New British Poetry Book

	Preface
	Introduction
	Scheherazade	3
	The Silk Light of Advent	4
	Held To	5
	Notes on living inside the lightbulb	6
	The Road Home	6
	Very Simply Topping Up the Brake Fluid	8
	Poem	9
	The Tyre	10
	The Dead Sea Poems	11
	The Ungrateful Citizens	13
	The Sky My Husband	17
	Memories of Italy	19
	[actual symbol not reproducible] (Sherdi)	21
	Muliebrity	22
	What Is Worth Knowing?	23
	Fischerhude, 2001	24
	Parousia	26
	The Old Gods	29
	The Saltcoasts Structuralists	31
	The Handshakes	33
	The Result	33
	Fiat Lux	34
	Alba Einstein	35
	Airy Hall Nightmare	36
	The Cow Perserverance	37
	Sound Bite	39
	Home	40
	The Shorter Life	42
	That Old-Time Religion	42
	Part of the Bridge	44
	Chandlery	45
	Machines	46
	Shibboleth	47
	The Bacchae	47
	Caliban's Books	48
	A Repertoire	49
	Prayer	51
	Warming Her Pearls	52
	Little Red-Cap	53
	Circe	54
	Fundamentals	56
	Chocolate Soldier	57
	The Lammas Hireling	60
	Treacle	62
	The Lamp	63
	Diary Moon	64
	An Interior	65
	Peter and the Dyke	65
	Wind	66
	A Staffordshire Murderer	67
	In a Notebook	70
	Looping the Loop	72
	The Long Man	74
	Early to Bed, Early to Rise	75
	Concerning the Atoms of the Soul	77
	A Day at the Seaside	78
	The Garden	78
	The Empire of Lights	79
	Hydordamalis Gigas	80
	Reading Akhmatova in Midwinter	82
	Three	83
	The Spirit of the Staircase	84
	Zombies	84
	Electricity	85
	Slow Animals Crossing	87
	Cabaret McGonagall	88
	Smirr	91
	The King and Queen of Dumfriesshire	92
	I Will Be Arriving Next Thursday in My Wedding Dress	94
	I Know I Ought to Love You	95
	My Sister's Jeans	95
	A Small Hotel	96
	Please Can I Have a Man	96
	Ancient Evenings	98
	The Machine That Cried	99
	The Late Richard Dadd, 1817-1886	101
	Lament for Crassus	102
	The Way We Live	103
	The Bogey-Wife	104
	Skeins o Geese	105
	Pipistrelles	106
	The Hill-track	107
	Visiting	108
	Portrait of a Lady	109
	Barcelona	110
	Inheritance	111
	Even the Trees	113
	In my country	114
	Finger	114
	The Shoes of Dead Comrades	115
	[from] Other Lovers	116
	Pentecost	118
	'One day, feeling hungry'	119
	Woods	120
	The Flaggy Shore	120
	[from] Welsh Espionage: ix Advice on Adultery	121
	Always	123
	An Older Woman	124
	Piquant	125
	The Man I Could Have Been	125
	My Turn	128
	The Poem Recalls the Poet	129
	Helen and Heloise	129
	Ancient History	133
	Sky Nails	134
	Six Characters in Search of Something	134
	The One-Star	135
	The Lines	138
	A Wall	139
	A Glass of Wine	140
	The Letter	141
	Mythology	142
	Cousin Coat	143
	After Laforgue	144
	The Amateur God	147
	April	148
	Bike Ride on a Roman Road	149
	Sea Sonnet	150
	Wedding	150
	Prayer	151
	Tinderbox	152
	Skin	153
	Angel	153
	The Starling	155
	On the Line	156
	The White Lie	157
	St Brides: Sea-Mail	159
	Imperial	161
	[from] Stet	162
	Salopian	164
	A Whole School of Bourgeois Primitives	165
	What the Uneducated Old Woman Told Me	166
	In the Echoey Tunnel	167
	Mermaids Explained	168
	Fetish	169
	Fall	170
	Fugue for Phantoms	170
	Artichoke	170
	Wedding the Locksmith's Daughter	172
	The Immoralist	172
	Testament	174
	Faith Healers	175
	Memo to Auden	175
	The Anaesthetist	178
	Muse	180
	My Life Asleep	181
	Motherland	181
	The Mad Cow in Love	182
	Phrase Book	183
	Index of Authors and Titles	185
	Index of First Lines	188