Table of Contents
Errata 3
Poem Beginning with Lines by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 4
A girl or woman in relation to either or both of her parents 5
An Envelope 6
A Year in the New Life 7
Poem Beginning with a Line by Anna Seward 9
The Landing 10
War the War 12
Please and Thank You 14
I am become a man 15
Fifteen Babies in My Garden 16
This Has No Sound 17
My name is zonal coordinator 18
Prolactin 19
The Long Twenty-first Century 20
My body is a good body 21
Poem Beginning with Lines by Ye Hongxiang 22
Whatever I have done that was good, I have done at the bidding of my voices 23
What Happened Here? 24
Blood Clot in a Winter Landscape 26
Where to start, how to stop? 27
The Situation 28
August Bank Holiday 29
White Cliffs 30
The Novel 31
Lambs 32
Instead of Bad News about a Person I Love 33
I'm on the boating lake with Sean 34
Empathy Class 35
Poem Beginning with Lines by Walter Savage Landor 36
But I know what I like 37
This time 38
Big Shout Out 39
Lying on the floor of the supermarket 40
A Greyhound Levitates across the Street 41
Poem Beginning with a Line by Yu Xuanji 42
Behind the Face of Great White Shark 43
There Is a Supermassive Black Hole Four Million Times the Mass of the Sun at the Centre of Our Galaxy and You Are Pregnant with Our Daughter 44
Alpha Step 46
Breckland 47