Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Acknowledgements
I
Déjà-vu
Blue
The Age of the Empty Chair
Noon at the DoubleTree Hotel
The Shape of Nothing Happening
French
Le Grand Pardon
[Untitled]
The Companions
Nineteenth-Century Blues
Charleville
Black Box
II Blue Guide
I Gare du Nord
II Gare centrale
III Gare du Midi
IV Quartier-Léopold
V Schuman
VI Bruxelles-Luxembourg
VII Ottignies
VIII Gembloux
Correspondances
IX Namur
X Ciney
XI Marloie
XII Jemelle
XIII Libramont
XIV Bouillon
XV Marbehan
XVI Arlon
Kleinbettingen
XVII Luxembourg
Stations where the train doesn’t stop
III
My Mother
L’Air du Temps
The Other Side
Montréal
Daytime Drinking
Lists
Spleen: Cardiff Matchday Blues
The Thaw
I Illegible waves of wood
II Lapland
III ! ! !
IV Stills
V writing the words
VI LO! v e
i.m. Jacques Brel (1929–1978)
Article 0.5: The Right to Be In-Between
Poem in White Ink
The Empty Frame
House Clearance
The Clamour
IV City of Lost Walks: Poems by Liviu Campanu
from The Ovid Complex (1989)
Poems I–VIII
Scenarios for Lovers and Magnets
from City of Lost Walks (1985)
In the Natural History Museum
In the Museum of Archaeology
Notes
About the Author
Also by Patrick McGuinness
Copyright