Contents
Looking at Lucy’s Painting of the Thames at Low Tide
Without Lucy Present
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Acting School
Water is Difficult
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All Fools’ Day: An Academic Farewell
Questions
15
16
You Could Show a Horse
Himalayan Balsam for a Soldier
17
18
Dancing
Sonnets for Tracey
19
i. Permission to Fire
20
ii. Handbook
20
iii. X Prostitutism
21
iv. Tambour Café, Marienstr. 16
Composition for the Left Hand
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Christmas Window, Armistice Day
Sonnet for Catherine Who Never Turned Up
23
24
Military School
White Crow
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The Undertaker’s Tale of the Notebook Measuring 1 x 2 cm 27 Rapeseed 28 Red Flag 29 The Passion Flower 30 The Sick Child, at the Time of the Diamond Jubilee 31 Restriction 32 Bridal Song 33 The Confession 34 Glinka 35 The Pressed Iris 36 Pilinszky at the Tenshi no Tobira 37 Swiss Station Room 38 St Patrick’s Day Address, 1920 39 Photograph of Thérèse of Lisieux Holding Lilies 40 Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon 41 Studying the Fresco of St Nikolai of Myra 42 At the Garage 43 from The Ballad of Tom Gun 44
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