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Other Passports: Poems 1958-1985

Published 1986 by Jonathan Cape

Dedicated to Karl Miller



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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Recent Verse

• The Book of My Enemy Has Been Remaindered
• Sack Artist
• The Supreme Farewell of Handkerchiefs
• A Gesture towards James Joyce
• Thoughts on Feeling Carbon-Dated
• Johnny Weissmuller Dead in Acapulco
• Reflections on a Cardboard Box
• The Philosophical Phallus
• Egon Friedell's Heroic Death
• Homage to Rafinesque
• Will Those Responsible Come Forward?
• Echo Echo Echo
• The Anchor of the Sirius
• The Ferry Token
• Funnelweb
• A Valediction for Philip Larkin

Parodies, Imitations and Lampoons

Verse Letters and Occasional Verse

• To Russell Davies: a letter from Cardiff, 1974
• To Martin Amis: a letter from Indianapolis, 1974
• To Pete Atkin: a letter from Paris, 1974
• To Prue Shaw: a letter from Cambridge​, 1974
• To Tom Stoppard: a letter from London, 1975
• To Peter Porter: a letter to Sydney, 1975
• To Michael Frayn: a letter from Leningrad
• To Craig Raine: a letter from Biarritz
• To Gore Vidal at Fifty
• To Anthony Thwaite at Fifty

Earlier Verse

• As I See You
• The Deep Six
• Berowra Waters, New South Wales
• The Morning from Cremorne, Sydney Harbour
• The Lady in Mourning at Camelot
• Four Poems about Porpoises
• The Banishment
• The Crying Need for Snow
• The Glass Museum
• The Young Australian Rider, P. G. Burman
• A Line and a Theme from Noam Chomsky
• The Outgoing Administration
• Neither One Thing Nor the Other
• Le Cirque Imaginaire at Riverside Studios

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Verse Diaries

• An Address to the Nation
• Poem of the Year