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  1. Contents
  2. Introduction
  3. The Distance
  4. Maybe I’ll Be The First
  5. border/softer
  6. untitled poem – on travel
  7. Galway Dreaming
  8. Escape
  9. Your World
  10. Not knowing when the Dawn will come
  11. The Instructions
  12. Away and See
  13. ‘A girl unbridled’ – Feeling Free
  14. Freedom
  15. Mythology
  16. Freedom Poem
  17. The Long Holidays
  18. In Wellies
  19. Lines Composed in a Wood on a Windy Day
  20. Londoner
  21. She Showed Me Her Dreams
  22. Let Me Count the Ways
  23. Bath
  24. Ourstory
  25. Megan Married Herself
  26. ‘A land where I could be a queen’ – Growing Up
  27. The Mother
  28. Hedgehog
  29. The Pomegranate
  30. Persephone to Demeter
  31. The Window
  32. Obedience, or The Lying Tale
  33. kids
  34. The worlds
  35. Praise Song for My Mother
  36. You May Have Heard of Me
  37. ‘What if this road . . .’ – Travels over Land
  38. What if this road
  39. On the Road Through Chang-te
  40. Divorce
  41. *
  42. The Footprint
  43. Autobiography in Five Chapters
  44. The Road Out of Town
  45. Cocoon
  46. Wolves
  47. Ode
  48. A Winter Ride
  49. Driving Back Over the Blue Ridge,
  50. ‘Golden windows in a wall’ – Words Can Set You Free
  51. In a Cardiff Arcade, 1952
  52. Sonnet XXXI
  53. from Aurora Leigh
  54. Books
  55. Poem
  56. from The Emulation
  57. we misread ‘language’ as ‘lavender’
  58. Poem
  59. Kemo Sabe
  60. When to Write
  61. The cypher
  62. Coal
  63. Wings
  64. from Washing Day
  65. ‘My wild hair backward blown’ – Taking Flight
  66. The Destroyer
  67. Flying to Italy
  68. holiday
  69. The Bomber
  70. Hungary
  71. Spring Wind in London
  72. from Sonnets from a Lock Box
  73. The Full Indian Rope Trick
  74. On the South Downs
  75. ‘It’s better with all the banners flying’ – Courage, Hope and Resilience
  76. ‘Out of the darkness’
  77. Miss Aylward’s Journey
  78. Sangharsh Karna Hai
  79. All Around the Jailhouse
  80. Locked Inside
  81. L’Envoi
  82. December
  83. New Glass
  84. Release
  85. Her Kind
  86. The Lady with the Sewing-Machine
  87. Edith Sitwell
  88. War Girls
  89. Wood Song
  90. ‘Riches I hold in light esteem’
  91. I want to stand naked in the school hall
  92. ‘Chasing weightlessness’ – The Final Frontier
  93. I Had a Boat
  94. from Darkness Music
  95. The Moon at Knowle Hill
  96. ‘On the road through the clouds’
  97. The Crescent Moon
  98. Sally Ride Speaks to the Schoolgirls
  99. Target
  100. De Profundis
  101. Sky Ladder
  102. Devil at the End of Love
  103. The Hubble Space Telescope before repair
  104. Avowal
  105. ‘It’s the sea I want’ – Voyages by Verse
  106. Hunter’s Moon
  107. Strawberries and the Sailing Ship
  108. The Sea-Shore
  109. It’s the Sea I Want
  110. Dare
  111. Sea Love
  112. Staying in the Mountains in Summer
  113. from Elegy on Captain Cook
  114. Exultation is the going
  115. from Notes on the Voyage of Owl and Girl
  116. Strange Sea
  117. Saint Senara and Me
  118. The Winds of Fate
  119. Boats in a Storm
  120. The New Colossus
  121. Emigravit
  122. ‘Dream me mermaid’ – Flights of Fancy
  123. In Your Mind
  124. from On Imagination
  125. The Centaur
  126. The Chatelaine
  127. Roads
  128. My Hat
  129. Functional Skills Maths
  130. The Burning
  131. Laurel in the Berkshires
  132. Iridescent lizard
  133. The Forlorn Sea
  134. The Celestial Announcer
  135. The Levitation of St Christina
  136. Ego Tripping (There May Be a Reason Why)
  137. ‘Silence and a space of sleep’: Travels towards Tranquillity
  138. from Verses Written in the Chiosk of the British Palace at Pera
  139. Southern Sunrise
  140. Lochan
  141. Birthday Poem from Venice
  142. ‘Leave Krete’
  143. Dzoka (Return)
  144. The Girl Who Fell in Love With the Mountain
  145. Translation
  146. Furness Abbey
  147. Not for that City
  148. About the Poets
  149. Index of First Lines
  150. Index of Poets
  151. Acknowledgements
  152. About the Author

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