Rest for the Wicked, its focus is men - and boys 'who are going to be boys, who have had to be men' ('The Boys at Twilight'). The poems sort the men from the boys: boys at play, men at war, boys grown up, men reverting, men in love and poetry and politics, running countries, ruining things.

Peter Brook	p. 11
The Ginger-Haired in Heaven	p. 12
Rest for the Wicked	p. 13
The Passing Picture	p. 14
The Wish	p. 16
Self-Portrait with Softball	p. 16
Birth Day	p. 17
As You Walk Out One Morning	p. 18
Love Made Yeah	p. 20
Among Equals	p. 21
Either	p. 22
Platform Piece	p. 23
Conquest	p. 24
Five Old Games	p. 25
State of the Nation	p. 26
Away But Always	p. 28
Stargazing	p. 29
Epithalamium: The Boys and Girls of There	p. 30
The Stakes	p. 32
Song of the Sash	p. 33
Growing Men	p. 34
The Night Is Young	p. 35
A Swing from Gotham Central	p. 36
Museum	p. 38
Old Shepard and the Sale	p. 39
The Furthest West	p. 40
Watching Over	p. 41
The Dark Flower	p. 42
Invigilation	p. 43
The Boys at Twilight	p. 44
Song of Our Man	p. 46
The Sentence	p. 47
Lust	p. 48
Six for the Wicked	p. 49
What Thought Is Not	p. 50
Garden City Quatrains	p. 51
Not You But Something	p. 54
If You Haven't Got a Shilling	p. 55
The Plot and None	p. 56
Songs from Plays	p. 57
Crackdown	p. 64
Curse on a Child	p. 65
Don't Waste Your Breath	p. 66
Tycoon	p. 68
Blue Sky Raining	p. 69
The Margit-Isle	p. 70
The Great Detectives	p. 72
The Devil at War	p. 74
Car Game	p. 76
A Gate to the West	p. 77
The People's Cinema	p. 78
The Clearest Eyes	p. 80
Sulk	p. 81
The Sarajevo Zoo	p. 82
Yellow Plates	p. 84
The Allies	p. 85
Queen of the Mice	p. 86
A Force That Ate Itself	p. 88
Ost	p. 90
The Altered Slightly	p. 92
Cine	p. 93
Epaphus	p. 94
The Horses' Mouths: Pyrois	p. 96
The Spokesman of the Sun	p. 97
The Horses' Mouths: Eous	p. 98
Mulciber	p. 100
The Horses' Mouths: Aethon	p. 101
A Scientist Explains	p. 103
Clymene's Coda	p. 106
The Horses' Mouths: Phlegon	p. 107
Burned	p. 108
Phaeton and the Chariot of the Sun	p. 109
Younger Than That Now	p. 110
The Sightseers	p. 112
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