Sea Scale: New & Selected Poems

Contents

''Sea Scale'': New Poems

• "Self Portrait: Provisional Sketch"
• "Devote Less Time"
• "Rendezous"
• "Pickpocket"
• "The Heart of the Matter"
• "Meditating"
• "as if / the moth"
• "As Light Seeps In"
• "Implicated Witness"
• "The Stars at Night"
• "In the Art Gallery"
• "Tree Roots, Bellingen"
• "Undiminished"
• "Contra Lorca"
• "A Shaft of Sunlight"
• "Joe Palooka"
• "Voltage Across a Membrane"
• "The Eremite in his Cave"
• "Between Time"
• "The Traveller Reminisces"
• "My Bald Head"
• "Letter to Tristram Shandly, Gentleman"
• "Big-Time Wrestling"
• "Culture"
• "The Dandelion's Puffball"
• "On or About December 1910"
• "Velcro"
• "Half the Sins"
• "Posthumous Existence"
• "The Kid on the Billycart"
• "Self Portrait: Sea Scale"

From ''and dug my fingers in the sand'' (2000)

• "and dug my fingers in the sand"
• "Physical"
• "Song of Songs"
• "Cowboys"
• "My Father's Eyes"
• "Shellac"
• "With My Father-in-Law"
• "Crossing the Border"
• "Infidelity"
• "Improvising with Flaubert"
• "Underfoot"
• "Letter to a Live Poet"
• "any and all means""
• "The Distance and the Heat"
• "At a Slight Angle"
• "Approaching the Edge"

From ''Misplaced Heart'' (2003)

• "The mind is a small bird hovering"
• "Sunday"
• "A Raven Before the Dove"
• "Letter While Flying"
• "The mind is a tightrope walker balanced"
• "Let it go "
• "We do only be drowned now and again"
• "The mind is a body breathing in unconsciously"
• "The mind is a kind of theatre and we""
• "Aubade and Evensong: New Year 2003"
• "Prequel: Sequel"
• "Commentary: Two Days"
• "The mind is the surface of a pond expanding"
• "For a Child"
• "For My Brother and Sister"
• "And asked her how she was"
• "Final Belief"
• "The mind is a misplaced heart lopsidedly"
• "Postscript: Like Picasso"

From ''Uncommon Light'' (2007)

• "Spring"
• "Very Like a Whale"
• "Morning: Thinking of You"
• "Finches Perhaps"
• "Monster"
• "Sunday: transformed"
• "That Beat Against the Cage"
• "'Am I really the person who bears my name?'"
• "Monster"
• "Against Immortality"
• "Tourism: what the I sees"
• "Uncommon Light"
• "Thirty-six Views of Bondi Beach"
• "Monster"
• "Narcissus: self portrait with sea"
• "Half-glimpsed through water"
• "This Disenchanted World"
• "Monster"
• "Spring is Still Spring "

From ''Collusion'' (2012)

• "Dear K, it's light that makes the river flow"
• "After the lassitudes of blue"
• "It's almost spring in our neglected hemisphere"
• "In the hour or so before night's certain fall"
• "Waking at night silence has the colour"
• "All morning it's been difficult to settle"
• "A low pressure cell is tracking up the coast"
• "I remember very little"
• "I want to say the word 'adrift' "
• "You know the way a snatch of song"
• "I can eclipse you with a wink"
• "Contested ground, this strange persistent beauty"
• "It appears we are machines to manufacture words
• "In the background there is the music"
• "Gloom off to the west"
• "I walk among the dead"
• "Autumn warmth is draining from the day"
• "I almost understand this resonance"
• "Rain as it is only brighter"

From ''Have Been and Are'' (2016)

• "And the word 'environment' "
• "Brain doesn't improvise"
• "We are lashed to our body"
• "The poet is a centipede"
• "Body is but a striving"
• "At the end of the mind"
• "To get the better of words"
• "The rain falls down"
• "The most important experience of being"
• "Everything waste"
• "Only keep still, wait, and hear"
• "Echo, repetition, statement"
• "The brown current"
• "A preposterous hodgepodge"
• "What were they then"
• "The lightness, the non-mass of it"
• "There on the shore"
• "A steady delete"
• "Drive, he sd"
• "I should be rolling down the skyway"
• "Stately, plump Buck Mulligan"
• "You want ghosts"
• "A spring day like this"
• "Endless forms most beautiful and wonderful"
• "Broken / Beautiful"

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