Wild Geese | p. 5 |
Poets on poetry | p. 18 |
Introduction | p. 19 |
Body and soul | |
Living | p. 31 |
Orkney / This Life | p. 31 |
A Northern Morning | p. 32 |
Happiness | p. 33 |
My Father's Irish Setters | p. 33 |
Touch Me | p. 35 |
Homage to my hips | p. 36 |
Naked Vision | p. 36 |
The Hug | p. 37 |
The Hug | p. 38 |
Chemin de Fer | p. 39 |
He Sits Down on the Floor of a School for the Retarded | p. 40 |
An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow | p. 41 |
Some Questions You Might Ask | p. 43 |
Encounter | p. 44 |
from The Tenth Duino Elegy | p. 44 |
Variation on a Theme by Rilke | p. 45 |
from A Gilded Lapse of Time | p. 46 |
Dark Angel | p. 47 |
Temptation | p. 48 |
Poppies in October | p. 48 |
"Eyesight of Wasps" | p. 49 |
The Wasps | p. 49 |
The Old World | p. 50 |
Watering the Horse | p. 50 |
Saint Animal | p. 51 |
Jarrow | p. 51 |
Where We Are | p. 52 |
Roads | |
The Road Not Taken | p. 55 |
The Bay | p. 55 |
Tyranny of Choice | p. 56 |
Not Waving but Drowning | p. 57 |
Poem | p. 57 |
Choose | p. 58 |
Meeting in a Lift | p. 58 |
"i thank You God for most this amazing" | p. 58 |
You | p. 59 |
Begin | p. 60 |
Entirely | p. 60 |
Integrity | p. 61 |
The Bear | p. 63 |
The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me | p. 66 |
from Dream Songs | p. 67 |
from Some mangled Dream Songs for Henry ... | p. 67 |
A Tale | p. 68 |
The door | p. 69 |
The door: anticipation of wisdom | p. 70 |
Directive | p. 71 |
The Road Home | p. 72 |
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening | p. 73 |
Snow | p. 74 |
History | p. 74 |
History | p. 75 |
Snow | p. 75 |
That Silent Evening | p. 76 |
Above Pate Valley | p. 77 |
The Journey | p. 78 |
When You've Got | p. 79 |
Yes | p. 80 |
Happiness | p. 81 |
from Blossoms | p. 81 |
Alone | p. 82 |
Machines | p. 83 |
Traveling through the Dark | p. 84 |
Penitence | p. 85 |
Slow Animals Crossing | p. 86 |
The Moose | p. 87 |
Wife Hits Moose | p. 92 |
Dead or alive | |
"To eat a pie and to have it..." | p. 95 |
Trillium | p. 95 |
"I saw the daughter of the sun..." | p. 96 |
Stonepicker | p. 97 |
The arrow | p. 97 |
Be Not Too Hard | p. 98 |
Modern Sorcery | p. 99 |
Tonight of Yesterday | p. 99 |
Sonnet | p. 100 |
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm ... | p. 100 |
Missing Dates | p. 101 |
Villanelle | p. 101 |
Signs | p. 102 |
from When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone | p. 103 |
My Dark Fathers | p. 103 |
Hoping It Might Be So | p. 104 |
In the Next Galaxy | p. 105 |
Clear Night | p. 105 |
Defeated | p. 106 |
The Waking | p. 107 |
Mirages | p. 107 |
How to kill a living thing | p. 108 |
from Sublimation | p. 109 |
Hawk's Shadow | p. 111 |
The Way | p. 111 |
The way we live | p. 112 |
Things | p. 113 |
Warning | p. 113 |
Thoughts After Ruskin | p. 114 |
Themes for women | p. 115 |
What Every Woman Should Carry | p. 116 |
Handbag | p. 116 |
In Your Mind | p. 117 |
Dolor | p. 117 |
One Art | p. 118 |
Lamium | p. 119 |
A Glass of Water | p. 119 |
Sadness | p. 120 |
Sweetness | p. 121 |
The Execution | p. 122 |
A Note Left in Jimmy Leonard's Shack | p. 123 |
Epistle on suicide | p. 124 |
Harold's Leap | p. 124 |
Her Kind | p. 125 |
Desdichada | p. 126 |
Otherwise | p. 127 |
My November Guest | p. 128 |
She Dotes | p. 128 |
The Cry | p. 129 |
The Leaden-Eyed | p. 130 |
And the Days Are Not Full Enough | p. 130 |
A Removal from Terry Street | p. 130 |
Bittersweet | |
from Ukulele Music | p. 133 |
The One Twenty Pub | p. 134 |
Luck in Sarajevo | p. 135 |
All of These People | p. 136 |
Shirt | p. 136 |
Waking This Morning | p. 138 |
I Am a Cameraman | p. 138 |
from The Wasting Game | p. 140 |
Brinkwomanship | p. 143 |
Here | p. 144 |
The Unprofessionals | p. 144 |
Visiting Hour | p. 145 |
from Changing the Subject | p. 145 |
The Shade | p. 150 |
Past-Lives Therapy | p. 151 |
Diving into the Wreck | p. 152 |
April 5, 1974 | p. 154 |
Try to Praise the Mutilated World | p. 155 |
Kissing | p. 156 |
How my true love and I lay without touching | p. 156 |
"You idiot!..." | p. 157 |
90 North | p. 158 |
Watching for Dolphins | p. 159 |
Goat | p. 160 |
The Drainage | p. 161 |
Three Ways of Recovering a Body | p. 162 |
Bride and Groom Lie Hidden for Three Days | p. 163 |
Mushrooms | p. 164 |
A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford | p. 166 |
Unwittingly | p. 167 |
Growing up | |
Being the third song of Urias | p. 171 |
White Asparagus | p. 172 |
Ultrasound | p. 173 |
It's Good To Be Here | p. 177 |
Safe period | p. 178 |
IVF | p. 178 |
Miscarriage | p. 180 |
Freight | p. 181 |
First Birth | p. 181 |
Her First Week | p. 182 |
The Spirit is too Blunt an Instrument | p. 183 |
Sonnet: How Life Too Is Sentimental | p. 184 |
Poem for a Daughter | p. 184 |
Daughter | p. 185 |
Beattie Is Three | p. 186 |
from Heart's Needle | p. 186 |
Supernatural Love | p. 191 |
Poem from a Three Year Old | p. 193 |
Cinders | p. 194 |
A Sword in a Cloud of Light | p. 195 |
On the Back of a Photograph | p. 197 |
The Video | p. 197 |
Young Girls | p. 197 |
A Puppy Called Puberty | p. 198 |
A Dog Called Elderly | p. 199 |
Cuba | p. 199 |
My Flu | p. 200 |
"We were so poor..." | p. 201 |
Those Winter Sundays | p. 201 |
The Back Seat of My Mother's Car | p. 202 |
Mirror Image | p. 203 |
Mirror | p. 203 |
Father's Old Blue Cardigan | p. 204 |
This Be the Verse | p. 205 |
Possession | p. 205 |
A Night with Lions | p. 206 |
from A Part of Speech | p. 207 |
Old Man | p. 209 |
Thinking of the Lost World | p. 211 |
Springfield, Virginia | p. 213 |
Forgetfulness | p. 214 |
Forgetfulness | p. 214 |
Unknown Forbear | p. 215 |
Quoof | p. 216 |
Man and beast | |
Pigs | p. 218 |
Experimental Animals | p. 218 |
Weakness | p. 219 |
Spiritual Chickens | p. 220 |
The Heaven of Animals | p. 221 |
Sacrilege | p. 222 |
Remembrance of Strange Hospitality | p. 223 |
Federal Case | p. 224 |
Animals | p. 224 |
The stone curlew | p. 225 |
My Life with Horses | p. 226 |
Switch | p. 226 |
A Blessing | p. 227 |
Horse | p. 228 |
The Horses | p. 228 |
The Skunk | p. 229 |
Considering the Snail | p. 229 |
For a Five-Year-Old | p. 230 |
Full Moon and Little Frieda | p. 231 |
Birds | p. 231 |
The Trout | p. 232 |
Night Toad | p. 233 |
A Bird | p. 233 |
They Feed They Lion | p. 234 |
The Thought-Fox | p. 235 |
Swans Mating | p. 236 |
The Strange Case | p. 236 |
Cow | p. 237 |
Lies | p. 238 |
Glow Worm | p. 239 |
Salmon | p. 240 |
Ants on the Melon | p. 241 |
A Mosquito | p. 242 |
Octopus | p. 242 |
Fable of the mermaid and the drunks | p. 243 |
The Mermaid Tank | p. 243 |
The Loch Ness Monster's Song | p. 244 |
The Death of the Loch Ness Monster | p. 245 |
Oysters | p. 246 |
In and out of love | |
My Beloved Compares Herself to a Pint of Stout | p. 248 |
Finney's Bar | p. 249 |
Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes | p. 250 |
Canadian Love Song | p. 251 |
Bite | p. 252 |
Desire's a Desire | p. 252 |
Raisin Pumpernickel | p. 253 |
Love: Beginnings | p. 254 |
The Honeycomb | p. 255 |
The Linen Industry | p. 255 |
Last Night | p. 256 |
Definition of Your Attraction | p. 257 |
The Cinnamon Peeler | p. 257 |
True Love | p. 259 |
Lullaby | p. 259 |
In Defence of Adultery | p. 261 |
The Did-You-Come-Yets of the Western World | p. 261 |
The Mistress | p. 263 |
Ecstasy | p. 263 |
Zoology Is Destiny | p. 264 |
Only if Love Should Pierce You | p. 265 |
Muse | p. 265 |
Life | p. 266 |
Distances | p. 267 |
"As our bloods separate" | p. 268 |
Woman to Man | p. 268 |
Snow Melting | p. 269 |
August | p. 270 |
The Room | p. 274 |
Don't Let's Talk About Being in Love | p. 274 |
Being in Love | p. 275 |
Poem about heartbreak that go on and on | p. 275 |
Bitch | p. 276 |
Bitcherel | p. 277 |
This Dead Relationship | p. 278 |
Each from Different Heights | p. 280 |
Badly-Chosen Lover | p. 280 |
After the End of It | p. 281 |
Relationship | p. 282 |
Hesitate to Call | p. 282 |
Lady of Miracles | p. 282 |
Advice to a Discarded Lover | p. 283 |
The All Purpose Country and Western Self Pity Song | p. 284 |
Because | p. 286 |
Cross | p. 287 |
The Quarrel | p. 288 |
And they were both right | p. 289 |
Between | p. 290 |
When You Are Old | p. 290 |
Spell | p. 291 |
Conch | p. 291 |
"O tell me the truth about love" | p. 292 |
Lightness | p. 293 |
In Paris with You | p. 294 |
My people | |
"The East-West border..." | p. 297 |
My People | p. 297 |
Our Own Land | p. 298 |
Countries and Explanations | p. 299 |
A Summer Morning | p. 301 |
The Heron | p. 302 |
The Door | p. 303 |
from Going On | p. 303 |
In Britain | p. 304 |
from Evagatory | p. 305 |
Inniskeen Road: July Evening | p. 308 |
The Toome Road | p. 309 |
The Sightseers | p. 309 |
Dream Avenue | p. 310 |
Overheard in County Sligo | p. 310 |
Sadie and Maud | p. 311 |
from To Elsie | p. 312 |
American Sketches | p. 314 |
American Classic | p. 315 |
Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio | p. 316 |
The Idea of Ancestry | p. 317 |
from Paragraphs | p. 318 |
I, Too | p. 320 |
Mississippi | p. 320 |
from An Atlas of the Difficult World | p. 321 |
The Blood Is Justified | p. 322 |
The Path to the Milky Way Leads Through Los Angeles | p. 324 |
The Dress | p. 325 |
Reality U.S.A. | p. 327 |
America | p. 330 |
Making America Strong | p. 331 |
"'Next to of course god america i'" | p. 332 |
The Disappearances | p. 332 |
They'll say, "She must be from another country" | p. 334 |
In my country | p. 336 |
Modern Secrets | p. 336 |
Emigrants | p. 337 |
from What the Light Teaches | p. 337 |
My Faithful Mother Tongue | p. 338 |
We Billion Cheered | p. 339 |
Waiting for the Barbarians | p. 340 |
Gare du Midi | p. 342 |
The Coming of the Plague | p. 342 |
War and peace | |
War Poetry | p. 345 |
Grass | p. 345 |
The fly | p. 346 |
Anthem for Doomed Youth | p. 347 |
For Wilfred Owen | p. 347 |
Everyone Sang | p. 348 |
Returning, we hear the Larks | p. 348 |
As the team's head brass | p. 349 |
Ceasefire | p. 350 |
The Bloomsday Murders, 16 June 1997 | p. 351 |
from The T.E. Lawrence Poems | p. 352 |
Vergissmeinnicht | p. 354 |
September Song | p. 355 |
There is no greater crime than leaving | p. 355 |
September 1, 1939 | p. 356 |
On the Anniversary of Her Grace | p. 359 |
Selective Service | p. 360 |
Cambodia | p. 360 |
Ode for the American Dead in Asia | p. 361 |
Facing It | p. 362 |
Phrase Book | p. 363 |
The Persian Version | p. 364 |
Every Day | p. 365 |
from Spain, take away this cup from me | p. 366 |
The End and the Beginning | p. 366 |
The People of the Other Village | p. 368 |
Disappearing acts | |
Rain--Birdoswald | p. 371 |
Bjorn Olinder's Pictures | p. 371 |
Now Light Congeals | p. 372 |
Psalm | p. 372 |
Someone | p. 373 |
Aubade | p. 374 |
"Death does not come from outside..." | p. 375 |
"Good creatures..." | p. 376 |
Thrall | p. 376 |
Bookends (I) | p. 377 |
For My Mother | p. 378 |
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night | p. 379 |
"Do not stand at my grave and weep" | p. 379 |
Funeral Blues | p. 380 |
Death of an Irishwoman | p. 381 |
Water-burn | p. 381 |
The dead | p. 382 |
Death's Secret | p. 382 |
"Pity the drunks" | p. 383 |
The Gas-poker | p. 383 |
On a Dark Night | p. 384 |
Four Years | p. 385 |
Poems | p. 386 |
A Last Marriage | p. 386 |
Curtains | p. 387 |
Metamorphosis | p. 388 |
Sorting Through | p. 389 |
This Is What I Wanted to Sign Off With | p. 389 |
Wake | p. 390 |
About Death | p. 390 |
The Vacuum | p. 391 |
Inside Our Dreams | p. 392 |
The Reassurance | p. 392 |
She | p. 392 |
A Glimpse of Starlings | p. 393 |
Dead Woman | p. 394 |
Yes | p. 395 |
Close | p. 395 |
Inscription | p. 396 |
"Buffalo Bill's" | p. 397 |
The Dead | p. 397 |
Proofs | p. 398 |
On Walking Backwards | p. 398 |
Cemetery Nights | p. 399 |
Father, Mother, Robert Henley who hanged himself in the ninth grade, et al | p. 400 |
Resurrection | p. 400 |
Eden Rock | p. 401 |
When I Died | p. 402 |
All Souls' | p. 402 |
from Lessons | p. 403 |
Where Souls Go | p. 405 |
The Wild Iris | p. 406 |
Ophelia's Confession | p. 407 |
Antarctica | p. 408 |
Why Brownlee Left | p. 408 |
Robinson | p. 409 |
Folderol | p. 410 |
Tracks | p. 410 |
Night and the House | p. 411 |
I Know a Man | p. 411 |
Distant howling | p. 412 |
Me, the Earth, the Universe | |
Homage to Isaac Newton | p. 414 |
New Gravity | p. 414 |
Morning | p. 414 |
Making for Planet Alice | p. 415 |
Brief reflection on accuracy | p. 416 |
Zoom! | p. 417 |
from Lightenings | p. 418 |
On the Uncountable Nature of Things | p. 418 |
The Sun Underfoot among the Sundews | p. 420 |
"I stretch my arms" | p. 421 |
A Downward Look | p. 421 |
I Am the Song | p. 422 |
from Games | p. 422 |
Earth | p. 423 |
Waking | p. 423 |
Places We Love | p. 424 |
Moorland | p. 424 |
Three Ways of Looking at God | p. 425 |
The Avatar | p. 426 |
Sacrament | p. 426 |
Journey of the Magi | p. 427 |
The Snow Man | p. 428 |
Sanctity | p. 428 |
Via Negativa | p. 429 |
To the One Upstairs | p. 429 |
Moment | p. 430 |
El Hombre | p. 430 |
Delay | p. 431 |
Summer farm | p. 431 |
Tinily a star goes down | p. 432 |
Star Whisper | p. 432 |
from Zero Gravity | p. 433 |
Rent | p. 434 |
Full Moon | p. 435 |
Preparation for the Big Emptiness | p. 435 |
The Shampoo | p. 436 |
Mountains | p. 437 |
The Other Side of the Mountain | p. 437 |
The art of poetry | |
from Songs from Below | p. 440 |
Ars Poetica | p. 441 |
The Beast in the Space | p. 442 |
An Exchange of Gifts | p. 443 |
Note to the reader: this is not a poem | p. 443 |
Meditation at Lagunitas | p. 444 |
"Once I got a postcard..." | p. 445 |
from March 1979 | p. 445 |
Animal Languages | p. 446 |
The story of a story | p. 446 |
Not Ideas about the Thing but the Thing Itself | p. 447 |
Detail | p. 448 |
O | p. 448 |
Eating Poetry | p. 449 |
The Painter Dreaming in the Scholar's House | p. 450 |
Epilogue | p. 453 |
Oatmeal | p. 454 |
Consider the Grass Growing | p. 455 |
Note | p. 455 |
Postscript | p. 456 |
Late Fragment | p. 456 |
The Sound of Poetry | p. 458 |
Glossary | p. 464 |
Acknowledgments | p. 471 |
Index of writers | p. 481 |
Index of titles & first lines | p. 487 |
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