CONTENTS
New Poems Fine Gael Form a Coalition Government with Labour, March 1973 11 Watch 13 My Persephone 14 Everything Including This Room Is a Future Ruin 15 Oysters 17 The Irish Airman Parachutes to Earth 19 Unicorns 21 Wuthering Heights 22 Shakespeare Knew Cats 23
from All Alcoholics Are Charmers Bacon and Cabbage
The Mobile Library
The Black Priest
One Evening in July
All Alcoholics Are Charmers
Cows
Christmas Days
Young Mayo Men
The Black Cab
The Treatment for Cancer of the Lip
His Master’s Teeth
Grey Mare from Can Dentists Be Trusted? Gas
A Beige Mini in the Sixties
On Living in an Area of Manifest Greyness and Misery
The Day My Cat Spoke to Me
The Rabach
The Room
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