A number of these poems were, on their creation, dedicated to particular people. Sometimes the dedicatees happened to be there at the time of writing; on other occasions the poem seemed just right for them.

These poems are:

“A Typology of Angels,” for Iain McIntosh

“Holy River,” for Prince Richard Holkar

“Feel Glorious,” for Hugh Raven

“Do Not Lean Again,” for Neil and Judy Swan

“Giraffe, Zebra,” for Richard Neville-Towle and Caroline Hahn

“On Looking at a Child,” for Ivy Rose Mant

“The Goodness of Books,” for Laura Bush

“Graham Greene,” for Joseph Kanon

“A Maker of Beautiful Books,” for Stephanie Wolfe Murray

“Goodbye to the Ionian,” for Nicky Wood

“St. Kilda,” for Fergus Hall

“Fish, and the Thoughts of Fish,” for Douglas Mant

“Saving an Oak Tree,” for Malcolm Wood