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2 : The Recognition
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"No doubt the cut-throats wished us",
1992
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Formerlight : Selected Poems 1992; (p. 46) -
3: A Way Home
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"In work or out, we owed no less than life.",
1984
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Bulletin (Literary Supplement) , 24 April vol. 104 no. 5413 1984; (p. 88) Formerlight : Selected Poems 1992; (p. 47) -
4: Cameo
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"The Milky Way has vanished like a childhood.",
1982
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Island Magazine , March no. 9/10 1982; (p. 78) Formerlight : Selected Poems 1992; (p. 48) -
5: The Dolphins
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"West of Grenada, azure sailing days,",
1981
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Bulletin (Literary Supplement) , 30 June 1981; (p. 4) Formerlight : Selected Poems 1992; (p. 48-50) Thylazine , no. 2 2000; -
6 : Vocation
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"At twenty-nine I put the sea behind me,",
1992
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Formerlight : Selected Poems 1992; (p. 50-51) -
8: Cronies
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"Island of a million whores, I'm home.",
1992
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Formerlight : Selected Poems 1992; (p. 52-53) -
10: A Limb of God: 1938
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"Yes, were I God, I'd butcher sharks regardless,",
1992
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Formerlight : Selected Poems 1992; (p. 54-55) Thylazine , no. 2 2000; -
12: Aground
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"The ship had angled like a broken limb.",
1992
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Formerlight : Selected Poems 1992; (p. 57-58) -
7: Galaxies
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"Hamburg: the clockhands move upon their star.",
1981
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Poetry Australia , September no. 79 1981; (p. 33) The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse 1986; (p. 355-356) Australian Poetry in the Twentieth Century 1991; (p. 410) Formerlight : Selected Poems 1992; (p. 51) The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse 1996; (p. 372) Sunlines : An Anthology of Poetry to Celebrate Australia's Harmony in Diversity 2002; (p. 140) -
9: Pearls
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"Tonight our heaven is an estuary",
1981
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Poetry Australia , September no. 79 1981; (p. 33-34) The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse 1986; (p. 356-357) Formerlight : Selected Poems 1992; (p. 53-54) The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse 1996; (p. 372-373)
— Appears in: Whispers from the Faraway South : Translations of Selected Australian Poetry 1999; (p. 200-204) -
13: Albatrosses (September 1939)
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"A steamer throws umbilicals of smoke",
1983
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Quadrant , June vol. 27 no. 6 1983; (p. 66) Formerlight : Selected Poems 1992; (p. 58-59) Thylazine , no. 2 2000; -
From : The End of Sail 1924-1939
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"And so Cape Horn.",
1984
extract
poetry
— Appears in: Hemisphere , March-April vol. 28 no. 5 1984; (p. 301) Formerlight : Selected Poems 1992; (p. 56-57) Another English : Anglophone Poems from Around the World 2014; -
1 : The Lyric Trance of Work
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"We needed decent work. Le Havre's cranes",
1982
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Quadrant , October vol. 26 no. 10 1982; (p. 44) Formerlight : Selected Poems 1992; (p. 45)
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To Go Out into the Dark I Know Knows Me
2013
single work
essay
— Appears in: Quadrant , September vol. 57 no. 9 2013; (p. 83-85)
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To Go Out into the Dark I Know Knows Me
2013
single work
essay
— Appears in: Quadrant , September vol. 57 no. 9 2013; (p. 83-85)
Last amended 12 Sep 2001 14:44:20