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CONTENTS
1. ELEMENTS
A Single Sound
The Wrong Kind of Dog
A Zen of Wasps
Sometimes Rain Comes Like This
Olm
Kiss
Islets
2. ANGEL HOUR
The See-Through Poet
My Builder’s Opinion of Light
Fairies
On the Anniversary of a Disappearance
Close Call
The Heart in the Wall
The Man Who Went to Emmaus
Angel Hour
3. HARD LINES
The Strange Behaviour of Light
Budapest Quartet
Rip
The Copper Mines of Peru
Poems That Mean Something Else
Concerning the Silence in These Parts
Breath
Nothing Happened
4. HALFWAY HEAVENWARDS
Old Possum’s Stray
Frost on a Snowy Evening
Stony Grey Owl
A Fly
Johann Joachim Quantz’s Other Lesson
Dead Recital
Teaching ‘The Schoolmaster’
Catch
Uncreative Pages
5. INTERIOR MAN
6. JOURNEYS
Man in Field Talking to Cows
Once Upon October
Flight Hazard
The Threshold of Quiet
For Voyagers
Tunnels
7. PSYCHE
Man with a Mission
Therapy
My Terracotta Buddha
A Displacement
Sublime Subliminality
Head
Psyche
Sonnet for My Wife at 08.15
Gloss
I acknowledge with thanks two Arts Council Travel and Training Awards to take part in a Golden Boat Workshop Translation Project in Skocjan and Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 2011, and in the Izrekanja Poetry Festival, Celje, Slovenia, in 2019.
Thanks also to the Ireland Literature Exchange for a Translators’ Bursary towards the translation of a selection of my poems, Nadzorovanje Zviljenja (Life Monitor), into Slovene in 2012; to the translators, Iztok Osojnik and Veronika Dintinjana, and the publishers, Kud France Preseren.
Thanks to Fernando Trilli and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin of Immagini d’Irlanda in Umbria, and to the Commune di Magione, Umbria, for invitations to take part in the Riflessi DiVersi Festival of Poetry in 2013, 2015 and 2017, to Iztok Osojnik for two inspirational occasions when I attended his Golden Boat Workshop.
