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Issue Details: First known date: 2008... 2008 Therapy Like Fish : New and Selected Poems
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Elwood, Caulfield - St Kilda area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,:John Leonard Press , 2008 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Untitledi"I sometimes forget", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 1)
A Curled Submarineri"It is as if,", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 2-3)
The World inside Her Headi"The world inside her head", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 4-5)
Untitledi"All day some days I fizz with loss", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 6)
Untitledi"I can't hear and now you hardly speak.", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 7)
Stilli"The scar, plump as an almond on your wrist;", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 8)
Untitledi"It was your voice I first loved", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 9)
Wingi"Ants wing their unlikely way into the air", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 10)
Untitledi"Do not assume my deafness to be an absence.", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 11)
Turni"With plain sweet night on our tongues,", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 12)
On Going Homei"1 I asked you to drive because", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 13)
My Father as a Girli"When I opened the suitcase my godmother left me,", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 14-20)
The Olive Silk, Three Quarter Sleeve, Swing Jacketi"my mama laughs in the grass", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 21)
Untitledi"Give me your beautiful hands", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 22)
Untitledi"It is my mouth", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 23)
Breathing Wateri"It must have happened in sleep", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 24)
Untitledi"Death wears nothing,", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 25)
To His Dead Motheri"In photographs, your golden hair is coiled about you.", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 26)
Untitledi"So I sleep and wake, knowing you will never come,", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 27)
At Winter Solstice 2002, Marcella Polain , sequence poetry (p. 28-31)
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