13x21 cm, 64 pages, 250 gsm natural Strata card cover,  sewn binding with spine.  Cover image is of the fretwork over the soundhole of a lute.  ISBN 1 903090 01 6  Ordering Information Contents:    Alba: In The Park  Ballad: Of Motion  Canzo: Each To Its Mate  Unfinished Alba  Ballad: Of Breath and Sleeping    See below for extract.  Billy Mills and Catherine Walsh run hardPressed Books.

from A Small Book of Songs:
 

now is night come quietly
come to the park:

the ambiguous attraction of sweet simplicity
birds nest under the fascia derelict
inhabited house next door
or sing in the green the composite city

night after stars distant traffic
straight road long night cars
pass pitch rises   peaks   descends
conflated memories a string
of disjointed idioms cooling & slowing

energy condenses increasing complexity
receding light seen shift the background
measurable

fionn uisce
phoenix

a column
as pretext

a monument to mutual incomprehension
wings spread bird rises hollow music
intersect the great figure recumbent
grass damp (be near   where?) here

we are rayah (out there   where?) there
out over the sea the mountains
a token (ubiquitous) power measures
enter the light lamp lit decentre

difficult locked into others' preoccupations
a country enacting the long inevitable slide
into mediocrity altered a set
of suspended expectations

small square grey stone fountain
quiet sunday youth club museum
of footwear church front bullet marks
all the way up

diggers
& delvers
mind

a site
experiment

the park
at night
lights
take on

an emphasis
distant
colour

the five
directions
an arc

inscribed
stick
thrown

the dog
chased

over
the grass