The Incomplete Tim Key

About 300 of his poetical gems and what-nots

Tim Key

• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN:
  9780857861184
• eBook ISBN:
  9780857861207
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Poetry
• Index: Literature

This is the e-version of Key's most up-to-the-date collection of comprehensive poeticals. Everything from the book is contained in this piece of e, but there are also some trinkets and other little weevils involved that might sugar the pill. These, poems (by award-winning Key) are primarily about love, sex, dreams, death and fruit (strawberries, beans etc). This ebook has come out as a sort of accompaniment to the audiobook and the actualbook because, in truth, if you stop and think about it for ten seconds, this is the way that the book industry is going and we all have to accept that and try and get on with it. I suppose, if we're being honest with ourselves, it's probably nicer to have the actualbook in our hands or on our shelves or in a bag full of other books and unwanted clothes to take to the charity shop, but, increasingly, words are found on memory sticks and we have adapt to this and stop looking for people to blame. In case you haven't had the pleasure of fondling the book itself, you should know that it weighs about three quarters of a kilo, has a photo of Key stood on the cover and is the sort of size that would fit into almost all handbags and almost no purses or pockets.

Table of contents

• Cover
• About the Author
• Also by Tim Key
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Poem#436: ‘Sunday Morning’
• Introduction
• Introduction
• Introduction
• Introduction
• Introduction
• Introduction
• Sociopoetry
• War and Peace and Religion and Shopping
• Wooing, Screwing and Chewing
• Heroes of Our Time
• The Thorny Issue of Jobs
• Friends, Acquaintances and Worse
• Poems Set on Location Outside of the UK
• A Poem about a Man from Devon, Struggling Desperately to Juggle His Two Main Passions; That is, His Enthusiasm for His Girlfriend, Anitra (Forty Years His Junior and Studying Law Somewhere in Town But Living with Him in His Lighthouse), and His Love of the Sea Air – In Particular, A Compulsion for Hunting Down, Torturing, Killing and Eating Seabirds of Various Species
• What Some People Do
• In The Dead of Night
• Rascals
• In The Thick of Marriage
• Poems About a Starstruck Doctor, A Fat Chap Kipping on a Mate’s Sofa, The Discredited American Golfer, Tiger Woods, An Off-The-Hook Wake, A Massacre at a Battle-of-the-Bands Night in Leicester, A Bored Truanter, A Footballer, A Farmer, A Handsome Young Musician Getting Shit from His Piano Teacher, A Zombie, A Czech, A Man-Faced Girl, A Gentleman Heavily into Goats, A Fantastical Orphan and a Teenage Lesbian, Who, After Baking, Uses the Pastry Off-Cuts as a Playful Centrepiece for Some Slap-and-Tickle With Her New Girlfriend
• Some Problems
• The Keith Power Conundrum
• On The Outside Looking In
• Outroduction
• Index of Poems by Title
• Index of Poems by First Line
• Index of Poems by Theme
• Index of Poems by People Parading Around in them
• Index of Poems by Number
• Acknowledgements