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Dedication: For Bruce Bennett
Epigraph: And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their / desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces.... Isaiah, 13:22

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Kings and Messengers"Someone leaning out said Look it's what", Peter Porter , single work poetry (p. 1)

A Great Reckoning in a Little Room"As I wake from sleep I see", Peter Porter , single work poetry (p. 2)

Hardy, 1913"When she he mourned had guided him beside", Peter Porter , single work poetry (p. 3)

About Auden's Juvenilia"He knew he would be great", Peter Porter , single work poetry (p. 4)

National Service"My childhood watchword - what could that be but duty", Peter Porter , single work poetry (p. 5-6)

Old Goldfields, Maryborough"A terror made for midday -", Peter Porter , single work poetry (p. 7)

Breakfasting with Cockatoos"They go well with baroque flutes,", Peter Porter , single work poetry (p. 8-9)

Mobile Pool Cleaner"This is the nation's capital: its pools", Peter Porter , single work poetry satire (p. 10)

Men Die, Women Go Mad"No ideas but in things, but things", Peter Porter , single work poetry (p. 11)

Displacement"Some would die for a word, some would find", Peter Porter , single work poetry (p. 12)

The Western Canoe"We are all in it together, paddling downstream", Peter Porter , single work poetry (p. 13-14)

Two Cultures"Walking with friends along pathways", Peter Porter , single work poetry (p. 15-16)

Dragons in Their Pleasant Palaces"Where are the Science Students? Gone to Media Studies,", Peter Porter , single work poetry (p. 17)

Fat and Salt"Hear the voice of the pub inside the man", Peter Porter , single work poetry (p. 18)

Anxiety's Air Miles"Like the wide-flying Puck of interview", Peter Porter , single work poetry (p. 19-20)

Too Many Miracles"Honeycomb-tinted, billiard bald, unblinking,", Peter Porter , single work poetry (p. 21-22)

The Deaths of Poets"It's been a great strain on the words,", Peter Porter , single work poetry (p. 23-24)

John Ford Answers T.S. Eliot"You knew I was a lawyer, why be surprised", Peter Porter , single work poetry (p. 25-26)

Bellini and Heine Come to Dinner"Did you know that Liszt and his ridiculous woman", Peter Porter , single work poetry (p. 27-28)

Browning Meets Wagner at the Schlesingers'"'Once I wrote of Life's C Major; so prophetic!", Peter Porter , single work poetry (p. 29-30)

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Western Europe, Europe,: Oxford University Press , 1997 .

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ISBN: 0192880284 (pbk.)

Series: Oxford Poets Oxford University Press (publisher), series - publisher

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Interior Landscapes in Peter Porter's Later Poetry Bruce Bennett , 2000 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 14 no. 2 2000; (p. 93-97)
— Appears in: Homing In : Essays on Australian Literature and Selfhood 2006; (p. 111-121, notes 269-270)

Teeming with Ideas Gig Ryan , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 14 February 1998; (p. 9)
— Review of The Wild Reply Emma Lew , 1997 selected work poetry ; Chemical Bodies : A Diary of Probable Events 1994-1997 Rhyll McMaster , 1997 selected work poetry ; The Gatekeeper's Wife Fay Zwicky , 1997 selected work poetry ; Dragons in Their Pleasant Palaces Peter Porter , 1997 selected work poetry

Personal Porter Martin Duwell , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 14-15 March 1998; (p. 31)
— Review of The Wild Reply Emma Lew , 1997 selected work poetry ; Dragons in Their Pleasant Palaces Peter Porter , 1997 selected work poetry

Laugh Lines Geoff Page , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 27 December 1997; (p. 16)
— Review of Dragons in Their Pleasant Palaces Peter Porter , 1997 selected work poetry

Boeotia Comes to Athens Richard Tyrrell , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 7 November no. 4936 1997; (p. 27)
— Review of Dragons in Their Pleasant Palaces Peter Porter , 1997 selected work poetry

Life and Death, Poetry's Immortal Subjects Peter Craven , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 15 June 1997; (p. 7)
— Review of Selected Poems Philip Hodgins , 1997 selected work poetry ; Dragons in Their Pleasant Palaces Peter Porter , 1997 selected work poetry

Ordinary Miracles Michael Sharkey , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 193 1997; (p. 47-48)
— Review of Dragons in Their Pleasant Palaces Peter Porter , 1997 selected work poetry