Front Cover -- About the Author -- Title Page -- Acknowledgements -- Copyright -- Contents -- Selected Poems -- from Toccata and Fugue (2000) -- In Dedication -- Penance -- Winter in Meath -- Ghost -- Artist -- Christ with Urban Fox -- The Fox-God -- The Taking of the Lambs -- Fugue -- from Manhandling the Deity (2003) -- Officium -- Frenzy -- Nightwatch -- Matrix -- The Book of Love -- House Martins -- Acolyte -- Fantasy in White -- The Apotheosis of Desire -- Canticle -- from The Instruments of Art (2005) -- Late October Evening -- The Gift -- The Meadows of Asphodel -- Adagio Molto -- The Instruments of Art -- The Study -- You -- Carnival of the Animals -- Report from a Far Place -- The Red Gate -- The Chaplet -- from A Little Book of Hours (2008) -- To Market, to Market -- Call Me Beautiful -- Towards a Conversion -- Harbour, Achill Island -- Mapping the Sky -- The Poem of the Goldfinch -- Kane's Lane -- Stranger -- Madonna and Child -- Triduum -- from Eye of the Hare (2011) -- Travelling Man -- Shelf Life -- The Marble Rail -- On the Edge -- Eye of the Hare -- Cedar -- Abundance -- The Colours -- The Colliery -- Words of the Unknown Soldier -- Shoemaker -- Sheets -- Bikes -- Ever This Night -- Footfalls -- Midsummer Poem -- Mimizan Plage -- Snow Falling on Chestnut Hill (2012) -- Overture -- Traveller -- Who have Business with the Sea -- Bead after Bead -- Writing out the Myth -- Pastoral Symphony -- As Breath against the Windowpane -- Night on Skellig Michael -- Mother and Child -- An Eldering Congregation -- Snow Falling on Chestnut Hill -- Coda.