| Editor's Preface |
| A Dialogue with Shu Ting and Chen Zhongyi |
| Gifts |
| A Boat with Two Masts |
| Goodbye in the Rain |
| A Boat |
| When You Walk Beneath My Window |
| To and Oak |
| Longing |
| Two, Maybe Three Different Memories |
| A roadside encounter |
| Perhaps |
| A Late Autumn Evening in Beijing |
| Assembly Line |
| Fallen Leaf |
| Homeward bound |
| A Love Song for this Land |
| Brother, I'm here |
| Evening Star |
| Evening Montage |
| The Singing Iris |
| Ah Min in the Café |
| In Memory of My Late Grandmother |
| Resurrection |
| Twelve Nights of the Milky Way (TV Poetry) |
| July That Year |
| End of Hibernation |
| ... in between |
| A Letter to the Guitar Girl |
| In the Night-club |
| Husum Game Restaurant |
| Water Metasequoia |
| Death of the Monk |
| The Archaeopteryx |
| Autumn thoughts |
| Derailed |
| The Sleeping Clock |
| Where the soul dwells |
| That Primary Colour |
| "Forget-me-not" |
| Goodbye, white handkerchief |
| A night at an inn |
| Mirror |
| Waters of Green Lake |
| Sunset on White Creeper Lake |
| Curriculum Vitae |
| A Letter to Second Uncle |
| The Time of Power Failure |
| A Style of Playing |
| Reading at Night |
| The age of autumn |
| Chen Zhongyi: Afterword — Some Thoughts on Shu Ting's Poetry |
| Translators |
| • Eva Hung |
| • Tao Tao Liu |
| • Gordon Osing |
| • De-an Wu Swihart |
| • Janice Wickeri |
| • Henry Y.H. Zhao |
| • D.E. Pollard |
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