Coming in to land: selected poems 1975-2015

I. Poems (1975-2008): Anne Frank Huis

Serenade

Close

A blow to the head

Judgement

A glass of wine

The fox provides for himself

On the island

Footsteps

The balcony

A Dutch interior

Mythology

Passion on

The mower

II. Laurels and donkeys (2009-2015): A moment of reflection

Setting the scene

Laurels and donkeys

An equal voice

The life of Harry Patch

The death of Harry Patch

Rhapsody

In the stacks

Beyond all calculation

John Buxton

Matinee idol

Changi

The station at Vitebsk

Coming in to land

The Korean memorial at Hiroshima

Now then

A pine cone

After the war

In Normandy

The camp

Demobbed

The minister

Losses

Op. Billy

The golden hour

Vallon men

Home front

Peace talks

The fence

Poems (2009-2015)

Five places for Kyeong-soo

Whale music

An Echidna for Chris Wallce Crabbe

The discoveries of geography

The conclusion of Joseph Turrill

The death of Francesco Borromini

A late portrait of Audrey Wills

The realms of God

The fish in Australia

Swim

Of all the birds

The mill

Laying the fire

Through the Lych gate.