TY - BOOK AU - Ireland,Kevin TI - Looking out to sea SN - 9781927242926 : U1 - NZ821.3 23 PY - 2015///] CY - Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand PB - Steele Roberts Aotearoa N1 - Poems; Looking out to sea -- Another one that got away -- A book on the liminal -- Where to begin? -- A very brief biography -- The proper purpose of the arts -- The poet who missed his transport -- Beginnings -- A take on the bright side -- Reasonable excuse -- A talking tour of the Home Counties -- Proverbs -- Answers -- Postcard with mirages -- Places to avoid -- Night talk -- Flying across Australia -- Yet another last straw -- Who wouldn't? -- Happy twenty-first -- Girl on Cheltenham Beach -- The time of day -- The shambles option -- Rhymes for the times -- The lost children of the 1930s -- Great day in paradise? -- Straight from the prayer book -- Enough's enough or not -- Happy Days -- Dreamt-up poems -- Acting clever -- Cold Duck -- The pleasure of inaction -- A last dance -- On the down and up -- Human climate change -- Save the day -- Little England manifesto -- Blushes all round -- Everything of meaning -- The First Viola War -- Bad luck comes in threes -- Different planets ER -