he frequented during his apprenticeship and evokes tasty places and episodes, memorable scenes, unavoidable oddities for a young Anglo-Saxon who immerses himself in the magma inexhaustible history of a marginal and symbolic place of the modern condition.
Publisher: Il Canneto (31 July 2018) Language: Italian ISBN-10: 8899567468 ISBN-13: 978-8899567460 Dimensions: 14.8 x 1.3 x 17.1 cm
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da La Guerra Di Rina
Rina’s War (2001)
Via Garibaldi
Via Garibaldi
At the Flat of Maurizio and Irene
A Cas di Maurizio e Irene
Sottoripa
Sottoripa
Vico Casana
Vico Casana
Shutters
Persiane
Rina’s War
La guerra di Rina
Octopus
Polpo
Oranges
Arance
Stucco
Stucchi
Saint Anna’s Funicular
La funicolare di Sant’ Anna
Cara Mia
Cara mia
Ballo
Ballo
Restoration
Restauro
San Giuliano
San Giuliano
Via Mascherona
Via Mascherona
The Return
Il ritorno
da La Zona Rossa
THE RED ZONE (2007)
Piazza della Posta Vecchia
Piazza della Posta Vecchia
The Poetic Revolution Begins Here
La rivoluzione poetica conicia qui
Vico San Marcillino
Vico San Marcellino
The Red Zone
La Zona Rossa
Seminar on Water
Seminario sull’acqua
Tripe
Trippa
Riviera Night Train
Treno notturno della Riviera
Barbera
Barbera
Drowned City
Cittá annegata
Jasmine
Gelsomino
City of Malefic Angels
Cittá di angeli malefic
Sampierdarena, 1990
Sampierdarena, 1990
Blue Towel
Asciugamano blu
Vico Angeli
Vico Angeli
From Vico Angeli to Camogli
Da Vico Angeli a Camogli
Nostalgia di Pré
Nostalgia di Pré
da I PAPPAGALLI DI VILLA GRUBER SCORPRONO I LAPISLAZZULI
The Parrots of Villa Gruber Discover Lapis Lazuli (2011)
The Blessing of Salam Sant’ Olcese
La benedizione del salame a Sant’ Olcese
The Blessing of the Octopus at Lerici
La benedizione del polpo a Lerici
Bar degli Specchi
Caffé degli Specchi
The Parrots of Villa Gruber Discover Lapis Lazuli
I pappagalli di Villa Gruber scoprono i lapislazzuli
Plan B
Piano B
Ligurian Paradise
Paradiso ligure
Bruno Cuts My Hair in a Place Called Ether
Bruno mi taglia i capelli in un luogo chiamato Etere
My Beautiful Son Cooks me an Octopus
Mio figlio bellisimo mi cuoce un polpo
Villa Giovanna
Villa Giovanna
Late Swimming
Tarda nuotata
What Did I Find on Bogliasco Beach
Cosa trovai sulla spiaggia di Bogliasco
Furthest, Fairest Things
Vaghe cose lontane
Oliver
Oliver
Riviera Blues
Riviera Blues
The Seedy School of English
La Scuola Scassata di Inglese
da VICO DELL’ AMOR PERFECTTO E POESIE AGGIUNTE
THE STREET OF PERFECT LOVE AND ADDED POEMS
Lorsica
Lorsica
Supper in Lorsica
Cenare a Lorsica
Sleep in Lorsica
Dormire a Lorsica
La Baia di Silenzio
La Baia del Silenzio
Stations of The Cross
Via Crucis
The Necropolis
La necropoli
Minestrone
Minestrone
Piazza della Posta Vecchia [2015]
Piazza della Posta Vecchia [2015]
Done is Dead!
Don é morto!
Ave Maria
Ave Maria
The Seabirds of Pimlico Hanker After Sapphires
Gli uccelli marini di Pimlico smaniano per gli zaffiri
Buddhism
Buddhismo
La Genova pensosa di Martina (M.B.)
What were you thinking?
Julian Stannard is one of the very few mavericks in contemporary British poetry, a flâneur who observes the absurdity of life and brings this to the page with both heartbreak and humour. The poems in this new collection are grouped into three main sections: ‘Happiness,’ ‘The Street of Perfect Love’ and ‘Dear Nosh.’ Happiness, love, some decent food – not much to ask for, surely?
Publisher: CB Editions (17 Mar. 2016) Language: English Paperback: 106 pages ISBN-10: 1909585114 ISBN-13: 978-1909585119 Dimensions:19.8 x 1.6 x 13.1 cm
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HAPPY
Dear All
Bus Replacement
Jerry Hall Meets Salvador Dali
Alakefic
King’s Cross
Émigrés
Retro-Catapult
Hermes
Karma
I’m Homesick for Being Homesick
Horizontal
Burlington Arcade
Cardiozal
Strokestown
Hampshire
Hell
Winston and Candy
Richrd III, the Hindu King
The Water Stealer
Christ Stopped at Hollesley
September 1939
The Eau de Parfum of Mrs Radcliffe
Mrs Pinkerton
Russell
Closed
La Douceur de la Nuit
THE STREET OF PERFECT LOVE
Thigh-Slapping on the Riviera
Dickens Discovers His Italian Babylon
Lorsica
Sleep in Lorsica
Stations of the Cross
Via Monte Bello
La Baia di Silenzio
Minestrone
Via Antonio Burlando
The Necropolis
Rimbaud in Milan
Napoli
DEAR NOSH
Breakfast with Tiffany
Lunch with Margot and Tinker
Lunch with Alex and Mildred
Lunch with Wendy and Lachlan
Lunch with Fleur
Eternal Lunch
Tea with Brenda and Charles
Buddhism
Supper in Lorsica
Happy Carp Christmas
Bohemian Horseradish
Beata and Stephen
The Gargantuan Muffin Beauty Contest
Donut
Dinner with Val
The Recipe
EAST FINCHLEY
East Finchley
The Street of Perfect Love
A fantastic new chapbook from a poet much celebrated for his tonal control and simultaneous considerations of matters mordant and gleeful. Poems here are at once funny and melancholy; the style is inimitable: Stannard takes his readers through a range of emotions via a witty and wonderful tight-rope walking act with language.
Publisher: Worple Press (9 Sept. 2014) Language: English Paperback: 32 pages ISBN-10: 1905208278 ISBN-13: 978-1905208272 Dimensions: 13.5 x 0.3 x 21.5 cm
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Chastity
Thigh-Slapping on the Riviera
Dickens Discovers His Italian Babylon
Lorsica
Winston and Candy
Stations of the Cross
Via Monte Bello
La Baia di Silenzio
Minestrone
Via Antonio Burlando
Napoli
The Necropolis
Buddhism
King’s Cross
Hampshire
Jerry Hall Meets Salvador Dali
Burlington Arcade
Aldgate East
September 1939
The Gargantuan Muffin Beauty Contest
Miss Pinkerton
La Douceur de la Nuit
The Parrots of Villa Gruber Discover Lapis Lazuli
The poems in this volume offer windows into seldom seen worlds; windows that open other windows, because behind every scene, it is possible to imagine another, possible to realise that there are several other things happening further in. Although sometimes bewildering, and resulting in a choppy effect, Stannard’s employment of Italian and French language in statements and place-names, provides colour and authenticity to the situations he depicts.
Publisher: Salmon Poetry; Illustrated edition (20 May 2011) Language: English Paperback: 100 pages ISBN-10: 1907056742 ISBN-13: 978-1907056741 Dimensions: 13.21 x 0.76 x 20.83 cm
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Zena
Italia Nuda e Formicolante
A Sea Captain’s Letter to Miss Sarah Woodruff
Barbers
The Blessing of Salami at Sant’ Olcese
The Blessing of the Octopus at Lerici
Bar Degli Specchi
Plan B
Ligurian Paradise
The Parrots of Nilla Gruber Discover Lapis Lazuli
Ciao Capo
Bruno Cuts My Hair in a Place Called Ether
My Beautiful Son Cooks Me An Octopus
Bringing Mussolini Back to England
Rome
Aubade
Villa Giovanna
My Son Jack Drives His Boat to Nervi
What Did I Find On Bogliasco Beach
Furthest, Fairest Things
Oliver
Hight Tide
Late Swimming
Oh, Fuck It
The Seedy School of English
The Forgotten City of the South
Heist
Better Than Having A Crazed Man
Big Rain
I Hear The Voices That Will Not Be Drowned
Oh
Don’t Die
A Post-Modern City In The Fog Which is Now A Modernist City And Therefore Unreal
Diachronic Time
Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne Standing in A Street in Soho
Miss Moon
Her Peculiar Oblations
Le Lion Rouge Est Sur La Table
The Bicycle
The Nightingale Sings in Bucharest
Bare Back
Eileen Makes Me A Bacon Sandwich
Vic Makes Me Lasagna
Mother Makes One Of Her Sunday Curries
Pastoral
Acris Hiems
Soup
Scallops for Tracy
And Then I Released it into the Wilderness
Sardines Hit back
William’s Head
Cosimo’s Gift
Polski
Well-Regulated Dumplings Are Going Upwards
Vonnegut’s Dresden
Waiting for the Barbarians
Dog Talk
The Red Zone
An initial series of short pieces about domestic events and moments of hectic leisure suggests a writer who’s puzzled and even alienated by human contrariness. In similar vein we go on an Italian journey that interweaves direct experience with memories. ‘The Red Zone’, where he imagines returning to an apartment full of ill-assorted objects, defines the essence of this trail. Once abroad the reader is whirled through mood-swinging snapshots, often blurred and surrealistically tinted, making up a personalised album of characters, views, interiors, journeys.
Publisher : Peterloo Poets (29 Jun. 2007) Language: English Paperback: 92 pages ISBN-10: 1904324401 ISBN-13: 978-1904324409
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Aperitivo Sleep
A Box of Cigars
1946
Mortlake
Blue Shoe
Biographia
Frog
Tuesday
Somewhere at the Back of the Head
The End of the Pool
Lengths
Size Large
The Mill at Tidmarsh
Tamed, Tamed
Escape
The Xerox Room
Peace
Oscar
The Future
Style
Dear Maurice
Sheep at Shingle Street
Airport
Milan Central
Journeys
Vivario
Bob Dylan Plays Down in the Port
Genoa
Sea Verses
Via Monte Suello
Via San Luca
Via David Chiossone
Arenzano
Piazza della Posta Vecchia
Vico San Marcellino
Modernism
Good Evening Dr. Muckerman
Seminar on Water
Riviera Night Train
After Work
Barbera
Speaks the Ecuadorian Dog-walker
Albergo die Poveri
Little Dreams
Dea Ex Machina
Mexico 1, Italy 0
The Poetic Revolution Begins Here
Plastic Prayer
Via Condotti
To Vernazza
William Falls from a Skyscraper Bunk Bed and Ends up in Gaslini
Moonlight over Genoa
When Refusal To Do The Shopping Might Be A Criminal Offence
When Lying on the Grass Of Villa Gruber Might Be A Criminal Offence
Drowned City
Jasmine
City of Malefic Angels
The Suit
Try Not to Screw Up Your Life
Rome-Crotone, 2005
Padre Pio Re-Visited
Napoli Tristesse
Sampierdarena, 1990
Vico Angeli
Blue Towel
From Vico Angeli to Camogli
La Bomba Ratzinger
Nostalgia di Pré
Tu mi Spezzasti
Venus
Rina’s War
‘I like the cosmopolitism of these poems. This is not just a matter of crossing national frontiers with ease, but a seemingly boundless curiosity about human behaviour at all levels. I trust Julian Stannard’s observations of the world, for their accuracy and their spirit.’ – Christopher Reid
Publisher: Peterloo Poets (20 Sept. 2001) Language: English Paperback: 75 pages ISBN-10: 1871471931 ISBN-13: 978-1871471939
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Lives
Sweets
Mr. Pandya
Bob’s Coat
The Apprentice
Chet Baker
Bawdsy
1919
Aldeburgh
Scarecrows
Lines on the Turtle
The Party
Erasure
Exile
Via Garibaldi
Albion
Obsessions
The Journey
The Return
The House of Lucia
At the Flat of Maurizio and Irene
Sottoripa
San Siro
The Bay
Restoration
Oil and Geese
Cari Spazzini
San Giuliano
Combinations
Via Mascherona
Vico Casana
Cicale
Shutters
Gorleri
Serreta
Riviera
Rina’s War
Octopus
Orange
From Boyton to Hollesley
Stucco
Camogli
The Backwater
The Cloth
Art Gallery
Rina the Afflicted
I was Born
The Song of the Clock
The Jacket
The Carriage
The Corpse
Saint Anna’s Funicular
Padre Pio
God
Dictée
Ballo
After Lutyens
Cara Mia
Julian Stannard 