The Hip Flask: Short Poems from Ireland Book

	Preface
	After Long Silence	1
	A Drinking Song	2
	Memory	3
	The Spur	4
	The Great Day	5
	Dread	6
	A Question	7
	Penal Law	8
	I Tell Her She Is Lovely	9
	Advice to Lovers	10
	The King of Connacht	11
	Consider the Grass Growing	13
	Sanctity	14
	I Would Like My Love to Die	15
	Night Club	16
	Corner Seat	17
	Coda	18
	Lyric	19
	Chinese Fluteplayer	20
	Grey and White	22
	The Lovers	23
	The Fountains	24
	Way Back Then	25
	Loneliness	26
	Storm Petrel	27
	Lullaby	28
	Fire and Ice	29
	Late	30
	Child	31
	from The Cave of Night: Falls Funeral	32
	Cathleen	33
	A Birthday Poem	35
	In Memoriam: Judy Garland	36
	For Jan Betley	37
	from Poems for Northern Ireland: The Northern Ireland Question	38
	The Gift	39
	Vacuum Cleaner	40
	Widgeon	41
	Song	42
	An August Night	44
	The Strand	45
	Kindertotenlieder	46
	The Ghost Orchid	47
	Out There	48
	The Cenotaph	49
	A Prayer	50
	The Last Vision of Eoghan Rua O Suilleabhain	51
	from Inchicore Haiku	52
	A Dying Art	53
	Nostalgias	54
	from Light Music: Please	55
	Donegal	56
	Rogue Leaf	57
	The Lesson	58
	'How irrelevant childhood seems ...'	59
	'Every leaf is wet ...'	61
	'In California I hardly thought about home ...'	62
	'A girl ...'	63
	'How good to have the house quiet ...'	64
	O. Bruadair: Death of a Young Friend	65
	The Pieta of Villeneuve-Les-Avignon	66
	Year's Ending	67
	Aughawall Graveyard	68
	Ireland 1972	69
	from Living in Hiroshima: Lovers	70
	Adjusted	71
	Even the Whales	73
	The Poet with Bad Teeth	74
	Going Without Saying	75
	Safe Sex	76
	The Power of Words to Express Feelings	77
	Two Moons	78
	Colours	79
	Fire	80
	The Prayer	81
	Pot Burial	82
	Of Difference Does It Make	83
	Smoke	84
	Felicia's Cafe	85
	The Head	86
	Blemish	87
	Ireland	88
	from Hopewell Haiku	89
	The Third Secret	92
	from Carnival	93
	Crom - April 1969	95
	Birth and Death	96
	A Walk-on Part	98
	Paper Shortage	99
	Home	100
	from Churchyard View: The New Estate	101
	from Northern Haiku	102
	Stillness	103
	'Would you jump into my grave as quick?'	104
	from Letter to Lisbon	105
	from Still Lives	106
	from Time and the Island: The Pact	107
	Port of Belfast	108
	Infidelities	109
	The Death of Irish	110
	from Basho's Rejected Jottings: Libraries	111
	Lights-out	112
	Unfinished Haiku	113
	Reconciliation	114
	Exile's Return	115
	Seasons	116
	Words of a Brother	118
	Knowledge	119
	from The Shards: The Birds	120
	Prayer	121
	from Home Ballads: A Lesson	122
	Here Today	123
	A Visit	124
	Padre Pio	125
	from A Paris Notebook: Nothing to Declare	127
	Clothes	128
	Acknowledgements	131
	Index of Titles	139
	Index of First Lines	143