| The projectionist's nightmare | p. 1 |
| Where are you now, Batman? | p. 2 |
| Sleep now | p. 4 |
| Little Johnny's confession | p. 5 |
| Come into the city, Maud | p. 6 |
| Johnny learns the language | p. 8 |
| Little Johnny's night visitor | p. 9 |
| Winter note | p. 10 |
| A creature to tell the time by | p. 11 |
| Little Johnny's final letter | p. 12 |
| Portrait of a young girl raped at a suburban party | p. 13 |
| Prose poem towards a definition of itself | p. 14 |
| Note to the hurrying man | p. 16 |
| The pint-sized ark | p. 17 |
| The beast | p. 18 |
| Ode on celestial music | p. 19 |
| Interruption at the opera house | p. 20 |
| If you had to hazard a guess, who would you say your poetry is for? | p. 22 |
| The obsolete nightingale | p. 23 |
| After Frost | p. 28 |
| A talk with a wood | p. 29 |
| Travelling between places | p. 30 |
| Frogs in the wood | p. 31 |
| The shadow-puppet's complaint | p. 32 |
| Song for last year's wife | p. 34 |
| Ripe for conversion | p. 35 |
| Albatross ramble | p. 36 |
| Bottle-talk | p. 40 |
| The want | p. 41 |
| Salvage operation | p. 42 |
| Nursery rhyme for the sleepless | p. 43 |
| Night Piece | p. 44 |
| You come to me quiet as rain not yet fallen | p. 45 |
| Friends | p. 46 |
| Turning the pages | p. 48 |
| Early in the evening | p. 50 |
| Note from the laboratory assistant's notebook | p. 52 |
| The complaint | p. 53 |
| A few questions about Adam | p. 54 |
| The mule's favourite dream | p. 55 |
| You'd better believe him | p. 56 |
| A small dragon | p. 57 |
| Brer Rabbit's howler | p. 58 |
| Brer Rabbit's revenge | p. 59 |
| Blake's purest daughter | p. 60 |
| Going back and going on | p. 62 |
| The wrong number | p. 63 |
| Staring at the crowd | p. 68 |
| Old ladies in the churchyard | p. 69 |
| The choice | p. 70 |
| Drunk | p. 71 |
| The last gift | p. 74 |
| Something never lost | p. 76 |
| Whose body has opened | p. 77 |
| Song about home | p. 78 |
| One reason for sympathy | p. 79 |
| The bee's last journey to the rose | p. 80 |
| Road song | p. 81 |
| Advice from the original gatecrasher | p. 82 |
| Into my mirror has walked | p. 83 |
| Burning genius | p. 84 |
| Sometimes it happens | p. 86 |
| I caught a train that passed the town where you lived | p. 87 |
| Geography Lesson | p. 88 |
| Mr Ifonly | p. 89 |
| A boat in the snow | p. 90 |
| Hide-away Sam | p. 91 |
| The apple-flavoured worm | p. 92 |
| A poet I know | p. 93 |
| In Tintagel graveyard | p. 96 |
| The boy who broke things | p. 97 |
| Insects in the stable | p. 98 |
| Reading the classics | p. 99 |
| The bird table | p. 100 |
| The tragedy | p. 101 |
| January gladsong | p. 102 |
| Hair today, no her tomorrow | p. 103 |
| The cynic's only love poem | p. 105 |
| Dress senseless | p. 105 |
| I tried to find my voice | p. 106 |
| Angel wings | p. 108 |
| The stolen orange | p. 110 |
| A blade of grass | p. 111 |
| Meat | p. 112 |
| Poem written in the street on a rainy evening | p. 116 |
| Simple lyric | p. 117 |
| Vanishing trick | p. 118 |
| The sick equation | p. 120 |
| Jesus Christ was out walking | p. 122 |
| The critics' chorus | p. 124 |
| Her coldness explained | p. 126 |
| No taxis available | p. 127 |
| It is time to tidy up your life | p. 128 |
| The package | p. 129 |
| You have gone to sleep | p. 130 |
| Grim comfort | p. 132 |
| Perhaps | p. 133 |
| And nothing is ever as perfect as you want it to be | p. 134 |
| Waves | p. 136 |
| On reading an acquaintance's obituary | p. 136 |
| These boys have never really grown into men | p. 137 |
| Interview with a mythical creature | p. 138 |
| St Peter and the Devil | p. 139 |
| The right mask | p. 140 |
| April morning walk | p. 142 |
| A cottage in the lane, Dittisham | p. 143 |
| In a garden at the river's edge | p. 144 |
| Cinders | p. 145 |
| The betrayal | p. 146 |
| Song of the grateful Char | p. 148 |
| Ward sixteen | p. 150 |
| The armada | p. 152 |
| Inessential things | p. 153 |
| So many different lengths of time | p. 154 |
| Yes | p. 156 |
| Full circle world | p. 157 |
| The minister for exams | p. 158 |
| Tattoos | p. 160 |
| Blindness | p. 161 |
| Creature comforts | p. 161 |
| Night orchard | p. 162 |
| There is a boat down on the quay | p. 163 |
| One another's light | p. 164 |
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