Contents

First Lyrebird

The Thrown Voice

Romany Wounds Me fury

Second Lyrebird

What Will you Give for the Moon?

The Key Harvest

After the Burial of the Gypsy Matriarch

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The Stuttering Butcher and the Sugarbeet King 21 Third Lyrebird 23 Wingbeats of a Romany Noun 24 Starling Roost in Swansea 25 ‘Like Wind through Woods in Riot’ 27 ‘She is Leaf-like and Bird-like’ 29 Orphans of Orphans 32 Fourth Lyrebird 33 Honour 34 When I Heard the Calling of Birds 36 Cockade 38 Rafter  39 Fifth Lyrebird 40 Gamekeeper’s Ghost 41 Significance at Innominate Tarn 42 The Apostle Birds 43 I Dropt Down on the Thymy Molehill 45 Sixth Lyrebird 46 The Caravans of Tarshish 47 1st caravan 48 2nd caravan 50 3rd caravan 52 4th caravan 55