Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- from A Thread in the Maze 1978 -- Sap -- Short Wave -- A Live Tradition -- from Herbals -- Dawn: Cwrt y Felin -- 1921: The Grandfather's Story -- from Native Ground 1979 -- Ways of Learning -- The Children -- J.P. -- Llangewydd -- The Drinking Art -- Insomnia -- Sker -- from Life Sentences 1983 -- Rhys -- Driving in Fog -- Catching My Breath -- An Address -- On the Headland -- Burmese Tales -- from The Dinosaur Park 1985 -- The Dinosaur Park -- On the Llyn Fawr Hoard in the National Museum of Wales -- Dock -- Eelers -- The Resort -- Picking -- from Breaking Down -- from The Looters 1989 -- The Looters -- 'What's the Point of Being Timid when the House is Falling Down?' -- The Mansion -- Epilogue -- from Fairground Music -- Men -- In the Watchtower -- Looking for Arthur -- from Hey Fatman 1994 -- Homework -- Daisy at the Court -- A History of Dunraven -- Hey Fatman -- Reunion Street -- Listening to History -- The Swimming Lesson -- from After the Hurricane 2002 -- The Bombing of Baghdad as seen from an Electrical Goods Shop -- Twenty-Five Laments for Iraq -- The Discovery of Radioactivity -- Carioca -- Songs for the Lugmen -- She Drove a 'Seventies Plymouth -- Neolithic -- The Porthcawl Preludes -- From the Rock Pool -- from The Adulterer's Tongue 2003 -- Belly Button Song -- Taliesin -- Beginning to Forget -- Landscape without a Hat -- A Song about Soup -- Automobiles -- from King Driftwood 2008 -- An Opera in Baghdad -- The Hourglass -- La Otra Orilla -- Eavesdropping -- The Castaway -- The Saint of Tusker Rock -- The Fox in the National Museum of Wales -- Index of Titles and First Lines -- About the Author -- Also by Robert Minhinnick from Carcanet Press -- Copyright.