Cutrhbert and the otters -- Pelt -- Charles Emile Jacque: Poultry among trees -- Pip and Magwitch -- A dent -- Dodgems -- Barrage balloons, Buck Alec, bird flu and you -- Rita Duffy, Watchtower -- A night on the tiles with J. C. Mangan -- Saffron -- At the lab -- A Civil War suite -- Recalculating -- We love the horse because its haunch -- Anonymous, from "Marban and Guaire" -- Federico Garcia Lorca: "Death" -- A pillar -- Catamaran -- Near the Grace of God Nail Salon -- A giraffe -- Dromedaries and dung beetles -- Some pitfalls and how to avoid them -- Cuba (2) -- Tusker -- Seven selfies from the Chateau d'If -- The firing squad -- Alvaro de Campos: "Belfast, 1922" -- Los dissidentes -- Required fields -- To market, to market -- Noah & Sons -- Paul Muldoon: "Pompeii" -- Camille Pissarro: Apple picking at Eragny-sur-Epte -- Dirty data.

"Paul Muldoon's new book, his twelfth collection of poems, is wide-ranging in its subject matter yet is everywhere concerned with watchfulness. Heedful, hard won, head turning, heartfelt, these poems attempt to being scrutiny to bear on everything, including scrutiny itself."--Book jacket.