Includes "An African Blueprint", "Alma", "Almost Year End", "The Asphalt Garden", "Booterstown", "Buying the Chanter" (three versions), "A Chance Life, 1939", "Daytrip to Nanaimo, Vancouver Island", "Doing a Job (Germans Over Belfast 1940)", "Driving East of Clifton", "Eight of January 1982", "Estate Agents", "Home in the City", "July Apples", "Learning", "A Lost Colony" (two versions), "Memo to Getty" (two versions), "Mothering", "Music Buying", "Over Greenland", "Piper in the Embers", "The Praying Mantis" (two versions), "The Retainer", "Saboteurs", "Spider Work" (two versions), "Visiting Matt Kiernan", "Waiting for Lemass", "Willie Clancy" (two versions), "Word Gets Through", and "Working for the Government" (two versions). Accepted poems are mentioned but not included.