Contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Note to Reader
  3. Praise for Selected Poems
  4. Editor Info Page
  5. Title Page
  6. Dedication
  7. from Acts and Monuments (1972)
  8. Lucina Schynning in Silence of the Nicht
  9. Ransom
  10. Wash
  11. Swineherd
  12. Celibates
  13. The Second Voyage
  14. The Apparition
  15. Foreseeable Future
  16. Family
  17. Lost Star
  18. Early Recollections
  19. Deaths and Engines
  20. Letter to Pearse Hutchinson
  21. I Saw the Islands in a Ring All Round Me
  22. from Site of Ambush (1975)
  23. The Lady’s Tower
  24. The Absent Girl
  25. Old Roads
  26. from Site of Ambush
  27. 3 Standing Man
  28. 6 Voyagers
  29. The New Atlantis
  30. The Prisoner Thinks about the Stars
  31. Odysseus Meets the Ghosts of the Women
  32. from The Rose-Geranium (1981)
  33. Night Journeys
  34. from Cork
  35. 1 The island, with its hooked
  36. 3 A slot of air, the snug
  37. 4 Missing from the scene
  38. 6 A Gentleman’s Bedroom
  39. Seamus Murphy, Died October 2nd 1975
  40. The Last Glimpse of Erin
  41. ‘He Hangs in Shades the Orange Bright’
  42. March 18th 1977
  43. from The Rose Geranium
  44. 3 When she opened the egg the wise woman
  45. 4 ‘A l’usage de M. et Mme van Gramberen’
  46. 12 So rarely we lie
  47. 15 Linked by precious chains
  48. 16 Because this is the age of his life
  49. 17 Amelia
  50. 18 I run my hand along the clean wood
  51. from The Magdalene Sermon (1989)
  52. Pygmalion’s Image
  53. The Pig-boy
  54. Permafrost Woman
  55. Street
  56. MacMoransbridge
  57. London
  58. River, with Boats
  59. The Italian Kitchen
  60. Quarant’ Ore
  61. A Voice
  62. In Rome
  63. J’ai Mal à nos Dents
  64. St Mary Magdalene Preaching at Marseilles
  65. The Informant
  66. from The Brazen Serpent (1994)
  67. Fireman’s Lift
  68. The Architectural Metaphor
  69. The Real Thing
  70. All for You
  71. The Water Journey
  72. Passing Over in Silence
  73. St Margaret of Cortona
  74. Our Lady of Youghal
  75. No Loads/No Clothing/Allowed/in the Library
  76. Home Town
  77. Following
  78. Woman Shoeing a Horse
  79. Daniel Grose
  80. Vierge Ouvrante
  81. Man Watching a Woman
  82. The Pastoral Life
  83. The Party Wall
  84. That Summer
  85. The Secret
  86. A Witness
  87. A Hand, A Wood
  88. Studying the Language
  89. from The Girl who Married the Reindeer (2001)
  90. Kilcash
  91. The Crossroads
  92. Anchoress
  93. The Angel in the Stone
  94. The Cloister of Bones
  95. Peace in the Mountains
  96. In Her Other House
  97. In Her Other Ireland
  98. The Girl who Married the Reindeer
  99. Translation
  100. Bessboro
  101. Troubler
  102. The Crevasse
  103. Autun
  104. Crossing the Loire
  105. After Leopardi’s Storm
  106. Tower of Storms, Island of Tides
  107. The Bend in the Road
  108. The Horses of Meaning
  109. A Capitulary
  110. Inheriting the Books
  111. At My Aunt Blánaid’s Cremation
  112. Agnes Bernelle, 1923-1999
  113. Borders
  114. Gloss/Clós/Glas
  115.  
  116. About the Author
  117. Also by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
  118. Copyright