Foreword Last Bookshop in Britain - Patience Agbabi Book Learning - Jo Bell Open Book - Rachael Boast Notes on Bookbarn International after a Visit; with a Questionnaire Answered by O and L - Sean Borodale In Defence of Old Men Dozing in Bookshops - Colette Bryce In a Cardiff Arcade, 1952 - Gillian Clarke Contemporary Americans - Billy Collins MacNaughton's Bookshop - Peter Davidson Beware the Books - Imtiaz Dharker Without Prejudice - Edward Doegar At the Minister Gate Bookshop - Maura Dooley In the Drowned Bookshop - Carol Ann Duffy The Secondhand Bookshop - Ella Duffy Gathering - Ian Duhig River Tigris, River Euphrates - Paul Farley The Bookshop at the End of the World - Vicki Feaver For My Wife, Reading in Bed - John Glenday Lockyer's - Paul Henry The Argument of his Book - Robert Herrick Apotheosis at the Signing Table - Clive James G. & A. Bowden - Alan Jenkins Silver Moon - Jackie Kay Goodbye, Bargain Basement - Neetha Kunaratnam The Wardrobe - Zaffar Kunial We Lay Down a Story - Liz Lefroy Note Taking - Liz Lochhead Bookshops - Michael Longley Blank Page of First Old Book He Read - Glyn Maxwell What Happens Nest - Helen Mort Booked - Daljit Nagra The Tilt - Mark Pajak Bookshop - Don Paterson The Girl Who Ate Books - Jean Sprackland The Elements of Riding - James Sutherland-Smith The Future of Books - Michael Symmons Roberts Notes on the Art of Poetry - Dylan Thomas Books - Katharine Towers Bookseries - Kit Wright Biographical Notes.