from Tales from Baron Munchausen (2005) My Visit to St Petersburg 247 Frozen Music 248 A Good Deed 249 Danish Incident 250 A Gibbet in Gibraltar 251 My Day Among the Cannonballs 252

from A Book of Lives (2007) For the Opening of the Scottish Parliament

An Old Woman’s Birthday

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from Dreams and Other Nightmares: New and Uncollected Poems 1954–2009 (2010) Horsemen 257 Arran 258 The Bearsden Shark 258 Nine One Word Poems 259 From a Nursing Home 260 In Air So Dear 261 Riddle 262

Index of Poem Titles

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