Acknowledgements
Poems in this book have been published in the Adelaide Review, Age Monthly Review, Agenda, American Poetry Review, Antipodes, Atlantic Monthly, Australian, Cambridge Review, Catholic Weekly, Civil Liberty, Collins Dove Anthology of Australian Religious Verse, Hermes, Island, Little Magazine (New York), Mattara Prize Anthology An Inflection of Silence 1986, New York Review of Books, Northern Perspective, Overland, Planet, PN Review, Poetry Australia, Poetry Canada Review, Poetry Ireland, Pol Arts Review, Quadrant, Sydney Morning Herald, Scripsi, Simply Living, Sud, Threepenny Review 2 + 2, Times Literary Supplement and Verse (Oxford), and some have been broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the British Broadcasting Corporation, Radio 2GB and stations 2SER-FM and 2BOB-FM.
I am grateful to the Literature Board of the Australia Council, the Canadian Writers Union, Persea Books (New York), the Library of Congress, the National Library of Australia, the University of Sydney and La Trobe University for support, assistance and hospitality extended to me during the years when these poems were being written.
