Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vi
3. Prologue
4. In medias res 1
5. Welcome to the Anthropocene
6. Welcome to the Anthropocene 7
7. The local globe
8. Windfall advisory 31
9. There goes the neighbourhood 32
10. Guardians of Eden 33
11. Privacy acts 34
12. Bird singularities 35
13. Dust to dust 36
14. Annual grains 37
15. Demeter waits at the arrivals gate 38
16. Red sky at … 39
17. Climate change debate 40
18. Badger 41
19. Mouse dreams 44
20. Ratatoskr 45
21. Waltz, wasp 46
22. A working world
23. Office hours 49
24. I heard the bells … 50
25. Staff Christmas lunch 51
26. Free time 52
27. Receptionist 53
28. Bell curve 54
29. The Gambler’s Fallacy 55
30. After a morning spent in a visioning session with a well-paid consultant 56
31. Among the Magi 57
32. Long division
33. Catena 61
34. Zero divided by zero 66
35. Complex number plane 68
36. Discounted annuals
37. Draft of a poem on ‘inclusion’ 77
38. Discounted annuals 78
39. The hat 80
40. The realms of asphodel 81
41. Kind to a cat 82
42. Child care 83
43. Old Anna 84
44. The things we drag behind us 86
45. Laundry hearts
46. This afternoon before the clocks turn back 89
47. In memoriam 90
48. Battle River country 91
49. Season of metal 92
50. Laundry hearts 93
51. Within, without 94
52. In every tongue 95
53. Threshold 96
54. Sun thread 97
55. Foil 98
56. Circadian Arcadias 99
57. The poet’s handbook of cognitive illusions
58. Hallucinating the muse 103
59. Pronominal 104
60. Pathetic fallacy 105
61. Pareidolia 106
62. The Texas sharpshooter fallacy 107
63. Necker cube illusion 108
64. Confabulation 109
65. The League of Poets Burial Society 112
66. Epilogue
67. Cledonism 115
68. Notes 117
69. Acknowledgements 121
70. About the Author 123