Contents: [5] Adventures with old things ANGELA BOURKE [14] Five poems ROBIN ROBERTSON [21] from Love and Sleep SEAN O'REILLY [26] This is what libraries are for CIARAN CARSON [41] The music ofwhat happens JUDY KRAVIS [50] Four poems DOROTHY MOLLOY [55] One thing we could do GEORGE O'BRIEN [74] Bracken at Sedbergh TOM PAULIN [77] Exploded diagrams CAITRioNA O'REILLY [91] A biography not written DENIS SAMPSON [103] Poems afterKenko's 'Essays in Idleness' ANDREW FITZSIMONS [111] from Shroud JOHN BANVILLE [128] Notes on contributors