Changing shape : new and selected poems / Edward Lucie-Smith.

A Tropical Childhood -- At the Roman Baths, Bath -- June Bug -- Kifissia -- Meeting Myself -- On Looking at Stubbs's Anatomy of the Horse -- Pelicans -- Rabbit Cry -- Street Market Singer -- Take Count Then, Sir ... -- The Lesson -- The Portrait -- The Temptation of St. Antony -- Wishes -- A Caged Beast -- A Stone -- Distances -- Epiclesis -- Imperialists in Retirement -- Pieta -- The Barbarian Invasions -- The Link -- The Naming -- The Wise Child -- To Be Justified -- Vanitas -- Adam and Tristan -- Alteration -- Christmas Snowfall -- Fragment of a 'Tristan' -- I -- Fragment of a 'Tristan' -- II -- Gallipoli: Fifty Years After -- Genesis -- Gran Tierra, Cuba -- 'Heureux Qui, Comme Ulysse ...' -- Looking at a Drawing -- 'Oh To Be That Round O!' -- Silence -- Spider Man -- Tainted Fruit -- Teeth and Bones -- The Bureaucrat -- The Drowning Dream -- The Researcher -- Three Songs for Surrealists -- Your Own Place -- An Epitaph -- Asleep -- At Forty -- Bamboo Shoots -- Beds -- Descending -- Lovers -- North-West Passage -- On Blackness -- On Light -- Postcard -- Snow Poem -- The Dawn Ray -- The Interview -- The Photograph -- The Son -- The Well-Wishers -- Touching -- Translated to Translator -- Your Grandmother's Mark -- A Former Lover -- A Happy Snap -- Azaleas -- 'Blackbirds are Eating ...' -- Clothing -- Crystal Ball -- Dancing -- Eclipse -- Five Morsels in the Form of Pears -- Gone -- Holbein's Lady With a Squirrel -- In California -- In Secret -- Inscriptions -- 'It's the Season for Broken Hearts' -- Klee's Angels -- Night Music -- Pan and Echo -- Poems for Clocks -- 'Sleepily Murmuring ...' -- Sparrows -- The Lagoon -- The Outcry -- The Welcome -- Things of this World -- Undressing -- Velasquez's An Old Woman Cooking Eggs -- Welsh Weather -- A Letter Home -- A Little Ode -- Affair -- Cafard -- Changing Shape -- 'Here for a Little While' -- In Helsinki -- In the Henhouse -- In Two Words -- Invitation to the Dance -- Kosovo, 1991 -- 1 -- Kosovo, 1999 -- 2 -- Left Handed -- Leviathan -- 'Lost Roads ...' -- Minotaur -- My Mother -- Why is There no Female Michelangelo? -- Obituaries -- Oh God, Oh God -- Poetry -- Poetry Reading -- Rain in Buenos Aires -- Riding the Drum -- Russian Elegy -- 1 -- Russian Elegy -- 2 -- The Great Poet -- The Stone Ship -- Words -- 1 -- Words -- 2.

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