The Touch of Time: New & Selected Poems

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The Touch of Time is a comprehensive retrospective of the work of one of Scotland's leading poets drawing on ten previous books published over five decades. The new work here pursues the themes of his earlier Bloodaxe collections Stolen Light: Selected Poems (1999), Ghosts at Cockcrow (2005) and The Breakfast Room (2010). With what Professor Carla Sassi sees as 'his thoughtful attention to small details, his redeeming gaze, his formal control of impeccably constructed verses, and his deep and warm humanity', he movingly explores everyday events and revelations, and how - like our lives and tho.;Cover; Description; Title Page; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; I; Todd; Ferret; Farm; Harelaw; Country Dance; Ayrshire Farm; Todd; Reading Matter; Stoats in the Sunlight; The Shed; Forebears; On Craigie Hill; Craggy Country; Family Tree; Farm Funeral; II; Afternoon; Thunder in the Air; Under Creag Mhor; In a Simple Light; Setting; Margins; The Chinese Tower; Old Actor; North Uist; Driving Through Sutherland; Summer, Assynt; At Coruisk; Marriage a Mountain Ridge; Orkney Shore; The Predators; III; The Lilypond; Kilchrenan; A Sense of Order; Portents; After the Party; Family Visit. Cover Description Title Page Dedication Acknowledgements Contents I Todd Ferret Farm Harelaw Country Dance Ayrshire Farm Todd Reading Matter Stoats in the Sunlight The Shed Forebears On Craigie Hill Craggy Country Family Tree Farm Funeral II Afternoon Thunder in the Air Under Creag Mhor In a Simple Light Setting Margins The Chinese Tower Old Actor North Uist Driving Through Sutherland Summer, Assynt At Coruisk Marriage a Mountain Ridge Orkney Shore The Predators III The Lilypond Kilchrenan A Sense of Order Portents After the Party Family Visit. To My FatherReawakening In the Kibble Palace Tremors Before Dark Arrivals Witnesses Two Poems Seize the Day Return Visit IV Under the Ice In the Gallery Kitchen Maid Visiting Hour Afternoon Visit Snowman Snowfall At the Airport Lothian Burn Moving In Offshore End of Season, Drumelzier Cherry Tree, at Dusk Bedtime Story The Eye-shade Recovery At Amersham In Monte Mario Springtime V The Luncheon of the Boating Party Renoir in Orkney Burial Mound Monflanquin Fort Napoléon Lot-et-Garonne Picture Framer The Boathouse Skye Poems October Week VI. Sights and SoundsOn the Water Interior Pilanesberg Leopard Jedebe Camp VII Ayrshire Coast Map of Coningham Spring from Early Days Wild Flowers Terra Firma Peace and Plenty Stolen Light First Light Return to Provence Jawbone Walk Inheritance Losing Touch Funerals White-out Night Sky Intricacies Above the Storm VIII from Ghosts at Cockcrow Visitation In the Garden Ministrations Heirloom Growing Up City Interlude Autumn Walk Edinburgh Thaw Close Names Cappella Nova at Greyfriars' Kirk Footage of RLS Writer's Block Ghosts at Cockcrow ROULL OF CORSTORPHIN. In the Museum of ScotlandEclipse My Lady On the Summit Piazza del Campidoglio The Actor's Farewell Angel with Lute IX from The Breakfast Room The Duck Shooters Conundrum Just How It Was The Camellia House Dougalston Rain, Rain, Rain Homecoming Scotland Gondola Early Call The Breakfast Room Delivery Sleepless Knight Awakenings Double-take The Loving-cup Early Morning Arcadia Soloist Beaux Arts Trio The Life Ahead Homecoming Sounds of Music Sir Robert de Septvans Carpe Diem X New Poems On the Viaduct Revenants Knowing the Code Juggler An Absence of Crocuses. Field MarksNocturne A Hair in the Gate In the Garden Wellcome Irish Giant Off the Leash Tide Off Iona Estuary Fisherman Resolve Sea Crossing Italian Suite The Rooms of the Sweet Oranges Upholstery Fox Hydrangeas Interloper Three Poems for Ellis About the Author Copyright.