The poems in this volume are taken from the following publications: The Long River (Edinburgh: Macdonalds); The White Noon (from New Poems, edited by Edwin Muir, London: Eyre and Spottiswoode); Thistles and Roses (London: London: Eyre and Spottiswoode); Deer on the High Hills (Edinburgh: Giles Gordon); The Law and the Grace (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode); Three Regional Voices (London: Poet and Printer); From Bourgeois Land (London: Victor Gollancz); Ben Dorain (Preston: Akros Publications, reprinted Newcastle upon Tyne: Northern House); Lines Review (special edition of the author’s work, Edinburgh: Macdonalds); Poems to Eimhir (London: Victor Gollancz); Love Poems and Elegies (London: Victor Gollancz); Penguin Modern Poets 21 (Harmondsworth: Penguin); Orpheus and Other Poems (Preston: Akros Publications); Poems for Donalda (Belfast: Ulsterman Publications); The Permanent Island (Edinburgh: Macdonalds); The Notebooks of Robinson Crusoe and Other Poems (London: Victor Gollancz); In the Middle (London: Victor Gollancz); The Emigrants (Glasgow: University of Glasgow); The Exiles (Manchester: Carcanet); A Life (Manchester: Carcanet); The Village and Other Poems (Manchester: Carcanet); Ends and Beginnings (Manchester: Carcanet); The Human Face (Manchester: Carcanet); The Leaf and the Marble (Manchester: Carcanet); A Country for Old Men and My Canadian Uncle (Manchester: Carcanet).