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Issue Details: First known date: 1990... 1990 The Pink Tongue : Uncollected and Unpublished Poetry
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Newcastle, Newcastle - Hunter Valley area, New South Wales,:Nimrod Publications , 1990 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Lavgardia Near Corinthi"In a vine-crowned taverna", T. H. Naisby , single work poetry (p. 23)
Alone not Lonelyi"She'd strawberries there. Strike. I've long since burned", T. H. Naisby , single work poetry (p. 24)
And His Ghost May be Heardi"As mallee roots spit white-hot penumbra", T. H. Naisby , single work poetry (p. 25)
Overheard from a Cedar Bar Wingham NSWi"My shopsoiled surface shines with a certain candour", T. H. Naisby , single work poetry (p. 26)
Dome-Poem (for Di Beevers Who Built One)i"Because they roosted in my dome", T. H. Naisby , single work poetry (p. 27)
Droughti"My genesis was feet", T. H. Naisby , single work poetry (p. 28-29)
Waking in the Bushi"How clean the slate after an inquisition of dreams,", T. H. Naisby , single work poetry (p. 30)
Incommunicadoi"No papers reach us way up here", T. H. Naisby , single work poetry (p. 31)
Bill Batesi"Bill Bates, seventy-nine", T. H. Naisby , single work poetry (p. 32)
Dairy Farmeri"Behind a shy small school", T. H. Naisby , single work poetry (p. 33)
Bush Laboureri"On a bar stool, lucid as Euclid, the angle of his knee;", T. H. Naisby , single work poetry (p. 34)
Shadowsi"It's midnight as my pen flares unseasonably", T. H. Naisby , single work poetry (p. 35)
Burraga Foresti"Far above", T. H. Naisby , single work poetry (p. 36)
Totemic (Upper Allyn)i"Waddling across", T. H. Naisby , single work poetry (p. 37)
Toast (Upper Allyn)i"Eucalypts, eyelashes", T. H. Naisby , single work poetry (p. 38)
Paybacki"Slewing through dustbanked", T. H. Naisby , single work poetry (p. 39)
Recoveryi"I tap the lowest rung of the tank", T. H. Naisby , single work poetry (p. 40)
Retired Mineri"More at home with coal skips.", T. H. Naisby , single work poetry (p. 41)
Retired Fisherman : Seal Rocks, NSWi"Cane chair, guttered candle", T. H. Naisby , single work poetry (p. 42)
Accidenti"At the sign No Vehicles", T. H. Naisby , single work poetry (p. 43)
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