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Dedication: To Judith Rodriguez in recognition of her unwavering belief in my ability.

* Contents derived from the Wollongong, Wollongong area, Illawarra, South Coast, New South Wales,:Five Islands Press , 2002 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.

An Apology Without Reservation to the Wolf, the Bear, and the Mole"To you wolf", Maurice Strandgard , single work poetry (p. 9-10)

Note: Epigraph: 'He weighed her schoolbag with rocks and threw it into the dam also.' - Sydney Morning Herald, 22-8-92.

Asylum"Will you please observe through the wire", Mehmet al Assad , single work poetry (p. 11)

Note: Author note: Published under the pseudonym, Mehmet al-Assad. This poem has now become better known than anything else that I have written.

The Silver-Eye"The elderly ladies", Maurice Strandgard , single work poetry (p. 12)

A Sane Man"We have been taught", Maurice Strandgard , single work poetry (p. 13)

Note: Author note: Grigory Pasko, a Russian naval officer, filmed a tanker dumping solid and liquid nuclear wastes off the Russian coast. He has since been held in solitary confinement for over six months. - Amnesty International report, 1997

Time and Space"About space", Maurice Strandgard , single work poetry (p. 14)

Note: Dedication: In memory of President Sukarno's guards, executed twenty-four years after having been sentenced.

There World"What were those dreams Frank?", Maurice Strandgard , single work poetry (p. 15)

Note: Epigraph: 'Its there world when I cant have dreams cause they make me pay.' Frank the poet. Graffiti. Former Richmond High School. 1979.

Inhuman"Having read some reports", Maurice Strandgard , single work poetry (p. 16-17)

John Shaw Neilson Dictates His Poetry to His Sister Anne During a Period of Blindness."Those passing schoolgirls", Maurice Strandgard , single work poetry (p. 18-19)

'Hardly Any Job Is so Bad That a Starving Man Won't Tackle It.'"He repeatedly buried", Maurice Strandgard , single work poetry (p. 20-21)

Note: Epigraph [with reference to title]: - John Shaw Neilson: Autobiography

'...Then She Was Probably a Lass Called Florence Case, Who Worked as a Letter Carrier at the Sea Lake Post Office.'"So quietly light", Maurice Strandgard , single work poetry (p. 22-3)

Note: Epigraph [with reference to title]: - From John Shaw Neilson by Cliff Hanna.

'Every Morning I Used to Meet the School-Girls Coming Up to the Old High School...I Used to Think Those Girls Were Remarkably Beautiful.'"Add to their list of infamies", Maurice Strandgard , single work poetry (p. 24-5)

Note: Epigraph [with reference to title]: - John Shaw Neilson: Autobiography.

'...And Their Ships Had a Reputation for Piety, Over-Crowding and a High Fatality Rate. The John Davies Was to Be No Exception.'"Two by two", Maurice Strandgard , single work poetry (p. 26-7)

Note: Epigraph [with reference to title]: 'Jock'. Cliff Hanna. Epigraph: 'But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot...' Genesis 8:9

Behold, I Was Born in Iniquity; and in Sin Did My Mother Conceive Me."In the mornings", Maurice Strandgard , single work poetry (p. 28)

Note: Epigraph [with reference to title]: - Psalms 15:5

'I Can Remember Hundreds of Hungry Looking Men Coming to the Office Looking for Work; and Women, Sometimes In Tears Begging for Jobs for Their Husbands,'"Leaving the house", Maurice Strandgard , single work poetry (p. 29)

Note: Epigraph [with reference to title]: - John Shaw Neilson: Autobiography.

The Poet John Shaw Neilson Answers His Sister."Her bell rang faintly", Maurice Strandgard , single work poetry (p. 30-31)

The Farm Burial"Difficult ground", Maurice Strandgard , single work poetry (p. 32-3)

Half-hearted"I'd introduce you to my better half", Maurice Strandgard , single work poetry (p. 34)

Hard to Tell"It's hard to tell", Maurice Strandgard , single work poetry (p. 35)

Note: Epigraph: 'I don't think it could have been two hundred bodies. It's hard to tell with arms and legs and heads all mixed up.' From a statement made by the Regional Commander, Aceh Province, Indonesia, 1994.

Looking Back"It was always summer", Maurice Strandgard , single work poetry (p. 36)

They Are Gone"Now that they are gone", Maurice Strandgard , single work poetry (p. 37)

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'Long Doorbells / Crumbs of Time' Kerry Leves , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 185 2006; (p. 88-90)
— Review of Coast Margaret Bradstock , 2005 selected work poetry ; The Paradoxes of Water : Selected and New Poems 1970-2005 Rod Moran , 2005 selected work poetry ; Loneliness Maurice Strandgard , 2002 selected work poetry ; More or Less Than 1-100 M. T. C. Cronin , 2004 single work poetry ; The Best Australian Poetry 2005 2005 anthology poetry

Review : Loneliness Kieran Carroll , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Five Bells , Summer vol. 12 no. 1 2005; (p. 57-58)
— Review of Loneliness Maurice Strandgard , 2002 selected work poetry

Recent Writing Ralph Wessman , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Famous Reporter , June no. 29 2004; (p. 150-166)
— Review of Misplaced Heart : Poems Brook Emery , 2003 selected work poetry ; Friendly Street Poets Twenty-Eight : Another Universe 2004 anthology poetry ; High in the Pawpaw Tree Andrew Hardy , 2003 selected work poetry ; Dorothy's Skin Dennis McDermott , 2003 selected work poetry ; Loneliness Maurice Strandgard , 2002 selected work poetry ; New and Selected Poems Yu Ouyang , 2004 selected work poetry ; Said The Rat! : Writers at the Water Rat! 2000-2002 2003 anthology poetry

Consolations of the Heart Oliver Dennis , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 260 2004; (p. 58-59)
— Review of Home Town Burial : Personal and Autobiographical Poems Martin R. Johnson , 2002 selected work poetry ; Loneliness Maurice Strandgard , 2002 selected work poetry ; In the Year of Our Lord Slaughter's Children Philip Hammial , 2003 selected work poetry

Review : Loneliness Kieran Carroll , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Five Bells , Summer vol. 12 no. 1 2005; (p. 57-58)
— Review of Loneliness Maurice Strandgard , 2002 selected work poetry

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