INdex and first lines
A
Adventure "Wild calls of abandonment"
Agreements "Ireland’s glossary of peaceful terms"
Albert Bridge "Starlings over Albert Bridge"
Avenues "This avenue of portcullis trees"
B
Belfast Baps "Great big floury baps"
Blackbird of Belfast Lough "Behold, some minor bird"
Bogwood / Bog Meadows "Recovered, I begin the slow, unsure process"
C
City Hall "They’ve bought the stars down from the sky"
Cavehill "A cragged crown upon Belfast"
Congestion "The clouds break like departing ghosts"
Crumlin Road Gaol "The tunnel"
D
Dangerous? "Tales of having to duck"
Denial "'Never mind', it should be one word"
Drinking "Belfast | will soon drink up and go home"
E
Early Closing "All the shops are closing early and this town is like an old western"
Escapism "A funnel: a hot funnel"
Expansion "See Ireland’s bog meadows"
F
Farset "Down in Belfast"
Flags "Adorn the streets in equal measure"
Folk Museum "White chalk settlements: dust really"
Futurology "Is it time to lay the bombs down"
G
George Best Belfast City Airport "Call it Sydenham Airport"
Ghettos "It is dark and grey and obvious"
Ghosts "doses of hatred"
Grief "Can you hear the ever-wail?"
H
History "The wolf has been with us for a while now"
Home "You may hurl me to Mediterranean tides"
Hope "The important thing"
I
Inspiration "I have looked for inspiration"
Intimidation "We have come to dance"
J
Junk Mail "Empty letters, asking please"
K
Kerbstones "From the smoke the trees have been cremated"
L
Lagan "I sailed on your ship"
Lagan Meadows "Held in the pan, bowing down to the water"
Legends "At first, a hoax, cruellest hoax"
M
Markets "Bring in the unidentified and the lost"
Meteorology "Two pairs of socks, I tell you, and I still felt"
Minnowburn "…and there was you"
Motorways "The creek of rubber"
N
Nature "The gorse is burning freely"
Nighttime "Streetlights of distance"
Noise "Sure there’s nothing left in this ghost town"
Nomads "She used to live in seventy-three: it’s bricked up now though"
O
Optimism "With rivers of steam shivering past our soles"
Ormeau Baths Gallery "We bathed, yet may not bathe again"
Outsiders "It was your great grandfather"
P
Peace Walls "When you smash walls with sledgehammers"
Politics "An old fisherman is teaching two young boys how to catch fish."
Posturing "Mad dogs, the lot of them"
Q
Questions "how can I help?"
R
Rain "I saw a piece of rain-soaked paper"
Remembrance "These are my people"
Rivers "So sure, serene"
Roads "The road out of this town"
S
Scents "A twitching, quivering stream"
Shipbuilding "1859 – 1879 SS Venetian"
Shoreline "On a small beach"
Stranmillis Embankment "This memory is mine, mine, mine alone"
T
Taxis "Black taxis fighting"
Territorial Pissings "Crouch under the flag parade"
U
Underachiever "There is despair everywhere"
Unusual People "They mostly are found with beards and headphones"
V
Vandalism "Where we use to buy the Sunday papers"
W
Wanderlust "Sky develops watercolour grey"
Welcoming "We cosied out our own alcove"
Woodlands "The way inside is always thin"
X
Xenogenesis "The police woke us at two thirty"
Y
Yak City "It isn’t gossiping in Washington"
Youth "I once went to meet someone"
Z
Zealots "It’s feckin’ cold in Belfast, Jesus"