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Jacaranda"The bell mouth of the jacaranda flower,", Trevor Bailey , single work poetry (p. 29)

Piano Bar - Ritz-Carlton, Double Bay"Tilt the glass a little, then let the liquor", Trevor Bailey , single work poetry (p. 29)

A Match for Shiva, “The Destroyer”"His brown hands clapped", Trevor Bailey , single work poetry (p. 29)

In a Pompeii Street"Frozen mid-step, and here before me:", Trevor Bailey , single work poetry (p. 29)

My Sunday Wars"The cars in reverential ranks are few", Roger G. McDonald , single work poetry (p. 34)

Aubade"There is a cold breeze through the house tonight.", Jason Morgan , single work poetry (p. 35)

Letter to My Father"Old man in exile, self-imposed,", Steve Cox , single work poetry (p. 35)

Can It (Aussie Style)"It’s enough to make one chunder", Martin H. Samuel , single work poetry (p. 53)

An Absolutely Ordinary Murder"The word goes round Brisbane, the murmur goes round its city centre;", Marcus Ten Low , single work poetry (p. 64-65)

Winter Wax, Rex Pollard , single work poetry (p. 65)

My Origins"from my mother,", Marcus Ten Low , single work poetry (p. 65)

Laudato Si"In the next fairway, where magpies sing,", Ivan Head , single work poetry (p. 74)

Saturday Morning"A gentle morning glazes the lagoon.", Rod Moran , single work poetry (p. 74)

Lot’s Wife"As soon as she turned her head", Bill Rush , single work poetry (p. 78)

A Balanced Prime Minister, Ross Fitzgerald , single work review
— Review of A Sense of Balance John Winston Howard , 2022 single work autobiography ; (p. 79-82)

Atlas Hugged, James Murray , single work review
— Review of Writing for His Life : Stewart Cockburn, Crusading Journalist Jennifer Cockburn , 2022 single work biography ; (p. 87-90)

Indelible Traces, Ivan Head , single work review
— Review of Crimson Boronia : An Anthology of Poems Janet West , 2015 selected work poetry ; (p. 92-93)