[C.P. Cavafy]. Alternative Manners: Poems of C.P. Cavafy. English versions by Desmond O'Grady. [n.p]: [n.p], 1993. 52 p.

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Contents: Desmond O'Grady, "Preface" (pp. 7-9); Acknowledgements (p. 10); "Cavafy in Alexandria" (from O'Grady's Alexandria Notebook) (p. 11). A selection of 33 poems:

"Candles" (p. 12); "Footsteps" (p. 13); "Ithaca" (pp. 14-16); "Voices" (p. 17); "The City" (p. 18); "Ionian" (p. 19); "Windows" (p. 20); "Waiting for the Barbarians" (pp. 21-22); "One of Their Gods" (p. 23); "Thermopylae" (p. 24); "Come Back" (p. 25); "I Went" (p. 26); "He Swears" (p. 27); "One Night" (p. 28); "The Tobacco Kiosk" (p. 29); "Days of 1903" (p. 30); "I've Seen So Much Beauty" (p. 31); "Rites of Passage" (p. 32); "Long Ago" (p. 33); "At the Café Door" (p. 34); "Nero's Hour" (p. 35); "One Evening" (p. 36); "Remember, Body" (p. 37); "In a Town of Osroini" (p. 38); "Grey" (p. 39); "The Month of Athyr" (p. 40); "Tomb of Iasis" (p. 41); "That House" (p. 42); "Since Nine O'Clock" (p. 43); "At Rest in Verse" (p. 44); "On Board Ship" (p. 45); "Those Who Fought for the Achaian League" (p. 46); "He Came to Read" (p. 47).

Biographies (pp. 48-51).

A different version of "Ionian" appeared as "My Country" in Desmond O'Grady's His Skaldorane's Nest, Poems (Gallery Press, Dublin 1970). Slightly different versions of "One of Τheir Gods" (under the title of "One of Them") and "Waiting for the Barbarians" appeared in The Writers: A Sense of Ireland. New Works by 44 Irish Writers (Andrew Carpenter and Peter Fallon, eds. Dublin: The O'Brien Press, 1980): 159 and 161.