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The Ship"Now calm into the burning west", Nan McDonald , single work poetry (p. 1)

The White Eagle"Evening falls soon in the hills across the river,", Nan McDonald , single work poetry (p. 2-3)

South Coast Idyll"Before the day-star was white with morning", Nan McDonald , single work poetry (p. 4)

The Stormbird"After the sullen day of low-hung rain", Nan McDonald , single work poetry (p. 5)

Untitled"Good Friday's sun is westering", Nan McDonald , single work poetry (p. 6)

Note: With alternate title "Good Friday"

The Moon is Dark"The moon is dark above the river gorges,", Nan McDonald , single work poetry (p. 7)

Louise"In spring the riders clanging", Nan McDonald , single work poetry (p. 8-9)

The Waking"In the old house tonight a moving candle", Nan McDonald , single work poetry (p. 10-11)

Morning Prayer"How blessed in the early cold and dew", Nan McDonald , single work poetry (p. 12-14)

The Orchard"This is the hilltop orchard where those two", Nan McDonald , single work poetry (p. 15-16)

Skylark Hill"These slopes were ploughland once; the long running", Nan McDonald , single work poetry (p. 17)

Swamp Country"It is still winter on the darkening swamps", Nan McDonald , single work poetry (p. 18)

Transmigration"The cliff is edged with dark-green,", Nan McDonald , single work poetry (p. 19-20)

Candles"A hundred years ago the sun-struck sails", Nan McDonald , single work poetry (p. 21-22)

The Mountain Road: Crete, 1941 (for Bill)"The roads of all your life closed in that night", Nan McDonald , single work poetry (p. 23-24)

The Night Was Made for Loving"Love, fingering now my watchful heart,", Nan McDonald , single work poetry (p. 25)

King Joshua is Dead"What man of God will stand on these wild cliffs,", Nan McDonald , single work poetry (p. 26-27)

Full Moon"Under the summer moon, on dew-cool hillsides", Nan McDonald , single work poetry (p. 28)

Alison Hunt"A country of echoes, this: on either hand", Nan McDonald , single work poetry (p. 29-40)

False Spring"The year's drought washed to mud in autumn rains,", Nan McDonald , single work poetry (p. 41)

Note: With alternate title "False Spring, 1942"

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Invisible, Unacknowledged, but Ubiquitous : Nan McDonald Joins Angus & Robertson Louise Poland , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Telling Stories : Australian Life and Literature 1935–2012 2013; (p. 77-83)

Disparate Poets 'Mary Lisle' , 1949 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 10 no. 2 1949; (p. 95-98)
— Review of Pacific Sea Nan McDonald , 1947 selected work poetry ; The Round Dozen David McNicoll , 1947 selected work poetry ; Tripod for Homeward Incense Frederick T. Macartney , 1947 single work poetry

[Review] Pacific Sea [et al] Michael Thwaites , 1948 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Spring vol. 7 no. 3 1948; (p. 202-203)
— Review of Pacific Sea Nan McDonald , 1947 selected work poetry ; A Drum for Ben Boyd Francis Webb , 1948 sequence poetry ; Beware the Cuckoo and Other Poems Ernest G. Moll , 1947 selected work poetry ; Glencoe Douglas Stewart , 1940-1949 single work poetry ; Wind from Caribbee : Poems Edna Tredinnick , 1948 selected work poetry

Strength and Sunshine S. H. O'L. , 1948 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 14 February 1948; (p. 6)
— Review of Pacific Sea Nan McDonald , 1947 selected work poetry

[Review] Pacific Sea [and] Glencoe [and] The Secret Fire Marjorie Nichols , 1948 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Observer , 7 February 1948; (p. 320)
— Review of Pacific Sea Nan McDonald , 1947 selected work poetry ; Glencoe Douglas Stewart , 1940-1949 single work poetry ; The Secret Fire : Poems 'Mary Lisle' , 1947 selected work poetry

[Review] Creeve Roe : Poetry [et al] Alec King , 1948 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Spring vol. 7 no. 3 1948; (p. 199-202)
— Review of Creeve Roe : Poetry Victor J. Daley , 1947 selected work poetry ; The Unceasing Ground : Poems William Hart-Smith , 1946 selected work poetry ; Unpublished Poems of Shaw Neilson John Shaw Neilson , 1947 selected work poetry ; Pacific Sea Nan McDonald , 1947 selected work poetry ; Tripod for Homeward Incense Frederick T. Macartney , 1947 single work poetry

Claymores and Nullah Nullahs L. I. Shephard , 1948 single work review
— Appears in: The Australasian Book News and Literary Journal , February vol. 2 no. 8 1948; (p. 422-224)
— Review of Pacific Sea Nan McDonald , 1947 selected work poetry ; Glencoe Douglas Stewart , 1940-1949 single work poetry ; Pacific Sea Nan McDonald , 1947 selected work poetry

Pacific Sea 1948 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 4 February vol. 69 no. 3547 1948; (p. 2)
— Review of Pacific Sea Nan McDonald , 1947 selected work poetry