The Unfixed Horizon: New Selected Poems

Synopsis

Introduction -- From The Flower Master And Other Poems (1982,1993) -- Smoke -- The 'singer' -- Eavesdropper -- Mr Mcgregor's Garden -- Slips -- The Hollywood Bed -- The Sofa -- The Seed-picture -- The Soil-map -- The Sunbench -- The Flower Master -- The Flitting -- The Heiress -- From Venus And The Rain (1984,1994) -- Ode To A Poetess -- The Sitting -- Aviary -- Isba Song -- Harvest -- Venus And The Rain -- The Rising Out -- Hotel -- Dovecote -- Felicia's Cafe -- Lime Trees In Winter, Retouched -- From On Ballycastle Beach (1988,1995) -- What Does 'early' Mean? -- Apple Flesh -- Sea Or Sky? -- Blue Vase -- The Blue She Brings With Her -- Four O'clock, Summer Street -- Balakhana -- Harem Trousers -- The Dream-language Of Fergus -- On Ballycastle Beach -- From Marconi's Cottage (1991,1992) -- To Call Paula Paul -- Journal Intime -- A Small Piece Of Wood -- Gigot Sleeves -- The Most Emily Of All -- No Streets, No Numbers -- The Unplayed Rosalind -- The Partners' Desk -- Open Rose --^ Breaking The Blue -- Oval Of A Girl -- Marconi's Cottage -- On Her Second Birthday -- From Captain Lavender (1994,1995) -- Lines For Thanksgiving -- Dante's Own Day -- Elegy For An Irish Speaker -- The Aisling Hat -- Flirting With Saviours -- The Over Mother -- The Albert Chain -- The War Degree -- Captain Lavender -- From Shelmalier (1998) -- Script For An Unchanging Voice -- Dream In A Train -- The Feastday Of Peace -- Circle With Full Stop -- The Potter -- From The Weather-woman -- Self-portrait In The Act Of Painting A Self-portrait -- Stone With Potent Figure -- The Society Of The Bomb -- Mantilla -- From The Soldiers Of Year Ii (2002) -- Helen's War -- Life As A Literary Convict -- Revival Of Gathered Scents -- Love Affair With Firearms -- The Chimney Boys -- Filming The Famine -- Blue Kasina -- A Religion Of Writing -- At Mullaghmore -- Drawing Ballerinas -- The Colony Room -- The Miniver -- Gaeltacht Na Fuiseoige -- Hazel Lavery, The Green Coat, 1926 --^ From The Face Of The Earth (2002) -- The Brood-bird -- The Face Of The Earth -- The Worship Of The Plough -- Navicella -- Image Of Migratory Cranes -- High Altitude Lavender -- Valentine Not To Be Opened -- Christmas Eve Sky -- Hesterna Rosa -- She Is In The Past, She Has This Grace -- From Had I A Thousand Lives (2003) -- Reading In A Library -- The Deadest Deaths Are The Best -- The Pyx Sleeper -- The Sleep Cure -- Forcing Music To Speak -- From The Book Of The Angel (2004) -- The Publisher Of Inwardness -- The Dream Theatre -- Four Voices Without An Instrument -- Armed Dance -- From Studies For A Running Angel -- 2. A Chrisom Child -- 4. A More -- Hand Reliquary, Ave Maria Lane -- Fallen God Of Bone -- The Tenth Muse -- Poem Rhyming In 'j' -- From The Currach Requires No Harbours (2006,2007) -- Consecrated Wafer -- A Book Of Rains -- Wood-cunning -- Kaddish -- House Without Eyebrows -- Thorn Piece -- My Must -- The Currach Requires No Harbours -- Lemon With White Jug --^ Regaining Control Of The Night -- From My Love Has Fared Inland (2008,2010) -- Painting By Moonlight -- Painting A Verb Half Golden -- Sealed Composition -- Bashali -- The Realm Of Nothing Whatever -- The Cliff Of Thought Of Renunciation -- Shot Angel -- The Sin Eater -- Watching The Owls With You -- My Love Has Fared Inland -- Desh: The Homeland -- South Of Mars -- From The High Caul Cap (2012,2013) -- The Nth Of Marchember -- A Supplement To The Withering -- Sandpaper Letters -- The Mercyseat -- The High Caul Cap -- Master Of The Female Half-lengths -- Dormition: Madonna With Trees -- Dark Lips, Jade Pillow -- The Blood Trolley -- The Flower Of The Moment Of What Comes Easily -- Select Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- About The Poet. Medbh Mcguckian ; Selected And With An Introduction By Borbála Faragó And Michaela Schrage-früh. Includes Bilbiographical References (p. 297).