TIES OF THE HEART: 'A Gallant Ship', 'For a Godson', 'For Benjamin', 'The Major, his brother, and his never lived-with lover', 'John Martyn encountered', 'Is There a Sense?', 'Mary and the Legacy', 'For Mark'
LIFT-OFFS: 'The Plane was Late', 'From the Skies', 'For Jenny and Chris, en route to Nice', 'The Dying Glacier', 'Thank You, Fog the Second', 'Stonehaven', 'Aberdeen: Byron's Broad Street boyhood', ''Beatles Ashram', Rishikesh', 'Somewhere in this City', 'Chennai: 'When I Checked in for Dental Health', 'When There is an Onion Shortage', 'The Weightiest Places I Have Been'', 'Lerici is Always Charming', 'Thank You ... To Who?'
WORDS ON THE WOKE: 'It's a Woke World ... Hurray!', 'Apropos 'Appropriation', 'There Was a Time Our Own Sir Keir', 'On the Return of Donald Trump', 'Black Lives Matter (said Lord Bentinck)', 'Don't think Black, don't think White', 'And on the Mighty Orientalists'
NO SUCH THING AS INFIDEL: 'If Stratford Could Speak', 'The Words Were Carefully Chosen', 'Lebanese Girl Poem', 'On Shafilea Ahmed', 'An Incident in Peshawar', 'These Baklava On My Plate (I Sing of Bad Theology)', 'A Poem for Gaza's Young', 'A Praise Song'
STANZAS ON UKRAINE: 'From 1968 to 2022...', 'What Gives You the Right?', 'Law No More, 'He's Just a Common Thief', 'Ukraine Dreamin'', '...and on to 2025'
A BYRONIC FABLE: In which Lord Byron and Joe Biden reflect on Afghanistan and Greece
A BEATLES FABLE: In which Hitler has a nightmare about a Yellow Submarine
FORWARD THINKING: 'The Rise of Diasporic Lives', 'For Those Unborn', 'A Maxim: All I Can Do'
NOTES, REFERENCES, PHOTOGRAPHS