Various and Uncollected Poems

CONTENTS

Author’s introduction

Prometheus Says Goodbye

A Garden on the Foyle

Frost on Grass

Battle’s End

Morning Oblation

William the Bold

A Walk by the River

Body Armour

The Salmon’s Leap

Nurse

The Ballad of Rogan and Miss Ellie

Breathings

The Burr and the Coronavirus

Easter Letters

Where Kate Bush meets Philip Glass

Goodbye to Dampier

Absence 

Present Tense Perfect

A New Beginning

Cloudy Moon

Wife Beater
(Commissioned for Stormont Conference)

Inside and Out
(Commissioned for Stormont Conference)

A Table of Tenses

The Bog

Cloudy moon, Rising Sun

Culmore Fantasia