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- Office Pooli"The pool has gone: river bed tiled with baked mud,", single work poetry (p. 5)
- Castawayi"A strange bird,", single work poetry (p. 5)
- Settlementi"The road to the end of the Gorge", single work poetry (p. 5)
- Dusk Comes Early, sequence poetry (p. 5-6)
- Dusk Comes Earlyi"In the playground: monkey bars have dribbled rust.", single work poetry (p. 5-6)
- Terminologyi"Do I start with other lives, or do I start with mine?", single work poetry (p. 7-8)
- Fallen Pearsi"Small green pears that have dropped", single work poetry (p. 8)
- Hometown Boysi"My concept of Arcadia", single work poetry (p. 9-10)
- Two Part Inventioni"The hermit, the rabbi,", single work poetry (p. 10-11)
- Initium Sapientiae Timor Dominii"All the Latin in the world's inscriptions", single work poetry (p. 12-13)
- Cutting the Tight-Rope, single work short story (p. 14-16)
- Sharks, single work short story (p. 17-20)
- The Complexity of Aboriginal Identity : Mudrooroo and Sally Morgan, single work criticism (p. 21-27)
-
Two Gifts for Annie,
single work
short story
Annie is a deaf girl in a small town who enjoys going to school. An inspector has come to see how she and her teacher, Mr Fletcher, manage in the class. The inspector wants to put her in an institution or a special school, questions why she hasn't been given a hearing aid, and pushes for segregated white and Aboriginal people seating in the school. Mr Fletcher defends against all these demands, insisting that Annie is content with where she is.
After the inspector leaves, Annie writes a poem about her resilience in class, comparing herself to a weed; Mr Fletcher notices and has her stay after class. They discuss her domestic abuse situation and her intelligence. Mr Fletcher gifts her a dictionary that belonged to his dead son, and the grocer Annie's family sells eggs to gifts her broken biscuits on her way home.
- Re-Making, single work short story (p. 37-39)
- John Kinsella in Conversation with Bruce Dawe, John Kinsella (interviewer), single work biography interview (p. 40-45)
- For Gloria, in Her Final Illness Sic Transit Gloria Mundi (for My Wife in Her Final Illness)i"Never to come home again, the house cries out...", single work poetry (p. 46-47)
- The Iconography of Droughti"The colour and texture of The Dry", single work poetry (p. 48-49)
- These Moments: Mt Victoriai"Nameless they are to me", single work poetry (p. 50)
- The Unimaginablei"North of the falls I fall silent", single work poetry (p. 51)