The present volume provides the best introduction to the work of this intelligent and lucid poet, with a selection from previous collections and a handful of recent poems. It offers vivid impressions of South Africa, Westmorland, Cumberland and the Algarve, as well as recollections of the many poets and artists who have been his friends.

Five South African Poems
On Himself
Canons Ashby
On the Death of an Emperor Penguin in Regent's Park
Moral Stories
A Funeral Oration
Monologue of a Deaf Man
An Invocation to the Goddess
Adam at Evening
Rhapsody of a Middle-aged Man
At a Café Table
A Visit to the Protestant Cemetery
By the Effigy of St Cecilia
Campo Santo
Kleomedes
Plettenberg's Bay
On the Margin
A Cemetery in Dumfriesshire
Chester Car Park
The Lakes
Grasmere Sonnets
The Deviser
Words
Swift
Rook
E.P. as Westminster
On a Friend Dying
A Peripatetic Letter to Isabella Fey
Bom Jesus
Encounter
Balloon The Musician
Procession
Cockermouth
Five Songs
Notes on a Visit
Beeches
Images for a Painter
Prospects
An Elegy