AustLit

The poem compares human forgetting to a traveller waiting on a platform for a train, but without a return ticket.

A long, semi-humorous poem dedicated, seemingly, to everything and everyone in the poet's life, from the limestones of his hometown in Poland, Gdynia, through all the women he's known, to 'everything' he now sees 'through the window', and ending with a line that means 'long live crumbly cake'.

An essay reflecting on the life of Polish Australian author Andrzej Chciuk, from the point of view of a longstanding friend and co-founder of the Polish community theatre group, 'Wesoła [Cheerful] Kookaburra'. Gawroński details some of the controversies that surrounded Chciuk within the Polish Australian community, and the lack of recognition his writing received among Polish Australian readers, despite the awards and high praise it attracted from Polish literary organisations overseas.

A narrative which describes how two Polish Australian boys from Mount Isa are kidnapped at gunpoint by a runaway criminal, an Aboriginal man, and made to drive north until their car's encounter with a wild bull on the road gives them a chance to escape into the bush. They wander through the North Queensland wilderness for several days, without food or water, until, half-dead with thirst and exhaustion, they are rescued by some local Aboriginal youths, who have heard of the official search for the missing boys.