Night Horse

Abstract

Cover -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- My mother's house -- Miss Bowerman and the hot water bottles -- Swimming with our fathers -- Day breaks in dressing gowns -- Wedding car -- Eyebrows, toenails -- Slippers -- Amy in hospital with broken wrists -- Ironing shirts -- A fall of hair -- Tidying away the china -- An apple tree for Ruby -- Ruby and fruit -- The body of a little girl -- Meeting the Pope -- Cat night -- The wedding party of animals -- Night horse -- Blaming the horse -- Alice and the carrots -- Lying in the long grass between two black Labradors -- Ruby and the Labradors -- Morning blackbird on the lawn -- Coup de foudre -- Winged Victory: the Louvre -- Picasso's tenderness -- At the ballet -- The rosin box -- Re-reading Emma -- A friendship through books -- Two books, two bookmarks -- Three Willow Pattern bowls -- Holding hands -- Consolation -- Putting a line through addresses -- Tonia's cemetery -- Roadworks -- Driving with Amy in the MG -- Gold and dust -- A landscape of shining leaves -- Tenderness -- The mountain -- Perigee moon -- Spring bulbs -- Flying over Spain -- 8 little poems about Canberra -- Hay bales -- The tablecloth -- Oysters -- An extra oyster for the Doctors -- The name in the freezer -- The Filipina maid makes the bed -- The strangeness of purple -- A gift of spotted tights -- Wearing fur -- After a gastroscopy -- Ukulele for a dying child -- Young woman at an open casket -- My mother visits me in hospital -- The heart heals itself between beats -- Acknowledgements -- Copyright Page