Editor’s Note The poems in this selection have been taken from the following publications: The Vision of Cathkin Braes and Other Poems (William MacLellan, 1952) Starryveldt (Eugen Gomringer Press, 1965) gnomes (Akros Publications, 1968) The Second Life (Edinburgh University Press, 1968) Instamatic Poems (Ian McKelvie, 1972) From Glasgow to Saturn (Carcanet Press, 1973) The New Divan (Carcanet New Press, 1977) Star Gate: Science Fiction Poems (Third Eye Centre, 1979) Poems of Thirty Years (Carcanet New Press, 1982) Grafts/Takes (Mariscat Press, 1983) Sonnets from Scotland (Mariscat Press, 1984) Selected Poems (Carcanet Press, 1985) From the Video Box (Mariscat Press, 1986) Themes on a Variation (Carcanet Press, 1988) Collected Poems (Carcanet Press, 1990) Hold Hands Among the Atoms (Mariscat Press, 1991) Virtual and Other Realities (Carcanet Press, 1997) Demon (Mariscat Press, 1999) Cathures (Carcanet Press / Mariscat Press, 2002) Love and a Life (Mariscat Press, 2003) Tales from Baron Munchausen (Mariscat Press, 2005) A Book of Lives (Carcanet Press, 2007) Dreams and Other Nightmares (Mariscat Press, 2010) xiii