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* Contents derived from the 1998 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- The Autobiographer's Duty, single work correspondence (p. 5-6)
- Protestant Lawyer, Catholic Libertine, Invisible Masons, single work criticism (p. 19-23)
- Towards 2000i"As that monster the Twentieth Century", single work poetry (p. 24)
- The Water from Beforei"Timber barred the opening", single work poetry (p. 24)
- Political Sciencei"Beyond the television heads", single work poetry (p. 31)
- Hayshedi"Polished flute-like towers, narrow chimneys,", single work poetry (p. 46-47)
- The Empty Housei"As soon as the heater stopped", single work poetry (p. 54)
- Tree Housei"Given: a forked stick in a rectangle", single work poetry (p. 54)
- For Whom the Bell Tinklesi"Although I've too much love", single work poetry satire (p. 62)
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My Mother's Crystal Bowli"It welcomes light like a smile, happy with space,",
single work
poetry
(p. 63)The crystal bowl encounters light as at the atomic level, where crystals form, a change as 'precipitate' as the way the writer's mother changed, presumably in death. The flavour of the peppermints inside recalls her laughter, lasting as the colours in Neith-Hotep's tomb frescoes, and the bowl becomes a canopic jar, which held the physical remnants of Egyptian dead, bringing longing for the lost one. The flavour of the mint dries on the tongue, so the longing becomes a 'thirsty' version of the coin placed under the tongue to pay the passage of Greek souls across the river of death.
- Malacca Bowlsi"We are Straits Chinese gone to the four winds--", single work poetry (p. 63)
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That Old Time Religion,
single work
review
— Review of Mr Darwin's Shooter 1998 single work novel ; (p. 77-78) -
Room for Amateurs,
single work
review
— Review of Seams of Light : Best Antipodean Essays : A Selection 1998 anthology prose criticism biography ; (p. 81-83) -
Earls Cool,
single work
review
— Review of The Oxford Book of Australian Schooldays 1997 anthology autobiography biography poetry extract ; (p. 85-86)
