Contents

from The Glass Enclosure (1996)

The Tree Line

Basle

When the Saints

The Big House

Cain

A Small Town in the Sudan

Fellow Travellers

The Quiet Limits

The Same Condemnation

Gifts

Humber Doucy Lane

At The Navigation

For Jon, Pam, Tom and Katie up in the air

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from An Occasional Lean-To (2004)

43

Turning the Tables

Athens

Speaking Terms

Thursday Market

St Jude Drifts off Station

The Scattering Scree

The Collar

For Charles Tyner

from My Foolish Heart (2006)

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