CONTENTS: Xulio López Valcárcel, Absorbed in the Afternoon Grandmother Anticipates Its End; Empty House; You inhabit streets of fear, searching; Song of Autumn; Contribution to a Sketch of Absence; White Space; A Poetics of the Self (Words against Time); Dawn; An Hour of Fullness; The Sea in My Heart; Adagio, Last Offering; Pilar Pallarés, Defeat's Defeat; sometimes only a broken statue remains; In the afternoon, with a dog and a book; to fall asleep in the night of your hair; The drowned woman's lips; here I leave my knowing; Here I am father weeping gently; Lisbon Revisited; so it is and so it may be; The Cunning of a Cat; In the brilliance of the hours; Ramiro Fonte, Vita nuova; Plaza of the World; Promise; Before You Were a Traveler; The Rose; Names for Going Back; The Photograph; Francisco Añón; The Shadow of Guilt; An Unpublished Poem of Alvaro Cunqueiro; Treasures.

CONTENTS: Álvaro Cunqueiro, I am Danae; Luz Pozo Garza, The Bird of Light; You Sought the Shadows; Lotus in My Heart; Manuel María, Ode to the Beauty of Words; Xohana Torres, We Were Explorers…; Ophelia; Bernardino Graña, The Pupils at Padron High School; Salvador García-Bodaño, Those Mornings When There Was Music; Metamorphosis; Xosé Luís Méndez Ferrín, Now Is the Time to Return; Marilar Aleixandre, Circe to Ulysses; Alfonso Pexegueiro, The Heron Woman; Homeland; Chus Pato, The Only Rite I Know; Pilar Pallarés, In the Splendour of the Hours; We Speak in Incoherencies; Manuel Rivas, Those Who Die on the Land; Water in His Hands; Miguel Anxo Fernán Vello, Patience; Manuel Forcadela, L'eclair; Maestro; Lois Pereiro, Edinburgh, Edinburgh; Another Love Poem; Xela Arias, Addicted Monologue;

CONTENTS: (from Cantares gallegos) Prologue; I was born in springtime; Bells of Bastabales; Blessed Saint Anthony; Farewell to rivers, farewell to streams; Castilians of Castile; (from Follas novas) Prologue; They say whoever sings of doves and flowers; I know quite well; As the clouds; You will say these verses have a strange; New Leaves! your name; What is this confusion around me?; Some say: my land!; Whether in the heart of the night; Where is this peace; Once a nail pierced my heart; When we are happiest; Perhaps today, perhaps tomorrow, who can say when?; It is no longer bitterness, nor contempt; These voices that come and go; One heartbeat, then another; In winter I wondered; See my heart; With his wave's soft persistent whisper; I keep searching for honey and cool; My hand quivers, my heart beats; Flow on, serene, crystal waters;

CONTENTS: (from Cantares gallegos) Sing me a song and I'll give you chestnuts; My little Saintlet; A plump, robust bagpipe-player; You church-bells of Bastabales; Most blessed holy Saint Antony; Goodbye to rivers and fountains; Breezes, breezes, little breezes; But he who has once loved truly; What's the lad up to?; Come along, lassie; If you came to see us, Marica; How the rain is falling lightly; Dawn Serenade; (from Follas novas) Just as the clouds; What is happening around me?; Peace, peace so much longed for; I used to have a nail; One heart-beat, another heart-beat; But see how this heart of mine's; Goodbye; In the Cathedral; Run on serene, you sparkling, cristal waters; The Bell at Dawn; Dig it with all speed, dig it; It was the fall of evening; The clearest blue in heaven; Old Friends; Long month of May, long month of May; Discoloured Moon; A Foreigner in Her Own Country;

CONTENTS: Marilar Aleixandre, Domestic Defeats; Vicente Araguas, The Moon of Novi Sad; Alberto Avendaño, Register; Fermín Bouza Álvarez, For John Donne; Darío Xohán Cabana, Canticles of Village Love; Xoán Manuel Casado, Ne me quitte pas; Francisco Xosé Fernández Naval, Sea of Absence; Modesto Fraga, Winter Solstice; Salvador García-Bodaño, Those mornings when there was music; Antonio García Teijeiro, I remember without turning my head; Bernardino Graña, Marine Ode to the Forces of Patiño and Jackson Pollock; Luís González Tosar, Landfall Bells; Bieito Iglesias, Moscow Overripe Trinkets; Arcadio López-Casanova, Hymn; Antón López Dobao, Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi; Xulio López Valcárcel, Naemor Kosovo; Ramón Lorenzo, Topsy Turvy; Kathleen March, Wish; Xosé Luís Méndez Ferrín, Island;

CONTENTS: (from Cantares gallegos) When I hear you toll; There in the early morning; In the quiet evening; Every star, its diamond; The wind blows, the river flows; (from Follas novas) A Few Words from the Author; I well know there is nothing; As the clouds; You will say about these verses, and it's true; What's happening around me?; New leaves! the name you bear; Some people say, My country!; Once I had a nail; When one is very, very lucky; Today or tomorrow, who can say when?; That buzz of songs and laughter; Now neither rancour nor disdain; Quiet!; Goodbye!; In the Cathedral; No Charge; Weeping I thought each night; Who Does Not Lament?; Sea, with your unfathomed waters; Dig fast, dig; When I think you are gone; Happiness is treacherous; Tick-tock, tick-tock, in the silent night; Flow, serene crystal waves; How placid the sparkling!; Padrón!… Padrón!