Includes index.

The farmer's bride ; In Nunhead Cemetery ; On the road to the sea / Charlotte Mew -- Response ; Time ; Warning of winter / Mary Ursula Bethell -- The fired pot ; Nervous prostration / Anna Wickham -- Wild peaches ; Prophecy / Elinor Wylie -- To a fat lady seen from the train ; A recollection ; Childhood ; Parting in wartime / Frances Cornford -- Helen ; Lethe ; from Winter love ; from Sigil / H.D (Hilda Doolittle) -- Still-life / Elizabeth Daryush -- I may, I might, I must ; The steeple-jack ; The jerboa ; The fish ; Poetry ; Critics and connoisseurs ; England ; A grave ; To a snail ; Silence ; Spenser's Ireland ; The pangolin ; The paper nautilus / Marianne Moore ; Sir Beelzebub / Edith Sitwell -- Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies ; First fig ; Passer mortuus est ; The strawberry shrub ; Sonnet xxix / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- "Now in this long-deferred spring ..." ; King Diffus ; Gloriana dying / Sylvia Townsend Warner -- The frightened man ; The crows ; Last hill in a vista ; Evening in the sanitarium / Louise Bogan -- The sparrow's skull ; Morning glory / Ruth Pitter -- A clear shell ; Bereaved child's first night / Frances Bellerby -- Infelice ; The murderer ; In my dreams ; Goodnight ; Autumn ; Lady "Rogue" Singleton ; The river god ; The deserter ; Drugs made Pauline vague ; Not wavering but drowning ; The jungle husband ; I remember ; A house of mercy ; "The Persian" ; Scorpion / Stevie Smith -- Lake Superior / Lorine Niedecker -- from The beaches / Robin Hyde -- The swan's feet ; The bot fishing ; from The first year / E.J. Scovell -- The imaginary iceberg ; Casabianca ; Seascape ; The fish ; Cootchie ; Songs for a Colored singer (I) ; The bight ; At the fishhouses ; The shampoo ; Arrival at Santos ; Brazil, January 1, 1502 ; Manuelzinho ; First death in Nova Scotia ; In the waiting room ; The moose / Elizabeth Bishop -- Dolor ; The day the winds ; Summer ; Belief ; Ride ; Bibliographer ; Conception ; Family ; Album ; Officers / Josephine Miles -- Then I saw what the calling was ; Myth / Muriel Rukeyser -- Brother and sisters ; South of my days ; The cup ; Request to a year / Judith Wright -- Kitchenette building ; The mother ; A sunset of the city / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Brazilian fazenda / P.K. Page -- Thaw ; Transit / Margaret Avison -- Thoughts after Ruskin / Elma Mitchell -- The centaur ; The James Bond movie / May Swenson -- Beach glass ; A procession at Candlemas ; What the light was like / Amy Clampitt -- Country press ; The fever / Rosemary Dobson -- Green revolutions ; Poem / Barbara Guest -- Hospital evening ; In the bistro ; A simple story / Gwen Harwood -- Matins ; Goethe's blues ; Abel's ride / Denise Levertov -- 999 call ; Charlotte, her book ; Contre jour / Elizabeth Bartlett -- In a country museum ; Middle age ; Jane Austen at the window / Patricia Beer -- a poem with capital letters ; My young mother ; El sueño de la razón ; Dispossessions / Jane Cooper -- A difficult adjustment ; the sums / Lauris Edmond -- In the root cellar ; The retrieval system ; The excrement poem / Maxine Kumin -- One flesh ; Fragment for the dark / Elizabeth Jennings -- Want of þ want of ð ; In the heat of the morning / Anne Szumigalski -- Seaman, 1941 / Molly Holden -- Desires ; Charity / Connie Bensley -- Great-grandfather ; Her garden ; Starlight ; Miss Grant / Freda Downie -- Not my best side ; At the ferry ; Resuscitation team ; Father in the railway buffet / U.A. Fanthorpe -- Aunt Jennifer's tigers ; Focus ; Snapshots of a daughter in law ; Planetarium ; from Shooting script ; Waking in the dark / Adrienne Rich -- Lais ; Patience / Elaine Feinstein -- Warning / Jenny Joseph -- Spinster ; The manor garden ; The Colossus ; Mushrooms ; You're ; The moon and the yew tree ; Mirror ; New year on Dartmoor ; Among the Narcissi ; Poppies in July ; The arrival of the bee box ; Fever 103° ; Poppies in October ; Lady Lazarus ; Mary's song ; Sheep in fog ; Paralytic ; Kindness ; Balloons ; Edge / Sylvia Plath -- By the boat house, Oxford ; Himalayan balsam ; Suicide ; Giving Rabbit to my cat Bonnie / Anne Stevenson -- The ex-queen among the astronomers ; Blue glass / Fleur Adcock -- A bride's hours ; Sex ; Orpheus and Eurydice / Jean Valentine -- The reception ; Clock on Hancock Street / June Jordan -- The handloom ; How come the truck-loads? ; Eskimo occasion / Judith Rodriguez -- Baby-sitting / Gillian Clarke -- Game after supper ; Habitation ; Woman skating ; Siren song / Margaret Atwood -- Sea things ; You cannot do this ; The virgin warrior / Gwendolain MacEwan -- Swineherd ; Letter to Pearse Hutchinson / Eléan ni Chuilleanáin -- Instructions to the double ; Black silk ; Each bird walking / Tess Gallagher -- For Jane Myers ; Gratitude ; The undertaking ; Descending figure ; dedication to hunger ; The gift / Louise Glück -- 1943 ; Children / Sandra McPherson -- Why she says no / Ellen Bryant Voigt -- An Easter garland ; Geography lesson / Carol Rumens -- The famine road / Eavan Boland -- Depression ; A policeman's lot ; Waste land limericks / Wendy Cope -- Below Hekla ; A voice in the garden / Selima Hill.