CONTENTS

new poems

Taking the Edge Off 11

This Knowledge 12

Comfortless 13 Collects for Lent 14

One Year 18 The Barn 19 Apples 20 I Must Learn to Sit Still 21

In That High Tent 22

Not Yet 25 A Homecoming 26 Seen in the Round 27

Oxford 33

from idols

Sea Changes 37 How Things Continue 38 Aspects of This Sickness 39 This Poem for Burning 40

Coming Back 41 An Afternoon in the Parc Monceau 42

Rilke in Paris 43 In the Cinque Ports 45 Nénuphars, Nymphéas 46

The Well 47 Magpies 48 Colours for Thomas 50