Iona
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by Mary Palmer
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CONTENTS LIST
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Foreword by Kevan Manwaring
1 Samhain
Aelia
Mordec
Shadows
2 Plans
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Omens
On the Agenda
Dreams
Ambush
A Yellow Iris
Angel
3 Between Worlds
The Way Between Worlds
My Mother Said
Siren
Flashback
Gulls
4 A Thin Place
Winter Blessing
season of ice
Is That Why She Begins to Write?
Illumination of Rhymes
the ordinand
5 The Cauldron of Rebirth
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Invocation
Raven’s Peak
Found 9th July 1940
Old Gate
Preacher
6 Port of the Coracle
Litany of Confession
The Dove
Port of the Coracle
Brother Oran
The Beehive Cell
7 Wanton Women
St John’s Wort: A Plucking Hymn
Morrighan
Aeld
The Nunnery
Bay at the Back of the Ocean
8 Shoots Show
Nunc Viridant Segetes
Maiden, Mother, Crone
The Black Madonna
Cave of the Dead
Candlemas
9 The Big Defile
Morrighan’s Prophecy
Branwen
Marble Quarry
The Big Defile
The Great Craftsman of the Sky
Staffa
Puffin
10 Thorny Ground
Sain mine own lover in the field
Port of the Coward
Well of Eternal Youth
kinloch hill
Turning Point
11 Rage
Darkest Depths
AD 806: A Monk Speaks
Gully of the Pigs
Street of the Dead
12 Song Time
Easter Cave
Song Time
The Cracking Open of the Poem
13 Meadow of the Heights
Brighid’s Party
Pasture of the Geese
Beyond the Dark Ocean
Time of Brightness
Land Under the Wave
14 Unravelling
Blessing of the Road
An Apple
Hazelnuts
The Vicar’s Wife
Glasgow
The Barnakle
Sources of quotations
Afterword by Anthony Nanson