Table of Contents

7 Treasure Trove 8 Headlights 9 Frank's Mother 10 Private Viewing 11 Patient 15 12 Vanishing Trick 14 Condolences 15 The Whale 16 Grammar Lesson 17 An Act Of Contrition 18 Adjusting The Composition 19 The Fat Man 20 Communicating Badly 22 A Miniature Fairytale 23 When I Grow Up I Want To Be... 24 The Song Of My Weakness 26 Jump 27 Waking Up When I Should Be At Work 28 Burning Leaves 29 How Long The Nights Seem Here 30 Tell Me If You Remember This 31 At Shakrisabz 32 Home Sickness 34 Homoeopathy 35 The Number Eight Trolley Bus 36 A Change In The Weather 37 In The Mirror Of Forty Reflections 38 War Hero 39 Observation Report 40 Fifteen Miles From Stalingrad 41 Cubism 42 On The Tram To Gorkovskya 43 The Death Of Stalin 44 Tea 45 Maintaining Appearances 46 How It Felt 47 Proposal 48 The Mammoth's Knee 50 Rhino Horn 51 Honeymoon 52 Making Marks 54 The Morning Of The Putsch 55 Murder 56 Glad 57 May Your Hands Never Be Cold 58 I Have Not Travelled Far

Reviews

'Tiny adjustments, large effects. One faint touch is the doorway to great spaces in an imagination where human beings are distant planets emitting warmth and light. Sue Butler's is a world of apprehensions, not unlike Chekhov's. On the one hand, delicacy and desire, on the other, wild grass.' - George Szirtes. 'Her poems tell a story, have an almost filmic quality in their vivid details of place' - Tamar Yoseloff, Poetry London