7 Tony Brown & Jason Walford Davies: Introduction
28 Editors’ Note
Poems to artworks in Herbert Read, Art Now: An Introduction to the Theory of Modern Painting and Sculpture
30 Henri Matisse: Odalisque with a Turkish Chair
31 She is the mistress…
32 André Derain: Portrait of the Artist
33 No self-portrait…
33 Capturing his astonishment…
34 Oskar Kokoschka: The Wind’s Bride
35 This wind had nowhere…
36 Henry Moore: Shelter Drawing
37 Hand clenched…
38 Edvard Munch: House in Aasgaardstrand
39 The emptiness…
40 George Grosz: Restaurant Scene
41 ‘Really?’ ‘Garçon…
42 Édouard Pignon: La Catalane
43 Is that a tear?…
44 Jankel Adler: David
45 When the evil spirit…
46 Gabriel Robin: The Hearth
47 Have you seen a face…
48 William Roberts: The Dressmakers
49 I return to it…
50 Gaston-Louis Roux: Woman with Flowers
51 All round her flowers…
52 Graham Sutherland: Gorse on a Sea Wall
53 Gorse is gorse…
54 Floris Jespers: The Colombophil
55 Numerous and…
56 Eugène Berman: Evening in Venice
57 The gondolas have vanished…
58 Paul Berçot: Birth of the Siren
59 Existing so long…
60 Pavel Tchelitchew: The Bathers
61 We cannot compare…
62 René Magritte: La gravitation universelle
63 He was mistaken…
63 He is part…
64 Paul Delvaux: La prisonnière
65 It is the time of her moon…
66 Salvador Dalí: Naissance des désirs liquides
67 The man with sand in his ears…
68 Matta: Les vertiges d’Eros
69 Open to everything…
70 Roland Penrose: Les Musiciens Ambulants
71 The arrested son…
Poems to artworks in Surrealism, edited by Herbert Read
74 Salvador Dalí: Daybreak
75 The one has an upset…
76 Salvador Dalí: La profanation de l’hostie
77 It was because Caliban…
78 Salvador Dalí: Suburbs of the Paranoiac-critical Town
79 Holding the grapes out…
80 René Magritte: La reconnaissance infinie
81 It is the story…
82 Grace W. Pailthorpe: Ancestors II
83 According to this…
84 Pablo Picasso: Interior with Girl Drawing
85 The moustached eye…
85 Not cheeks any more…
86 Man Ray: Object
87 His genius…
88 Jindřich Štyrský: Man Fed on Ice
89 Representative man…
90 Yves Tanguy: Terre d’ombre
91 Yes, I suppose…
92 Yves Tanguy: The Flight of the Dukes
93 It is fitting that…
94 Yves Tanguy: The Extinction of the Species
95 Full of fugures…
96 Toyen: Hlas lesa
97 Owl, you cry…
APPENDICES
Poem written in response to a greetings card inserted at the back of Art Now
100 Henri Le Sidaner: Au Café
101 No people. Tables…
Uncropped artworks
104 Henry Moore: Shelter Drawing
105 Salvador Dalí: Suburbs of the Paranoiac-critical Town
Notes
108 Editors’ Notes on the Poems
112 Acknowledgements