Contents

Acknowledgements I

Introduction

The Crash Wake

Shielding

Someplace

Foxes

Seventh Anniversary

Owl in Lockdown

Past the Treeline

Before You Fly Home – Goa

From Post-op to the Ward

Kingfisher

Kicking in

Eid al-Fitr at the Martha Lutheran Church

Far Shore

Maiden Flight

Shoreline Sapphic

Shoreside

A Blackbird among the Berries

Poems from Transitions

Pictured – You Holding your Dad’s Hand

You’re Here

Love Island

Tribute

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Ruth Dorfmann by Samuel Willenberg

Remembrance Day Sequence

Letter from a Private, Dunkirk

The Shark-singer

Backwash Parade

Aberfan Fifty Years on

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