Includes poems that are takes from the four books the poet published in the 1990s: "Ends and Beginnings" (1994), "The Human Face" (1996), "The Leaf" and "The Marble" (1998) and "A Country for Old Men" and "My Canadian Uncle" (2000), together with extracts from his 1971 translation of "Dain do Eimhir agus Dain Eile" ("Poems to Eimhir", 1943).

Collected poems first published in Great Britain in 1992 by Carcanet Press.