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Issue Details: First known date: 2010... 2010 Fire Diary
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Glebe, Glebe - Leichhardt - Balmain area, Sydney Inner West, Sydney, New South Wales,:Puncher and Wattmann , 2010 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Helli"I've been reading a canto", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 11)
A Poem with No Beginningi"This poem begins like most things with nothing", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 12)
I - Theoryi"I have a general theory: keep going.", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 13)
II - Practicei"Prepare for the walk", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 13)
III - At the Top (Mt Rufus)i"I claim this", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 13-14)
Rules for Walking, Mark Tredinnick , sequence poetry (p. 13-15)
IV - Losing Your Selfi"I was no one all day,", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 14)
V - Coming Downi"When I came, footsore, to Shadow Lake,", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 15)
VI - Second Windi"The second time I heard the unmistakable breathing of the river,", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 15)
VII - Back at the Starti"And all day the delicate foliage of the myrtle", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 15)
Reading the Entrailsi"We woke to white feathers under the orange tree", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 16)
The Poplarsi"Which in summer are a brothel, in winter", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 17-18)
Wintercarribee Ecloguesi"My daughter not yet one,", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 19-21)
And Youi"One child learned to walk", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 22)
Taking it Slowi"Near midnight, the full moon floats in a shoal of cloud:", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 23-24)
The Afterlife of Lumberi"It smells like honey", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 25)
Two Hensi"Make prayer at the concrete trough", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 29)
Dying, and How to Survive Iti"Too many cars up way too early. if you ask me,", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 30-31)
Causalityi"Before there was anything, there were fields of fire; before anyone was", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 32)
Paradisei"Once I lay in the lassitude of summer,", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 33-34)
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