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2 : Earliest
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"It is beginning. Memory discovers",
1984
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Neither Nuked Nor Crucified and Other Poems 1984; (p. 41) The Twofold Place 1986; (p. 45-46) Formerlight : Selected Poems 1992; (p. 93-94) -
3 : The Phoenician Helmsman
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"We go to find his cryptic centuries and find",
1984
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Neither Nuked Nor Crucified and Other Poems 1984; (p. 41-42) The Twofold Place 1986; (p. 46) Formerlight : Selected Poems 1992; (p. 94) -
4 : Tahata-Orrero (Tahitian Navigator)
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"And then the islands scattered, shoals of fish or stars:",
1984
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Neither Nuked Nor Crucified and Other Poems 1984; (p. 42) The Twofold Place 1986; (p. 46-47) -
5 : The Norse Ship
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"Perhaps a sailor, troubled in a long twilight,",
1984
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Neither Nuked Nor Crucified and Other Poems 1984; (p. 42-43) The Twofold Place 1986; (p. 47) -
6 : An Arab Mercant
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"Year by year his ship paid out the coastlines.",
1984
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Neither Nuked Nor Crucified and Other Poems 1984; (p. 43) The Twofold Place 1986; (p. 47-48) -
7 : The Return of Cheng Ho's Sixth Voyage
i
"It's said there is no home. And yet there is this homing.",
1984
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Neither Nuked Nor Crucified and Other Poems 1984; (p. 43-44) The Twofold Place 1986; (p. 48) -
9 : A Dutch Jacht
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"Come, says our thought: the table's set in Antwerp.",
1984
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Neither Nuked Nor Crucified and Other Poems 1984; (p. 44) The Twofold Place 1986; (p. 49) -
11 : Tea-Clippers
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"They're ghosting from the eras of small refinements.",
1984
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Neither Nuked Nor Crucified and Other Poems 1984; (p. 45) The Twofold Place 1986; (p. 50) -
1 : The Freedom of the Seas
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"Perhaps for wealth of strangeness sailing further",
1986
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Twofold Place 1986; (p. 45) Formerlight : Selected Poems 1992; (p. 93) Thylazine , no. 2 2000; -
8 : Portuguese Carracks
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"Imagination and the memory,",
1986
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Twofold Place 1986; (p. 49) Formerlight : Selected Poems 1992; (p. 95) -
10 : H.M. Bark, Endeavour
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"We spin the little globe. The scribbles of his wake",
1986
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Twofold Place 1986; (p. 50) -
12 : Lift
i
"Our thrust unmoors us. Our planet falls away.",
1986
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Twofold Place 1986; (p. 51) Formerlight : Selected Poems 1992; (p. 95)
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