Leonard Cohen & longing -- Poetry & absence : one writer's account -- Late Milosz -- The clarities of Hemingway -- The Madonna of Parnassus -- Work & love : the letters of T.S. Eliot -- Dante, Eliot & other things -- The heart of Albert Camus -- On Guy Butler -- The meaning of an island -- The rhetoric of violence in South African poetry -- Four South African epitaphs -- Bitter pastoral : a talk about the Cedarberg -- Voting with my feet -- Buiten Street -- Afterword to a city -- Hannah Hunter Watson -- One foot-note.