Inside the Wave (2017) 19 Counting Backwards 20 The Underworld 21 Shutting the Gate 22 In Praise of the Piano 23 Re-opening the old mines 24 Inside the Wave 26 Odysseus to Elpenor 28 Plane tree outside Ward 78 29 The shaft 30 Leave the door open 31 My life’s stem was cut 32 The Bare Leg 34 The Place of Ordinary Souls 35 My daughter as Penelope 37 The Lamplighter 38 The Halt 39 Bluebell Hollows 40 A Loose Curl 41 Hornsea, 1952 42 Festival of stone 43 A Bit of Love 44 Winter Balcony with Dunnocks 45 Mimosa 46 Nightfall in the IKEA Kitchen 48 The Duration 49 At the Spit 50 Terra Incognita 51 Four cormorants, one swan 52 Girl in the Blue Pool 53 February 12th 1994 54 What shall I do for my sister in the day she shall be spoken for? 55 In Secret 55 All the breaths of your life 56 Her children look for her 57 Little papoose 58 Cliffs of Fall 59 Five Versions from Catullus 59 1 Through Babel of Nations 59 2 Undone 59 3 Sirmio 60 4 Dedication 61 5 Sparrow 62 Rim 63 On looking through the handle of a cup 64 Ten Books 66 Subtraction 67 My people 68 September Rain 70 Hold out your arms The Malarkey (2012) 75 The Malarkey 76 Come Out Now 78 The Inbox 79 Boatman 80 I Owned a Woman Once 82 Longman English Series 83 Writ in Water 88 Dis 89 Newgate 90 At Ease 91 Harbinger 91 The Hyacinths 92 The Night Workers 93 Agapanthus above Porthmeor 94 Visible and Invisible 94 The Snowfield 95 Lemon tree in November 96 Bildad 99 Skulking 99 Basement at Eighteen Folgate Street 100 Barclays Bank, St Ives 100 Playing Her Pieces 101 Pianist, 103, 102 The Torn Ship 103 Taken in Shadows 108 Prince Felipe Prospero (1657-1661) 108 Picture Messages 109 Lethe 110 The Queue’s Essentially 110 The Captainess of Laundry 111 The Day’s Umbrellas 112 The Deciphering 113 The Tarn 113 The Gift 114 What Will You Say 115 Cloud 115 I Have Been Thinking of You So Loudly 116 The Kingdom of the Dead 117 The Last Heartbeat 117 The Old Mastery 118 The Overcoat 118 Window Cleaners at Ladysmith Road 119 I Heard You Sing in the Dark 120 La Recouvrance 121 The Filament Glad of These Times (2007) 125 City lilacs 126 Crossing the field 127 Litany 128 Don’t count John among the dreams 129 The other side of the sky’s dark room 129 Convolvulus 130 The grey lilo 131 Yellow butterflies 132 Plume 132 Odysseus 133 The blue garden 134 Violets 135 The rowan 136 Barnoon 137 Getting into the car 138 Glad of these times 140 Off-script 140 ‘Indeed we are all made from the dust of stars’ 141 Tulip 142 Beautiful today the 143 Dead gull on Porthmeor 144 Narcissi 145 Dolphins whistling 147 Borrowed light 148 A winter imagination 149 Athletes 149 Pneumonia 150 Wall is the book 151 Gorse 152 Blackberries after Michaelmas 152 To my nine-year-old self 153 Fallen angel 154 Bridal 155 Still life with ironing 155 Spanish Irish 156 Cowboys 156 Below Hungerford Bridge 157 Ophelia 158 Winter bonfire 158 One a.m. 159 Lemon and stars 159 Cutting open the lemons 160 Hearing owls 161 ‘Often they go just before dawn’ 162 May voyage Out of the Blue (2001) 165 Out of the Blue 166 The man on the roof 167 Giraffes in Hull 168 Jacob’s drum 169 That old cinema of memory 170 Depot 170 A lorry-load of stuff 172 Virgin with Two Cardigans 173 Ice coming 174 Cyclamen, blood-red 175 Piers Plowman: The Crucifixion & Harrowing of Hell 185 Smoke 186 Bristol Docks 188 The spill 189 Without remission 190 The rain’s coming in 191 As good as it gets 192 If only 192 Mr Lear’s ring 193 Fortune-teller on Church Road 194 Sleeveless 194 The point of not returning 195 The form 196 The sentence 196 With short, harsh breaths 197 The footfall 198 The coffin-makers 199 Inside out 200 The blessing from Bestiary (1997) 203 Candle poem 204 At the Emporium 204 Next door 205 He lived next door all his life 206 Under the leaves * 207 The surgeon husband 208 Fishing beyond sunset 208 Hare in the snow 209 Need 211 Sometimes in the rough garden of city spaces 212 I should like to be buried in a summer forest 213 The scattering 214 All the things you are not yet 215 Ferns on a hospital window * 216 Diving girl 217 A pretty shape 218 Viking cat in the dark 219 Baby sleep 220 Frostbite 221 Basketball player on Pentecost Monday 222 Tiger lookout 223 Tiger Moth caterpillar 224 Hungry Thames 224 The wasp 225 On growing a black tulip * 226 Little Ellie and the timeshare salesman 227 Bouncing boy 227 Ghost at noon 228 Greek beads 229 Tea at Brandt’s 230 We are men, not beasts from Recovering a Body (1994) 233 To Virgil 234 Three Ways of Recovering a Body 236 Holiday to Lonely 237 Poem in a Hotel 238 The Bike Lane 239 Drink and the Devil 240 Ahvenanmaa 241 Rubbing Down the Horse 242 You came back to life in its sweetness 243 Heimat 244 In the Desert Knowing Nothing 245 Poem on the Obliteration of 100,000 Iraqi Soldiers 246 The Yellow Sky 247 Getting the Strap 248 Adders 249 The conception 250 Scan at 8 weeks 251 Pedalo 255 Beetroot Soup 256 The Diving Reflex 258 Bathing at Balnacarry 259 Boys on the Top Board 260 Sylvette Scrubbing 261 Babes in the Wood 262 Cajun 263 Then I think how the train * 264 Skips 264 Time by Accurist 265 The Silent Man in Waterstones 266 The Wardrobe Mistress 268 When You’ve Got 269 Afterword * from Secrets (1994) 273 Lemon sole 274 Christmas caves 275 That violet-haired lady 276 Whooper swans 277 Snow Queen 278 The cuckoo game 279 The butcher’s daughter 281 The greenfield ghost 282 Herring girl 283 Russian doll 284 Breeze of ghosts from Short Days, Long Nights (1991) 287 Those shady girls 287 The dream-life of priests 289 Sisters leaving before the dance 291 On not writing certain poems 292 Privacy of rain 293 Dancing man 295 At Cabourg II 296 Baron Hardup 297 Nearly May Day 300 Three workmen with blue pails 301 Brown coal 303 Safe period 304 Big barbershop man 305 The dry well 306 Our family, swimming again * 307 Sweet pepper * 308 Heron 309 One yellow chicken 310 Sailing to Cuba 310 Off the West Pier 312 Winter 1955 313 Rinsing 313 To Betty, swimming 314 In Berber’s Ice Cream Parlour 315 On drinking lime juice in September * 316 Not going to the forest 317 Lutherans from The Raw Garden (1988) 321 Code-breaking in the Garden of Eden 323 Seal run 325 Wild strawberries 326 A mortgage on a pear tree 337 A pæony truss on Sussex place 328 Permafrost 329 At Cabourg 331 Ploughing the roughlands 332 The land pensions 333 A dream of wool 334 New crops 335 Shadows of my mother against a wall 336 Air layering 336 The argument 337 The peach house 338 A meditation of the glasshouses 339 The haunting of Epworth 340 Preaching at Gwennap 341 On circuit from Heptonstall Chapel 342 US 1st Division Airborne Ranger at rest in Honduras 343 One more for the beautiful table 344 Lambkin 344 Dublin 1971 346 The hard-hearted husband 348 Malta 349 Candlemas 349 Pilgrims 350 An Irish miner in Staffordshire from The Sea Skater (1986) 353 The bride’s nights in a strange village 354 Lazarus * 355 Christmas roses 356 I imagine you sent back from Africa 358 The knight * 359 In memoriam Cyril Smith 1913-1945 361 The parachute packers 363 Porpoise washed up on the beach 364 In deep water 365 Lady Macduff and the primroses 367 Mary Shelley 370 The plum tree 371 The air-blue gown 373 My sad descendants 374 Patrick at four years old on Bonfire Night 375 The horse landscape 376 Thetis 377 In the tents 378 Uncle Will’s telegram 379 Rapunzel 381 Bewick’s swans * 382 The sea skater 383 In the tea house 384 Florence in permafrost 386 Missile launcher passing at night from The Apple Fall (1983) 389 The marshalling yard 390 A cow here in the June meadow 391 Zelda 392 Annunciation off East Street * 393 The Polish husband 395 The damson 396 In Rodmell Garden 397 The apple fall 398 Pictures of a Chinese nursery * 399 Pharaoh’s daughter 400 Domestic poem 401 Patrick I 402 Patrick II 403 Weaning 403 Clinic day * 404 Approaches to winter 406 The night chemist 407 St Paul’s 408 Poem for December 28 409 Greenham Common 410 Poem for hidden women 412 If no revolution come 414 A safe light 415 Near Dawlish 415 The last day of the exhausted month 416 Second marriages * 417 The deserted table 418 The writer’s son 419 Ollie and Charles at St Andrew’s Park 420 Winter fairs 420 In a wood near Turku 421 Landscape from the Monet Exhibition at Cardiff 422 Breakfast 423 index of titles and first lines