Includes the poems 'A Cork Prothalamium, For Joe Kenneally and Doris Flanagan', 'Baked Alaska, For Peggy Kenneally', 'The Blind Stitch', 'The Husband's Aubade', 'A Love Poem Usurped', 'International Call, Belgrade, April 1999', 'White Worry', 'Tagging the Stealer, to David Kavanagh', 'Homage to Frank O'Hara', 'A Prayer to the God of Pollution in Brooklyn', 'The Immigrant, for Eamonn Wall', 'Elegy for an Aunt', 'In the Railway Station at Varanasi', 'The Emerald Isle, Sri Lanka', 'Lullay Lullay', 'Ululu', 'The Stilt Fisherman', 'The Mosquito Net', 'The Malayalam Box, to Gerry Murphy and Gregory O'Donoghue', 'V', 'Revelation in Kerala', ''Yes, We'll Stop Here A While'', 'Behold the Brahminy Kite', 'Prayer to St. Blaise', 'The Grooming Lesson, To Jacky Simms, editor of Oxford Poets' Series 1985-1999', 'The Phone Bird', 'The Family Man and the Rake', 'The Womanizer and the Hummingbird', 'Christ, the Pimp and the Lay', 'After Reading Hilda Morley's "Made Out of Links"', 'The Nuptial Fish', 'The Bindi Mirror', 'The Heron and Li Po on the Blackwater', 'The Speakeasy Oath To Liam Ó Muirthile', 'The Word Gansey for Patti', 'The Leper and Civil Disobedience', 'Leper's Walk', and 'Boiling Water'.