Front Cover -- About the Author -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Part I: Song in Winter -- Winter Song -- (i) Chanson d'hiver -- (ii) Road Closed -- (iii) Winter -- (iv) The Shadow of a Blackbird -- (v) O Wood! -- (vi) February Song -- (vii) Les Feuilles d'automne -- (viii) Uneven Song -- (ix) Tidings -- (x) Spinney -- Boozy Weather -- Grief -- How Deep is the Ocean? -- High and Dry -- Les Poètes maudits -- i.m. Juliette Drouet -- Love in the Language Room -- Le Rêve -- Solo in New York -- Summer Reading -- My Death -- Mislaid -- Trick Cyclist -- At 'The Oystercatcher', Portmahomack -- Literalist -- Spring Campaign -- The Rising of the Year -- Hedger -- Great Leveller -- Internal Exile -- Botanical Gardens Revisited -- Nightjars -- Arctic Terns -- Anno Domini 2007 -- Summer Migrant -- The Big Snow -- The Wild Thorn -- Part II: At Sea -- Life-line -- The Voyage -- Night-Snow -- from A Night on Whalsay -- Netting the Scottish Fish -- The Lilies of the Field -- Casting -- Synge-Song -- O Vos Omnes -- (i) Baudelaire: 'Quelques caricaturistes français' -- (ii) Homage to K.D. -- (iii) i.m. Donato di Niccolo Donatello -- (iv) i.m. Sion Hill -- (v) End of the Line… -- (vi) Alms and the Man -- (vii) Bedside Reading -- (viii) Spleen et idéal -- Commemoration -- Cnut 2008 -- Aswim -- In the Midst of Life -- i.m.lah -- Seaworthy.