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ZX 1 Line art Alien Visions Normandy late summer 1966+
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ZX 0 Beaky Op-art 1965-2019
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ZX 3 Measure for Measure play program cover CT 1967
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ZX 4 Dada Britart 1 Convergence 1969 and 2019
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ZX 6 New World 1969+ December 2014/19 for Alison
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ZX 7 Complex Structure 1969+ exploration thereof
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ZX 9 Herford North-Rhine Westphalia upbringing 1950s
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ZX 10 Linoprints 1967-1970 cut 2019 Series Germania+
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ZX 11 A Linoprints Light over DarK series 1970-1971 2019
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ZX 12 A Die Brucke+ Dawn Rose Variants 2014-2019
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ZX 13 Linoprints Castles in Spain 1967-2020
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ZX 14 Berlin 1982 photographs
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ZX 15 GDR Suite Line art 1997-2019
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ZX 16 GDR Suite Lyrics 1982+
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ZX 17 GDR Suite longer texts 1987+
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ZX 18 GDR Suite unused or excluded texts 1987+
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ZX 19 Intrac the DDR+ 1990s+ text
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ZX 20 Easter Failure+ texts 1995+ after Gudrun Brunne
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ZX 21 Anniversary Tennis+ Doorway+ texts Monoravian 1994+
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ZX 22 Art of the GDR Oxford 1984
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ZX 23 And Again a Summer Gudrun Brunne 1982
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ZX 24 Joan's This is Germany 1955
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ZX 25 The Minden Gap Joan Truman 1955
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ZX 26 Hamelin 16th century Joan Truman 1950s
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ZX 27 Joan's This is Germany unseen
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ZX 28 Berlin 1990 CT with JH
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ZX 29 Schloss Charlottenburg and back with Jane
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ZX 30 Extracts from Berlin 1990 reconfigured CT 2019
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ZX 31 Cold War Carl Zeiss Jena for Kew PRO 2017
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ZX 32 The Triumph of the Lens ed. CT 2017
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ZX 33 The Triumph of The Lens II
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ZX 34 Snap the (Zeiss) Girl CT 2017
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ZX 35 Intermezzo The 'Janie' Cycle (1979-2019)
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ZX 37 Primavera 2 Body and Beauty
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ZX 38 Lost lands Baroness von Maltzahn 2003 Joan Pomerania
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ZX 39 Joan's Rheingold Castles May 1955 Enprints
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ZX 40 Joan's Wertheim Rothenburg Forsthaus Klaushof Bad Kissingen
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ZX 41 Moy Day (Herford) August 28th 1955+ Winter Party
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ZX 42 At Winterburg+ Bismarckturm Herford 1955-1956
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ZX 43 At Altenau in Oberharz Lower Saxony February 1956
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ZX 44 Spring skiing The Oberharz again 1956
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ZX 45 Cousin Isolde Wigram+ The Gebhardts+ The Luftwaffe
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ZX 46 Isolde Wigram 2
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ZX 47 Nuremberg adjusted 2019
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ZX 62 Rokeby Park Gallery 39 Liz K captioned
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ZX 63 The Battle to save Georgian London+ Sir John Betjeman
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ZX 65 Study of South Downs+ for line art 1997
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ZX 67 To Duncton Down and Noviomagus (Chichester) 2020
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ZX 68 In Chanctonbury Ring The South Downs Way titled
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ZX 69 North Stoke to Canada and Steyning Round Hill
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ZX 70 Return to North Stoke and Downs Farm
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ZX 71 To Sompting and upland fields 2009
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ZX 72 To Lion's Bank (extract)
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ZX 73 Joan's last August 2010
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ZX 74 Joan's last September 2010
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ZX 75 Joan at Pendean sci-fi sunsets garden gods August 10
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ZX 76 Joan Memorabilia Churches Parham Cavalry Parade Arms
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June '25
     
      Two Dicta The Virgin Mary

Return To Gold Standard

For restoring morality
to public credit, avoiding
crypto debauchery, guzzle.

Scorched Earth  for Israel

Free Gaza Strip from The Philistine
which never heard the women pine,
tortured, shot near the bottom line.

        Ash Re-Calibration

We need a certain great power
as a huge ally, so damning
in The War Room, a bad idea.

We have to understand their fear,
a road taken out of anger.
The American banking system

was, broken, very much to blame.
Imperial Preference tax
kept deep disaster off our backs.

June 1st 

        Per Pro Jean S. (5)

I, in Lady Bingham's Orchard,
on a bench, sat thinking forward
in the manner of Jean Stewart
who, in Fife, liked to flavour tart.
Thought Hitler caught the little man
and, after Dunkirk, had no plan.
Worried for The Merchant Marine,
and our becoming a has-been.

They probably met in Scotland,
listening to a Highland Band.

Nb Jean Cantlie Stewart (died 2009
age 83) most famously wrote 'The Sea
Our Heritage' (Rowan Books 1998)

       Maitland Crawl

Picture from Breughel : the Muslim
rush-hour, with huffing, puffing
behind the brown, black, scarf, shawl.

June 2nd 

       June Lauds

Unity in The Trinity,
Bible reading for Tuesday.
( Herring gull pecked a dead pigeon ).

June 3rd

     South Hampstead Synagogue

Never, the sound of The Nicene
Creed sung. From walking by, disdain.
Holier-than-thou arrogant.

        Concert Practice

A pigeon drawn so loved Organ
music, of the clamour of God, 
it flew through, at St Jude's, a door.

      Largely From Gaul

Table-ware Samian, red-glazed
Roman Empire pottery :
found far as southern India.

June 4th

   After Orwell (Sonnet)

Duty to offend : in a land
of non-stop lying, unable
to come clean with itself, smothered
in media deception fog,
protecting the bankrupting left,
ideologically dead
and unable to grasp the need
for a total re-structuring.
I, minded of the Sicily
told everything has to change
for things to remain quite strange.
The State is unaffordable
with far too many left dreary,
handed money to be mazy.

June 6th for The Times coup plan

           Hell On Earth

Journey Gospel Oak, to Barking
Overground, though move underground
to grasp the scale of the failing.

        One Remedial

Re-colonise part Africa,
lend on the expert Manager.
Build a British Liberia.

June 6th

The 'Prevent' Traitors  
for MI9

Cultural nationalism
is a proper patriotism.
You will be sent to The Tower.

Race Politics (The Times)

Fraser Nelson, you idiot :
I, a native of Albion
can only reject the Muslim.

Stifling William Blake

The neo-logic of Prevent
will make singing Jerusalem
in public, a terror offence.

June 7th __________________________

Three For Prevent  by St Mary's

The Wronged Right

The right is right and in the right
mostly, and full of divine light.
We are all fighting the good fight.

In Praise Of Limestone
  after Phil

Auden went from far left, to right
knowing the terrors of their night,
saved by a Pentecostal white.

You, Under Arrest

Sent in, Military Police
to deep-interrogate Prevent
for jeopardizing core Albion.

Prevent Reminder

You should better at capturing
the black killer, before acting.
We must prevent this battering.

Reminder From Nikita

Bound to a white chair, under lights
in the centre of a circle
you writhe and quiver, to tell all.

Duct Tape

If inducted by Chairman Mao
and Co, for group brain-washing you
ended blotto saying : bow wow !

Sunday June 8th+ at The Arbour

     Monday Morning Suite June 9

Nato To Invade  for 5% of GDP

If there is disobedience
by a lost Jew, and malfeasance.

Gas Ovens

A trunk way south by Barking Creek,
sent to sea on a westerly.

Expert Advice

Such a good tribe rhyme : pall Germany
after our ashen victory.

Crib Alert

Their breeding out of proportion
to the rate of job creation.
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     Textual Future Disclaimer

Certainly, a bit like Sappho
with merely ma poesie pure
extracted from my quips demure.

       War News

War is the huge separator
and kicker in, anxiety
melding the tone of everything.

June 10th

      MI6 Treason (Sonnet)

I have had a light-bulb moment :
there is a Russian cell therein.
Agent Cranleigh bastard boasted
of an intro for an MD
to Frederick Forsyth, MI
6 ; and much did I wonder why.
They wanted to ensure I would
never enter the GDR,
as BAOR, for Jena
and Carl Zeiss : anti-Stalin.
( I read his obituary, 
that is of Frederick Forsyth ).
He looked a bit like Jack Hawkins
as did, drunk, the man from Cranleigh.

The writer of this now C in MI9.
Nb post-War, Zeiss did the splits
between east (Jena) and Z
West..

Coda : The CZ Puzzle (1982+)

After my adventures abroad
in East Germany, I was not
( unlike others, once overheard )
debriefed by 6, invisible.
Why ? Ten years later, anecdote
held some CZJ were double
agents, maybe : a debrief might
put them at risk, from a Red Cell.
At a CZ Lunch in Barnet
for our countertrade victory
fierce innuendo had me write
as a poet : this, unwanted.
Who had told them ? Stasi Oxford
or an agent, at Marlborough ?
Twenty years on, a 6 postcard
writ Leipzig told me my Stasi 
Files were embargoed, until
the death of Margaret Thatcher.

Publishing Footnote (2001)

At a loud Caliban In Prague
Party, a Brit. 6 officer
told me that they still did not know
who had put Thatcher up to it.
I rounded on him : said I knew.
( They did not know of her Banker ).
Performed at The British Council
reading, my keen opening text
Fanfare a hymning the Stasi
slyly ; the little man, major
man. ( They gave me no trouble ).
That postcard, hinting liaison.
Was there a triple-take linking
of some MI6 with Stasi ?

nb re launch of Chapbook Caliban
et al (Rockingham Press 2001)

Period Jokes (1982) A Sonnet

At CZJ, in Borehamwood
they, I was told, celebrated
the birthdays of Hitler, Stalin
but to remain on the safe side.
Proud of The Battle of Jutland,
which the Zeiss Range-Finder nearly
won, with good vision in the dark
and better when it was smoky.
Later, core to the Tiger tank
for one kill-shot at a Sherman.
At Leipzig, lost in a Trade Hall,
I told all hated the Russians.
( Wolfgang would ask : how did England,
so inefficient, win a war ? ).

June 11th nb cf key text 'Tunnel
Terror' (1982) read June 13th
+

      GDR Britain

Prevent
 is preventing free speech
leaving the killer out of reach
and the minority in breach.

Starmer Disobedient  for Farage

Ordered to 3, low, he went nuts.
The Chancellor tabled peanuts :
Healthcare lay needing Budget cuts.

Soft-Soaping Albion  for Rachel

Austerity : good for the soul,
not gorging a shopping trolley.
We are entering a black hole.

      Clearing The Air

Vigorous, angry debate
is required, to alter fate
giving ruin a later date.

     The School Shootings

God ! a Muslim in Austria
recalls The Siege of Vienna
and strung Mahler, after Wagner.

June 12th

      The Roaring '20s

Jam and Jerusalem went up the cry
at the newly-formed WI. They
required troops deployed to Barking.

      Over Earl Grey Tea

Say : who has stolen the country ?
Agony on The Somme, in trench-
water, rats ; abrupt their contempt.

     Forward Men, Charge !

The massacre of the Gentry
of those known, pointing revolver
first, into machine-gun fire.

June 13th pre return to The GDR

    Tunnel Terror (1982) A Sonnet
cf Sunken Garden (Line art CT 1997)

Savouring being the other
side of The Wall again, my blood
would run cold at the memory
of being underground, my train
screeching then grinding to a halt.
The tube tunnel wall seemed a foot
away, dark-glistening dimly.
I was, trapped, near Hitler's Bunker.
Eventually, the train moved on.
Alighting at my destiny
station, nobody else got off.
The tunnel roof there was cream, gashed
by shell blasting, plaster hanging
down in shreds. I climbed many stairs.

      Mr. Walrus (Sonnet)

As if in a Piranesi
print, up many levels, higher
I emerged before a stained booth
with dirty perspex, in Berlin
to utter the pass words ordered
by Zeiss, Elstree Way, Borehamwood :
I have come to see Frau Tannert
who, I learned, was Gruppenleiter
Import, to a sad, sallow man
who, blotchy, looked like a walrus.
He may have studied my Visa.
Did he say Ja ? There were no guards
anywhere. I walked corridor.

Nb then, naming was Berlin, West Berlin.
June 13th ie 'Berlin' was East Berlin
cf Portfolios ZX 19 and ZX 31 for info 

Gaining Gertraud (A Sonnet)
        of Intrac Berlin (East)

At our meeting in a ruined
Schloss, with dark heavy furniture
I managed to tell Frau Tannert
a favoured novel was Effi
Breist, by Fontane, so redolent
of a ruined Prussia long gone.
She said : we both have a problem
with Ronald Reagan, and Star Wars.
Gertraud had a desk assistant ;
Carl Zeiss Jena was presiding,
with their countertrade manager,
wily, as meeting translator
over from Hertfordshire, England.
He would sell East German product.

Date : February 1982. Poland in crisis.
cf ZY 121 My texts and Image for Plant
Care : A Festschrift for Mimi Khalvati
(Linda Lee Books 2004) evoke the GDR
 
June 13th

     At Lady Bingham's (J14)

The young girl adoring flowers
in a white chemise, with breast pert
and a latent, but keen beauty
looks all hope for June again
and they will keep on coming, young.
As I look, shutter my folder,
though Venus she is not, older
she withers at futility,
Iran arming military.
There will always be a future
along with redeeming nature.
After war, singular beauty :
I really must end the story.
Yet again, short of a couplet :
Israel jets hit their target.

June 14th

     First Meta-Text (1973)

I wrote once of Bnot Yaakov
Bridge, my Kibbutz Gadot on edge
not far below The Golan Heights
fearing bombing during the nights.
( They had more than a Moltov ).

cf Pf  September Sad 3+ 'Bnot Yaakov 
Bridge' (1973) on www.zenspacia2.co.uk

      Still Not Kicking Arse
      a robust Americanism

The BBC not broad-casting
The Opposition, news-reading
my Byronic couplets, or screen-
displaying my Albion scene
text painting every evening.
Performance : upper-class English
not Northern flat vowel rubbish.
South Patrician taken off air,
reason for National despair.
Nobody is on, kicking arse.
Why is immigration a farce ?
Does Armitage know how to parse ?
Reform remedy, N. Farage
who can round on a sailing barge.        
 

nb such methedology could halve
disability benefit claims. St Peters

      Classist, Ja ! Oxford
           for The Union

There has to be a ruler class
to teach the lumpen how to pass.
Objectors : put them out to grass !
Classist ! offends the praise-worthy,
rebutting an idiocy,
those boating mediocrity
or, Auden, how to be silly
met at Coffee over a glass.
He had a grave urbanity.

        Afternoon Glory

The sashay, and the bare midriff
are back, creating much what if.
Also, many a bronzed shoulder
for driving mad The One, Allah.
How do you equate modesty
with a woman jaunty sexy ?
All the baring, yes, alluring
and so many are past caring.
Her bare tanned flesh is for sharing.

June 15th
















 
 

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