An Index

FRENCH QUIZZES

French Quiz No. 1
French Quiz No. 2
French Quiz No. 3
French Quiz No. 4


GOOD THINGS ABOUT FRANCE

No. 1. Louis de Funes
No. 2. Cheap Public Transport
No. 3. Service with a Smile
No. 4. Le Comite d'Entreprise
No. 5. Journée du Patrimoine
No. 6: Wine
No. 7 The Bagatelle Rose Gardens
No. 8: Aubade Pubs
No. 9: Unusual Street Names
No. 10: Les Nympheas de Monet


FRENCH PARTICULARITIES: WHAT MAKES FRANCE DIFFERENT

No. 1. Elevator Stair Behaviour
No. 2. Plug Retractors
No. 3. Fresh Bread
No. 4. The August Holiday
No. 5. The Open Neck Shirt
No. 6. La Rentrée
No. 7. Les 400 Coups
No. 8. Drinking Water
No. 9. Secular Christmas
No. 10: School on Saturday

FUNNY STUFF (AND ALMOST FUNNY STUFF)

How About This For a Water Bill?
Camera Toss
Aunt Ooh-ah
Pleasure and Pain
'Zen' Massage
Joke
Irony?
Cold Porridge
If the Slipper Fits
Crepsucule 1
Great Uncle Louis
A Misunderstanding
Mix Ups
Satan's Banquet


WATCHING LIFE GO BY IN FRANCE

Louveciennes in the Snow
Salon du Chocolate in Pictures
Croissy Carrot Festival in Pictures
Preparing for Croissy Carrot Festival
Flying South
I Woz Ere
Provoked and Provoking
We're Okay...
Fiddling While Paris Burns
La Maison Fournaise
Settlers
Maternelle
The Carrot Festival
Life in Aggregates
Dog Days
Guignol
A New Broom
Stop the EU, France Wants to Get Off
Oui ou Non?
Les Coquelicots
A House I Pass Every Morning
Junk and Utter Junk
Today is Cancelled
Keep Taking the Pills
Elections Back Home
Chinese Chickens
Wearing White
Social Dumping
Crossing the Road
Le Jardin de Flici
Public vs Private
Glass and Steel
The Urban Safari
Cartoon Nation
Brocante
An Emotional Bastille Day Parade

GASTRONOMY

Peepee de Chat
Eating Oysters
Do You Have Frogs Legs?
Top Cheese
Choucroute


VISITING CHAMPAGNE

No. 1: Reims Cathedral
No. 2: The Cave
No. 3: Lunch with the Vendangeurs
No. 4: The Vendange (Eventually!)
No. 5: The Co-operative
No. 6: Going Underground
La Methode Champenoise
When to Pick a Grape
Back to Champagne
Champagne in Champagne


TOUR DE FRANCE

Pays d'Auge
Angers and Apocalypse
Where the French Disappear to in August


TUNE IN, DROP OUT: BEGGING IN FRANCE

Begging problematics
Back to Beggars
Begging as Vice
Tune In, Drop Out


ART, MUSIC AND LITERATURE IN PARIS

Readings in Paris
Upstairs at Duroc Issue 8
Live Poets Society Reading
Upstairs at Duroc Launch
Reading in Paris at Wice
French Poetry by Women
Ten French Words
Reading in Paris at WICE
Last Days of Dada
Verhaeren and Ensor
Goodbye Taupe, Hello Upstairs at Duroc
Verhaeren and Ensor
Feminisation
Harry Potter et le Prince de Sang-Mêlé
'Complete Poems' by Alphonse Allais
Hints for French Linguists
Zola
Orwell's Paris
Ravel's Greatest Treasure
Braque's Grave
Poet and Primeminister
Allez Allé Allais
Dial-a-Poet


POETRY BOOK REVIEWS

'three-toed gull: Selected Poems' by Jesper Svenbro


INTERVIEWS

Ivy Alvarez, poet and author of 'Mortal'
Clare Dudman, novelist and author of '98 Reasons for Being'


ROBERT BURNS

A Sobering Thought
Robert Burns: The Immortal Bard"
Furious Shapeshifter
Burns is Back


POETRY AND GEOLOGY

A Geological Event
Concentration
Written in Blood
Cherry Stone
'Vertigo' after the French of Jules Supervielle
Woodchip Wallpaper and the Meaning of Cave Art
The Stone Axe
Fugitive Colour
Michaux's Furrow
Fugitive Colour
Goethite
Roger Caillois and the Mexican Jumping Bean
Do Scientists Use Metaphor
Faces in the Rocks
An Interview on Science and Poetry
Freak Weather"
And so, to books..."
How Long to Cover the Earth in Oysters?
Bored Oysters
Killed by an Oyster
Don't be so Sure, Saussure
Behind the Tapestry
The Tree in the River
Drilling Ahead
Dead Lines
Geology as Metaphor
Conundrum


POETRY EXERCISES

Cubist Poetry


READING LEVI-STRAUSS

Levi-Strauss' Mistresses
The Language of Food
The Raw and the Cooked
Time's Arrow: Today, Yesterday and the Eternal
Meeting the Indians
The Indian Lesson
Crepuscule
Geology as Metaphor
Tristes Tropiques


POEMS ADAPTED FROM 'TRISTES TROPIQUES'

The Revelation
Anthropology


GEOLOGY AND NATURE

God's Mountains
Dendritic
Tracks
Crystals and Cells
The Last Leaf
The Expanding Earth: Part 1
Beneath the Skin
Grace and Destruction
Stones Inside Us
Thunder-Stones
Nature: For or Against Us?
Eating Clay
Talk the Talk
Witches' Brew
The Uncertain Face of the Earth
The Face of the Earth
Seasons Set in Stone
The Life of the White Ant
Ants?
Itemising
Full Circle, or Why Churches are like Caves
Bastille Day, or Why Soldiers are like Oil Reservoirs
Cheap Watches and Fractured Reality
Catastrophists vs Gradualists
The Loire
Summer Erupts

MEMORIES OF AMERICA

Memories of America: Houston, March 2002


WHAT I THINK

The Lights of the Eiffel Tower
Memory Babe
Fable-ulous News
8th of March is Women's Day
Synchronicity
What's the Truth About Coal Miner's Deaths?
I remember
Lapidation
Really Rich
Truth and Reconciliation
The Abyss


MY POETRY

Racetrack Playa, Death Valley
Survival of the Fittest
Lapwing (Audio)
Jodie's Song (Audio)
The Art of the Small
The Iceberg
Desert Rose
New Poem: A Moveable Feast
Reviewed
Sailing By
The Life Model
Pulling Out of Hole


INVITED POEMS

Slog by Rufo Quintavalle
Peach Dress by Ivy Alvarez
Poem with Three Addresses by Elizabeth Spackman
Dust Skin Glove Bowl by George Szirtes
Didactic by Joe Ross
Carte Postale by Luke Heeley