CONTENTS

  1. Title Page
  2. Dedication
     
  3. A Beehive
  4. On the Death of a Poet
  5. In Glenmalure
  6. At Lough Ouler
  7. The 1901 Census
  8. Table-Talk of John Joly, FTCD, on the Geological Unification of Ireland
  9. Approach to the City
  10. Tunnels through the Head
  11. Colmcille’s Farewell
  12. Dry Dock
  13. Dark Water
  14. Drypool in Old Photographs
  15. Rag and Bone Man’s Mild
  16. Interview with a Binman
  17. Air Street Fugue
  18. The Wandering Islands
  19. Klangfarbenmelodie
  20. A Bittering
  21. [untitled]
  22. Remnant Land
  23. Death on the Breeze
  24. x
  25. Memorial
  26. According to Lucretius
  27. In Marrakesh
  28. Adultery
  29. In the Medina
  30. Shorts
  31. Tale of a Horse
  32. The President of Planet Earth
  33. Oblivia
  34. The Illustrated Version
  35. According to Lucretius
  36. For Claude Debussy
  37. Self-Portrait as Woman Reading a Letter
  38. An Execration
  39. For Tereza Límanová, Painter
  40. For Piero di Cosimo
  41. Biographia Literaria
  42. The Rumoured Existence of Elsewheres
  43. Keen
  44. Warm Front
  45. Unpacking a Library
  46. Low Flier
  47. At Footdee
  48. A Pseudocouple
  49. Bennachie to Clachnaben
  50. Brock
  51. Tree to Treecreeper
  52. Crossbill
  53. Rounds
  54. Eclogue
  55. Sir Thomas Urquhart Considers the Tongues of Men, and Whether One Might Not Be Fashioned above All Others Perfect
  56. Roger Hilton, November ’64
  57. Three Things
  58. Elegy for Any Occasion
  59. Memory
  60. Desire Path
  61. Altitude Migrants
  62. White Nights
  63. Bennachie Red
  64. Beithe-Luis-Nin / Birch-Rowan-Ash
  65. The Porch Light
  66. The Quarry-Pond
  67. Letter to Joseph Massey
  68. Dip
  69. Hyperion Drees His Weird
  70. Sonnets to Robert Fergusson
  71. The King o’er the Water
  72. To Gavin Douglas, Translator, by the Don
  73. The Hoops
  74. Tides
  75. THE REED BUNTING UNSEEN: A CAMOUFLAGE GARDEN FOR IAN HAMILTON FINLAY
  76. Little Sparta / Spandau
  77. First Contact
  78. Creation Myth
  79. Garden Feature, Little Sparta
  80. A Clearance
  81. A Camouflage Garden
  82. It’s War
  83. Your Sheep, My Sheep
  84. Dead Sheep
  85. Text Poem
  86. Cultural Materialism
  87. Sundial in Rain
  88. Eclogue
  89. Dichtung = Condensare
  90. Robespierre, Weeding
  91. Apollon Térroriste
  92. Geology as Smalltalk
  93. Grotto
  94. A Bouquet for Thomas Edmonston
  95. On Not Being Seen
  96. Ruined Buildings / Ruined Stones
  97. Red-Throated Diver, Dumfries
  98. A Gannet
  99. An Aviary for Alasdair Macgillemhìcheil
  100. One Animal May Conceal Another
  101. Sighting
  102. Sconser Trilogy
  103. Presocratic Notes: Hamilton Advertiser
  104. A Clearance
  105. Trident
  106. Beyond These Walls
  107. Ireland/Scotland: To the Síneadh/Sìneadh Fada
  108. An Island Wedding
  109. Wallace Stevens on North Uist
  110. Solus
  111. Sùil Air Hiort / St Kilda View Point
  112. Clockwise Round the Island
  113. Iron Age, Significance Unknown
  114. Site-Specific
  115. Sun on Black Cuillins
  116. Locus = Logos
  117. All Is Lithogenesis
  118. Village of Echt
  119. Hut of Shadows Camera Obscura, Lochmaddy
  120. School of Eloquence
  121. The Herring Gull School
  122. Hraun, Duss, Rønis, Queedarauns, Kollyarun
  123. Harbour View Terrace: Homage to Calmac
  124. Light of Evening
  125. Eilean
  126. Merchant Ship Routing
     
  127. Acknowledgements
  128. About the Author
  129. Copyright