CONTENTS

1. Title Page
2. Dedication
3. Epigraph
4. 
   Like that only
5. Taal
6. Bombil, Bumla, Bummalo
7. Jurassic
8. Number 106
9. Hiraeth, Old Bombay
10. Wild
11. Gobstopper
12. Brookhouse
13. In Wales, wanting to be Italian
14. Not for the Vroom Vroom Vroom
15. Waiting for Crossrail
16. The first sight of the train
17. Rapt
18. The City
19. Undone
20. The Appointment
21. Watching the water
22. The cranes
23. Jewel-box
24. Alan or David or John
25. The day the marks made sense
26. Wean
27. Ghazals on the Grundig, Pingling in Pollokshields
28. Nicked
29. Speech balloon
30. Meanwhile at the Irani Bakery
31. Mumbai? Kissmiss?
32. Signs of life
33. Don’t Miss Out! Book Right Now for the Journey of a Lifetime!
34. It doesn’t matter
35. At Smithfield, waiting to get in
36. True
37. Chiller
38. All-night café
39. Night shift
40. Christmas Eve on the Number 4
41. I take
42. Gift
43. Ace Café
44. A hundred and one
45. Un salon con mil ventanas
46. Talker
47. Wiped
48. Listener
     
49. Stab
50. You said something I did not understand
51. Vigil
52. Vroom
53. After
54. The other side of silence
55. The closed door
56. Rinse cycle
57. Medium
58. Presence
59. The unwritten bed
60. Recording uninterrupted
61. Murmuration
62. Passport photo
63. Disappeared
64. Threshold
65. Late
66. Ephemeral
67. (Untitled)
68. Spin
69. Palimpsest
70. When the copperplate cracks
71. Kozo
72. Digital
73. Nefertiti in the prison block
74. Trace
75. Screen-saver
76. The conversation
77. I swear
78. Swing
79. Swan for Christmas
80. Invisible
81. Passing
82. 1977
83. Litter
84. Say his name
85. Listening
86. Fair copy
87. A century later
88. Drummer
89. Midnight, Christmas Eve
90. London Bells
91. First words
92. One foot
     
93. Acknowledgements
94. Biographical note
95. Copyright