Acknowledgements
Some of these poems have been published in Scripsi, Melbourne Sunday Herald, Meanjin, Southerly, Harold Park Anthology (Australian Short Stories), Otis Rush, Second Degree Tampering, Contemporary Australian Poetry (Houghton Mifflin), Landfall (N.Z.), Voices, Verse (U.K.), Shearsman (U.K.), Ulitarra, Heat, Bridgings, JAAM (N.Z.), Write Loud, Forbidden Pleasures, Westerly, Contemporary Australian Poets (Fremantle Arts Centre Press), Jacket, Boxkite and The Canberra Times
Research, a selection of poems from this book was published in 1998 by Churchill College, Cambridge (U.K.).
Thanks to the Literature Fund of the Australia Council for grants in 1988 and 1997, and to Bernard Hickey and Lorri Whiting and the Australia Council for the use of their Venice and Rome studios in 1989 and 1993.
