Table of Contents
Contents
Title Page,
Dedication,
Acknowledgements,
New Poems,
Salt on the Tongue,
While Half Asleep,
On the Lawn All Day,
Spranto Lost,
A Language,
An Autumnal,
Reverie of Dora Pamphlet,
Skins,
The Big Bad,
A Lowly Cattle Shed,
The Sharpener,
Surfaces,
Summertime,
Shadows,
More Swift than Stern,
The Dream Injunctions,
Robert Browning at Bundanon,
Gymnorhina Tibicen,
Glory Be,
Concerning Cheer,
Dear Class,
Epifania,
Chekhov Days,
Up at a Villa,
At Coswell,
The Left, the Left,
The Troubled Weather of Humanity,
Rendition,
Mayhem,
Air,
Quatorze Juillet,
Submerged Cathedral,
Father-in-Law,
Flowing,
The Poem of One Line,
That Which Is,
Selected Poems,
from The Music of Division,
Practical Politics,
Citizen,
The Wife's Story,
from In Light and Darkness,
A Wintry Manifesto,
Melbourne,
The Swing,
In Light and Darkness,
The Secular,
Wind and Change,
from The Rebel General,
Carnations,
Traditions, Voyages,
from Where the Wind Came,
The Centaur Within,
The Joker,
In Hay Fever Time,
Other People,
Signs,
Chaos,
Where the Wind Came,
from The Foundations of Joy,
Last Page from an Explorer's Journal,
The Wild Colonial Puzzler,
Hey There!,
Again,
The Foundations of Joy,
from The Emotions Are Not Skilled Workers,
Genesis,
The Shape-Changer,
Bennelong,
New Carpentry,
Puck in January,
Old Men During a Fall of Government,
Now That April's Here,
Introspection,
from The Amorous Cannibal,
Gaspard de la Nuit,
A Stone Age Decadent,
Mind,
Nub,
Squibs in the Nick of Time,
Exit the Players,
The Bits and Pieces,
Practitioners of Silence,
Words,
Sacred Ridges above Diamond Creek,
The Amorous Cannibal,
from I'm Deadly Serious,
There,
The Starlight Express,
Genius Loci,
Stardust,
The Mirror Stage,
God,
The Thing Itself,
from For Crying Out Loud,
They,
An Elegy,
Trace Elements,
The Life of Ideas,
The Inheritance,
Puck Disembarks,
Mental Events,
The Bush,
River Run,
And the World Was Calm,
For Crying Out Loud,
from Rungs of Time,
Autumn Lines for Michael Hofmann,
Drawing,
Sunset Sky near Coober Pedy,
Looking Down on Cambodia,
Reality,
Afternoon in the Central Nervous System,
Good Friday Seder at Separation Creek,
from Selected Poems (1995),
Ode to Morpheus,
What Are These Coming to the Sacrifice?,
Why Do We Exist?,
from Whirling,
Erstwhile,
We Live in Time So Little Time,
The Idea of Memory at 33 Celsius,
An Equine Prospect,
The Whistle Stop,
Timber,
Wanting to Be a Sculptor,
Memories of Vin Buckley, Spelt from Sibyl's Golden Leaves,
Years On,
The Crims,
Yabbying,
More Loss,
from By and Large,
Truth and Silence,
The Rescue Will Not Take Place,
Easter Day,
A Vignette,
Cho Ben Thanh: Richmond,
Brink,
An die Musik,
Out to Lunch,
In the Scent of Eucalyptus,
The Missing Lyric,
Between Dog and Wolf,
Toward Birregurra,
Kangaroos,
Lightness,
We Being Ghosts Cannot Catch Hold of Things,
New Year,
from Telling a Hawk from a Handsaw,
And Terror,
It Sounds Different Today,
The Domestic Sublime,
From the Island, Bundanon,
Daphne Fitzroy,
Delivering Tact,
Grasses,
The Speech of Birds,
Intermezzo,
The Stone's in the Midst of All,
Mozart on the Road,
A Summons in the Peak Period,
Loving in Truth,
Oh Yes, Then,
Index of First Lines,
Index of Titles,
About the Author,
By the Same Author,
Copyright,