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Dedication: For Rita
Author's note: I thank all the poets I ever met but especially those who are by contemporaries, colleagues and friends. Without the encouragement of their example this collection of my poems would have remained stillborn.
Glen Phillips 1988

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Sacrificing the Leaves"They say here the world's upside-down,", Glen Phillips , single work poetry (p. 8)

Spring Hurt"Hurt", Glen Phillips , single work poetry (p. 9)

Chinese Burn"At school", Glen Phillips , single work poetry (p. 10-11)

Love-Song"Out of the mountains you came", Glen Phillips , single work poetry (p. 11)

Note: With title: Lovesong

Blood Sports"All those years you never ran out of knives;", Glen Phillips , single work poetry (p. 12-13)

Note: With title: Blood Sports : The Knife Thrower's Revenge

Showing an Old Mate Over the Property"`I'll slow the car a second here.", Glen Phillips , single work poetry (p. 13-14)

With All Hands Applauding"We went down in the dead of night", Glen Phillips , single work poetry (p. 15)

Light Snow Along the Lugarno, Pisa, 1987"Love is a tribute", Glen Phillips , single work poetry (p. 16)

Poem to Be Read In a Public Place"Ladies and gentlemen and others", Glen Phillips , single work poetry (p. 18-19)

Nothing Multiplied by Every Thing Equals Nothing"This poem's about nothing,", Glen Phillips , single work poetry (p. 19)

Keepers or Finders?"You out there", Glen Phillips , single work poetry (p. 20-21)

Guilt on the Hands"Who do you think should feel the guilt", Glen Phillips , single work poetry (p. 22-24)

The Hired Gun"'You're a clever bastard,' he said", Glen Phillips , single work poetry (p. 24)

Answering the Mandrake - Or, Articulations of Anti-Vegitarianism"They say the fabled mandrake screams", Glen Phillips , single work poetry (p. 25-27)

Bewdy and the Beastie or, Me and the Goanna and My Strawberries"My fence, my defences staked out", Glen Phillips , single work poetry (p. 27)

Apology to a Tree"I am really writing on your face:", Glen Phillips , single work poetry (p. 28)

War"Remember crackling in the dank bamboos", Glen Phillips , single work poetry (p. 30)

Working Title"Ready!", Glen Phillips , single work poetry (p. 30-31)

Ci Siamo?"Mine is an unloving country", Glen Phillips , single work poetry (p. 31-32)

Singers"In my head, in my heart", Glen Phillips , single work poetry (p. 33)

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Untitled Lee Knowles , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Review , November vol. 4 no. 11 1989; (p. 22-23)
— Review of Sacrificing the Leaves : Poems Glen Phillips , 1988 selected work poetry

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