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Index
Cover
Title page
Dedication page
Contents
Introduction
‘My roots spread’ – Roots and Growing Up
Diaspora
To Make a Homeland
Metaphors
Milk-Jug Jackers
A Glasgow Nonsense Rhyme for Molly
Ode on the Whole Duty of Parents
When I Was a Bird
School Parted Us
Timetable
A Glass of Tea
How to Cut a Pomegranate
Bridge
I Am My Own Parent
Huge Blue
Song
To My Daughter On Being Separated from Her on Her Marriage
Flight Radar
Heirloom
Mali
The Pale Horse
On Forgetting That I Am a Tree
‘We’ve had a whirl and a blast, girl’ – Friendship
5th Dudley Girl Guides
Thirteen
Lacing Boots
Witch
Polly
To D. R.
To Mrs K., On Her Sending Me an English Christmas Plum-Cake at Paris
Friendship
from Essay on Friendship
Friends
from The Bas Bleu
Introductions
When Last We Parted
Long Departure
Fiere
‘My heart has made its mind up’ – Love
Phosphorescence
Practice
A Pride of Ladies
Siren Song
Valentine
A Moment
In an Artist’s Studio
The Lust of the Eyes
The Guitarist Tunes Up
Before the sun goes down
Sonnet 43
A Birthday
The Sun Has Burst the Sky
The house was just twinkling in the moon light
Reconciliation
Camomile Tea
To my Dear and Loving Husband
A Decade
Wedding
Anniversary
Song for the Last Act
Kissing
Renouncement
Among His Books
Why?
Love Comes Back
heat
One Art
Dead Love
Let It Be Forgotten
‘Star-high, heart-deep’ – Nature
The Awakening River
High Waving Heather
Address to a Child During a Boisterous Winter Evening
Lines Composed in a Wood on a Windy Day
Breakage
The Trees’ Counselling
The Unseen Life of Trees
Green Rain
from Aurora Leigh
For Forest
Sylhet
How to knit a sheep
Nerval and the Lobster
Nan Hardwicke Turns Into a Hare
Of Many Worlds in This World
Power of the Other
Friday Afternoon
Speak of the North!
A Memory
Wind and Silver
from The Land
Twinkled to Sleep
‘I’m glad I exist’ – Freedom, Mindfulness and Joy
It Is Everywhere
On Foot I Wandered Through the Solar Systems
The Orange
New Every Morning
If Once You Have Slept on an Island
Full Moon
Seven Times One: Exultation
Today
Freedom
To Sleep, Possum to Dream
Submerged
The Moon in Your Hands
You Who Want
Boats in the Bay
Three Good Things
There Is No Frigate Like a Book
This Poem . . .
Uppity
Stanzas
Antidote to the Fear of Death
‘Phenomenal woman’ – Society, Fashion and Body Image
Phenomenal Woman
Lullaby
To a Proud Beauty
A Scherzo: A Shy Person’s Wishes
Mirror
A Poet Advises a Change of Clothes
Tough Dragons
Homage to My Hips
My Body
And then he said: When did your arms get so big?
Poem in Which My Legs Are Accepted
Not Andromeda
‘But still, like air, I rise’ – Courage, Protest and Resistance
‘Hope’ is the Thing with Feathers
The New Colossus
Ain’t I a Woman?
Protest
Eliza Harris
Rosa Parks
My First Day at School
Wanted A Husband
To the Ladies
The Battle of the Sexes
Still I Rise
Saltwater
The Call
Before I Leave the Stage
The Juniper Tree
Ruth
Inventory
93 Percent Stardust
God Says Yes To Me
Warning
May 1915
Immensity
The Brits
There Will Come Soft Rains
‘Behind Me – dips Eternity’ – Endings
Remember
Not Waving but Drowning
The Child in Me
September Rain
Woodland Burial
The Things That Matter
Behind Me – dips Eternity
About the Poets
Index of First Lines
Index of Poets
Acknowledgements
Copyright page
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