CONTENTS

  1. Title Page
  2. Acknowledgements
  3.  
  4. Parables & Faxes  (1995)
  5. Pentecost
  6. The Hedge
  7. The Voledom of Skomer
  8. Illinois Idylls
  9. A Golf-Course Resurrection
  10. Looking for the Celts
  11. A Soviet Waiter
  12. Six Poems on Nothing
  13. Squaring the Circle
  14. The Soul Mine
  15. A Fanciful Marriage
  16. Welsh Espionage
  17. The Bad Shepherd
  18. Going Primitive
  19. The Reference Library
  20. PARABLES AND FAXES
  21.  
  22. Zero Gravity (1998)
  23. I   ZERO GRAVITY
  24. Zero Gravity
  25. II   COCONUT POSTCARDS
  26. Coconut Postcards
  27. The Love of Furniture
  28. The Booming Bittern
  29. Good Dog!
  30. Peripheral Vision
  31.   I  ‘Not everyone sees it’
  32.  II  The gods still walk around South Wales
  33. III  View from an ocean-going liner
  34. III  THE SOUL CANDLE
  35. Soul Candles
  36. Flyover Elegies
  37. Drought
  38. Talk with a Headache
  39. Spring
  40. Ménage à Trois
  41.   I  Body
  42.  II  Soul
  43. III  Third Party
  44. Prayer for Bandy
  45. ‘One day, feeling hungry’
  46. The Pier
  47.   I  ‘A poet has four bodies’
  48.  II  ‘Even a healthy heart is lame’
  49. III  ‘The wind on Bangor Pier draws tears’
  50. IV  THE AIR’S GRAFFITI
  51. Stone Walls
  52. Woods
  53. Red Kites at Tregaron
  54. Hermits
  55. Stone Circle
  56. Ancient Aunties
  57. The Mind Museum
  58.   I   The Museum Curator Greets the Dawn
  59.  II  History Lesson
  60. III  Website Future
  61. IV  Communications
  62.  V   On Duty
  63. VI  Night Galleries
  64. Will and the Wall
  65. The Flaggy Shore
  66.  
  67. Keeping Mum (2003)
  68. Preface
  69. I  THE LANGUAGE MURDERER
  70. A Poet’s Confession
  71. What’s in a Name?
  72. Mother Tongue
  73. Farm Visit
  74. Home Cooking
  75. Small Holding
  76. ‘My father was distant…’
  77. A Past
  78. Her End
  79. Aphasia
  80. Brainstorming
  81. II  KEEPING MUM
  82. Lifesaving for Psychiatrists
  83. Consultant
  84. Dissociation
  85. Early Days in Psychiatry
  86. Finding the Bodies
  87. Tongue Fetishist
  88. A Teenage Craze
  89. Therapy
  90. A Promising Breakthrough
  91. Spread a Little Happiness
  92. A Talent for Fainting
  93. Psychiatist, Twitcher
  94. A Question
  95. Panic Attack
  96. Seaside Sanatorium
  97. Night Passage to Nantucket
  98. The Perfect Crime
  99. Retired Psychiatrist
  100. Memorial Service
  101. What They Don’t Teach You in Medical School
  102. III  CHAOTIC ANGELS
  103. 1   Pagan Angel
  104. 2   Tarot Angel
  105. 3   Fire Angel
  106. 4   Angels of Stage and Screen
  107. 5   Minimal Angel
  108. 6   Angel of Depression
  109. 7   How to Read Angels
  110. 8   In Memory of Katherine James
  111. 9   Angel of Dying
  112. 10   Angel of Healing
  113. 11   The Good, the Bad and the Complex
  114. 12   Christ as Angel of the Will of God
  115.  
  116. About the Author
  117. Copyright