Homage to Hieronymus Bosch --
Recessional / Thomas MacGreevy (1893-1967) --
from The Young Woman of Beare --
The Planter's Daughter --
Early Unfinished Sketch --
Martha Blake at Fifty-one --
from Tiresias, II / Austin Clarke (1896-1974) --
To the Man After the Harrow --
from The Great Hunger: I, from III, XIV --
The Hospital / Patrick Kavanagh (1904-1967) --
Yeats at Athenry Perhaps --
from Three Houses: I Gurteen --
A Bit of Brass / Padraic Fallon (1905-1974) --
from Death of Hektor: 6 --
from For What for Whom Unwanted: 1, 8 / Brian Coffey (1905-1995) --
my way is in the sand flowing --
what would I do without this world faceless incurious --
Roundelay / Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) --
from Freehold: from II The Lonely Heart --
An Irishman in Coventry --
A Local Poet / John Hewitt (1907-1987) --
from Autumn Journal: XVI --
from Autumn Sequel: from Canto XX --
from A Hand of Snapshots: The Once-in-Passing --
Star-gazer / Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) --
from Memoirs of a Turcoman Diplomat: Oteli Asia Palas, Inc. --
Renewal by her Element / Denis Devlin (1908-1959) --
Stormy Night / W. R. Rodgers (1909-1969) --
Cranna Foirtil / Mairtin O'Direain (1910-1988) --
Fiabhras / Sean O. Riordain (1917-1977) --
Icarus / Valentin Iremonger (1918-1991) --
The Fall / Fergus Allen (b. 1921) --
Ceathruinti Mhaire Ni Ogain / Maire Mhac an tSaoi (b. 1922) --
Sometimes Feel / Pearse Hutchinson (b. 1927) --
The Poet on the Island --
from The Battle of Aughrim: Casement's Funeral --
from The Price of Stone: Roof-tree, Convenience, Kylemore Castle, Natural Son / Richard Murphy (b. 1927) --
from Notes from the Land of the Dead: Hen Woman, Ancestor, Tear --
from One: 38 Phoenix Street, His Father's Hands --
from Anniversaries: 1956 --
from Out of Ireland: Harmonies --
from One Fond Embrace / Thomas Kinsella (b. 1928) --
Like Dolmens Round My Childhood, the Old People --
from A Chosen Light: I 11 rue Daguerre --
from The Cave of Night: III Cave --
Herbert Street Revisited / John Montague (b. 1929) --
From the Irish / James Simmons (b. 1933) --
from Cromwell: Three Tides, Vintage / Brendan Kennelly (b. 1936) --
from Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication: I Sunlight --
from Sweeney Redivivus: The Cleric --
From the Frontier of Writing --
From the Canton of Expectation --
from Lightenings: VIII, IX --
Keeping Going / Seamus Heaney (b. 1939) --
Wreaths: The Civil Servant, The Greengrocer, The Linen Workers --
from Mayo Monologues: Self-heal --
Homeric Poems: Laertes, Argos, The Butchers, Phemios & Medon --
River & Fountain / Michael Longley (b. 1939) --
I have exhausted the delighted range... --
For My Grandmother, Bridget Halpin --
from A Farewell to English: I --
Lament for Tadgh Cronin's Children --
The Man who Wrote Yeats, the Man who Wrote Mozart --
Sneachta Gealai '77 / Michael Hartnett (b. 1941) --
Breaking Points / Eamon Grennan (b. 1941) --
A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford --
Tractatus / Derek Mahon (b. 1941) --
Saint Margaret of Cortona / Eilean ni Chuilleanain (b. 1942) --
Listen. This Is the Noise of Myth --
The Black Lace Fan May Mother Gave Me --
Anna Liffey / Eavan Boland (b. 1944) --
Tullynoe: Tete-a-Tete in the Parish Priest's Parlour --
The Haulier's Wife Meets Jesus on the Road Near Moone --
Around the Corner from Francis Bacon --
from Six Nuns Die in Convent Inferno: 1 --
The Late Mr Charles Lynch Digresses --
The Levite and His Concubine at Gibeah / Paul Durcan (b. 1944) --
The Weakness / Bernard O'Donoghue (b. 1945) --
Passing the Crematorium --
from A Paris Honeymoon: L'Orangerie / Frank Ormsby (b. 1947) --
Ovid: Metamorphoses, v, 529-550 --
Bagpipe Music / Ciaran Carson (b. 1948) --
Where Art Is a Midwife --
Off the Back of a Lorry --
The Lonely Tower / Tom Paulin (b. 1949) --
Caitheadh / Biddy Jenkinson (b. 1949) --
from Porcelain Bells: 3 Speaking into the Candles / Medbh McGuckian (b. 1950) --
Lunch with Pancho Villa --
The More a Man Has the Moore a Man Wants --
Cauliflowers / Paul Muldoon (b. 1951) --
Failte Bheal na Sionna don Iase --
Caitlin / Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill (b. 1952) --
Tube Ride to Martha's / Matthew Sweeney (b. 1952) --
A Word from the Loki / Maurice Riordan (b. 1953) --
The Standing Trains / Thomas McCarthy (b. 1954) --
I'r Hen laith A'i Chaneuon --
Reforma Agraria / Ian Duhig (b. 1954) --
Laburnum / Paula Meehan (b. 1955) --
from Sydney Place: Beans, The Mobile, Railings, The Dead Pianist, The Bus Station, The Poet Upstairs, Tea, The Lost Wife, The Old School, The Night Sky / Sean Dunne (1956-1995) --
Caoineadh / Cathal O. Searcaigh (b. 1956) --
A Few Helpful Hints / Peter Sirr (b. 1960) --
Peacetime / Peter McDonald (b. 1962) --
Anna Akhmatova's Funeral.