Tim Cumming's "The Rumour" (2004)

Exeter, Devon, England: Stride Publications (book, poetry), 2004.
6.75" x 5.75" x 0.25", 108 pages, softcover, ISBN 1-900152-95-9.

The Rumour, a book of poetry by Tim Cumming, published in softcover by Stride Publications (Exeter, Devon, England) in 2004.

The cover art of this book is by Brion Gysin, noted as a detail of the 1959 work Untited (cahiers du Beat Hotel), a work that was in the care of José Férez Kuri.

To note, the author was also a contributor in the Stride-published anthology on William S. Burroughs entitled My Kind of Angel: i. m. William Burroughs.

Contents: 

• cover art by Brion Gysin
• "The Rumour"
• "G Spot"
• "Nets" 
• "Her Husband's Things"
• "Subliminal Sonnets"
• "Days"
• "America"
• "Vegetables"
• "House Spirits"
• "Home Truths"
• "Almost Human"
• "The Long Spin"
• "As It Happens"
• "Alone and Forsaken"
• "Dancing with the Captain and Tenille"
• "Handwriting"
• "Word of Mouth"
• "Laughter Lines"
• "September Sonnets"
• "Cartoon Variations"
• "Punctuation"
• "The Cry"
• "Space"
• "Foot, Face, Fist"
• "Night Sights"
• "Landscape Through Fog"
• "Zero Station"
• "Dream Land"
• "Accumulator Sonnets"
• "Pearl Fishers"
• "The Papers"
• "The Hair"
• "The Knuckles"
• "Bill"
• "The End of the Line"
• "The Ways that Schoolgirls Danced"
• "The Interest"
• "Cellophane"
• "How Long Do You Think I'll Love You?"
• "Hurricane Damage"
• "Big Things"
• "Crossing The Equator"
• "Daylight"
• "The Story Of The Wind"
• "Gin"
• "Jane's Elder Sister Pauline"
• "The Underwater World Of Ballroom Dancing"
• "Distance"
• "Fireworks"
• "Strange Money"
• "Triplets"
• "Foreign News"
• "No Man's Land"
• "Prayer Skin"