Out of the Blue by Dunmore, Helen -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Description Title Page Table of Contents ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OUT OF THE BLUE

Out of the Blue The man on the roof Giraffes in Hull Jacob’s drum That old cinema of memory Depot A lorry-load of stuff Virgin with Two Cardigans Ice coming Cyclamen, blood-red Piers Plowman Smoke Bristol Docks The spill Without remission The rain’s coming in As good as it gets If only Mr Lear’s Ring Fortune-teller on Church Road Sleeveless The point of not returning The form The sentence With short, harsh breaths The footfall The coffin-makers Inside out The blessing

FROM SECRETS

Lemon sole Christmas caves That violet-haired lady Whooper swans Snow Queen The cuckoo game The butcher’s daughter The greenfield ghost Herring girl Russian doll Breeze of ghosts

FROM THE APPLE FALL

The marshalling yard A cow here in the June meadow Zelda The Polish husband The damson In Rodmell Garden The apple fall Pharaoh’s daughter Domestic poem Patrick I Patrick II Weaning Approaches to winter The night chemist St Paul’s Poem for December 28 Greenham Common Poem for hidden women If no revolution come A safe light Near Dawlish The last day of the exhausted month The deserted table The writer’s son Ollie and Charles at St Andrew’s Park Winter fairs In a wood near Turku Landscape from the Monet Exhibition at Cardiff Breakfast

FROM THE SEA SKATER

The bride’s nights in a strange village Christmas roses I imagine you sent back from Africa In memoriam Cyril Smith 1913–1945 The parachute packers Porpoise washed up on the beach In deep water Lady Macduff and the primroses Mary Shelley The plum tree The air-blue gown My sad descendants Patrick at four years old on Bonfire Night The horse landscape Thetis In the tents Uncle Will’s telegram Rapunzel The sea skater In the tea house Florence in permafrost Missile launcher passing at night

FROM THE RAW GARDEN

Code-breaking in the Garden of Eden Seal run Wild strawberries A mortgage on a pear tree A pæony truss on Sussex Place Permafrost At Cabourg Ploughing the roughlands The land pensions A dream of wool New crops Shadows of my mother against a wall Air layering The argument The peach house A meditation on the glasshouses The haunting of Epworth Preaching at Gwennap On circuit from Heptonstall Chapel US 1st Division Airborne Ranger at rest in Honduras One more for the beautiful table Lambkin Dublin 1971 The hard-hearted husband Malta Candlemas Pilgrims An Irish miner in Staffordshire

FROM SHORT DAYS, LONG NIGHTS

Those shady girls The dream-life of priests Sisters leaving before the dance On not writing certain poems Privacy of rain Dancing man At Cabourg II Baron Hardup Nearly May Day Three workmen with blue pails Brown coal Safe period Big barbershop man The dry well Heron One yellow chicken Sailing to Cuba Off the West Pier Winter 1955 Rinsing To Betty, swimming In Berber’s Ice Cream Parlour Not going to the forest Lutherans

FROM RECOVERING A BODY

To Virgil Three Ways of Recovering a Body Holiday to Lonely Poem in a Hotel The Bike Lane Drink and the Devil Ahvenanmaa Rubbing Down the Horse You came back to life in its sweetness Heimat In the Desert Knowing Nothing Poem on the Obliteration of 100,000 Iraqi Soldiers The Yellow Sky Getting the Strap Adders The conception Scan at 8 weeks Pedalo Beetroot Soup The Diving Reflex Bathing at Balnacarry Boys on the Top Board Sylvette Scrubbing Babes in the Wood Cajun Skips Time by Accurist The Silent Man in Waterstones The Wardrobe Mistress When You’ve Got

FROM BESTIARY

Epigraph Candle poem At the Emporium Next door He lived next door all his life The surgeon husband Fishing beyond sunset Hare in the snow Need Sometimes in the rough garden of city spaces I should like to be buried in a summer forest The scattering All the things you are not yet Diving girl A pretty shape Viking cat in the dark Baby sleep Frostbite Basketball player on Pentecost Monday Tiger lookout Tiger Moth caterpillar Hungry Thames The wasp Little Ellie and the timeshare salesman Bouncing boy Ghost at noon Greek beads Tea at Brandt’s We are men, not beasts

Index of titles and first lines

A, B, C D, E, F G, H, I J, K, L M, N, O P, Q, R S, T, U V, W, X Y, Z