Far Field is the third and final book in The Auchensale Trilogy, a series of poetry cycles capturing the changing rural landscape of the West of Scotland. Following on from its predecessors Black Cart and Bale Fire, the book consists of three cycles bound together by footers.

A number of poems in the early part of the book are in response to paintings by the Glasgow Boys particularly those painted during their time spent in agricultural communities. Many of the poems are highly personal with a number about family members. These include a series of elegies for his late father. It also focuses on the present day looking to the challenges ahead for the family farm and that passing baton to the next generation.     

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Author’s note
• 1. Landscape with Cattle
  • Landscape with Cattle
  • A Hind’s Daughter
  • Straw
  • By Heart
  • Schoolmates
  • Barefoot Days
  • Milk Tank
  • The Basics
  • Playing the Milkmaid in the Hameau de la Reine
  • Flow
  • Trawlerman
  • Anatomical Model of the Cow
  • Days of Whitewash
  • Shearing
  • Scythe
  • The Hedgecutter
  • Days Left Till Harvest
  • Harvest Epilogue
  • Harvest Wake
  • The Hireling’s Lullaby
• 2. Earthstruck
  • Earthstruck
  • A Rough Sonnet from the Blacksmith’s Son
  • The Gamekeeper’s Daughter
  • Tenderness
  • You Smell of the Farm
  • At First Sight
  • A Good Judge of Horse Flesh
  • Missing the Harvest Dance
  • Leviathan
  • Every Man his Own Cattle Doctor
  • Casting a Cow, Ringing a Bull
  • Four Millimetres
  • Warning Signs
  • The Shepherd’s Loss
  • Robertson’s First Wake
  • MacIntyre’s Big Horse
  • Preparing the Ground
  • Migration
  • Gone Out
  • My Father’s Soil
• 3. Stepping Stones
  • Stepping Stones
  • The Course of the Locher Water
  • Traveller
  • Old Boots
  • Without an Epiphany from the Belly of a Whale
  • Market Talk
  • Long Way Round
  • Viewpoint
  • Bringing in the Cows
  • My Wife’s Whistle
  • My Brother’s Cloud
  • My Father’s Hands
  • Gene Pool
  • Atrial Fibrillation
  • Roe
  • Aeolian Harp
  • Preparing the Pipe
  • Vespers
  • Milk Fever
  • Planting Aspen Saplings
• Acknowledgements