Contents

Title Page

 

Introduction

Prologue

 

1 - After the Tone

2 - Adults & Betters

3 - Four of a Family

4 - The Way She Told Them

5 - Crossing a Line

6 - Once Bitten

7 - Letters Sent & Unsent

8 - Mum’s the Word

9 - Twice Shy

10 - Most Unusual

11 - In Love or Otherwise

12 - Dates Changed & Unchanged

13 - Maintaining the Fiction

14 - Continental Drift

15 - Shouting the Odds

16 - Too Late Now

17 - To Whom it May Concern

18 - Anything like a Story

 

Acknowledgments

About the Author

 

Poems

1 An Accumulation of Dust

2 Wild Thing

3 The Mark of Tracks

4 Rite of Passage

Trace

6 The Last Post

7 A Definition of Space

8 Taking a Letter

9 Snap Shots

10 Clearance

11 Skating on Happy Valley Pond

12 Turning the Page

13 The Working Class Cup

14 Opening up the Bag

15 1969 OK

16 Why you Won the First Prize for The Twist

17 A Mile in your Shoes

18 Case