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  • Author:agent Thomas Shapcott http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/shapcott-thomas-w
Issue Details: First known date: 1995... 1995 The City of Home
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Contents

* Contents derived from the St Lucia, Indooroopilly - St Lucia area, Brisbane - North West, Brisbane, Queensland,:University of Queensland Press , 1995 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Mouth Feathersi"Once shy, twice bitten, ten times bitten.", Thomas Shapcott , single work poetry (p. 26-27)
Ripe Bananas [1995]i"Do you remember when you first tasted bananas?", Thomas Shapcott , single work poetry (p. 28)
Chained Blue Heeleri"She doesn't bark so much now", Thomas Shapcott , single work poetry (p. 29)
Belgrade Autumni"There is the fog. Noon, mid-afternoon,", Thomas Shapcott , single work poetry (p. 30)
Meditation 2 : Rediscovering Deja Vu : 1i"What is gone is not gone, we're not simple as that.", Thomas Shapcott , single work poetry (p. 31)
Meditation 2 : Rediscovering Deja Vu : 2 : Tristan, 1990i"It's the night of the Gay Mardi Gras. Wagner", Thomas Shapcott , single work poetry (p. 32)
Meditation 2 : Rediscovering Deja Vu : 3 The Gift in Skopjei"They knew what they were doing, the givers of gifts.", Thomas Shapcott , single work poetry (p. 33)
Meditation 2 : Rediscovering Deja Vu : 4 : Visiting Stravinsky's Grave, Venicei"A once fashionable pastiche : walled island with cypresses,", Thomas Shapcott , single work poetry (p. 34)
Meditation 2 : Rediscovering Deja Vu : 5 Printsi"This hand is indisputably mine, red foxy skin", Thomas Shapcott , single work poetry (p. 35)
Collateral Damagei"I think of the bodies of children, strangely like our own,", Thomas Shapcott , single work poetry (p. 36-37)
Meditation 3 : The Circular Tree Story (for Michael Hulse)i"Trees are more important than humans.", Thomas Shapcott , single work poetry (p. 38-41)
Meditation 4 : Rhapsody in a Perth Parking Loti"I walk across the university parking lot", Thomas Shapcott , single work poetry (p. 42-45)
Meditation 5 : Rocks : In Memoriam Patrick Whitei"In my father's bed, digging", Thomas Shapcott , single work poetry (p. 46-49)
Caughti"Stringy-bark slopes, hill shadow", Thomas Shapcott , single work poetry (p. 50)
Meditation 6 : The River at Brisbanei"You are surrounded. Loops and reaches, steep banks", Thomas Shapcott , single work poetry (p. 51-53)
The Glasshouse Mountainsi"Sunshine is the freckle of a melanoma", Thomas Shapcott , single work poetry (p. 54)
Eric : 1 : the Glasshouse Mountaini"My father was baptized in gas and mud. The abrasion", Thomas Shapcott , single work poetry (p. 55)
Eric : 2 : Univerity of Hard Preceptsi"Dad left school in 1911. He was thirteen.", Thomas Shapcott , single work poetry (p. 56)
Eric : 3 : Erici"Until now I have never thought of my father", Thomas Shapcott , single work poetry (p. 57)
For Judith Wrighti"A physical presence of shade; the idea of shelter.", Thomas Shapcott , single work poetry (p. 58-59)
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