Contents

Acknowledgements

Creature

Chieftain

By Stealth

Oldish Poem

Through the Looking-Glass

And the Cross

Rondo

Demurely

Near Ferntree Gully

Jubal’s Lyre

Ghost Hour

Don’t Mention the War

After the Firebombing

Rendition

The Arm Inspection

Liquid Pleasures

Books, Eh?

The Piano Inkpot

After 400 Years

Lord Of Hosts

Grandpa’s Boys

Classical Bali

Song

Red, Red Rose

Maybe, Now

You, Wallace Stevens

My Lady’s Hay Fever

Melbourne Staccato

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