Best Selling Books by Tom LEONARD

This is a 2019 reprint published by his surviving family and intended to be as close to the original as possible.It contains work from his two main collections Intimate Voices (Poetry 1965-83) and access to the silence (Poems 1984-2004); also poems from Being a Human Being (2006) and work not in previous books including an elegaic sequence for his mother, a prose memoir of his father, a poem-suite "on the page" and a tri-part envoi to the collection.CONTENTSPollok Poster 1 13Six Glasgow Poems 14The Voyeur 20 Dripping with Nostalgia 21Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae 22don''t tell wordsworth 23Four of the Belt 24The Psycopath 25The Appetite 26Storm Damage 27A Priest Came on at Merkland Street 28an oxford dictionary 36Poetry 37Jist ti Let Yi No 38Tea Time 39Paroakial 40A Summer''s Day still life with creative writing teacher 41 Yon Night 43Feed ma Lamz 44The Qualification 45The Dropout 46Fireworks 47Makars Society 48Crack 49Pfff 50Moral Philosophy 51My Parents'' Living Room at Christmas 53Fathers and Sons 54Placenta 55The Rainbow Of 56breathe deep and regular with it 61Rosebud 62100 Differences between Poetry and Prose 63 The Evidence 64Proem 65who wants to be free 66your eyes 67An Ageing Writer 68The Performance 69epitaph 75in the beginning was the word 76from Unrelated Incidents 77ma lungz iz fuckt 83humpty dumpty 84mehta physics 85would thi prisoner 86baa baa black sheep 87commemorative stamp 88yonza big wank 89efturryd geenuz iz speel 90right inuff 91An Old Story 92colorado mountain air 93Honest 94so whut day yi day wi yirsell then ih 98yi surta 99seen im? 100Opting for early retirement 101firmly 102Skills 103The underfunder''s utopia 104doon the close 105Myths in These Parts106respite in the reading 107the enemy without 108a handy news standfor the next bombing 109The Present Tense 110ablative absolute 123situations theoretical and contemporary 124the press as bogus phatic communion 128Blessed Trinity 132leaning forward 1331st Poster Poem against the criminal injustice bill 1344 football haiku 135a could eata hoarss 136rest assured 137glorious weather in a teacup 138ahma hoarss 139the mainstream a clerisy 140nora''s place: a Poem in 17 aspects 141A night at the pictures 160triptych: the ongoing memorial 163to have access to the silence 170in hospital 171suite: On the Page 172the case for lower case 178the pact 180June the Second 181touching your face 182kierkegaard 183Remembrance Day 184who want my smile 186The Fair Cop 187Wish you were Here 191getting on with it 194foodfor thought 195plasma nights 196The Proxy Badge of Victimhood 198Litany: Blair''s Britain 201Epithalamium 203Being a Human Being 204An Ayrshire Mother 205that each one be the subject 210odysseus 212A humanist 213a life 214

Poetry.

A Bayesian procedure is described for smoothly estimating unknown functions, given a finite set of observations. It is assumed that a suitable transformation of the function can be taken to possess a Gaussian prior distribution across function space. The five special cases estimation of a logistic density transform, the log intensity function of a non-homogeneous Poisson process, the log hazard function for survival data, the logit function in bioassay, and the mean value function in a possibly non-linear time series of the Kalman types or equivalently a regression function for possibly non-normal observations, are considered, and in each case a non-linear Fredholm equation is described for the posterior estimate. In two cases this reduces to a finite dimensional system. In all five cases an approximate procedure is developed which is particularly useful when the sample size is large. This approximates the function space prior by a multivariate normal prior on the coefficients in a linear approximation, and then proceeds by conventional Bayesian techniques.

The Bioassay design problem may usefully be considered within an inferential framework, rather than by reference to a formal decision theoretic procedure based upon a number of special assumptions. Three graphical techniques are described to assist the user''s selection of new design points. Firstly, a plot, against dose level, of the predictive probability of the death of the next rat will help the user to choose design points relating to particular regions of LD values; comparison with the maximum likelihood estimate of the response curve leads to informal stopping rules. Secondly, new approximations, to the posterior density of the effective dose, are proposed, for each LD value. These are related to the marginal likelihood ideas of Sprott and Kalbfleisch. Thirdly, mixtures of these densities leads to design measures for the distribution of future dose levels. These seem to make criteria like D-optimality rather tangential to the real design issue. The ideas are illustrated graphically by reference to a fertility example due to Bliss.