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Issue Details: First known date: 1968... 1968 My Beachcombing Days : Ninety Sea Sonnets
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Sydney, New South Wales,:Angus and Robertson , 1968 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Lakes and Seasi"There is not such beauty in the octopuses", John Blight , single work poetry (p. 21)
The Cunjevoii"I have read, I have been told (I haven't seen)", John Blight , single work poetry (p. 22)
Octopusi"What I hate has grown up over the ages,", John Blight , single work poetry (p. 23)
Beche-de-mer at Caloundrai"The seas were teeming when I was a boy", John Blight , single work poetry (p. 24)
Queen Fish at Wolf Rocki"I felt like the Devil, and the queen fish", John Blight , single work poetry (p. 25)
From Fish to Mani"I have lived life alien to that which I'd choose,", John Blight , single work poetry (p. 26)
Gladstonei"I am in a town which would drown", John Blight , single work poetry (p. 27)
The Spiti"It is undersea half-tide, it is land", John Blight , single work poetry (p. 28)
The Pointi"The point is our objective. Who can stay,", John Blight , single work poetry (p. 29)
The Isthmusi"When I walked out on that catwalk, the isthmus,", John Blight , single work poetry (p. 30)
Note: Author note: - Panama revisited
A Rockfishermani"Where there is rock, but no sand, rod in hands", John Blight , single work poetry (p. 31)
The Dead Shearwateri"That was the shearwater that bundle of dull black feathers", John Blight , single work poetry (p. 32)
The Diveri"Here at last the shag's sly periscope appears.", John Blight , single work poetry (p. 33)
Fishi"Man and fish have never communicated;", John Blight , single work poetry (p. 34)
Toadoi"Shallow as the gutter where the toado", John Blight , single work poetry (p. 35)
Pearl Perchi"There are those fish that swim ever in the dim", John Blight , single work poetry (p. 36)
Sea Cruise - N. Z.i"Material! four thousand miles of it.", John Blight , single work poetry (p. 37)
Ball's Pyramidi"Ball's Pyramid. Ball's? Nobody's!", John Blight , single work poetry (p. 38)
Lord Howe Islandi"Here, again, the English gentry! Names", John Blight , single work poetry (p. 39)
Norfolk Island Pinesi"Shades of dead convicts! Funeral pinetrees wait;", John Blight , single work poetry (p. 40)
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