The Touch of Time: New & Selected Poems 9781780371306, 1780371306
The Touch of Time is a comprehensive retrospective of the work of one of Scotland's leading poets drawing on ten pr
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English Pages 394 pages Year 2014
Table of contents :
Cover
Description
Title Page
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Contents
I
Todd
Ferret
Farm
Harelaw
Country Dance
Ayrshire Farm
Todd
Reading Matter
Stoats in the Sunlight
The Shed
Forebears
On Craigie Hill
Craggy Country
Family Tree
Farm Funeral
II
Afternoon
Thunder in the Air
Under Creag Mhor
In a Simple Light
Setting
Margins
The Chinese Tower
Old Actor
North Uist
Driving Through Sutherland
Summer, Assynt
At Coruisk
Marriage a Mountain Ridge
Orkney Shore
The Predators
III
The Lilypond
Kilchrenan
A Sense of Order
Portents
After the Party
Family Visit. To My FatherReawakening
In the Kibble Palace
Tremors
Before Dark
Arrivals
Witnesses
Two Poems
Seize the Day
Return Visit
IV
Under the Ice
In the Gallery
Kitchen Maid
Visiting Hour
Afternoon Visit
Snowman
Snowfall
At the Airport
Lothian Burn
Moving In
Offshore
End of Season, Drumelzier
Cherry Tree, at Dusk
Bedtime Story
The Eye-shade
Recovery
At Amersham
In Monte Mario
Springtime
V
The Luncheon of the Boating Party
Renoir in Orkney
Burial Mound
Monflanquin
Fort Napoléon
Lot-et-Garonne
Picture Framer
The Boathouse
Skye Poems
October Week
VI. Sights and SoundsOn the Water
Interior
Pilanesberg
Leopard
Jedebe Camp
VII
Ayrshire Coast
Map of Coningham
Spring
from Early Days
Wild Flowers
Terra Firma
Peace and Plenty
Stolen Light
First Light
Return to Provence
Jawbone Walk
Inheritance
Losing Touch
Funerals
White-out
Night Sky
Intricacies
Above the Storm
VIII from Ghosts at Cockcrow
Visitation
In the Garden
Ministrations
Heirloom
Growing Up
City Interlude
Autumn Walk
Edinburgh Thaw
Close Names
Cappella Nova at Greyfriars' Kirk
Footage of RLS
Writer's Block
Ghosts at Cockcrow
ROULL OF CORSTORPHIN. In the Museum of ScotlandEclipse
My Lady
On the Summit
Piazza del Campidoglio
The Actor's Farewell
Angel with Lute
IX from The Breakfast Room
The Duck Shooters
Conundrum
Just How It Was
The Camellia House
Dougalston
Rain, Rain, Rain
Homecoming Scotland
Gondola
Early Call
The Breakfast Room
Delivery
Sleepless Knight
Awakenings
Double-take
The Loving-cup
Early Morning
Arcadia
Soloist
Beaux Arts Trio
The Life Ahead
Homecoming
Sounds of Music
Sir Robert de Septvans
Carpe Diem
X New Poems
On the Viaduct
Revenants
Knowing the Code
Juggler
An Absence of Crocuses. Field MarksNocturne
A Hair in the Gate
In the Garden
Wellcome
Irish Giant
Off the Leash
Tide
Off Iona
Estuary
Fisherman
Resolve
Sea Crossing
Italian Suite
The Rooms of the Sweet Oranges
Upholstery
Fox
Hydrangeas
Interloper
Three Poems for Ellis
About the Author
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