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Welcome to Lossipedia. This resource is intended to throw some light on the creative process behind Jonathan Pinnock's poetry collection Love and Loss and Other Important Stuff. In many ways, this is nothing more than a vain (in more than one sense) attempt to burnish the reputation of the author as a poet. However, it is also possible that some may find it interesting and, indeed, instructive.

Also, Wikis can be fun.

The inspiration behind each of the poems in the book may be found here (insofar as the author can remember it), along with any unusual trivia and/or amusing anecdotes.

The Poems

There are a total of 42 poems in the book. This is how they appear in the table of contents:

• Author's Note
• Lost for Words
• This is Just to be Meta
• Pants Outside Trousers, Big Letter H on T Shirt, Here to Save the World
• Lines from an Ape
• Paradise Found Wanting
• Parable
• Conundrums
• A Short History of the Cold War
• Bloody Italians
• Dissonant Love Song #2
• Seven Day Wonder
• A Lover's Alphabet
• Spanish Echoes
• Back to School
• Incursion
• Cyprus Delight
• In Giza
• I Suppose We All Thought That, One Way or Another
• Feral
• Imitation of a Suicide
• Dog Star
• Instinctive Behaviour
• 7/8
• Cartoon Characterisation
• Dali's Moustache
• Karl Ove Knausgaard is a Responsible Beekeeper, or My Struggle (to Find a Word That Rhymes)
• Mid-Life Crisis
• Rock Bottom
• Grey Goo
• Professionalism
• Exquisite Torture
• All the Best Tunes
• Zombie Bride
• School Uniform
• Tasty Teresa
• Between the Lines
• The Orange Girl and the Philosopher
• Love and Loss, Swedish Style
• The Muse and the Mojo
• Moving On
• Postscript