Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Song 1
5. The Work 2
6. On Eriskay 3
7. After the Creel Fleet 4
8. The Tear in the Sack 5
9. Rodin Sculpts The Kiss 6
10. Black Water 7
11. The Cut 8
12. The Winter Home 9
13. “The Letter Always Arrives at Its Destination” 10
14. Midnight 12
15. The Blackbird Singer 13
16. The Fraud 14
17. Harvest 15
18. Grez, Near Dusk 16
19. The Water Carrier 17
20. One Day, Too Hot, I Swam to the Middle of the Stream 18
21. Lyrebird 19
22. First Nights 20
23. Exchange Street 21
24. An Eel, A Singing Bird, A Silver Coin 22
25. A Little Night Music 23
26. The Well Found Dry 24
27. Return, Isle of Eriskay 25
28. When the Whales Beached 26
29. Later Tasting 27
30. Crossing 28
31. For the Cold 29
32. Fleece 30
33. Dream 31
34. Le Penseur 32
35. February Morning 33
36. Sea Coins, Scottish Beach 34
37. Advice on Love, Over Whisky 35
38. A Danse Macabre 36
39. Leave, Eriskay 38
40. Grez 39
41. A Porch- Step Glossary for Smokers 40
42. Foxes 41
43. Epitaph 42
44. Forge 43
45. And This Was How It Started 44
46. An Island Vigil 45
47. Walking Song 46
48. An Introduction to the Gods of Scotland 47
49. Window, Honley 48
50. I Started 49
51. Cyprus Avenue 50
52. The House by the Sea, Eriskay 51
53. The Songs of Kirilov 52
54. Horseshoe Crab 53
55. Reading Emile Zola, Grez 54
56. Carpenter’s Studio off Exchange Street 55
57. Concerning Song/Silence 56
58. Leave Poetry 57
59. Addendum 58
60. Island Cottage, November 59
61. Proof 60
62. Smultronstället, Glendale 61
63. A Sealskin Tale 62
64. Kid 63
65. Juggler 64
66. Winter with Soren 65
67. North Atlantic Drift 66
68. From a Letter to the Butter- Makers 67
69. Aesthetics, on a Side Street off Glasgow Green 68
70. Measuring Heat Loss in the Arctic 70
71. A Song for Rarity 71