New collected poems

From 23 poems (1962): Liffeytown

The Liffey beyond Islandbridge. New territory (1967): The poets

The gryphons

The pilgrim

New territory

Mirages

Migration

The dream of Lir's son

Malediction

Lullaby

Belfast vs Dublin

Requiem for a personal friend

A cynic at Kilmainham gaol

From the painting Back from market by Chardin

Shakespeare

The comic Shakespeare

Yeats in civil war

The flight of the earls

After the Irish of Egan O'Rahilly

The king and the troubadour

Athene's song

The winning of Etain. From "Femininity and freedom" (1971): "Deidre and Cathal in conversation". The war horse (1975): The other woman

The war horse

Child of our time

A soldier's son

The famine road

Cyclist with cut branches

Song

The botanic gardens

Prisoners

Ready for flight

Sisters

The laws of love

The family tree

Naoise at four

Anon

From the Irish of Pangur Ban

Elegy for a youth changed to a swan

O fons bandusiae

Dependence day

Conversation with an inspector of taxes

The Atlantic Ocean

Chorus of the shadows

The Greek experience

Suburban woman

Ode to suburbia

The hanging judge. In her own image (1980): Tirade for the mimic muse

In her own image

In his own image

Anorexic

Mastectomy

Solitary

Menses

Witching

Exhibitionist

Making up. Night feed (1980): Domestic interior

Night feed

Before spring

Energies

Hymn

Partings

Endings

Fruit on a straight-sided tray

Lights

After a childhood away from Ireland

Monotony

The muse mother

A ballad of home

Patchwork or the poet's craft

In the garden

Degas's laundresses

Woman in kitchen

Woman posing

It's a woman's world

Tirade for the epic muse

The new pastoral

On Renoir's The grape pickers

"Daphne with her thighs in bark"

The woman changes her skin

The woman turns herself into a fish

The woman in the fur shop

The woman as mummy's head

A ballad of beauty and time. The journey (1987): Remember

Mise Eire

Self-portrait on a summer evening

The oral tradition

Fever

The unlived life

Lace

The bottle garden

Suburban woman: a detail

The briar rose

The women

Nocturne

The fire in our neighbourhood

On holiday

Growing up

There and back

The wild spray

The journey

Envoi

Listen: this is the noise of myth

An Irish childhood in England, 1951

Fond memory

Canaletto in the national gallery of Ireland

The emigrant Irish

Tirade for the lyric muse

The woman takes her revenge on the moon

The glass king. Outside history (1990): Object lessons: The black lace fan my mother gave me

The rooms of other women poets

Object lessons

On the gift of The birds of America by John James Audubon

The game

The shadow doll

The river

Mountain time

The Latin lesson

Bright-cut Irish silver

We were neutral in the war ; Outside history: a sequence:

The Achill woman

A false spring

The making of an Irish goddess

White hawthorn in the west of Ireland

Daphne heard with horror the addresses of the god

The photograph on my father's desk

We are human history, we are not natural history

An old steel engraving

In exile

We are always too late

What we lost

Outside history ; Distances: The nights of childhood

The carousel in the park

Contingencies

Spring at the edge of the sonnet

Our origins are in the sea

Midnight flowers

Doorstep kisses

A different light

Hanging curtains with an abstract pattern in a child's room

Ghost stories

What love intended

Distances. In a time of violence (1994): The singers

Writing in a time of violence, a sequence: That the science of cartography is limited

The death of reason

March 1 1847, by the first post

In a bad light

The dolls museum in Dublin

Inscriptions

Writing in a time of violence ; Legends: This moment

Love

The pomegranate

At the glass factory in Cavan Town

The water-clock

Moths

A sparrow hawk in the suburbs

In which the ancient history i learn is not my own

The Huguenot graveyard at the heart of the city

The parcel

Lava cameo

The source

Legends ; Anna Liffey: Anna Liffey

Story

Time and violence

The art of grief

A woman painted on a leaf. The lost land (1998): Colony: My country in darkness

The harbour

Witness

Daughters of colony

Imago

The scar

City of shadows

Unheroic

The colonists

A dream of colony

A habitable grief

The mother tongue ; The lost land: Home

The lost land

Mother Ireland

The blossom

Daughter

Ceres looks at the morning

Tree of life

Escape

Dublin, 1959

Watching old movies when they were new

Heroic

Happiness

The last discipline

The proof that Plato was wrong

The necessity for irony

Formal feeling

Whose?. Against love poetry: Marriage: In which Hester Bateman, eighteenth-century English silversmith, takes an Irish commission

Against love poetry

The pinhole camera

Quarantine

Embers

Then

First year

Once

Thankëd be fortune

A marriage for the millennium

Lines for a thirtieth wedding anniversary. Code: Limits

Code

Making money

Exile! Exile!

Once in Dublin

How we made a new art on old ground

Emigrant letters

The burdens of a history

Horace odes: ii:xi

Echo

Hide this place from angels

Limits 2

How the earth and all the planets were created

A model ship made by prisoners long ago

Is it still the same

Suburban woman: another detail

Irish poetry.