Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Valley of Decision, 1933 5
Three Poems, 1935 18
From Another Argo, 1935 22
From A Caxton Miscellany, 1937 23
Enemies, 1937 25
Not in Narrow Seas, 1939 39
From Recent Poems, 1941 54
Island and Time, 1941 56
Sailing or Drowning, 1943 84
Jack without Magic, 1946 100
At Dead Low Water, 1949 106
Poems 1949-57, 1957 116
A Small Room with Large Windows, 1962 137
Poems from the 1960s 142
Trees, Effigies, Moving Objects, 1972 151
An Abominable Temper, 1973 173
An Incorrigible Music, 1979 193
You Will Know When You Get There, 1982 227
The Loop in Lone Kauri Road, 1986 267
From Continuum, 1988 285
The Game of Tag, from Early Days Yet, 1997 293
The Bells of Saint Babel's, 2001 319
Notes 356
Bibliography 375
Author's Note from Collected Poems, 1974 376
Index of Titles 378
Index of First Lines 381