The main poem of the collection bears its title All the Time in the World. It is a summary of where we came from, how we behave towards each other and nature; it also stakes out my position on the environment and social justice. (The days of nationalist poetry are gone, as I try to show in the pieces At Drumcliff Churchyard and The Procession).

I believe strongly in poetic diction, the terse, condensed and above all clear language used for poetry, which must carry so much meaning. My views here can be found in the poem Return. ‘Return’ is an obvious play on two meanings of the word, one the act of coming back and two the gain which one can expect from something, here reading a poem. If the second meaning holds for a poem then the first meaning is likely to apply as well.

Hubris	Demand
Logging	Hidden Death
Interference	Retreat
Beyond Recall	Change of Air
Exchange	Sea Blind
Shifting Sand	Trespass
Forest Fire	Need
Elsewhere	Keeping Pace
Slash and Burn	A Better Pact
Governance	The Honey Pot

Lost Innocence	The Open Window
The Return of the Rooks	The Birch Grove
The Seed Keepers

Deathwatch	A Token of our Time
Denial	Lobby
After the Summit	Not Us, But You
A New Narrative

Sliver	The Long Peace
In Times of Change	A Hundred Years down the Road
When our World was Young	Sea of Ice
Last Voyage

Hourglass	Facing Us
The Day the Future Arrives	Number Six
The Other End of the World	In Praise of Thrift
Uphill Climb	Horizon

Afterwards	The Weight of this World
The Brunt	On Ventry Strand
The Burning Sky

Action not Taken

The Zone

In the Wexford Slobs	Dog Days
Our Rhythms	Dissection
City under Snow

Jasmine	The Stonebreakers
Exchange	The Gap
People in the Sun	The Gleaners
A Better Pact	Underbelly
The Reapers	Concern
Entitlement	Belle Époque
Verify