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* Contents derived from the 1981 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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Crossing the Gap : Asia and the Australian Imagination,
single work
criticism
'In 1955, a year after our graduation from university, m y friend Robert Brain and I set out for Europe. It was the traditional pilgrimage, in that era, for young Australians. W e were returning to a home we had never seen, to the cultural Blessed Isles. The numbers who made this grand tour were very small, then. There was no economy jet travel; w e embarked on a cheap Italian ship that would take five weeks to reach Genoa. Nor had the general phenomenon of Australian and Western youth touring the world on the cheap really begun. The simplest way I can convey this is to say that when we reached Europe and began hitch-hiking we had no trouble in being picked up, because drivers found us a novelty. They also thought us adventurous; and as w e passed farm gates, walking the highways of Italy and Germany, people would ask us in for a glass of wine. That was still the era when Greek peasants, finding foreigners passing their fields, would come out bringing gifts of food — the traditional hospitality to the wayfarer. They don't do it now; the hippies came through in the 1960s like a plague of locusts, living off that hospitality.' (Introduction)
- The Achievementi"Like a lone man in a paddock", single work poetry (p. 5)
- The Diamondi"Star-drunk in frozen fields", single work poetry (p. 21)
- The Wine-Glassi"The hand that takes it, toying with the stem,", single work poetry (p. 21)
- A Letter to Lydiai"I pass your house perhaps every other day", single work poetry (p. 22-23)
- Absalomi"O my sons, forever lost to me.", single work poetry (p. 33)
- The Salvation Army Heard in the Distance on an Autumn Eveningi"Flickering", single work poetry (p. 40)
- Good Boy, Alexanderi"Only your sleepy resurrection of words", single work poetry (p. 53)
- Windrocki"Eyeless sockets in a skull of stone", single work poetry (p. 53)
- Country Pieces, single work biography (p. 56-59)
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Jousting Journalists,
single work
review
— Review of The Journalistic Javelin : An Illustrated History of The Bulletin 1979 single work criticism ; (p. 67-69) - Lotus Creeki"South from Sarina, seventy mile,", single work poetry (p. 69)
- The Return of Eve (for Helen)i"A drummer boy stands alone in the snow.", single work poetry (p. 77)
- Homesick: London, 1980i"From our inner city room for two weeks now", single work poetry (p. 77)
- Three Views of Patmosi"These terraces hold nothing now.", single work poetry (p. 88)
- A Sense of Priority, single work short story (p. 91-94)
- One of My Best Friends, single work short story (p. 95-96)
- The Space Between, single work short story (p. 97-99)
- To Understandi"In the East I'll never know", single work poetry (p. 99)
- Storm Off Cape Leeuwini"The lightning flickers round horizon's rim", single work poetry (p. 99)
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