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Index
Title Page
Foreword, by Douglas Dunn
Introduction
Acknowledgements
THE SEVEN JOURNEYS (1944)
The Narrator
The First Journey
The Second Journey
The Third Journey
The Fourth Journey
The Fifth Journey
The Sixth Journey
The Seventh Journey
CAGE WITHOUT GRIEVANCE (1942)
Over the Apparatus of the Spring is Drawn
Of the Resonant Rumour of Sun, Impulse of Summer
O Gentle Queen of the Afternoon
As If in an Instant Parapets of Plants
1st Letter
Here next the Chair I was when Winter Went
There was when Morning Fell
Say that in Lovers with Stones for Family
This Fond Event My Origin Knows Well
Let Me Measure My Prayer with Sleep
Endure no Conflict. Crosses are Keepsakes
To Girls at the Turn of Night Love Goes on Knocking
No, Listen, for This I Tell
2nd Letter
I, No More Real than Evil in My Roof
2ND POEMS (1945)
Explanation of a Map
Soon to be Distances
The Serving Inhabiters
Next My Spade’s Going
His Companions Buried Him
The Name Like a River
Allow Silk Birds that See
Many without Elegy
The Bright Building
A Letter More Likely to Myself
My Glass Word Tells of Itself
The Dual Privilege
Continual Sea and Air
Warning Not Prayer Enough
The Crowd of Birds and Children
By Law of Exile
The Halftelling Sight
Except Nessie Dunsmuir
At Her Beck and Miracle
One is One
Remarkable Report by Some Poetic Agents
The Day and Night Craftsmen
THE WHITE THRESHOLD (1949)
Since All My Steps Taken
Listen. Put on Morning
Lying in Corn
My Final Bread
With All Many Men Laid Down in the Burial Heart
The Hill of Intrusion
The Search by a Town
The Children of Greenock
The Children of Lanarkshire
The Lost Other
To a Tear
Two Love Poems
Other Guilts as Far
The Birthright Twins Outrun
Shian Bay
Gigha
Men Sign the Sea
Night’s Fall Unlocks the Dirge of the Sea
At Whose Sheltering Shall the Day Sea
Three Poems of Drowning
Michael’s Sea-Lamb before My Breath this Day
The Voyages of Alfred Wallis
The Bright Midnight
Definition of My House
Definition of My Brother
At that Bright Cry Set on the Heart’s Headwaters
For the Inmost Lost
The White Threshold
Three Letters
To My Brother
To My Father
To My Mother
THE NIGHTFISHING (1955)
The Nightfishing
Seven Letters
Letter I: ‘Welcome then anytime’
Letter II: ‘Burned in this element’
Letter III: ‘As Mooney’s calls Time’
Letter IV: ‘Night winked and endeared’
Letter V: ‘Lie where you fell’
Letter VI: ‘A day the wind was hardly’
Letter VII: ‘Blind tide emblazoning’
Two Ballads
The Broad Close
Baldy Bane
MALCOLM MOONEY’S LAND (1970)
Malcolm Mooney’s Land
The Beast in the Space
The Lying Dear
Yours Truly
Dear Who I Mean
The Constructed Space
Master Cat and Master Me
The Thermal Stair
I Leave This at Your Ear
The Dark Dialogues
The Don Brown Route
Press Button to Hold Desired Symbol
Hilton Abstract
Approaches to How They Behave
The Fifteen Devices
Wynter and the Grammarsow
Five Visitors to Madron
Clusters Travelling Out
IMPLEMENTS IN THEIR PLACES (1977)
What is the Language Using Us for?
Imagine a Forest
Untidy Dreadful Table
A Note to the Difficult One
Are You Still There?
Language Ah Now You Have Me
Two Poems on Zennor Hill
Ten Shots of Mister Simpson
The Night City
Enter a Cloud
Greenock at Night I Find You
Loch Thom
To Alexander Graham
Sgurr na Gillean Macleod
Private Poem to Norman Macleod
Johann Joachim Quantz’s Five Lessons
The Gobbled Child
The Lost Miss Conn
The Murdered Drinker
How Are the Children Robin
The Stepping Stones
Lines on Roger Hilton’s Watch
The Secret Name
The Found Picture
Implements in Their Places
Dear Bryan Wynter
From COLLECTED POEMS (1979)
To My Wife at Midnight
APPENDIX: UNCOLLECTED AND MANUSCRIPT POEMS
UNCOLLECTED POEMS (1990)
I am Rich
Hymn
Then Who Will Hide the Innocent
The Dark Intention
The Soldier Campion
O Why am I So Bright
If It is Only for You I Speak
Falling into the Sea
For John Heath-Stubbs
To Leonard Clark
The Visit
The Alligator Girls
Look at the Cloud his Evening Playing Cards
I Will Lend You Malcolm
July Thirteenth Madron
The December Fox
The Musical Farmer
A Page about My Country
The Street of Knives
The Fifth of May
An Entertainment for David Wright on His Being Sixty
Beholding Thee
From Gigha Young
Look at the Children
Alice Where Art Thou
Penzance/London
A Walk to the Gulvas
AIMED AT NOBODY: POEMS FROM NOTEBOOKS (1993)
Proem
The Ballad of Willie Peden
[The Circumstances Are Still Infinite]
Surrealgraphs
[One Good Sound]
The Eighth Letter
Pangur
Myself the Day Desires
[To Find and Find]
[Kandinsky’s Ribbons]
[From the Sleeping House]
The Dredge
[More Shots of Mister Simpson]
A Dream of Crete
In Crete
[In the Street of Knives]
[On the Other Side of Language]
[Nature Is Never Journalistic]
Fill In This Form
[I Am Told You Speak My Language]
About the Stuff
[This Little Evening]
The Honey Game
As Told to Davie Dunsmuir
Waiting for Snow
[The Particular Object]
[Malcolm Mooney’s Figment]
The Greenock Dialogues
[From Dark Dialogues]
[Son, or Who You Are]
[What’s the News?]
The Bridge
[I Write as I Speak]
[Here Behind the Alphabet]
[X]
[Send Me a Note]
The Word’s Name
[If it is Only for You I Speak]
Five Verses Beginning with the Word Language
The Conscript Goes
Slaughterhouse
[The Prisoner]
[My Long Home Loch]
SELECTED POEMS (1996)
As Brilliance Fell
OTHER UNCOLLECTED AND NOTEBOOK POEMS
[And I Would Be a Soldier with a Gun]
To ND
Fourth Sonnet
Letter X
from A Dream of Crete
from With the Dulle Griet in Canada
Notes
Glossary
People
Places
Bibliography
Index of Titles
Index of First Lines
About the Author
By the Same Author
Copyright
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