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Poetry

Showcase of Shorter Poems
- Performance
- Late Summer Fires
- Pigs
- Comete
- The Harleys
- The Sleepout [MP3 audio]
- Bat's Ultrasound [MP3 audio]
- Cockspur Bush
- The Mitchells
- Inside Ayers Rock
- On Home Beaches
- Flowering Eucalypt in Autumn
- The Meaning of Existence
- The Mowed Hollow
- An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow [MP3 audio]
- Amanda's Painting
- More Poems
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Two Extracts from Fredy Neptune
- First Sighting of the Los Angeles
- Iron Rees

Recent Poems
- As Country Was Slow
- Port Jackson Greaseproof Rose
- Fame
- Cherries from Young
- The Farm Terraces
- The Conversations

Poems from The Biblane Houses
- The Shining Slopes and Planes
- Through the Lattice Door
- The House Left in English
- The Hanging Gardens
- On the North Coast Line

The Full Dress
- The Aboriginal Cricketer
- Cattle Ancestor
- Echidna
- A Study of the Nude
- The Tin Wash Dish [MP3 audio]
- Two Rains
- Worker Knowledge
- Under the Banana Mountains
- From Fredy Neptune
- You Find You Can Leave It All
- Cave Divers near Mount Gambier

New Collected Poems: Table of Contents

Uncollected Poems

Uncollected: The Weatherboard Cathedral
- Recourse to the Wilderness
- Farewelling Contemporaries
- Shorelines
- Platypus
- Windy Hill
- Tableau with Academic Figures
- Shelduck Lagoon
- Bagman O'Reilly's Curse
- Existential Beasts
- The Borgia Pope Relates a Painful Incident
- The Wilderness
- The Garden Path
- The Merchants' Wheel
- The Abortion Scene
- Prosper the Commonwealth
- Susan and the Serpent – A Colonial Fiction
- The Last Continent
- The Count of the Simple Shore
- When I Was Alive
- The Rock Shelters, Botany Bay
- Treeroots and Earth
- Three Tries at Englynion
- One Who Asked, Thinking He Knew
- If a Pebble Fall
- The Barranang Angel Case
- The House of Four-X
- The Spheres

Uncollected: Poems Against Economics
- A Helicopter View of Terrestrial Stars
- In Australia They Spare Only the Kulaks
- The ASIO Bug
- Sunday, Having Read My Sheets
- Dependence
- Middle Earth

Uncollected: Lunch and Counter Lunch
- Rhymes for a Small Capital
- The Flying Mural
- Bikini
- After Lunch
- Notes

Uncollected: The Boys Who Stole the Funeral
- 24 ("The kitchen's not urbane")
- 37 ("Famous twice over now")
- 48 ("The chip-gravelled woodheap surrounds him")
- 51 ("He hurries some way down the road ")
- 63 ("Obsolete and therefore deaf")
- 79 ("Honeyed dust and bush lemon are the perfumes they breathe")
- 100 ("It is a pity we always had to be sensible")