Kevin Hart speaks of his family background; his parents' professions; religion; his schooling; his interest in reading; migrating to Australia; Wacol Hostel; high school in Australia; his interest in Mathematics; poetry; studying English at the ANU; his English and Philosophy double Honours; religious experience; becoming a Roman Catholic; Lines of the Hand; the Departure; Your Shadow; writing poetry; spirituality in poetry; Jewish modes of interpretation; death; autobiography in poetry; ageing; Gypsophila; developing patterns; codes; form; poetry as a kind of self-psychoanalysis; reviews.