She Inserts the Key

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Often dark, with a concise and compelling style, this collection of poems brings together a variety of voices--dodos and wallpaper chant obsessively, a pair of shoes haunts a murderer's moll, a cheese weeps for the calf whose milk it stole, an army cook laments the dead, and a woman turned into soap dreams of her apotheosis as she washes into the sea. Combining the experimental with the traditional, this compilation sets poems of war against poems of the natural world. With a language that is strident, voluptuous, contemplative, and furious, these lyrical poems emphasize the domestic and the personal: children, spouses, and busy lives.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• The Flowers (p. 7)
• The Woman Who Turned To Soap (p. 8)
• Owls at Midnight (p. 9)
• Meditations on the Hours
• Midnight: Hallaton: Before the Storm (p. 10)
• 1am: Lille: Night Walk with Falling Television (p. 10)
• Four Village Poems from the Chinese (p. 11)
• Lacrimae Rerum (p. 13)
• Meditations on the Hours
• 2am: Islington: Night Feed (p. 14)
• 3am: The Error, Holland Park (p. 14)
• The Green Girl's Husband (p. 15)
• The Lux and The Lumen (p. 16)
• Meditations on the Hours
• 4am: Kitchen Table, East Ewell (p. 18)
• 5am: London: I have held conversations... (p. 18)
• Winter Arriving Early (p. 19)
• The Elephant-Headed God (p. 20)
• The Devil's Cut (p. 21)
• Meditations on the Hours
• 6am: University College Hospital: Maternity (p. 22)
• 7am: Mauritius: To The Sea (p. 22)
• The Singer and The Catch (p. 23)
• For A Plain Man (p. 25)
• Meditations on the Hours
• 8am: Man Ironing, Camden (p. 26)
• 9am: The Bed, Venice (p. 26)
• Changing The Sheets (p. 27)
• Sparrowhawk (p. 28)
• Pissarro's Orchards (p. 29)
• Meditations on the Hours
• 10am: Hallaton: Oranges (p. 30)
• 11am: Hallaton: Burial of the Dead (p. 30)
• Fieldfare (p. 31)
• Viewing at the National (p. 32)
• The River Flowing Under The Bank of England Dreams of Power (p. 33)
• Meditations on the Hours
• Noon: Liverpool Street: The Bank of Desks (p. 34)
• 1pm: Castle Rising: Picnic (p. 34)
• On Envying Exile (p. 35)
• Three Songs of the Inarticulate (p. 36)
• Dragonfly (p. 38)
• The Persistence of Vision (p. 39)
• Meditations on the Hours
• 2pm: Summer Crossing, Iona (p. 40)
• 3pm: The Ninth Hour, Calvary (p. 40)
• The Extinction of Mary Smith Jones (p. 41)
• The Anagram Kid (p. 43)
• A Green Oak By The Sea (p. 44)
• Old Names (p. 45)
• Meditations on the Hours
• 4pm: Slim Shady in Hallaton Churchyard (p. 46)
• 5pm: Stoneleigh: The Lie of the Pool (p. 46)
• Encyclopaedia (p. 47)
• Sum of Our Parts (p. 49)
• Meditations on the Hours
• 6pm: Coin Du Quai Voltaire: Last Orders (p. 50)
• 7pm: The Mound Field, North End (p. 50)
• The Woman Who Fitted In The Sydney Opera House (p. 51)
• Wren Spilling Into Water (p. 52)
• Behind The Cellar Door (p. 53)
• Meditations on the Hours
• 8pm: Hunstanton: The Baby (p. 54)
• 9pm: America: I have travelled on long distance buses (p. 54)
• The War Road (p. 55)
• Head on a Desert Road (p. 56)
• Chapel of Nine Altars (p. 58)
• Child Reading (p. 59)
• Meditations on the Hours
• 10pm: Sunset and Full Moon: Brancaster Staithe and Whitby (p. 60)
• 11pm: Coffee: Cathles Road (p. 60)
• The Emperor and The Nightingale (p. 61)
• Meditations on the Hours
• Midnight: Darsham: Laying Down The Day (p. 62)
• Four Water Quatrains for Primo Levi (p. 63)
• Acknowledgements (p. 64)