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Issue Details: First known date: 1961... 1961 Dark Wind Blowing
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Brisbane, Queensland,:Jacaranda Press , 1961 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
For This, the Tidei"For this the tide flowed", Val Vallis , single work poetry (p. 9)
High Tide by Nighti"I, as the shore-rim, hold", Val Vallis , single work poetry (p. 10)
Song for a Moonlit Nighti"O, lie with me, my darling,", Val Vallis , single work poetry (p. 11)
To a Poet, Begettingi"You, who piled and fired with mind's heat", Val Vallis , single work poetry (p. 12)
Arachnei"Out of your body you have spun this web", Val Vallis , single work poetry (p. 13)
Wave-Breaki"This, the sunlit flower closing into the dark", Val Vallis , single work poetry (p. 14)
Children in a Cassia Treei"O my deciduous children, with the leaves", Val Vallis , single work poetry (p. 15)
In the Libraryi"I am both prisoner and judge who passed", Val Vallis , single work poetry (p. 16)
Sabbatical Leavei"Approved the audacious forehead of the tower", Val Vallis , single work poetry (p. 19)
Australian in Hyde Parki"It began when I trod on their laughter-", Val Vallis , single work poetry (p. 20)
Easter Partingi"In the Gethsemane of your going out,", Val Vallis , single work poetry (p. 21)
At Tintageli"The dark wind blows from the sea;", Val Vallis , single work poetry (p. 22)
Songs of the East Coasti"I am of the east coast country;", Val Vallis , single work poetry (p. 25)
Cargoesi"There came two ships to our bay, and the space of years", Val Vallis , single work poetry (p. 30)
Michaeli"`Come in from the veranda and the blaze", Val Vallis , single work poetry (p. 33)
Shipwrighti"He is a builder of ships. I watched him at work", Val Vallis , single work poetry (p. 35)
Fairytalei"Once there lived a princess of the sea,", Val Vallis , single work poetry (p. 36)
The Reaperi"His scythe a scoop, he shuffles through the mud", Val Vallis , single work poetry (p. 37)
The Old Fishermani"He wants no more than a deck-chair in the sun;", Val Vallis , single work poetry (p. 38)
The Jerry-Builderi"I knew him as Mark Svensen, fisherman,", Val Vallis , single work poetry (p. 39)
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