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Issue Details: First known date: 2007... 2007 The Light River
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Bacchus Marsh, Bacchus Marsh - Ballan area, Melbourne - Outer West / North West, Melbourne, Victoria,:Connor Court Publishing , 2007 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Coastal Knot : Bathurst Point, Rottnest Island, 1978i"The grey rock swells, smooth-topped", Hal Colebatch , single work poetry (p. 22)
Note: With title: Bathurst Point, Rottnest
Rottnest Island Cemeteryi"Pale evening. Above, the lookout glows", Hal Colebatch , single work poetry (p. 23)
Thomson Bay, Rottnest Islandi"The small clear music", Hal Colebatch , single work poetry (p. 23)
Note: With first line: The small music
Dove Shells on a Rottnest Beachi"Their perfect beauty", Hal Colebatch , single work poetry (p. 24)
Weeding the Garden by Moonlighti"I have barely started these nocturnal labours", Hal Colebatch , single work poetry (p. 24)
Circus Royalei"And I find, surprisingly without surprise", Hal Colebatch , single work poetry (p. 25)
Getting into the Circus for Freei"It's the accolade I'd have paid much gold for,", Hal Colebatch , single work poetry (p. 25)
In Passingi"Children crowd to the windows", Hal Colebatch , single work poetry (p. 27)
Up the Moore Riveri"An almost secret cleft in the aching scrub-land, below", Hal Colebatch , single work poetry (p. 27)
Note: With first line: An almost secret cleft in the aching scrub-land. Behind
To Winstoni"Your whiskers tickling my face", Hal Colebatch , single work poetry (p. 28)
Albany Place Namesi"Amid the pseudo-names strewn on our map", Hal Colebatch , single work poetry (p. 28-29)
Rhipidura Leucophrys and Grallina Cyanoleucai"Bright little black-and-white jester and singer", Hal Colebatch , single work poetry (p. 29)
Augustai"Arriving late at night,", Hal Colebatch , single work poetry (p. 30)
Driving into Bunburyi"Suddenly, with houses all around", Hal Colebatch , single work poetry (p. 30)
Bunbury Moteli"How pleasant to wake", Hal Colebatch , single work poetry (p. 30)
Planktoni"Castaways could starve", Hal Colebatch , single work poetry (p. 31)
Portlyi"Portly, rubicund, white-topped,", Hal Colebatch , single work poetry (p. 31)
Baskingi"The basking lizard", Hal Colebatch , single work poetry (p. 31)
Strangei"Strange how her singing,", Hal Colebatch , single work poetry (p. 31)
Train to Kalgoorliei"There is a moment's change one always misses:", Hal Colebatch , single work poetry (p. 32)
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