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Issue Details: First known date: 1993... 1993 The Stonehenge Syndrome
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Port Melbourne, South Melbourne - Port Melbourne area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,:Heinemann , 1993 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Foundi"There was never a ship-dredger, garbage scow or ferry,", Hal Colebatch , single work poetry (p. 1-3)
Pleasei"If poets are our unacknowledged legislators", Hal Colebatch , single work poetry (p. 4)
Casting Offi"Some day-to-day magics never fail: the moment", Hal Colebatch , single work poetry (p. 5)
Swimming Pooli"Swim any night alone", Hal Colebatch , single work poetry (p. 6)
Unprogressivei"When the British fleet sailed to the Falklands", Hal Colebatch , single work poetry (p. 7)
Almosti"If I cannot exactly envy", Hal Colebatch , single work poetry (p. 8)
Reading `The Lord of the Rings' at a Parliamentary Selection Committee Meetingi"Another candidate who promises", Hal Colebatch , single work poetry (p. 9-10)
Monday Eveningi"With any luck", Hal Colebatch , single work poetry (p. 11)
Lunch-Time Ferry, Perth Wateri"We crawl across", Hal Colebatch , single work poetry (p. 12)
Mangrove Swamp, Carnarvoni"This clutches, and demands", Hal Colebatch , single work poetry (p. 13)
Memories of Guy Fawkes Nightsi"Cicadas' late Spring", Hal Colebatch , single work poetry (p. 14-15)
University Incidenti"Grey, spear-billed, the web-footed bird", Hal Colebatch , single work poetry (p. 16-17)
The Last Grammarians (for All Sub-Editors)i"This is a strange altar for this rite,", Hal Colebatch , single work poetry (p. 18)
Boatingi"Blue and white afternoons.", Hal Colebatch , single work poetry (p. 19-20)
Shark Bay Lagooni"Strange, that these warm sunlit shallows,", Hal Colebatch , single work poetry (p. 21)
Macau, 1975 (after Auden) Macaui"Above its cascading steps, Saint Paul's burnt face", Hal Colebatch , single work poetry (p. 22)
The Tourists Journey North Through Sunda Straitsi"Volcanic cones are there in misty moonlight.", Hal Colebatch , single work poetry (p. 23)
Three Yachtsman's Songsi"Cold-chiselling a weld to free a pipe,", Hal Colebatch , single work poetry (p. 24-25)
The Picturei"In the corner of the room is a television set,", Hal Colebatch , single work poetry (p. 26)
Aruba, Dutch West Indies, 1940i"The reason for being here: a ship", Hal Colebatch , single work poetry (p. 27-28)
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