Contents Looking at Lucy’s Painting of the Thames at Low Tide Without Lucy Present 11 Acting School Water is Difficult 12 14 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 21 22 Christmas Window, Armistice Day Sonnet for Catherine Who Never Turned Up 23 24 Military School White Crow 25 26 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 9