Contents
The Path to Courrières
An Appearance of Spring
Life-Writing
The Core
Antiquity at Arles
Specimens of Magnolia
Not that I always Notice
An Oak Table
From a Journal of the Plague Year
Message Received
The Chosen
Written under the Wisteria
Tree Surgeons
Dreamt Entirely in Sound
The Quickening
For One Night Only
To See You as Marthe Bonnard
The Agave
Admiration
Propriety
The Sling
Thinking to Tease a Man I Thought a Lout
Stances
‘Where Do Your Poems Come From?’
In Wicksteed Park
Splendour in the Grass
All History Will Be Cleared
Gratified Desire
The Seventh of November, 1956
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