Misplaced Heart

Contents

• "The mind is a small bird hovering"
• "Sunday"
• "A raven before the dove"
• "Lightning"
• "Fog"
• "Letter while flying"
• "Uncoupling"
• "The mind is a tightrope walker balanced"
• "Let it go "
• "We do only be drowned now and again"
• "Memory"
• "The mind is a body breathing in unconsciously"
• "Bicycle"
• "Painting Jane Avril"
• "Body of knowledge"
• "Beauty"
• "Is that it is"
• "I see"
• "The mind is a kind of theatre and we"
• "Mayakovsky"
• "Self-portrait with exploding device "
• "It's Sunday morning in Newtown"
• "In Brisbane"
• "Aubade and evensong: new year, 2003"
• "Commentary: two days"
• "The mind is the surface of a pond expanding"
• "Final belief/ "
• "Shopping"
• "Waking at night"
• "Between"
• "For my brother and sister"
• "Night"
• "The mind is a misplaced heart lopsidedly"
• "Like driftwood by a doorstep"
• "For a child"
• "Driving north"
• "And asked her how she was"
• "Wind"
• "The brain has the consistency"
• "Postscript: like Picasso"

Awards

• 2000 – Third Prize, 2000 Tom Collins Poetry Prize, for his poem "Fog".
• 2002 – Max Harris Literary Award for Poetry at the Penola Festival, for his poem "A Raven Before the Dove".
• 2002 – Bruce [Dawe National Poetry Prize], for his poem final belief.
• Short-listed — Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry (New [South Wales Premier's Literary Awards) 2004.]

Critical reception