Poem: 'Seconds'

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Poem written by Markham titled 'Seconds'

Published in Howard Sergeant (ed.), Outposts, vol.126, autumn 1980, (Outposts Publications), p.20

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Papers of E. A. MarkhamU DAM

Notebooks and DiariesU DAM/1

DraftsU DAM/2

ProofsU DAM/3

PublicationsU DAM/4

ArticlesU DAM/4/1

Anthologies and Edited WorksU DAM/4/2

PoetryU DAM/4/3

Poem: 'Next in Line'U DAM/4/3/1

Poem: 'Next in Line'U DAM/4/3/2

Poems: 'Compensation', 'A Date On the Calendar', 'Another Version', 'On the Redistribution of Wealth', and 'Island'U DAM/4/3/3

Poems: 'Classical Feast', 'Sunday', 'Summit', and 'Diary'U DAM/4/3/4

Poem: 'People'U DAM/4/3/5

Poems: 'The Optimist' and 'Patience'U DAM/4/3/6

Poem: 'Masochist'U DAM/4/3/7

Poem: 'The Blacks'U DAM/4/3/8

Poems: 'No.12', 'Home', 'Vacancy at No.13', ''Footnote' comes to No.13', 'Noises Off', and 'A Gift'U DAM/4/3/9

Poems: 'Today', 'Tomorrow' and 'Dream'U DAM/4/3/10

Poems: ''Footnote' comes to No.13', 'Anonymous', and 'Love at No.13'U DAM/4/3/11

Poems: 'Crossing the Bridge' and ''Confession' is a Four-Letter Word in Disguise'U DAM/4/3/12

Poem: 'Face to Face'U DAM/4/3/13

Poems: 'The Fat People', 'Lambchops Joins The Ruling Classes' and 'A Chorus'U DAM/4/3/14

Poems: 'Lambchops B.A.', 'Lambchops Evicted', 'Lambchops Doesn't Know', and 'Lambchops Loves The World'U DAM/4/3/15

Poems: 'Lambchops Poems'U DAM/4/3/16

Poems: 'A Chorus' and 'The Fat People'U DAM/4/3/17

Poems: 'Butcher', 'No', 'The Housewife's Revenge', 'Poem', and 'Branded'U DAM/4/3/18

Poems: 'Lambchops has Black Thoughts', 'From Balham to St Tropez', 'Lambchops Feels the Pressure', 'For My Clowns', and 'The Instant Town'U DAM/4/3/19

Poems: 'One More for the Lady' and 'Inflation'U DAM/4/3/20

Poems: 'Wet', 'Branded', 'The Lamp', and 'A Footnote, a Digression, or the Text?'U DAM/4/3/21

Poem: 'A Mugger's Game'U DAM/4/3/22

Poems: 'Lambchops Wrestles With His Love-Letter' and 'Lambchops' Ally'U DAM/4/3/23

Poem: 'Face to Face'U DAM/4/3/24

Poems: 'A Love Letter', 'The Lily in the Pond', The Red Rose', 'Dad Lives, O.K.?', and 'For us all, Melvin Armstrong'U DAM/4/3/25

Poems: 'A Lifetime is Enough', 'One More for the Lady', 'The Observer & Their Allies Free The People', 'Who Will Dance the Last Dialogue With Me?', 'Shortneck', 'Lambchops Returns From Battle', and '"Dad Lives, O.K?"'U DAM/4/3/26

Poem: 'End It At The Beginning'U DAM/4/3/27

Poem: 'For My Clowns'U DAM/4/3/28

Poem: 'Survivor'U DAM/4/3/29

Poems: 'Brother Disguise' and 'Out of the Ruins'U DAM/4/3/30

Poems: 'The Widow' and 'The Sea'U DAM/4/3/31

Poem: 'The Map'U DAM/4/3/32

Poem: 'Exile'U DAM/4/3/33

Poem: 'The Lamp'U DAM/4/3/34

Poem: 'The Sea'U DAM/4/3/35

Poems: 'I Drink To You Too' and 'A Poem Against Pollution'U DAM/4/3/36

Poem: 'Branded'U DAM/4/3/37

Poems: 'Mammie', 'Mugging A La Mode', 'Linking Great George Street to The Great Wall of China', and 'His Mother'U DAM/4/3/38

Poem: 'Philpot Observed'U DAM/4/3/39

Poem: 'Son of a Toad'U DAM/4/3/40

Poem: 'This is England'U DAM/4/3/41

Poems: 'Appeal' and 'Philpot's Mirror'U DAM/4/3/42

Poems: 'Bitch', 'Butcher', and 'Branded'U DAM/4/3/43

Poem: 'Mammie'U DAM/4/3/44

Poems: 'A Euphemism in the Queue' and ''Confession' in a Four Letter Word in Disguise'U DAM/4/3/45

Poems: 'Black Man's Curse', 'Philpot Without Honour' and 'Philpot's Daughter'U DAM/4/3/46

Poem: 'Pierrot, Pioneer'U DAM/4/3/47

Poem: 'Roots, Roots'U DAM/4/3/48

Poem: 'Seconds'U DAM/4/3/49

Poems: 'Notes on Authors' and 'Games'U DAM/4/3/50

Poem: 'Cliché'U DAM/4/3/51

Poems: 'A 'Late' Love Poem' and 'Tragedy of a Bus Conductor'U DAM/4/3/52

Poem: 'A Page from a Political Letter'U DAM/4/3/53

Poems: 'The Cost of Sanity' and 'Penalties'U DAM/4/3/54

Poem: 'Accident'U DAM/4/3/55

Poem: 'Nasty, British & Long'U DAM/4/3/56

Poem: 'Pioneer'U DAM/4/3/57

Poems: 'Nasty, British & Long', 'Joke', 'The Boy of the House' and 'The Cost of Silence'U DAM/4/3/58

Poems: 'Poems by E.A. Markham'U DAM/4/3/59

Poems: 'The Long Road Home' and 'Apology'U DAM/4/3/60

Poem: 'World Bank Man'U DAM/4/3/61

Poems: 'Homecoming in Inverted Commas', 'A Mugger's Game', 'A Slow Developer', The Betrayal of Montserrat', 'Another Dad', 'This England? A Propaganda Poem', 'Mammie', 'The Sea' and 'The Window'U DAM/4/3/62

Poems: 'The New Season' and 'Mother & Son'U DAM/4/3/63

Poem: 'Familiar Man'U DAM/4/3/64

Poem: 'A Date on the Calendar'U DAM/4/3/65

Poem: 'A Death in the Family'U DAM/4/3/66

Poems: 'The Thing Note Said' and 'Looking Back'U DAM/4/3/67

Poem: 'Hinterland'U DAM/4/3/68

Poem: 'A Family Gift'U DAM/4/3/69

Poem: 'A Life'U DAM/4/3/70

Poem: 'A Little Bit of our Past'U DAM/4/3/71

Poem: 'From A Hundred Lines'U DAM/4/3/72

Poem: 'Maurice V.'s Dido'U DAM/4/3/73

Poems: 'And After All That: A Love Poem' and 'Villanelle'U DAM/4/3/74

Poem: '(A Poem about a Savant, a Sister & a Person very grand at a Function who must first look around the Room for someone more important to talk to, and then relent.)'U DAM/4/3/75

Poem: 'Chapter One: Coderington'U DAM/4/3/76

Poem: 'For Brian Lara'U DAM/4/3/77

Poem: 'A Little Bit of Our Past'U DAM/4/3/78

Poem: 'Cricket'U DAM/4/3/79

Poem: 'This Might Have Been a Lucky House'U DAM/4/3/80

Poems: 'Selections from Misapprehensions'U DAM/4/3/81

Poem: 'Bosnia, Rwanda'U DAM/4/3/82

Poem: 'For Andrew Salkey: 1928-1995'U DAM/4/3/83

Poems: 'Second Thoughts on Andrew' and 'Rescue'U DAM/4/3/84

Poem: 'All Our Oases'U DAM/4/3/85

Poem: 'Nearing Sixty'U DAM/4/3/86

Poem: 'Allies'U DAM/4/3/87

Poem: 'Friday the 13th'U DAM/4/3/88

Poems: 'West Indian Myth 2', 'West Indian Myth 6', 'The Boy of the House', 'Don't Talk to Me About Bread', 'Branded', 'This England?', 'Grandmotherpoem', 'The Sea', 'A Mugger's Game', 'A Good Life Sonnet, 'Rendezvous', 'Love in the Hospital', 'The Mother's Tale', 'New People for Old', 'Haiku: Violence on the Tube', 'The Thing Not Said', 'Land Behind the Mountains', 'Grandfather's Sermon', and 'Michael Smith'U DAM/4/3/89

Poem: 'The Man with the Umbrella'U DAM/4/3/90

Poetry CollectionsU DAM/4/4

ProseU DAM/4/5

Short StoriesU DAM/4/6

Short Story CollectionsU DAM/4/7

NovelsU DAM/4/8

CorrespondenceU DAM/5

Promotional MaterialU DAM/6

Work PapersU DAM/7

EphemeraU DAM/8

RecordingsU DAM/9