About the Book
Table of Contents:
Early Poems: The Uninvited, Epithalamion, Letter to Alex Comfort, Portrait of a Marriage; From Tenants of the House (I957): Duality, The Trial, Looking at a Map, Elegy for Dylan Thomas, The Moment, The Game, The Race; From Poems, Golders Green (1962): The Water Diviner, Return to Cardiff, Summer's Sunday Song, Sunday Evening, The Magician, The French Master, Tree, Odd, After the Release of Ezra Pound, Red Balloon, The Grand View, Sunsets, Two Voices, After a Departure; From A Small Desperation (1968): From a Suburban Window, Close up, As I Was Saying, Halls, Pathology of Colours, Hunt the Thimble, A Night Out, Fah, Even, Not Adlestrop, In Llandough Hospital, Not Beautiful, Interview with a Spirit Healer, Give Me Your Hands, Remembering Miguel Hernandez, The Smile Was; From Funland and Other Poems (1973): Mysteries, An old Commitment, Demo against the Vietnam War, 1968, Haloes, Moon Object, Peachstone, Three Street Musicians, Portrait of the Artist as a Middle-Aged Man, A New Diary, Miss Book World, The Death of Aunt Alice, Car journeys, Down the M4, Incident on a summer night, I sit in my parked car, Driving home, A Faithful Wife, No More Mozart, Miracles, In the Theatre, Funland; From Poems 1973-1976: Ghosts, Angels, Unicorns, Watching a Cloud, The Weeping, Florida, The Silence of Tudor Evans, Tales of Shatz, Cousin Sidney, Remembrance Day, Nothing, The Stethoscope, Song for Pythagoras; From Way Out in the Centre (1981): Joan's, Bedtime Story, A Winter Visit, The Doctor, X-ray, Lunch with a Pathologist, Pantomime Diseases, Of Rabbi Yose, Snake, Of Itzig and His Dog, Street Scene, The Power of Prayer, Night Village, Light, A Sea-shell for Vernon Watkins, Imitations, One Sunday Afternoon, Last Words; From Ask the Bloody Horse (1986): Phew!, Music, A Scream, Ceilings, Horse, In the Holiday Inn, Crepuscolo, AWOL, Millie's Date, Case History, Tuberculosis, In the Old Age Home Where He Says He's Resting, A Salute on the Way, A Welcome in the Wolds, A Translation from the Martian, The Message, The Abandoned, Encounter at a Greyhound Bus Station, Exit, Last Visit to 198 Cathedral Road, Friends, Apology; From Remembrance of Crimes Past (1990): A Wall, Of Itzig and the Horse, The Origin of Music, Carnal Knowledge, A Prescription, Arianrhod, The Wife of Columbus, The Ocnophil and the Philobat, Musical Moments, Of Two Languages, White Balloon, A Small Farmhouse near Brno, At Ogmore-by-Sea This August Evening, Brueghel in Naples, Index of First Lines and Titles.
