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At the Caligula Hotel and Other Poems

Brian Aldiss

First published 1995
Publisher Sinclair-Stevenson
Format Trade Paperback
Type Collection
Cover art Brian Aldiss
Pages 99
Price £6.99
ISBN 1856195686

  • Collection of 74 poems
  • Data from The Locus Index, contents added 2022-02-18
  • This is the author's first commercially published book of poetry
  • The six poems in the 'Chinese Exercises' series are on pages 4 - 6
  • The six poems in the 'Precarious Passions' series are on pages 92 - 97

Year Reviewer Publication
1995 John Clute Interzone, November 1995

Page Title Author(s) Type
3 At the Caligula Hotel Brian Aldiss Poem
4 Lu Tai Brian Aldiss Poem
7 Exit Aquascutum Brian Aldiss Poem
8 While Feeding Parrots, November 9th Brian Aldiss Poem
9 Winter Bites Deep Brian Aldiss Poem
10 Breughel's Hunters in the Snow Brian Aldiss Poem
11 Anau: The Well Brian Aldiss Poem
12 The Cynar, Istanbul Brian Aldiss Poem
13 Dawn in Kuala Lumpur Brian Aldiss Poem
15 Gauguin's Tahiti Brian Aldiss Poem
19 No, I Was Never Deaf or Blind to Her Music Brian Aldiss Poem
20 Toledo: Three Ladies Brian Aldiss Poem
21 Government Brian Aldiss Poem
22 Moonglow: For Margaret Brian Aldiss Poem
23 Alfie Cogitates on Life Brian Aldiss Poem
24 Memories of Palic Brian Aldiss Poem
26 Boars Hill: The Sycamores and the Oaks Brian Aldiss Poem
27 All Things Transfigure Brian Aldiss Poem
29 Trapped in the Present Brian Aldiss Poem
30 The Path Brian Aldiss Poem
31 Suburban Sunday Brian Aldiss Poem
32 Nature Notes: Early September Brian Aldiss Poem
36 Willow Cottage Brian Aldiss Poem
38 Cold Snap Brian Aldiss Poem
39 Stoney Ground Brian Aldiss Poem
40 The Triumph of the Superficial Brian Aldiss Poem
41 The Twentieth Camp Brian Aldiss Poem
42 Good Fortune Brian Aldiss Poem
44 Communication Brian Aldiss Poem
45 A Summery Meditation on Money Brian Aldiss Poem
48 A Moment of Suspense Brian Aldiss Poem
49 Fragment of a Longer Poem Brian Aldiss Poem
53 Short Stories Brian Aldiss Poem
54 What Did the Policeman Say? Brian Aldiss Poem
55 Hamlet Folk Brian Aldiss Poem
56 The Poor Brian Aldiss Poem
57 On Reading Poetry in Berkhamsted Brian Aldiss Poem
59 Poem Inspired by Scott Meredith Brian Aldiss Poem
60 I: Francis Bacon Brian Aldiss Poem
62 Light of Ancient Days Brian Aldiss Poem
63 Mary Shelley, 1916 Brian Aldiss Poem
64 Victor Frankenstein on the Mer de Glace Brian Aldiss Poem
66 The Shelleys - To a Lady Who Spoke of Their 'Mystery' Brian Aldiss Poem
67 The Created One Speaks Brian Aldiss Poem
68 Mary in Italy Brian Aldiss Poem
69 Looking It Up Brian Aldiss Poem
70 Rice Pudding Brian Aldiss Poem
72 Writer's Life Brian Aldiss Poem
77 Greenhouse Sex Brian Aldiss Poem
78 Lunar Anatomy Brian Aldiss Poem
79 Monemvasia Brian Aldiss Poem
81 Found Brian Aldiss Poem
82 Destruction of the Fifth Planet Brian Aldiss Poem
83 Femalien Brian W. Aldiss Poem
84 Thomas Hardy Considers the Newly-Published Special Theory of Relativity Brian Aldiss Poem
85 Rhine Locks Are Closed in Battle Against Poison Brian Aldiss Poem
86 The Cat Improvement Company Brian Aldiss Poem
88 The Expanding Universe Brian Aldiss Poem
89 To a Triceratops Skull in the British Museum Brian Aldiss Poem
90 The Light Brian Aldiss Poem
91 Flight 063 Brian Aldiss Poem
92 I: A Brain Pursues Its Vanished Dream Brian Aldiss Poem
98 Alphabet of Ameliorating Hope Brian Aldiss Poem
4|4.2 Nocturne Brian Aldiss Poem
4|4.3 Interval Brian Aldiss Poem
4|4.4 Indecision Brian Aldiss Poem
4|4.5 Journeying Brian Aldiss Poem
4|4.6 Poems from a Later Dynasty III: Who Hears My Voice? Brian Aldiss Poem
60|60.2 II: Fernand Khnopff Brian Aldiss Poem
92|92.2 II: A Woman Marries the Southern Ocean Brian Aldiss Poem
92|92.3 III: Ascension Island Courts a Whale Brian Aldiss Poem
92|92.4 IV: A Refrigerator Proposes to a Musk Ox Brian Aldiss Poem
92|92.5 V: A Book Falls in Love with Its Reader Brian Aldiss Poem
92|92.6 VI: A Lamp Standard Courts the Stars Brian Aldiss Poem