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CONTENTS Acknowledgements Introduction A Note on the Text Train Rides I Cambridge and New York 1 Name & Nature 2 Drill Poem 3 Getting Ready To Come Back Here 4 [‘Your smell’] 5 [‘You turn’] 6 Early Morning, Night Sorting Shift 7 [‘Young men from old poets should learn’] 8 The Lunatic 9 [‘All across this country standing’] 10 [‘Daily, and’] A note on the train, January 1966 Loved Litter of Time Spent The Americans Numbers Are Adjectives: Counting Cats A Judy The Elders What Spokes, and to What Hub? A Spring Song On Romney Marsh Second Song in Spring An Invocation: To Snow For The Daffodil on my Table The City Rises The Evening’s Occupation The Joke Poem Some Other Occasion: Joan’s The American Valentine Privy Business xi 16 11 12 12 13 13 14 14 15 15 16 16 19 20 20 20 21 22 24 25 25 26 27 27 28 29 30 30 31
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vi Thor’s Fishing Trip There are Names A Poem of Men The Rainbow With Her New Lover How Does It Go? Walking on Grass FROM THE ROOT II Essex and Keele At Least I’ve A Roof Over My Head Three Night Pieces Ways With Dice Towards Marriage The Kitchen Sweet Words on Honeyed Lips Nowhere to Fly To A Day, a Garden, Stay Awake to Dream The Harp Now Evening, Last Night and Tonight A Small Orchard Stay On and What Is Lost Sprung from the Root Tired, Dies Out of the Deep Follow, Shadow For Amity Seaside Fragments Two Poems Out of Slumber WALKING ON GRASS Curtain Love Poem Fan Heater In Daylight Alarm Stepping, into her Dream Natural History Mirror Mirror 31 33 34 35 36 36 45 46 47 49 50 50 51 52 53 54 54 55 57 58 58 59 59 60 61 63 64 65 66 66 67 67 68 68 69

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Thor’s Fishing Trip

There are Names

A Poem of Men

The Rainbow

With Her New Lover

How Does It Go?

Walking on Grass FROM THE ROOT

II Essex and Keele

At Least I’ve A Roof Over My Head

Three Night Pieces

Ways With Dice

Towards

Marriage

The Kitchen

Sweet Words on Honeyed Lips

Nowhere to Fly To

A Day, a Garden, Stay Awake to Dream

The Harp

Now Evening, Last Night and Tonight

A Small Orchard

Stay On and What Is Lost

Sprung from the Root

Tired, Dies

Out of the Deep

Follow, Shadow

For Amity

Seaside Fragments

Two Poems

Out of Slumber

WALKING ON GRASS

Curtain

Love Poem

Fan Heater

In Daylight

Alarm

Stepping, into her Dream

Natural History

Mirror Mirror

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