The Horseman's Word

or The Horseman's Word: A Sequence of Concrete Poems, which is the original title of this sequence, was published in 1970 by Akros Publications, Preston. (Parklands Poets No. 5). It contains 10 poems, numbered 1 to 10.

Contents:

Arabian Nights Magic Horse
Clydesdale
Newmarket
Centaur
Eohippus
Kelpie
Hrimfaxi
Zane's
Hortobágy
Elegy

Reprints:

Poems of Thirty Years, Manchester: Carcanet New Press, 1982, pp. 193-199.

Collected Poems, Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1990, pp. 207-213.

Clydesdale and Centaur reprinted in:

Selected Poems, Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1985, pp. 20f.

New Selected Poems, Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2000, pp. 18f.

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