Collected Poems by Donaghy, Michael -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title page Contents

Introduction by Sean O’Brien SHIBBOLETH

Contents

Machines Pentecost A Miracle Analysand More Machines Deceit The Present Touch Music and Sex and Drinking ‘Smith’ Cadenza Letter Shibboleth Quorum Auto da Fé Ramon Fernandez? Partisans Majority News Item Pornography Footage from the Interior Khalypso The Bacchae A Disaster Starlet Interviews Remembering Steps to Dances Learned Last Night The Tuning Rational Construction The Dreamer and the Dreamed Have Dinner Seven Poems from the Welsh The Toast The Natural and Social Sciences The Last Tea of Rikyu The Noh Inheritance The Origin of Geometry The Penitent The Don’t Fall Inn Riddle Envoi

ERRATA

Contents

I. Places in the Temple

Held Acts of Contrition The Incense Contest Glass The Commission Cruising Byzantium City of God Liverpool L Alas, Alice, A Discourse on Optics

II. O’Ryan’s Belt

The Hunter’s Purse A Repertoire A Reprieve Theodora, Theodora Down The Classics

III. True

The Chambers of Errors Reliquary Ovation Co-Pilot Cage, Meridian Lives of the Artists Signifyin’ Monkey Shooting The Crane People Banzai Becoming Catastrophic True Privacy The Raindial The Brother Fraction Erratum Some Notes

CONJURE

Dedication page Contents

The Excuse Not Knowing the Words Caliban’s Books Black Ice and Rain Our Life Stories Duffel coat. Tennents Extra. No dog. The Tragedies My Flu The Palm Resolution Refusals 5:00/5:10/5:15 The Break Celibates Reprimands The Drop Where is it written that I must end here, from The Deadly Virtues Timing Irena of Alexandria A Nun’s Story Local 32B Regarding Our Late Correspondence Tears The River in Spate The Pallace of Memoria garnished with Perpetuall Shininge Glorious Lightes Innumerable Annie April 28th, 1940 Needlework proportion The Years Mine A Messenger Quease Umbrage Haunts Some Notes

SAFEST

A note on title and content Epigraph Contents

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Upon A Claude Glass The Whip I Hold in my Hand an Egg Hazards The apparatus A Darkroom

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From The Safe House Music Sounds and Helen Passeth over the Stage Angelus Novus Guilt Wasn’t Why She Was Weeping Disquietude The Moko

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Poem On The Underground Fragment Irish Folk Music: A Fascinating Hobby, With Some Account of Related Subjects, by Police Chief Francis O’Neill, Chicago, 1910 Grimoire

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Midriver The River Glideth Of His Own Sweet Will Southwesternmost Akhmatova Variations The New Grey The Swear Box A Sicilian Defence Exile’s End Two Spells For Sleeping

UNCOLLECTED POEMS

Contents

No Fin Windy Chrysanthemums Cicadas In An Unsigned Yearbook Kaleidoscope Rite for Bill Blinder Sharks Asleep Darkness and the Subject Ex Libris Gimmick Habit Two alternative Westminster Bridge sonnets Ogata B Side Vocal Fugue Veritas

Acknowledgements Index of titles Index of first lines

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