Darling brings together into a vibrant new book many favorite poems from the author's previous Bloodaxe collections as well as featuring new work.

My Grandmother
The Adoption Papers (1991)
1961-1962
Chapter 1: The Seed
Chapter 2: The Original Birth Certificate
Chapter 3: The Waiting Lists
Chapter 4: Baby Lazarus
Chapter 5: The Tweed Hat Dream
1967-1979
Chapter 6: The Telling Part
Chapter 7: Black Bottom
1980-1990
Chapter 8: Generations
Chapter 9: The Phone Call
Chapter 10: The Meeting Dream
Severe Gale 8 (1991)
Severe Gale 8
My Grandmother's Houses
Summer Storm, Capolona
Pounding Rain
In the Seventh Year
Photo in the Locket
Dance of the Cherry Blossom
He Told Us He Wanted a Black Coffin
Lighthouse Wall
Mummy and Donor and Deirdre
Close Shave
Dressing Up
I try my absolute best
Death to Poll Tax
Whilst Leila Sleeps
The Underground Baby Case
Other Lovers (1993)
'Even the trees'
In the Pullman
The Right Season
The Same Note
The Red Graveyard
Blues
Twelve Bar Bessie
Watching People Sing
Sound
Sign
Gastarbeiter
In my country
Compound Fracture
Colouring In
Keeping Orchids
Fridge
Therapy
This Long Night
The Keeper
Dusting the Phone
The Crossing
Away from You
Other Lovers
A Country Walk
Snap
The Year of the Letter
Going to See King Lear
Pork Pies
Got You
Condemned Property
No Way Out
Love
Mouth
Inside
Landslide
Finger
Off Colour (1998)
Where It Hurts
The Shoes of Dead Comrades
Crown and Country
Teeth
The Black Chair
Plague
Race, Racist, Racism
Virus *
Hottentot Venus
Somebody Else
Christian Sanderson
Gambia
Lucozade
Yellow
Whistle Down the Wind
Bleep
Virus **
Fiction
The Life and Death of Bette Davis
False Memory
From Stranraer South
Bed
Virus ***
Maw Broon Visits a Therapist
Room
Interior
Josephine Miles House
Love Nest
Virus ****
Church Invisible
Husband
Paw Broon on the Starr Report
Sabbath
The Broons' Bairn's Black
Pride
Life Mask (2005)
Late Love
Glenstrathfarrar
Skyscraper
The Spare Room
There's Trouble for Maw Broon
Spoons
Mugs
Notice
Husky
Her
Mirror, Mirror
It's You and Me Baby All the Way to the End of the Line
Clay
Gone with the Wind
The Staging of My Body
Model
Unforgiving Plaster
Wax
Bronze
The Mask of the Martyr
Mid Life Mask
Plaster
Pencil, Knife
Things Fall Apart
The Wood Father
A White African Dress
Kano
African Masks
Clay=Freedom
Rubber
Rubble
End of the Line
New Old Past
George Square
I Kin See Richt thru My Mither
Childhood, Still
Old Tongue
Piano 4 P.M.
High Land
The Road You Take (Unfinished)
Old Aberdeen
Promise
Eleven Chances
Two Autumns
Dream Pier
Donkey
Moon Mask
Life Mask
from Two's Company (1992)
Brendan Gallacher
Sassenachs
English Cousin Comes to Scotland
Lovesick
from Three Has Gone (1994)
Dracula
The Stincher
Attention Seeking
Divorce
from The Frog Who Dreamed She Was an Opera Singer (1998)
The Hole Story
Black Ann
At Home, Abroad
Grandpa's Soup
from Red, Cherry Red (2007)
The Knitter
Yell Sound
The Angler's Song
The World of Trees
My Face Is a Map
No. 115 Dreams
Double Trouble
The Moon at Knowle Hill
New Poems (2007)
Darling
Facing the Double Bed Single
Anniversaries
Buildings, Love
Ways of Seeing
Don't Miss La La
African Stories of Death
Weather Report
Dream River
Stars, Sea
Winter Heart
First Light
Something Rhymed
Highland Girl
Gap Year
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