Contents

The Alexandra Sequence

Alexandra One

Alexandra Two

Alexandra Three

Alexandra Four

Alexandra Five

Alexandra Six

Alexandra Seven

Other Poems

The Big Freeze

Once a Cloud

Avatar

Kieran’s Day

Woodworm Inferno

Bouillon

The Staircase

The Lodge

The Night Porter

Rogue Lock

Avril

Listen, Battlers, It’s All a Big Mission

Longer Darker and Richer

The Cigarettes of Others

Acknowledgements

0 9

1 4

1 8

2 2

2 6

2 9

3 3

4 3

4 4

4 5

4 6

5 3

5 4

5 6

5 7

5 9

6 0

6 2

6 5

6 7

6 9

7 1