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Dedication: To Lyn whose encouragement, support and criticism helped to bring these poems into being
Epigraph: Shorter Poems The composition of vast books is a laborious and impoverishing extravagance. To go on for five hundred pages developing an idea whose perfect oral exposition is possible in a few minutes! ... More reasonable, more inept, more indolent, I have preferred to write notes upon imaginary books ... Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones

* Contents derived from the Cremorne, Cremorne - Mosman - Northbridge area, Sydney Northeastern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,:Angus and Robertson , 1972 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.

The Orange Spot"The old drunk breaks into the midnight cafe,", John Tranter , single work poetry (p. 3)

Hospital"The pilot reaches for a drug:", John Tranter , single work poetry (p. 4)

Balance"The traveller slouches at the table", John Tranter , single work poetry (p. 5)

Bestiary"She haunts the bar in a loose, meandering fashion", John Tranter , single work poetry (p. 6)

Ward Five"A wrinkled print of myself", John Tranter , single work poetry (p. 7)

The Road Back"A month ago he dropped out of his technicolor Belsen", John Tranter , single work poetry (p. 8)

On the Track of the Attainable"The ambitious minister from the smaller nation", John Tranter , single work poetry (p. 9)

Memoirs of a Forty-Year-Old Revolutionary"I should say that I'm a wasted thirty-two", John Tranter , single work poetry (p. 10)

Lesson"Here is the teacher, slaps a shot into her throat", John Tranter , single work poetry (p. 11)

Julie"So a witty vindictive inventiveness overtook them all;", John Tranter , single work poetry (p. 12)

At the Piccolo"Sitting in the jazz cafe at four a.m.", John Tranter , single work poetry (p. 13)

Country Girl"You're a city man, I'm sure you like it", John Tranter , single work poetry (p. 14)

Sketch for a Portrait of a Young Woman"Her desires cluster in a gathering of symptoms", John Tranter , single work poetry (p. 15)

Conversations"`On the rack of the long expected I take back", John Tranter , single work poetry (p. 19-23)

"Waiting for myself to appear" The Raft"Cracking the speedo at a hundred plus", John Tranter , single work poetry (p. 27-34)

Red Movie"when the new alphabet soup of the earth", John Tranter , single work poetry (p. 37-47)

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Untitled Thomas Shapcott , 1973 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November vol. 12 no. 1973; (p. 134)
— Review of Red Movie and Other Poems John Tranter , 1972 selected work poetry

Untitled Clive. Samson , 1973 single work review
— Appears in: Nation Review , 16-22 February 1973; (p. 551)
— Review of Red Movie and Other Poems John Tranter , 1972 selected work poetry

Untitled Michael Dransfield , 1973 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 27 January 1973; (p. 11)
— Review of Red Movie and Other Poems John Tranter , 1972 selected work poetry

Untitled Robert Adamson , 1973 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 27 January 1973; (p. 16)
— Review of Red Movie and Other Poems John Tranter , 1972 selected work poetry

New Poetry Jim Tulip , 1973 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , June vol. 33 no. 2 1973; (p. 231-240)
— Review of Red Movie and Other Poems John Tranter , 1972 selected work poetry ; Head-Waters Peter Skrzynecki , 1972 selected work poetry ; Slade's Anatomy of the Horse Leon Slade , 1972 selected work poetry ; Condolences of the Season : Selected Poems Bruce Dawe , 1971 selected work poetry ; Conversation with a Rider Geoffrey Lehmann , 1972 selected work poetry ; Poems against Economics Les Murray , 1972 selected work poetry ; Soft Riots Richard Tipping , 1972 selected work poetry ; Black Swans at Berrima Grace Perry , 1972 selected work poetry

Untitled Carl Harrison-Ford , 1972 single work review
— Appears in: New Poetry , vol. 20 no. 5-6 1972; (p. 70-72)
— Review of Red Movie and Other Poems John Tranter , 1972 selected work poetry

From Che Guevara to T.S. Eliot Graham Rowlands , 1972 single work review
— Appears in: Makar , December vol. 8 no. 3 1972; (p. 35-39)
— Review of Red Movie and Other Poems John Tranter , 1972 selected work poetry ; Soft Riots Richard Tipping , 1972 selected work poetry

Untitled Philip Roberts , 1972 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 23 December 1972; (p. 13)
— Review of Red Movie and Other Poems John Tranter , 1972 selected work poetry

Untitled Robert Adamson , 1973 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 27 January 1973; (p. 16)
— Review of Red Movie and Other Poems John Tranter , 1972 selected work poetry

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