A careful sorting out of his complete works, this book also contains Edward Lucie-Smith's most penetrating poems of recent years. Marked by its human and social commentary, Lucie-Smith's verse plays within the spheres of erotic and aesthetic imagery and often exudes a historical and religious sensibility. His lyricism also reflects contempt for the rigidity of poetic conventions and distaste of the anonymity of character portraits.

A Tropical Childhood	p. 3
At the Roman Baths, Bath	p. 3
June Bug	p. 4
Kifissia	p. 5
Meeting Myself	p. 6
On Looking at Stubbs's Anatomy of the Horse	p. 6
Pelicans	p. 7
Rabbit Cry	p. 8
Street Market Singer	p. 8
Take Count Then, Sir ...	p. 9
The Lesson	p. 10
The Portrait	p. 10
The Temptation of St. Antony	p. 11
Wishes	p. 12
A Caged Beast	p. 15
A Stone	p. 15
Distances	p. 16
Epiclesis	p. 17
Imperialists in Retirement	p. 19
Pieta	p. 20
The Barbarian Invasions	p. 20
The Link	p. 21
The Naming	p. 21
The Wise Child	p. 22
To Be Justified	p. 22
Vanitas	p. 23
Adam and Tristan	p. 27
Alteration	p. 27
Christmas Snowfall	p. 28
Fragment of a 'Tristan' - I	p. 29
Fragment of a 'Tristan' - II	p. 30
Gallipoli: Fifty Years After	p. 31
Genesis	p. 33
Gran Tierra, Cuba	p. 34
'Heureux Qui, Comme Ulysse ...'	p. 35
Looking at a Drawing	p. 36
'Oh To Be That Round O!'	p. 36
Silence	p. 37
Spider Man	p. 37
Tainted Fruit	p. 38
Teeth and Bones	p. 38
The Bureaucrat	p. 39
The Drowning Dream	p. 39
The Researcher	p. 40
Three Songs for Surrealists	p. 40
Your Own Place	p. 43
An Epitaph	p. 47
Asleep	p. 48
At Forty	p. 48
Bamboo Shoots	p. 49
Beds	p. 49
Descending	p. 50
Lovers	p. 50
North-West Passage	p. 54
On Blackness	p. 55
On Light	p. 55
Postcard	p. 56
Snow Poem	p. 56
The Dawn Ray	p. 57
The Interview	p. 57
The Photograph	p. 58
The Son	p. 59
The Well-Wishers	p. 59
Touching	p. 60
Translated to Translator	p. 61
Your Grandmother's Mark	p. 62
A Former Lover	p. 65
A Happy Snap	p. 66
Azaleas	p. 66
'Blackbirds are Eating ...'	p. 67
Clothing	p. 67
Crystal Ball	p. 68
Dancing	p. 68
Eclipse	p. 69
Five Morsels in the Form of Pears	p. 69
Gone	p. 71
Holbein's Lady With a Squirrel	p. 72
In California	p. 72
In Secret	p. 73
Inscriptions	p. 73
'It's the Season for Broken Hearts'	p. 78
Klee's Angels	p. 79
Night Music	p. 82
Pan and Echo	p. 82
Poems for Clocks	p. 84
'Sleepily Murmuring ...'	p. 86
Sparrows	p. 87
The Lagoon	p. 87
The Outcry	p. 88
The Welcome	p. 88
Things of this World	p. 89
Undressing	p. 90
Velasquez's An Old Woman Cooking Eggs	p. 90
Welsh Weather	p. 91
A Letter Home	p. 95
A Little Ode	p. 96
Affair	p. 96
Cafard	p. 97
Changing Shape	p. 98
'Here for a Little While'	p. 98
In Helsinki	p. 99
In the Henhouse	p. 99
In Two Words	p. 100
Invitation to the Dance	p. 100
Kosovo, 1991 - 1	p. 101
Kosovo, 1999 - 2	p. 102
Left Handed	p. 103
Leviathan	p. 104
'Lost Roads ...'	p. 104
Minotaur	p. 105
My Mother	p. 105
Why is There no Female Michelangelo?	p. 106
Obituaries	p. 107
Oh God, Oh God	p. 108
Poetry	p. 108
Poetry Reading	p. 109
Rain in Buenos Aires	p. 110
Riding the Drum	p. 111
Russian Elegy - 1	p. 112
Russian Elegy - 2	p. 113
The Great Poet	p. 113
The Stone Ship	p. 114
Words - 1	p. 115
Words - 2	p. 115
Afterword	p. 117
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