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===Poems=== Collections: * ''Farewell to a Child'' (1982), collection of 10 poems: *: "Found", "Lost", "The Commitment", "When We Were Four", "With Vacant Possession", "The Child Departs: a dialogue", "The Eternal Child", "The Frozen Boy", "The Haunting", "The Malediction" * ''Home Life With Cats'' (1992), collection of 34 poems:<ref>{{cite book|last=Aldiss|first=Brian|date=1992|title=Home Life With Cats|language=en|publisher=HarperCollins UK|isbn=0-586-21428-3|url=https://archive.org/details/homelifewithcats0000aldi}}</ref> *: "Out of the Night", "The Cats' Heaven", "Kittens (Two)", "Slaves", "Where Have You Been?", "Yum-Yum", "Heatwave", "Cats' Nerves", "Foxie", "Jackson", "Town-Life", "Nickie", "The Two-Kitten Problem", "Macramé's Lament", "Travelling Cats", "The Cat Improvement Company", "On a Favourite Goldfish Drowned in a Bowl of Cats", "Portrait of a Cat with Lady", "An Evening at Home", "Tatty's Tie-Shop", "Snacks", "Who Owns the House?", "A Riddle", "How I Swam Out to Sea with My Cat", "A Lion for Tea", "The Cat in the Cathedral", "The Poor Man's Cat", "Mutual Regard", "First Birthday", "Rules", "Relating to the Pet", "The Cat Speaks", "Michael, the Cycling Cat", "The Lost Grave" * ''At the Caligula Hotel and Other Poems'' (1995), collection of 74 poems, grouped in four sections:<ref>{{cite book|last=Aldiss|first=Brian|date=1995|title=At the Caligula Hotel and Other Poems|language=en|publisher=Sinclair-Stevenson|isbn=1-85619-568-6|url=http://www.locusmag.com/index/t655.htm#A33207}}</ref> *: I. Imagery?: "At the Caligula Hotel", Chinese Exercises ("Lu Tai", "Nocturne", "Interval", "Indecision", "Journeying", "Poems from a Later Dynasty III: Who Hears My Voice?"), "Exit Aquascutum", "While Feeding Parrots", "Winter Bites Deep", "Breughel's Hunters in the Snow", "Anau: The Well", "The Cynar, Istanbul", "Dawn in Kuala Lumpur", "Gauguin's Tahiti" *: II. Everyday?: "No, I was Never Deaf or Blind to Her Music", "Toledo: Three Ladies", "Government", "Moonglow: for Margaret", "Alfie Cogitates on Life", "Memories of Palic", "Boars Hill: the Sycamores and the Oaks", "All Things Transfigure", "Trapped in the Present", "The Path", "Suburban Sunday", "Nature Notes: Early September", "Willow Cottage", "Cold Snap", "Stoney Ground", "The Triumph of the Superficial", "The Twentieth Camp", "Good Fortune", "Communication", "A Summery Meditation on Money", "A Moment of Suspense", "Fragment of a Longer Poem" *: III. Literary?: "Short Stories", "What Did the Policeman Say?", "Hamlet Folk", "The Poor", "On Reading Poetry in Berkhamsted", "Poem Inspired by Scott Meredith", Two Painters ("I: Francis Bacon", "II: Fernand Khnopff"), "Light of Ancient Days", "Mary Shelley, 1916", "Victor Frankenstein on the Mer de Glace", "The Shelleys – To a Lady who spoke of their 'Mystery{{'-}}", "The Created One Speaks", "Mary in Italy", "Looking It Up", "Rice Pudding", "Writer's Life" *: IV. Scientific?: "Greenhouse Sex", "Lunar Anatomy", "Monemvasia", "Found", "Destruction of the Fifth Planet", "Femalien", "Thomas Hardy Considers the Newly-Published Special Theory of Relativity", "{{-'}}Rhine Locks are Closed in Battle Against Poison{{'-}}", "The Cat Improvement Company", "The Expanding Universe", "To a Triceratops Skull in the British Museum", "The Light", "Flight 063", Precarious Passions ("I: A Brain Pursues its Vanished Dream", "II: A Woman Marries the Southern Ocean", "III: Ascension Island Courts a Whale", "IV: A Refrigerator Proposes to a Musk Ox", "V: A Book Falls in Love with its Reader", "VI: A Lamp Standard Courts the Stars"), "Alphabet of Ameliorating Hope" * ''Songs from the Steppes of Central Asia: The Collected Poems of Makhtumkuli: Eighteenth Century Poet-Hero of Turkmenistan'' (1995) * ''A Plutonian Monologue on His Wife's Death'' (2000,<ref name="Brian Aldiss - Literature"/> [[The Frogmore Papers]]), collection of 7 poems * ''At a Bigger House'' (2002), collection of 48 poems: *: "Hazards of the Trail", "Perspectives", "Presentiments of Dawn", "Now Showing: 'Killing Father{{'-}}", "The World of Lost Content", "Flight 063", "Railway Engine Pulling Slowly", "The Deceptive Truth", "Colour Contrasts", "Fairy Tales", "The Women", "They Who Waited", "The Bonfire of Time", "The Foot Speaks", "The Ghost Koi", "Rapide des Morts", "The Teeth of Time", "Elizabeth Jennings (Died October 2001)", "{{-'}}War and Peace': A Song for Mathilde Mauguiere", "Her Beautiful Thing", "The Hunters in the Snow", "Aral Seasons", "Uzbecks in London", "Poem from Life in the West", "Many Mansions", "The Horse Unburied", "The Red Pavilion", "Blythborough Church, A Hardyesque Dialogue", "Insomnia", "Awake at Three A.M.", "The Start of Something", "Retrospection: At the Temple of Aphaia, on the Island of Aegina, Greece", "Hors d'Oeuvres for my Lady", "The Barney", "Dawn in KL", "A Funeral Service: Kingsley Amis, 31st October 1995", "On Passing a Roadside Auction of Featherbeds, Lake District, 1845", "City Scene", "The Prehistory of the Mind", "April in East Coker", "Seeking Love", "The New Wing", "Xenophilia", "Name-Dripping", "Dora/Dinah", "Volcano", "Monemvasia", "The Moment" * ''The Dark Sun Rises'' (2002), collection of 50 poems: *: "The Dark Sun Rises", "Venice and Istanbul", "Perspectives", "Monemvasia", "The Deceptive Truth", "The Moment", "On Passing a Roadside Auction of Featherbeds, Lake District, 1845", "Retrospection: At the Temple of Aphaia, on the Island of Aegina, Greece", "Rapide des Morts", "Flight 063", "Aral Seasons", "Uzbecks in London", "Poem from Life in the West", "Insomnia", "Meum Tuumque", "Partings from Oedipus on Mars", "The Barney", "Blythborough Church, A Hardyesque Dialogue", "Not Speaking of You", "The Silent Love", "{{-'}}War and Peace': A Song for Mathilde Mauguiere", "Her Beautiful Thing", "Rondeau after Leigh Hunt", "Jocasta", "Jane Eyre at Elsinore", "The Carnivores", "The Garden at Number Thirty-Nine", "The Horse Unburied", "The Garden", "In the RA Friends' Room June '95", "They Who Waited", "Colour Contrasts", "The Red Pavilion", "The Women", "Hazards of the Trail", "Many Mansions", "The Start of Something", "The Prehistory of the Mind", "The World of Lost Content", "Volcano", "Dendrochronology", "The Foot Speaks", "Fairy Tales", "Now Showing: 'Killing Father{{'-}}", "A Piece of Cleopatra", "Cliché Love", "{{-'}}Eatin' Regular Again': A Pop Song", "The Cat Improvement Company", "At the Caligula Hotel", "untitled (re: myth of Santa Claus)" * ''Mortal Morning'' (2011)<ref name=newpoems>{{cite web |url=http://www.flambardpress.co.uk/books/show.php?book=1218&author=brian.aldiss |title=Mortal Morning by Brian Aldiss |publisher=Flambard Press |access-date=18 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130810183053/http://www.flambardpress.co.uk/books/show.php?book=1218&author=brian.aldiss |archive-date=10 August 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Uncollected poems: {{div col | colwidth=25em}} * "There Are No More Good Stories About Mars Because We Need No More Good Stories About Mars" (1963) * "Bridging Hours in Wesciv" (1969) * "Drama on the River Cherwell" (1974) * "Epitaph for a Writer" (1974) * "In Another Town: Bologna" (1974) * "Innovation in the Arts" (1974) * "Mon Frère" (1974) * "Taking Leave of a Cold Country" (1974) * "The Lady Literary Agent" (1974) * "Verse in a Country Garden" (1974) * "Summer: 1773" (1976) * "Pile: Petals from St. Klaed's Computer" (1979) * "Sleep" (1983) * "Tra La" (1994) {{div col end}}
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