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Epigraph:
Nearly all of our best men are dead!
Carlyle, Tennyson, Browning,
George Eliot! I'm not feeling very well myself.
Punch 1893
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Thornbury,
Preston - Northcote area,
Melbourne - North,
Melbourne,
Victoria,:Clouds of Magellan
, 2009 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Death in a Swiss Zooi"She forgot nothing:", single work poetry (p. 8)
- Keeping Busyi"You meet a man for the first time", single work poetry (p. 9)
- Ebenezer Missioni"The mission stands, roofless, alone on the rise;", single work poetry (p. 10)
- A Birthplacei"The town proclaims on its opening gambit to be", single work poetry (p. 11)
- The Beach Housei"Down amongst a midden of houses piled", single work poetry (p. 12)
- Staying on the Farmi"He was a bush groom and she was a scrub bride.", single work poetry (p. 13)
- Late Afternoon at Warwick Studi"Brown maps on white faces,", single work poetry (p. 14)
- A Death in the District (near the Goulburn River, Central Victoria)i"He went out to cut wood and never came back", single work poetry (p. 15)
- Regarding Fridayi"We both sit here", single work poetry (p. 16)
- The International Food Courti"There is a new crowd hunched on cheap bentwood chairs.", single work poetry (p. 17)
- Mirrors and Escalatorsi"Are they coming up", single work poetry (p. 18)
- The Iceman According to Warholi"Five thousand years ago, or thereabouts,", single work poetry (p. 19)
- The City Is My Farmi"stocked with people who spill", single work poetry (p. 20)
- Graffiti Versus Arti"Deep in the night it is written.", single work poetry (p. 21)
- Terrace Feveri"As the ole Greeks go to God", single work poetry (p. 22)
- Spa-ing in Publici"Hiding in the spa the fat woman mouths a skinny prayer.", single work poetry (p. 23-24)
- Foreshore Reservei"As you lie flat to the sand the wind drops.", single work poetry humour (p. 25)
- A Minute's Silencei"Someone calls for a minute's silence (as they do).", single work poetry (p. 26)
- Smoke Screensi"Six in a line the patients wait.", single work poetry (p. 27)
- Dry Observationsi"Urban drought is a missing song.", single work poetry (p. 28)
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