Vintage Jack: Extracts and drafts from 'I'll Show You Tyrants'

The first edition of 'I'll Show You Tyrants' was published by UKAPress in 2005. It spoofs the Dead Poet genre, and contains a full, scholarly introduction. Collected in this set are all the various ABCTales drafts that eventually found their way into the book in some form or another.

Stories in this set

Courting December

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 04:44 | 777 reads

Ladies of the shingle

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 04:08 | 688 reads

A ~ Let it all hang out

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 09:51 | 615 reads

A ~ Peto tries to define Poetry

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 17:52 | 751 reads

Abergele

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 05:01 | 663 reads

Cemetery, 1793

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 18:02 | 653 reads

D - Communique

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 18:10 | 647 reads

E ~ Come in, come in

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 12:34 | 592 reads

El Cordobes and the night

Submitted on September 28, 2004 - 21:17 | 772 reads

F - On the absence of my lover

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 19:03 | 657 reads

F ~ Fleischgeist

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 12:34 | 651 reads

Gloucester

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 15:46 | 639 reads

H ~ To Tip

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 12:45 | 637 reads

Hats Off, Gentlemen

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 03:55 | 826 reads

Hydromage

Submitted on September 28, 2004 - 20:51 | 722 reads

I - Prayer before bedding girl

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 13:08 | 844 reads

If this is how it is done

Submitted on September 28, 2004 - 20:51 | 648 reads

Kagemusha

Submitted on September 28, 2004 - 20:51 | 654 reads

Mercury

Submitted on September 28, 2004 - 20:53 | 686 reads

N - Balcony (I am twenty years old)

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 14:43 | 812 reads

Near Bull Hill

Submitted on September 14, 2004 - 23:46 | 692 reads

O - Your American guest

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 14:51 | 694 reads

Oh, don't be like that

Submitted on September 28, 2004 - 20:55 | 659 reads

P - Henry VI peeps through hidden windows

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 14:51 | 688 reads

Patricia Preece

Submitted on September 28, 2004 - 20:55 | 1014 reads

Pear

Submitted on September 28, 2004 - 21:21 | 713 reads

Q - The corruption of the state

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 14:52 | 727 reads

Quandary of Peto

Submitted on September 28, 2004 - 21:26 | 720 reads

Quetzals

Submitted on September 28, 2004 - 20:56 | 854 reads

R - Two brief poems

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 14:58 | 727 reads

Rapport

Submitted on September 15, 2004 - 00:09 | 699 reads

S - Woon dead

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 14:58 | 711 reads

Tattoos

Submitted on September 28, 2004 - 21:13 | 727 reads

The dust cellar

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 04:08 | 763 reads

The sleeper (for dad on Father's Day)

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 04:04 | 680 reads

Tiberius

Submitted on September 28, 2004 - 20:58 | 731 reads

To My Arms

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 15:07 | 611 reads

Ultimatum

Submitted on September 28, 2004 - 21:02 | 662 reads

V ~ Raggo

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 04:28 | 717 reads

V ~ When I speak

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 15:48 | 860 reads

Verslibrist

Submitted on September 28, 2004 - 21:07 | 690 reads

W - Two more brief poems

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 15:55 | 671 reads

Warhead

Submitted on September 28, 2004 - 21:12 | 658 reads

X - Kings of England

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 15:57 | 678 reads

Y - Numeracy

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 16:01 | 842 reads

Y ~ Fugitive punk

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 04:32 | 685 reads

You who run

Submitted on September 28, 2004 - 21:12 | 691 reads