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Notes

A sequence in eleven parts. The final word or words of each part form the title of the following part. The first part (starting: 'Hieronymous Bosch's choleric...') does not have a specific title.
Epigraph 1: A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass (Shakespeare, Sonnet 5). Epigraph 2: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed (Corinthians 1)

Includes

Chopped "This block-bottle where summer refused", Philip Salom , 2000 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 3-4 June 2000; (p. 12) A Cretive Life 2001; (p. 25) Time's Collision with the Tongue : The Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology : 2000 2001; (p. 6) Completely Surrounded : Thirty Years of the Newcastle Poetry Prize 1981-2011 2011; (p. 183)

Bits of Ain't "A girl who packed each gladwrapped school lunch", Philip Salom , 2001 single work poetry
— Appears in: A Cretive Life 2001; (p. 19-20) Time's Collision with the Tongue : The Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology : 2000 2001; (p. 2) Completely Surrounded : Thirty Years of the Newcastle Poetry Prize 1981-2011 2011; (p. 177-178)

The Glass "We glass things in for definition:", Philip Salom , 2001 single work poetry
— Appears in: A Cretive Life 2001; (p. 20) Time's Collision with the Tongue : The Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology : 2000 2001; (p. 2-3) Completely Surrounded : Thirty Years of the Newcastle Poetry Prize 1981-2011 2011; (p. 178)

Left "As the summer, boiled in syrup", Philip Salom , 2001 single work poetry
— Appears in: A Cretive Life 2001; (p. 22) Time's Collision with the Tongue : The Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology : 2000 2001; (p. 4) Completely Surrounded : Thirty Years of the Newcastle Poetry Prize 1981-2011 2011; (p. 180)

Ships "Like ships in bottles, sails collapsed.", Philip Salom , 2001 single work poetry
— Appears in: A Cretive Life 2001; (p. 21) Time's Collision with the Tongue : The Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology : 2000 2001; (p. 3-4) Completely Surrounded : Thirty Years of the Newcastle Poetry Prize 1981-2011 2011; (p. 179)

Dreams "The stars, the angels, the sky just below Orion", Philip Salom , 2001 single work poetry
— Appears in: A Cretive Life 2001; (p. 23) Time's Collision with the Tongue : The Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology : 2000 2001; (p. 4-5) Completely Surrounded : Thirty Years of the Newcastle Poetry Prize 1981-2011 2011; (p. 181)

Whole "Through a glass darkly - the tenses, collapsed and cold.", Philip Salom , 2001 single work poetry
— Appears in: A Cretive Life 2001; (p. 23-24) Time's Collision with the Tongue : The Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology : 2000 2001; (p. 5) Completely Surrounded : Thirty Years of the Newcastle Poetry Prize 1981-2011 2011; (p. 181-182)

Preservation "The dark bottle where summer swapped", Philip Salom , 2001 single work poetry
— Appears in: A Cretive Life 2001; (p. 24) Time's Collision with the Tongue : The Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology : 2000 2001; (p. 5-6) Completely Surrounded : Thirty Years of the Newcastle Poetry Prize 1981-2011 2011; (p. 182)

Ice "When they lowered Houdini locked in a box into the icy river", Philip Salom , 2001 single work poetry
— Appears in: A Cretive Life 2001; (p. 25) Time's Collision with the Tongue : The Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology : 2000 2001; (p. 6) Completely Surrounded : Thirty Years of the Newcastle Poetry Prize 1981-2011 2011; (p. 183)

The Locked Box "We recognise the window from walking past it", Philip Salom , 2001 single work poetry
— Appears in: A Cretive Life 2001; (p. 25-26) Time's Collision with the Tongue : The Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology : 2000 2001; (p. 7) Completely Surrounded : Thirty Years of the Newcastle Poetry Prize 1981-2011 2011; (p. 183-184)