Beliefs. From Cymbeline / William Shakespeare ; The happy corpse story / Leonora Carrington ; From The palm-wine drinkard / Amos Tutuola ; From Memoirs of a dutiful daughter / Simone de Beauvoir ; Baa baa black sheep / Tom Leonard ; Our Lady of the accident / Lorna Sage ; From State of grace / Clarice Lispector ; Thing no is(of / E. E. Cummings ; From The comforters / Muriel Spark ; White lies / Derek Jarman ; Alchemy / Dubravka Ugresic ; It's only a paper moon / E.Y. "Yip" Harburg ; Fleeting happiness / Cookie Mueller ; From Six memos for the next millennium / Italo Calvino ; The ninth elegy / Rainer Maria Rilke ; End / Robert Creeley.
Dialogues. On first looking into Chapman's Homer / John Keats ; In the garment district / Lydia Davis ; On the ward with TV, iPod, and telephone / Kasia Boddy ; Call-girls / Jack Rillie ; Elasticity / Margaret Tait ; To anybody at all / Margaret Tait ; Wants / Grace Paley ; On angels, Ars poetica? / Czeslaw Milosz ; Between two Colmars / John Berger ; From After nature / W.G. Sebald ; The cinema and the classics : beauty / H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) ; Mae West / Colette ; Colette / Lee Miller ; From the preface to Bloodshed and Three novellas / Cynthia Ozick ; From A writer's diary / Virginia Woolf ; More questions than answers, Instructors to an actor / Edwin Morgan -- Journeys. The good-morrow / John Donne ; Lu-Lu / Joy Williams ; 15 December 1919 / Katherine Mansfield ; Unseen translation / Kate Atkinson ; Adlestrop / Edward Thomas ; The song of wandering Aengus / W.B. Yeats ; Passengers with heavy loads / Joseph Roth ; The falling city / Lavinia Greenlaw ; Kansas to New York / Louise Brooks ; On midsummer common / Liz Lockhead ; Remedy / A.M. Homes ; Bring back, bring back / Fred D'Aguiar --
Girls. From Northanger Abbey / Jane Austen ; The poet has come back-- / Margaret Atwood ; The terrible peacock / Djuna Barnes ; From Lady sings the blues / Billie Holiday ; From Born free / Laura Hird ; Witch / George Mackay Brown ; We shall not escape Hell / Marina Tsvetayeva ; Meadowsweet / Kathleen Jamie ; This Englishwoman / Stevie Smith ; Spunk / Paul Bailey ; From Up the junction / Nell Dunn ; Annie Laurie / William Douglas ; From Their eyes were watching God / Zora Neale Hurston ; Double act / Beryl the Peril ; From Wise children / Angela Carter ; From Housekeeping / Marilynne Robinson ; Everything is nice / Jane Bowles ; From Orlando / Virginia Woolf --
The world. The darkling thrush / Thomas Hardy ; Hymn to Iris / Alice Oswald ; Art in nature / Tove Jansson ; Earthy anecdote / Wallace Stevens ; Black rook in rainy weather / Sylvia Plath ; Mrs Fish / Xandra Bingley ; Bairns arena frightened, Old Aberdeen / Hugh MacDiarmid ; The 24-hour dog / Jeanette Winterson ; Pastoral / William Carlos Williams ; The trees / Philip Larkin ; From The living mountain / Nan Shepherd ; Into the sea / Alan Spence ; Prelude, In May / J.M. Synge ; On "rose is a rose is a rose" / Gertrude Stein -- Histories. Infant joy, A poison tree / William Blake ; From Sunset song / Lewis Grassic Gibbon ; Houses and small labour parties / Alasdair Gray ; Independence / Helen Oyeyemi ; He died on Friday / Ramona Herdman ; The child dying / Edwin Muir ; The house I live in / Maggie O'Farrell ; Small avalanches / Joyce Carol Oates ; Saturday, 8 July 1944 / Anne Frank ; Reconciliation / Dilys Powell ; Fragments, from Berlin / Armando ; Field study / Rachel Seiffert ; The butcher's apprentice / Nicola Barker --
