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Notes

Dedication: for Rhonda and Kip
Epigraphs:
Voyages, like arrows, are pointed, / our destination often our genesis, / leading us toward that we value most, / deeper and deeper into the heart. -- Blaine Marchand, Bodily Presence
How vaguely time remembers / How slowly we forget / We all pass through this wilderness, / Never know where we'll be sent / I don't know all the reasons / Why you've always held my gaze / If you ever feel you don't want me / I'll be out there somewhere far away -- Fred Cole, 'Dead Moon', Somewhere Far Away
Author note: In writing these poems I felt drawn to the endeavours of Vicki Viidikas, who loved India and Asia so much ... Like Asia, with all its contradictions, her work helped me to travel further on the journey that never ends. -- Preface by Barry Scott, dated May 2003, p.2

Affiliation Notes

Associated with the AustLit subset Australian Literary Responses to 'Asia' as many of the poems in this selection have 'Asian' settings.

* Contents derived from the Yarraville, Footscray - Maribyrnong area, Melbourne - West, Melbourne, Victoria,:Transit Lounge , 2003 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.

Rooms By the Sea"Even in winter", Barry Scott , single work poetry (p. 3)

Room 208, Imperial Hotel (Chennai, India)"Luxury of a snib, walls a butcher's blue", Barry Scott , single work poetry (p. 7)

Love and Wigs (Chennai)"Inside the lanes of T. Nagar", Barry Scott , single work poetry (p. 8)

Wedding Song (Woodlands, Chennai)"Blessings for your waterfall,", Barry Scott , single work poetry (p. 9)

Temples by Rickshaw (Kanchipuram)"Truth or fiction, the rickshaw driver", Barry Scott , single work poetry (p. 11-12)

Vestiges (Pondicherry)"Edifices on flat brown land", Barry Scott , single work poetry (p. 13)

Abandoned by Paris (Pondicherry)"Dupleix's statue turns", Barry Scott , single work poetry (p. 14)

Meditation Time (Pondicherry)"Trying to enter into that silent space", Barry Scott , single work poetry (p. 15)

Arriving at Noon (Chidambaram)"Torn sheets dirty at noon,", Barry Scott , single work poetry (p. 16)

Puja (Chidambaram)"this is the one we can", Barry Scott , single work poetry (p. 17-18)

Homage (Chiadmbaram)"to disappointment", Barry Scott , single work poetry (p. 19-20)

Keeper of Stars (Backwaters, Kerala)"The jewels that you carry", Barry Scott , single work poetry (p. 21)

Poem (Kerala)"Night falls", Barry Scott , single work poetry (p. 22)

Prayer Wheel (Zanskar)"Om mani padme hum", Barry Scott , single work poetry (p. 23-24)

The Fall (Negombo, Sri Lanka)"Burst of sound on our ears,", Barry Scott , single work poetry (p. 29)

The Ladies of Sigiriya"You were asleep when we left you,", Barry Scott , single work poetry (p. 30)

For the Artist (Gal Vihara, Polonnaruwa)"how the Buddha", Barry Scott , single work poetry (p. 31-32)

Story (Kandy)"Mercy of the physician-king", Barry Scott , single work poetry (p. 33)

The Passenger (Kandy)"rolling downhill through palms,", Barry Scott , single work poetry (p. 34-35)

After Kandy"travelling beneath", Barry Scott , single work poetry (p. 36)

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Reviews Paul Grover , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Studio : A Journal of Christians Writing , Autumn no. 98 2005; (p. 35-36)
— Review of Love and Wigs : Poems of Bangkok, Bollywood and Beyond Barry Scott , 2003 selected work poetry

Tasty Life Kerry Leves , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 179 2005; (p. 69-71)
— Review of Yashodhara : Six Seasons Without You Subhash Jaireth , 2003 selected work poetry ; Studio Moon John Tranter , 2003 selected work poetry ; At the Hotel Zudabollo Leith Morton , 2004 selected work poetry ; Dark Laughter Carolyn Gerrish , 2004 selected work poetry ; Love and Wigs : Poems of Bangkok, Bollywood and Beyond Barry Scott , 2003 selected work poetry ; Festoon James Quinton , 2004 selected work poetry

Recent Writing Ralph Wessman , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Famous Reporter , December no. 28 2003; (p. 181-190)
— Review of Salt-Lick Quarterly 2003 periodical (3 issues); The Butterfly Stalker Robyn Friend , 2003 single work novel ; Rooms and Sequences Mike Ladd , 2003 selected work poetry ; Love and Wigs : Poems of Bangkok, Bollywood and Beyond Barry Scott , 2003 selected work poetry ; Parallel Visions : Parallel Poetry 2003 anthology poetry ; Di Verse Robert Kennedy , Jill Jones , Carolyne Bruyn , Joanne Wade , 2003 anthology poetry

Emotional Postcards from Unique Places Claudia Hyles , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 8 November 2003; (p. 5a)
— Review of Love and Wigs : Poems of Bangkok, Bollywood and Beyond Barry Scott , 2003 selected work poetry