Introduction -- from The Flower Master and Other Poems (1982,1993) -- Smoke -- The 'Singer' -- Eavesdropper -- Mr Mcgregor's Garden -- Slips -- The Hollywood Bed -- The Sofa -- The Seed-Picture -- The Soil-Map -- The Sunbench -- The Flower Master -- The Flitting -- The Heiress -- from Venus and the Rain (1984,1994) -- Ode to a Poetess -- The Sitting -- Aviary -- Isba Song -- Harvest -- Venus and the Rain -- The Rising Out -- Hotel -- Dovecote -- Felicia's Cafe -- Lime Trees in Winter, Retouched -- from On Ballycastle Beach (1988,1995) -- What Does 'Early' Mean? -- Apple Flesh -- Sea or Sky? -- Blue Vase -- The Blue She Brings with Her -- Four O'Clock, Summer Street -- Balakhana -- Harem Trousers -- The Dream-Language of Fergus -- On Ballycastle Beach -- from Marconi's Cottage (1991,1992) -- To Call Paula Paul -- Journal Intime -- A Small Piece of Wood -- Gigot Sleeves -- The Most Emily of All -- No Streets, No Numbers -- The Unplayed Rosalind -- The Partners' Desk -- Open Rose -- Breaking the Blue -- Oval of a Girl -- Marconi's Cottage -- On Her Second Birthday -- from Captain Lavender (1994,1995) -- Lines for Thanksgiving -- Dante's Own Day -- Elegy for an Irish Speaker -- The Aisling Hat -- Flirting with Saviours -- The Over Mother -- The Albert Chain -- The War Degree -- Captain Lavender -- from Shelmalier (1998) -- Script for an Unchanging Voice -- Dream in a Train -- The Feastday of Peace -- Circle with Full Stop -- The Potter -- From the Weather-Woman -- Self-Portrait in the Act of Painting a Self-Portrait -- Stone with Potent Figure -- The Society of the Bomb -- Mantilla -- from The Soldiers of Year II (2002) -- Helen's War -- Life as a Literary Convict -- Revival of Gathered Scents -- Love Affair with Firearms -- The Chimney Boys -- Filming the Famine -- Blue Kasina -- A Religion of Writing -- At Mullaghmore -- Drawing Ballerinas -- The Colony Room -- The Miniver -- Gaeltacht na Fuiseoige -- Hazel Lavery, the Green Coat, 1926 -- from The Face of the Earth (2002) -- The Brood-bird -- The Face of the Earth -- The Worship of the Plough -- Navicella -- Image of Migratory Cranes -- High Altitude Lavender -- Valentine Not To Be Opened -- Christmas Eve Sky -- Hesterna Rosa -- She Is in the Past, She Has this Grace -- from Had I a Thousand Lives (2003) -- Reading in a Library -- The Deadest Deaths Are the Best -- The Pyx Sleeper -- The Sleep Cure -- Forcing Music to Speak -- from The Book of the Angel (2004) -- The Publisher of Inwardness -- The Dream Theatre -- Four Voices without an Instrument -- Armed Dance -- From Studies for a Running Angel -- 2. A Chrisom Child -- 4. A More -- Hand Reliquary, Ave Maria Lane -- Fallen God of Bone -- The Tenth Muse -- Poem Rhyming in 'J' -- from The Currach Requires No Harbours (2006,2007) -- Consecrated Wafer -- A Book of Rains -- Wood-cunning -- Kaddish -- House without Eyebrows -- Thorn Piece -- My Must -- The Currach Requires No Harbours -- Lemon with White Jug -- Regaining Control of the Night -- from My Love Has Fared Inland (2008,2010) -- Painting by Moonlight -- Painting a Verb Half Golden -- Sealed Composition -- Bashali -- The Realm of Nothing Whatever -- The Cliff of Thought of Renunciation -- Shot Angel -- The Sin Eater -- Watching the Owls with You -- My Love Has Fared Inland -- Desh: The Homeland -- South of Mars -- from The High Caul Cap (2012,2013) -- The Nth of Marchember -- A Supplement to the Withering -- Sandpaper Letters -- The Mercyseat -- The High Caul Cap -- Master of the Female Half-lengths -- Dormition: Madonna with Trees -- Dark Lips, Jade Pillow -- The Blood Trolley -- The Flower of the Moment of What Comes Easily -- Select Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- About the Poet
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