Anthony Gallagher.

                              born: Dublin 1955.

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CONTENTS.

THE CHESTNUT GATHERER.

WISH FULFILMENT.

HER HAND.

SOON TO PART.

RAKE REFLECTIVE: A MIDSUMMER REVERIE.

JUST A THANK YOU.

CHILDREN ARE FOREVER DYING.

MOTHER AND CHILD.

I MET A DEVIL IN THE STREET.

A STRANGE CHOICE.

GIRL WITH DOG: A WHIMSY.

THREE LITTLE PIGS.

SPARROW.

COME, HANG ME.

ANOTHER SON.

SO MUCH FOR VANITY.

IF THERE ARE TIMES.

DUST THOU ART.

FIRST LOVE.

THE WIND IS NOT A GENTLEMAN.

THE RAIN HAS CEASED.

AT SIXTY.

CREATURE CRITIC.

 A TERRIBLE LOVER.

WEDDED.

THE LIGHT.

ON COURTING THE GHOST: A SERMON.

SHE COULD BE SWEET.

MY LOVE IS LIKE.

THE SEA IN THE TREES.

LEAVING THE CHIPPER.

SPLENDID.

WHAT A LARK.

GETTING ON.

MY KINGDOM.

CHAMPAGNE SEA.

ON MY FACE.

MARTIN LUTHER TO HIS MISSUS.

YOUNG MAN FACES CRISIS ON DOLLYMOUNT BEACH.

THREE IN THE MORNING.

THE MURDER OF MARY ANNE KELLY.

FESTIVE SEASON.

THE CURSE.

THE BOY NEXT DOOR.

SISTER MARY ALOYSIUS DUFF.

SHAKESPEARE IN 5B.

SEAGULLS.

RETIREMENT.

POOR TOM.

PERVERSITY.

OFFICE FANTASY.

MORE ABOUT JOAN'S SHORTS.

AND NOW FOR SOME SERIOUS DRAMA.

IT COMES BY NIGHT.

I MET HER IN MY FANCY.

EVER CONSIDERATE.

GHOSTS.

THE PAIN.

TOUGH.

IT IS THE BIRD THAT IS STIRRED.

IT'S DIFFERENT FOR US POETS.

Poor Robin.

On Christmas Day.

All The Sods I Never Met.

The Tortured Fool.

Little Thumbs.

One Flesh.

What Could Avail Her?

Dawn In The Trenches.

The Bailiff.

More Rain.

Nightmare Of A Nightingale.

The Forecast Is For Lying Snow.

Requiescant In Pace.

As We Forgive Those.

As The Bee.

Good Riddance.

Ode To Alcohol.

A Right Royal Couple.

Old Pair Go Walking.

Waiting On A Female.

Case AG.

Life Goes On.

Who Needs Novels?

A Very Dark Cat.

Holy Communion.

At The End Of The Bar.

Murderer At The Bar.

Wish I Had Written That.

The Chaos Of Miracles.

Even Now.

The Proud Rose.

Always One.

The Great Flood.

A Blast From The Old Gaelic Bard.

Let Them Have It.

Browsing The Old Albums.

The Glorious Dead.

Liberty.

My Taste In Art.

Can That Be The Moon?

The Gorgon's Daughter.

Her Majesty.

Pure Heresy.

Metamorphosis.

Elemental.

That Dress.

Learning To Swim.

Called Home.

Heaven.

From The Casebook.

Meditations In A Municipal Cemetery.

Love's Slaves.

Yet Another Visitor.

Old In Winter.

Bird's-eye View.

We Are Shaped.

Dracula.

She Just Wants.

One Proud Little Girl.

The Devil Takes Communion.

Abruptly.

Bloom, Having Forgotten, Remembers.

I, Pecksniff.

Here's A Young Man.

From The Life Of The Artist.

A General Pardon.

Violets.

She Sees Her Fate, Everywhere.


For the younger reader:

Poor Uncle John.

On The Trail Of The Lonesome Snail.

I Am The Dandy Magpie.

At The Party.

Tickety-boo.

Kittens and Canaries.

There Was A Young Lady.

A Titled Lady.

Be Not Afraid.

Shall I Compare You To The Moon?

Little Me.

One Lucky Cat.

The Rascally Monkey.

A Problem With Fruit.

The Snail.

The Fly Is Sly.

Notice From Landlady.

Buster Brass.

Good As Gold.

Trips And Falls.

The Cat With The Mousy Tail.

I, Robin.

O Rose, You Are Bold.

Midmorning Nap In The Life Of A Cat.

Poor Lucy.

Old Mister Potter.

Ten Little Socks.

Boy Loses Leg In Bath.


Songs:

What Can I Say?

I Am The Demon Strangler.

I Met My Darling By The Sea.

An Fear Agus A Hata.


A Selection of Psalms.


NOTE.


  1. What God Is Fit?


6. The Person Is Made Of Memories.


15. The Angry Face.


19. What Good Is Love?


24. Let Not A Thing.


25. Life Loves Its Lovers.


27. Blessed Be The Body.


29. To Be Ever Gentle.


33. Be Still.


35. Let The Body Consume The World.


38. One Cannot But Be Drawn.


46. Whatever Others Prize.


54. welcome To The Temple.


57. All Things Are Equal.


59. Do Not Be Sad.