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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: New Poems
End Poem
The Comings and Goings of Poems
Hurrying Across Hill Country
Black Sand
Blue Hills, Blue Haze of Memory
The Accident
The Arrival
At Coventry
The Ice-Cream Man
What's Poetry For?
Slight and Ornamental
The Limitations of Poetry
To the Editor Who Asked Me to Send Him Some of My Black Poems
A Nineteenth-Century Portrait
Amadou's Mother
Monumental Man
An Older and a Wiser Man
Telling the Time
Freeze Warning
Obituary Page
The Listening Dead
The Dark Hole in the Garden
"When the Doomed Are Most Eloquent"
Walking to Jerusalem
Holy Fever
A Little Night Music
I Wish You a Leaf Falling
Memories Like Comfort Stones
My Lady Says
Pilot Boat
River Song
Miss Lady Is Weeping
True Love
Worst-Case Scenario
Out of Stock
Half-a Half-a Girl
Home Truths
Bay Street Boy
Soundings
Yabba
Choices
Flip Side
Guinea-Hen Weed
Nearly
from It Was The Singing (2000)
Responsibility
Joe Waugh, Engine Driver
Sunday Afternoon Walks with My Father
The Town that Had Known Better Days
Picking Up the Pieces
The Ocean Will Not Be Hurried
Seasons
Aubade
You Ever Notice How?
At the Atlantis Hotel, Bathsheba
Old Talk, or West Indian History
Long Service Award
View from the George Headley Stand, Sabina
Nightwalker
It Was the Singing
Time Frame
On Being Mistaken for Eddie Brathwaite
Visiting Professor
Hedge Trimming
The House
Journey
Travelling Man
from A Tale from the Rainforest (1988)
This Poem
Elemental
Imagine
Truth and Consequences
"I Am Very Proud, Revengeful, Ambitious"
Getting There
The Poet Bemused
Capricorn
The House of Poems
An Open Letter to Feelings of Insecurity
Woman, Bird
A Tale from the Rainforest
Running River Water
The Warner-Woman
Cold Comfort
Ingrid Bergman's Hat-Brim at the end of Casablanca
Instamatic
Yard-Boy
For Simon Cole
June Roses
Words
An Ageing Lady
Small-Town Story
The Carpenter's Complaint
The Pulpit Eulogists of Frank Worrell
People Poem
Turning Point
Country Dance
Colour Scheme
Nigger Sweat
Sometimes in the Middle of the Story
Lignum Vitae
A Way of Going.
Edition Notes
Includes poems selected from Baugh's two previous collections (A tale from the rain forest and It was the singing) with a collection's worth of new poems.
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