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Works by Chris "Childe Harold" Oakley
Poetry
The Ballad of "Breaker" Coughlan
(November 86); The life story of a former Junior Dean of Trinity.
A Birthday Poem for Lord Stevey
(March 97); A hymn on Hoey's naissance day.
Childe Harold's Further Pilgrimage
(July 91); An account of a visit to the U.S. with the Shamen in June 1991.
Dan Juan
(March 87); An account of an affair that the overlord had with a sheep.
The Destruction of Balliol
(June 87); A imagined sacking of Balliol College, Oxford.
English Grads and (other) Raunch Purveyors
(March 88); Satire on Byron Society creative work.
Ganymedes and the Olympian Sheep
(July 87); A new manuscript sheds light on a mythological tale.
The Goer
(March 89; completed July 96); A biographical piece about Mad Jack Schulze.
Hurricane Bonnie
(August 98); A storm assails the brave crew of
Peg O' My Heart
.
The Ides of March
(March 99); A natal ballad for the Overlord
Ode to a College Trifle
(June 85); A high notarial elegy to a comestible.
A Pastoral Poetaster's Paradise
(June 88); Byronists in a rustic setting.
The Pollster
(April 19); Steamy goings-on in the Trump administration.
The Rime of the Ancient Reggae Man
(October 01); An account of a sailing trip in the Carribean
So we'll no more go a Ewe-ing
(June 89); A tragic elegy to the love that dare not bleat its name.
The Waltz for Harp and Spoon
(April 12); Steve discovers an admirer in a windsurfing instructor.
Prose
The Auction
(January 92); A sheep auction in the Cotswolds.
Danny Faustus
(September 87); A disturbing event in the overlord's Oxford career.
Editorial,
Proceedings of the Byron Society
, Vol. 1
(April 87)
Foreplay,
Proceedings of the Byron Society
, Vol. 2
(November 87)
Introduction,
Proceedings of the Byron Society
, Vol. 2 (first attempt)
(July 95)
Lord Henrey's Last Voyage
(August 98); Lord Henrey's first and last self-sacrificing act.
The Seance
(March 87); A recently-discovered addition to Mary Shelley's memoirs.