Maudlin and Bitter Poems

By Jeffrey Lamont

'This is Jeffrey Lamont's fourth book of poetry' following on from the success of his previous publications; Ulster Catharsis, Brochan Burn and Shared Futures.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Feb 14, 2022
• ISBN: 9781665596589

Jeffrey Lamont

Jeffrey Lamont lives in Portrush, County Antrim, and Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. He has previously published two books of poetry, “Ulster Catharsis” and “Brochan Burn.” He has lived and worked in over twenty countries worldwide, which has provided inspiration for many of his poems. He also writes poems in the Ulster Scots tradition.

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Published by AuthorHouse 02/11/2022

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Contents

Academia

Alternative Ulster

Appalachia

Archie Scally’s Flight

Babushka’s Grief

Black Dog

BMW Blonde

Boy in Pink Pyjamas

Cagor 91

Camel-a the Communist

Castlerock

Celebration

Christine

Couplets

Damsels

Diplomacy (a la Libido)

Dreams

Fliegle Coma

Hole

Home Town Streams of Consciousness

Home Within your Heart

I Wish I was in Karakol

Isl na Nagh

Jamie Chambers’ Wee Penknife

Jekyll and Hyde

Kathleen Jean

Lady Aster

Lindsay Brown P.P.P. (Presbyterian Prayerful Paedophile)

Maudlin Poems

Morosovka

Moscow 93

Nurlan

Ode from a non-existent friend

Paddy’s Day

Parapet

Poets

Presbyterians

Quit Guzzlin yer Gammens

Renee

Returning

Roll the Big Wagons West

Russian Spring ‘Russkaya Vesna’

She Will Grow, a Woman

Stalingrad (Yield and Die, Push and Perish)

The Bards

The Holy Grail

The Mice, the Damned Mice

The Polnishni Kuchin

The Presbyterian Flu

The Soviets

The Springhill

Trapped Up On Union Street

Unfinished

Universal Credit

Wander East

When in Rome

Zhisn

Academia

(December 2020)

I was an academic

Yeah I lectured for a while

But because I was a Thatcherite

I got ne’er a smile.

I refused to join their union

Nor to pay their union dues

I am a free marketeer

So I chose to choose.

I researched and I published

Papers by the score

I outstripped every one of them

And so they got full sore.

An Ulster boy excelling??

Well whatever next

He didn’t go to grammar school

It’s not quite standard text.

And when I did consultancy

I was a fascist cad

Working out in Russia

Oh that was very bad.

And then they got real viscious

Plagiarism was the charge

But when I was proved innocent

An apology from the targe.

So the moral of the story

Is quite plain to see

There’s no place in academia

For a working class boy like me.

Alternative Ulster

(January 2021)

I’m an Ulsterman, a rebel

And a thrawn oul’ Ulster Scot

Presbyterian, Catholic, Muslim

I have embraced the lot.

Married in the Catholic Church

In Bavaria to boot

My family weren’t so happy

I put forward the left foot.

And then way