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Index
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
SELECTED FURTHER READING
from THE LONG RIVER(1955)
The Dedicated Spirits
‘Some days were running legs’
Poem of Lewis
Anchored Yachts on a Stormy Day
from THE WHITE NOON (1959)
False Summer Leans
In Luss Churchyard
Highland Sunday
End of the Season on a Stormy Day – Oban
School Teacher
The Widow
Statement by a Responsible Spinster
Night Walk 1
Night Walk 2
Seagulls
Room for Living
Beautiful Shadow
For the Unknown Seamen of the 1939–45 War Buried in Iona Churchyard
The Window
from THISTLES AND ROSES(1961)
Old Woman
Luss Village
A Note on Puritans
Schoolgirl on Speech-day in the Open Air
Dying is not Setting Out
John Knox
About that Mile
Sunday Morning Walk
Love Songs of a Puritan
Kierkegaard
By Ferry to the Island
Culloden and After
A Young Highland Girl Studying Poetry
For Angus MacLeod
Studies in Power
Home
For My Mother
DEER ON THE HIGH HILLS (1962)
from THE LAW AND THE GRACE (1965)
Old Woman
The Witches
Two Girls Singing
Old Highland Lady Reading Newspaper
Lenin
The Argument
Johnson in the Highlands
Face of an Old Highland Woman
The Clearances
‘It is the old’
At the Firth of Lorne
The Law and the Grace
Hume
Rythm
Preparation for a Death
Encounter in a School Corridor
To Forget the Dead
The Chess Player
Envoi
from THREE REGIONAL VOICES(1668)
The Departing Island
Old Woman
Money-man Only
Returning Exile
She Teaches Lear
from FROM BOURGEOIS LAND (1969)
Entering Your House
Hamlet
Epitaph
‘It was the heavy jokes’
In Youth
The Wind Roars
Young Girl Singing Psalm
At the Sale
‘More than twenty years ago’
‘I take it from you’
‘To hell with this poetry reading’
‘What’s your Success?’
‘Children, follow the dwarfs’
BEN DORAIN (1969)
from LINES REVIEW (1969)
Old Woman with Flowers
Glasgow
The House We Lived In
Return to the Council House
School Sports, at the Turnstiles
Mr M.
In the Classics Room
Hear us, O Lord
Homage to George Orwell
from Transparencies A Sequence
Shall Gaelic Die?
from POEMS TO EIMHIR (1971)
from HAMLET IN AUTUMN (1972)
On a Summer’s Day
Dead for a Rat
Dear Hamlet
How often I feel like you
Russian Poem
Party
Dipping Your Spoon
Shane
Chaplin
End of Schooldays
For Keats
For John Maclean, Headmaster, and Classical and Gaelic Scholar
Gaelic Songs
Not to Islands
For Ann in America in the Autumn
In the Chinese Restaurant
The Small Snags
Children in Winter
Lear and Carroll
Give Me Your Hand
Christmas, 1971
The Letter
In the Time of the Useless Pity
Finis not Tragedy
Everything Is Silent
from LOVE POEMS AND ELEGIES (1972)
‘You lived in Glasgow’
‘You told me once’
‘My sailor father’
‘That island formed you’
The Space-ship
On Looking at the Dead
‘Of the uncomplicated dairy girl’
‘Tinily a star goes down’
Contrasts
Moonlight over the island
‘The chair in which you’ve sat’
Argument
‘The world’s a minefield’
The place without music
At the Scott Exhibition, Edinburgh Festival
from PENGUIN MODERN POETS 21 (1972)
By the Sea
Jean Brodie’s Children
If You Are About to Die Now
The White Air of March
from ORPHEUS AND OTHER POEMS (1974)
The Island
In the Dark
Orpheus
Breughel
Poem for Auden
The Glass of Water
from POEMS FOR DONALDA (1974)
Helplessly
The Present
The Shadows
Tonight
from THE PERMANENT ISLAND (1975)
Young Girl
You are at the bottom of my mind
Going Home
To an Old Woman
The Old Woman
At the Cemetery
At the Stones of Callanish
What Is Wrong?
Eight Songs for a New Ceilidh
Oban
Sighting the Mountains of Harris
The Sea and the Rocks
Song of Remembrance
1941–1942
The Minister*
The Rain
Song
Love Song
The Highlands
Luss
Bareness
On the Street
Innocence
The Island
When We Were Young
Poem
My Poetry
One Girl
Freud
The White Swan*
The Little Old Lady
Conversation
The Melodeon of the Spirit
Predestination
For Derick Thomson
The Prodigal Son
The Poppy
Saturday
Deirdre
The Heroes
Autumn Song
The Fool
To My Mother
The Old Woman
On a Beautiful Day
The Stone
Raven
On a Misty Evening
The TV
from THE NOTEBOOKS OF ROBINSON CRUSOE AND OTHER POEMS (1975)
My Uncle
The Prodigal Son
Ceilidh
The Sound of Music
Incident
Chinese Poem
The Notebooks of Robinson Crusoe
from IN THE MIDDLE (1977)
In Yellow
When Day is Done
The Torches
My Child
The Chair
The Scream
Women
Tears Are Salt
The Old School Books
Clouds
None Is the Same as Another
from THE EMIGRANTS (1983)
Lewis
The Herring Girls
Climbing and Climbing
We Will Walk
Berries
When I am Reading
On an Autumn Day
Vancouver
You
Let us Raise
from THE EXILES (1984)
Returning Exile
There is no Sorrow
Next Time
The Exiles
Always
In the Spring
Youth
Australia
Prince Charles
No Return
Reading Shakespeare
Speech for Prospero
‘You’ll take a bath’
Autumn
Owl and Mouse
‘Iolaire’
For Poets Writing in English over in Ireland
Lost
Hallowe’en
Poem
The Survivors
The ‘Ordinary’ People
At the Funeral of Robert Garioch
Who Daily
Envoi
A LIFE (1986)
Lewis 1928–1945
Aberdeen University 1945–1949
National Service 1950–1952
Clydebank and Dumbarton 1952–1955
Oban 1955–1982
Taynuilt 1982–
THE VILLAGE AND OTHER POEMS (1989)
The Village
Nothing Will Happen
Not in Heaven
Helensburgh
The Drowned
Villagers
Photograph of Emigrants
Incubator
The Story
At the Party
After the Edinburgh Festival
Stupidly
In this Pitiless Age
Slowly
Meeting
Marx
The Women
In Belfast
Girl and Child
Speeding-up
TV
Christmas
The Country of Pain
Poor Artist
Against Apartheid 1
Against Apartheid 2
Snow
Cat and Mouse
The Leaves and Us
In the Garden
Rose
Autumn Stubble
The Cat
Early Spring
The Black Chest
The Traveller
Farewell my Brother
Listen
from THE BIRLINN (uncollected, 1977)
The Storm
ROMAN POEMS (uncollected, 1979)
The Invasion
Marcus Aurelius Speaks
The Atoms
from ENDS AND BEGINNINGS (1994)
Poetry
The Bible
Old Lady
As Time Draws Near
Funeral
An Old Man Praying
Dying Man
In Hospital
Dogmas
Come, Fool
From the Mad Ward
London
Aberdeen
Putting out the Ashes
Hallowe’en
The Fence
Welcome
The Gaelic Proverb
The Poet
Milton
The Scholar
Dream
The Young Girls
Books
Others
Insomnia
from THE HUMAN FACE (1996)
‘That ethnic differences should’
from THE LEAF AND THE MARBLE (1998)
from A COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (2000)
The Old Man
Those Who Talk to the Wind
Autumn
Names
Ashes
Old Lady
On a Photograph by Dan Morrison
Shorts
Old Folks’ Party
In Winter
Neighbour
MacDiarmid
All Day
The Old Men
Interviewer
Time to Stop
The Old Woman
Parkhead
For A.J. Macleod
For Edwin Morgan
Old Woman
Leaves
Not a Day for Dante
Page after Page
He Spoke
from MY CANADIAN UNCLE (2000)
UNCOLLECTED POEMS
Crofter’s Wife
From the Train
Art
The Lesson
Shylock
Lear
The Forest of Arden
On an Icy Day
On Seeing a Russian Version of Richard III at the Edinburgh Festival
Van Gogh and the Visitors
In Paisley Library
Return to Aberdeen
The Old Lady
Predestination
The Red Horse
I Remember I Remember
My Brother
Old Characters
Martha
The Unemployed
Autumn
Reminder
For Peter, Leaving for the RAF
The Tape Runs
Sometimes When I Am Alone
On National Service
Hallowe’en
Top of the Pops
By the Sea in Autumn
The Autumn of Experience
‘She goes off to be a missionary’
Fairy Story
Morality Play in Cambridge in the Open Air
At Ely Cathedral
Incident
Those
‘The Tiger’ by Franz Marc
‘Don Quixote’ by Daumier
Detail from ‘The Triumph of Death’ by Breughel
Goya
Botticelli’s ‘Primavera’
The Cry of the Woman
The Poet
‘If in this summer’
INDEX OF TITLES
INDEX OF FIRST LINES
About the Author
Also by lain Crichton Smith from Carcanet Press
Copyright
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