'As though the dead had FINIS on their brows.'
Geoffrey Hill, 'The Imaginative Life'
words words
words
a brand new
look
spies over
war
- how I made
the 'worst
movie ever' -
'murky'
links
white shirt
equals
white hat? use of cluster
bombs il-
legal the war
that
toppled
life
life life
'Writing gives one something to remember.'
Lyn Hejinian, 'Comments for Manuel Brito'
war
is blown
apart
America
praised
for
moderation
possess and
conceal
lethal
weapons
fear and
loathing
crusade goes
on - no
sabotage
palpably
absurd
sewed
up eyes
women who
must suffer for
art
science over-
hauled
man
rescued
crash
protest
'does your
English let you
down?'
its
next
generation
growing
chaos
the true
picture
of
'At 16, she wore
the veil' en-
velopes the entire
body
'I feel that I
am a new
person You
will be very
proud
of me'
Istishadyeen
'sad and
pathetic' 'she
was too
young'
what counts
as human
interest
- smell
the roses
'We
will never
leave' roar
back
to the big
time
'at least
we get
to vote
on this'
curb
on special
advisors
an end
to all
this?
shallow
tasteless
cruel - just
like life
concessions
for UK 'post
mortem' anti-
war sentiment to
plain
bad singing eye
surgery law-
suits paris pen-
sion pro-
test movement
'has arrived
to say 'yes'
to the Americans' fashion
genius
elephant
trumpets
'I have
something
terrible
to say'
dream
debut big
snub
vote
still on
phone boxes
left
to rot new
magazine
inquiry
home, room
by room, week
by week
'kicked
into
the long grass'
another
strike an
all day
permanent red
'it's a
cock up, we're
sorry, we'd
say OK'
where to find
the best
food
in Britain
drama
with a
message
poser
reigns
made the American
mind
the slacker
attitude
has been
smashed
to pieces
Asylum
90,000
40,000
790
£200
12%
£2.5 bill
13,335
including
dependants
(an eathquake
in Algeria
which has killed
more)
why you shouldn't
believe
everything
this is an
important
issue
corpses lie
in
the streets
in
urges terror
attacks
offered to stand
down
'in his
interest'
school too
poor to
teach a 'robust
nuclear earth
penetrator'
European
thriller making
of a modern
cover
girl
in-
side the
review
farmers
caught
between
take aim
at new
targets
in row
no quick
route
back deal
lorries fund
railways
fat cat pay fails
to see
the joke takes
Manhatten
words words words
an array of fat
cats and 'angry
share-
holders'
women who
give birth
'naturally'
now
in the
minority
Jakarta hits
Aceh rebels
shock for
US golf
circuit
mall bomb
attack
how
to
become
another day another
outrage (so 'we' the
readers are
victims now?)
Chechnya Saudi
Arabia Algeria Pak-
istan Morocco Israel
euro must be
based on
economics, in-
sists Brown
asthma break-
through asylum
row calls
for growth plea
for aid
the truth
about life
troublesome
star
in hard
new terror
threat death
toll reaches his
relationship
with the
truth
darkness
falls hope
springs
transform
your home room
by room week
by week
so
what was
the war
for
thank
you
why we eat
this way food
workers
exposed
flout courts
after seizing
a ground-
breaking
series wouldn't
make up
for this
season man-
handled
and now
deported
the sexiest
woman
in
the world in
six more
flights
grounded puts
off un-
told
stories
attack
fears
global forces
who control
our food
cabinet to
be given
say
passive
smoking
does no
harm
infighting
as
'pantomime'
feel US
wrath
over
just
what is
going on
how will his-
tory judge
judges out
of touch
got the fifth
man wrong
defeat apathy free
with the
guardian
plenty more fish
not in
the sea
bid
decision due
still
at
liberty
quick
index
US says
it will hunt
down
let attackers
slip through
their net
return
guardian re-
porters res-
idence per-
mit
BIN
END
BONANZA
is back
errors, secrecy and
control 'only 18
celebrities
in the world worth
talking to'
on Euro
offensive
'has benefits'
in secret
talks
on con-
sultaton
an important
bearing
on
obsessed
with place
in
history parting
shot
'Stakeknife' forced
to flee Ire-
land as cover
is blown
gap
has
widened
under
joining
the euro
is a matter
left with
relegation on
their minds
man
steps
down
hits
French
city
fat, drunk and
stupid
road map
to euro
entry room-
by-room
fire gay staff (allowed!)
we're serious
plumb new
depths
stop
the drop
oil 'bribes'
scandal
US blocks return of UN
to Iraq
'I'm a stick
insect'
other unlikely
spies
circulation
news
comic-
book adapt-
ation
could kill off
euro lobby
child
food
advert
"unless I have
been
misled, or have
been
naive, the papers
will have got it totally
wrong"
the food
we eat
today
road map
for Rums-
feld
Short goes
awol
absolving
the army
from
responsiblity
if it shoots
them
the way
we eat
now
greed, plastic
surgery, fast cars
has been
targetted
for regime
change
faces
$200m contract
to sell
nuclear
reactors
to North
Korea, a
'terrorist state', part
of the axis
of evil
a fatal axe
attack
father
of gangster
rap
sweet, ro-
mantic S
&M comedy
'you risk
being shot'
tune in
to
digital
unite
to tell
Brown
new queen
of indie
cinema
courts force shift
in war
on
an
honorary vice-
president
head 'swindled
school'
after
'liberation' bus
disaster
on surviving
the war
new blow
to conservative
leader
join
rebellion
writer
in
hiding
the revolt
failed
to defeat
passenger
what is
to become
of the in-
ternational space
station? a leaving
present
cash
in hand
top
for pay
forced to wed
freed
don't make
historic
blunder 'hopes
of a lasting
aftertaste'
ex-King-
fisher boss
I turned
down 'I'm
a Celebrity' moving
personal
tribute
failure's
reward
cook on
euro: delay
is not an
option
anti-war
MP
inspectors
hail arrest
parents
harass
teachers
£200 to
placate
rebels
in foundation
wildest
creation
yet
'older
and weaker'
think
'tank'
judges
get
counselling
flock to see
Pope
pressed
to quit
can go
into
the red
sails
into
record
burglars
'need
protection'
secret of
eternal youth
don't
feel pain
like say
fish do
excellent
sport
talks to the US
goth rocker
about Mickey
Mouse
hitting
your child a
crime
'privileged
access'
disclosure
of UK
embassy
link 'rip-
off' hits
'time
for Europe
and the US
to make
up'
killing
the high
street eye
of a
storm
row hits
minister
smacking
by child-
minders
my promise
for a fairer
Britain: super-
hospitals for all
pledged
taken
hollywood
by storm
life etc.
six
more
arrests
enemy
within (cliché)
dig out
your
suitcase
low-factor
sun creams
off
shelves
a night-
marish
new threat
in the wake
true
meaning
mass
nudity
moved
quickly
yesterday to
exploit
'that
failure
was
compounded'
wiping
the memory
slate clean
suffering
hope
all
the best
jobs
dead new
novel
battles
for his
political
life
loses
birmingham
fears
fugitive bomber
will try
again
peace
left
in limbo
we
struck
back
killing
hollywood
three pages
of news and
analysis of
the aftermath
blame him
for pressuring
Bush
bomber and
accomplice 'were
British'
mourners
stand over
the body
mother
sobs
power
shift
'we will pay
for
the consequences'
on
the stump killed
a comic
genius it
was murder
can the sofa
vote save
democracy?
we are
not with you and we
do not
believe you
dispute flared
into
insurrection
called
for the crisis
to end
put on
the electrodes
heads
accused
human
shields
like
a sieve
washington will
impose its
will
wall street
punished
93% in
City want
out
end
to the ethical
dilemmas
watchdog
pledges
crackdown
of
completely
peaceful
intent
13th
official
captured
sets up
isolation
camp
words of wit
and wisdom top
the worst
'moving
towards
closure
of
conflict'
be
consumed
a shower
of offers
was badly
burned
unlikeliest
hit
the most
famous feet
in Britain
centre
of political
intrigue 'no
evidence' 'no
evidence' 'no
evidence'
'U.S.A. was
here' in
dust
in rush
to war
why I want
to stay
in love with
painkillers
power
of principled
resistance
terrified
Iraq would be
'his
Vietnam'
clothes off
for art
'either he knows
something we
don't, or he's
insane'
heads
for new
rift
secret war
meetings with
clinton
can blur
still
cut it?
beckham's
big
issue
surrender
seen
as symbolic
victory
screening
at airports
rejected
proud
american
dixie
chicks
back-
log, bal-
der-
dash, says
cleric
letters
are genuine
to be
read
links
with
regime
not un-
biased?
a best-
seller
a day? some
claim
star substitute
looks
Blix vs.
the US
'very,
very
shaky'
who wants to see
a cheating
millionaire?
"sinister
McCarthyite"
tactics
highest figures
for a factual
programme since
1997
'I
was
under-
mined' set
to be dumped
to be young, gifted
and black
police
remain 'in-
stitutionally
racist'
despite
journalist's
death 'with-
held'
threaten
strike
keyring terror
fund
link
panicked
and dumped
it
watch the birds
return
tenfold
rise
euro
revolt
hit most
by tax
police deaths
on film
threaten
action over
jobs
and tests
fugitives
from
the ousted
a long-
term
strategic
foothold
in
mirage
bomb
'in
the firing
line'
a top
scientist
rules out
inquiry
hard to swallow
for food
who
exactly
has been
deceiver, who
the dupe
accused
of hindering
the aid
programme
scenes
from the
appearance
"only
a miracle
will jail
killers"
the threat
of a fresh
rebellion
my loose
connection
perils of
triumphalism
pocket-
sized Guide
pot-
bellied, olive-
uniformed
image
questioned
over cover-
up
the good
book's other
half
not quite
as rich
as Croesus
captured elsewhere
in
the city
'he may
know
about
the fortune'
vital leads
seek
his
monument
snubs
it may
be
sunny
a new
insider
dealing
ring
conspiring
to pervert
the course
made early
learning a
"straitjacket"
'one
of the world's
fastest pieces
of scientific
detective
work'
the
biggest
shake-up
what side
deals were
made what
happens
next
demanded he
be given
a life
identified by
the truth
stick
to the
conventions
an
attack
on
sentencing
'For almost a thousand years, Baghdad was the cultural capital of the Arab world, the most literate population in the Middle East. Genghis Khan's grandson burnt the city in the 13th century and, so it was said, the Tigris river ran black with the ink of books.'
from Robert Fisk's account of the burning of The National Library and Archives and the library of Korans at the Ministry of Religious Endowment in Baghdad, published in The Independent, Tuesday 15 April 2003
'When you blow up a building you make it smaller.'
David Antin, The November Exercises
its exam
watchdog
'all over
the filthy yard
they blew'
written
in Cairo
printed
in Beirut
read (read 'burnt')
in Baghdad
fast-food arson riddle
'dialogue
and partnership'
'suicide
tourists'
postpone
release
of 'road-
map'
the
poet's
philosophical
training
his
stature
as
a thinker
by
title
alone i-
ronic re-
lationship sub-
text
due
to their
technical
difficulty
missed
edition
alive, son
of awake
big in-
verted
commas
'walking
like
giants'
toppling
'discover
Islam! No
brainwashing
or
mesmerising!'
sets
his sights
on 'un-
finished
business' 3
zones
street
by
street
falling
Saddam
targets
'sense of
arrogant
achievement'
the conflict
on camera
a-lit
blood on
lens
result of
"patchy, pre-
dictable and derivative"
programming
peace is
war
Palace in
pixellated
light
jet
wash
in
push
suicide
fighter or self-
described
martyr
'own
goal' 'white
and red'
fire strike
'mistakes
happen' shorter
weeks 'neglected
river
Tiber'
under
over
- accursèd
euphemism
'ride
a tiger
to the River
Euphrates'
anselm
kiefer's high
priestess
cradle of
civilization
lead
books
list
of
crimes
to
both
a
sudden
appearance
'un-
conventional'
representation
in
Islamic
art
'is it
really
him?'
'collateral'
think oil
simple-to-
make
recipes
the
final
irresponsibility
hunting
regime
targets 'sheep or
shark?'
in an
instant
power
cut
'plunged'
'like still
tornadoes'
'missionaries'
is
not
shared
'as lights
go out'
haiku
de-
construction
exaggeration, half-truth and back-
tracking
'plunged
into
darkness'
'city'
released
early
'a willing
dupe'
strike by state
employees
ignoring
police
advice
over goal
celebration
graffiti: we
deserve
this
fire
in the
desert
nets and
curves
grammars out-
paced
avoid areas
'freedom
of
expression'
'Allies'
'destroy'
massed
allied
pressure
rank
may be
axed
dig in
calls for
'holy
war'
man-
slaughter
new
research
handy
icons
damning
evidence
EU minnows
government
"holiday
camps"
on the city
fringes
nice
on an
island
'Rushing about, men bump each other into the whirring presses. How funny it seems. All thought of misery has left us. Why should we care? Children laughingly fling themselves under the wheels of the street cars, airplanes crash gaily to the earth. Someone has written a poem.'
WCW, Spring and All
first casualty
of war
is a
person
'a
fantasist'
'a
critical
new
phase'
red line
'reverse
its
decision
to withdraw'
'collage-
rage' the
words we
use are
fragile
'liberators'
in
effect
dismissed
hit the
city's
television
tower known to
'stage'
a suicide
attack
'architects'
of
war
warns of
'another
Vietnam'
"That's
not
true"
having
a bad
war 'quick
war'
humiliated even
if
he wins
'Rock's
explosive
double
act'
'The enemy
we're fighting
is different
from the one
we'd war-
gamed against'
'learn
humility'
a large fat fish
dolphins
food and
water
'no matter
how long
it takes'
at odds over
port
'to which they are
entitled'
'braced'
the public
cynic
life
'to protect
the country's
Muslims'
goodbye
brighton
pier
"Roar,
flash" mil-
itary show-
men
'This
is God's
possession'
'swamp
of
blood
and
mud'
"liberate" them
all
'coalition'
control is
"going well"
all
enduring
freedom
authorities, reporters
embedded
anti-
radiation
missile
avoiding
TV
news
using
mortars
to
quell
children
fear
bullying
dig deep
as bombs
fall 'he
was
tortured'
Pentagon "extremely
pleased" with
TV
coverage
'fair play
to pupils'
more depleted
uranium
'make films, not
war' punishing
attacks 'in some
cases dramatic' un-
done
in our
times,
names
drinking
water
from
the river
Patriot
'our troops
will not
surrender'
natty
maps
increase
internal
support
public's
fear
of crime
plans
to move
a fence
foot
rail aid bill
dis-
ordinance hits
home
'military
families'
primarily
about
suffering
almost
19% less
do not buy
the line
stars who
will not
be
failing jails
named
the next
war
'faith-
based'
un-
done
'A-
Day'
oil field fire-
men
aerial
attacks
on centres
and symbols
the
green
light
'shock-
and-awe'
"we came
out of
the grave"
Fairford
in
Gloucestershire
sickly
Rumsfeld, its
full force
"Thank
you. We love
you. Please
don't
kill us"
razed
in 10
minutes
Full-
blooded
act
of war,
theatre
of war, an-
ticipate, par-
ticipate 'par
for
the course'
mass
of concrete
hulks
the
Tigris
'joy, death, and
looting'
high
protest
around
new
strategy
for a new
'air craft'
"Apparently
what we have done
this far has
not been
sufficiently
persuasive"
'Write this. We have burned all their villages.'
Michael Palmer, 'Sun'
public
burning
'Bubbles
of fire'
'rally
behind'
a dull
start
peace
plan
shelved
"fairytale"
carries with it
a lengthy
sentence
local ac-
tivists
adapting
terror
firmer
Green's
indicative
bid
'as precise and
short
a conflict
as possible'
a diplomatic
showdown
inches
closer
inner
jihad
'there is
a link
between'
'God
Bless You'
humiliating
rebuff
they
did it
red
stripes
'botched
in
the teeth'
instantly
out
of date
'massed
in
the region'
unleash
a ferocious
a dangerous
prec[s]ident
what
is
coming
bush
thicker
than ever
exile
or war
a lethal
disease
'neither in-
ter-
national nor
domestic
support'
'relief that
at last
uncertainty
has lifted'
cut back
'the years; the
under-
growth'
we
are in
the final
stages
an hour's
notice, if
necessary
oil
is thicker
than blood
impose
a pay
deal
tomorrow
is
a moment
both
imminent
and
inevitable
'Peace
summit' will
set course
for war
not one
but two
new
spin-off
series
out-
break
hits
tourism
kids
who control
the
presidential
retreat
the
pictures posed
kittens
of mass
destruction
long-
awaited
"road-map" agreed
the relative
value
present,
logical,
and admirable
stance
rogue
moles to
smile
lines
become
a more
confident
public
"He
was more
forcible
than he
had been
previously"
been found
with drifters
numerous
bottles
of champagne,
chocolates and
small
things
left
the door
open
to a few
extra
days
voted
to continue
to bar
men
virtual
lobby
shot
by
snipers in
the back
at 12:25pm
a pledge
on Iraqi TV
perfect pitch
when it comes
to sincerity
noises
off
people
will die
pro-
posed
twenty
four hour
‘cyber
surveillance’
semi-
culture
hit back
at her
attack
on his
strategy
starchy
yams and
fatty
coconuts
unlikely
to slow
the momentum
the
system is
the system
she said: "I'm afraid
that I think
the whole atmosphere
of the current
situation is deeply
reckless"
inability of highly
social animals to breed
successfully
stripped
of his
powers
no
indent
launch
a desperate
drive
'scare'
quotes
protagonists
at
the heart
influence
to avert
a rush
a single
superpower
claims and counter-claims
worth saying
over and
over
confused and
incoherent
this land
our land
scare
crows
big bright
day
she realised something
was amiss
the movie
business
goes out
to eat
a key
financial and logistical
role
in several al-Qaida
attacks
"They were
fabricated," said another
IAEA official
stage was set
last night
for a final,
climactic showdown
Issue 
Monday, October 13, 2003
