Edith Speers

100 Links in a Chain		Four = Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
A bolt from the blue	something took me up and flung me down	Imago, July 1994, Vol 6 No 2, p 51 (see Bless them all)	on cover with Demidenko, Geoff Page, Tom Shapcott
A bolt from the blue		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
A rough sketch		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
A Tasmanian at the Vancouver Aquarium		Republic Readings #3, May 2001; p5	ed. Liz Winfield
A Tasmanian at the Vancouver Aquarium		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
A Walk in the Dark		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
A Warm Room		Coastlines 3, April 2002	Ed. Heather Curnow & P van Rijswijk; read poem at launch: 'a beautiful, melodious, reflective reading' (HC)
Alone among others	a nothing special van gogh	Island 104, April 2006, p47
Antaeus		By Way of a Vessel; Twelvetrees 1986
Apertures		By Way of a Vessel; Twelvetrees 1986
Australorp	The ships of state	Contemporary Australian Poetry, Houghton Mifflin, 1990, p 180; ed. John Leonard
Australorp	The ships of state		1. 2nd prize for poetry in Tas. FAW Christmas competition 1984 2. 1st prize for poetry in Maryb= orough Golden Wattle Festival 1991
Australorp	The ships of state	New Oxford Book of Australian Verse, Oxford University Press, 1993
Australorp	The ships of state	By Way of a Vessel; Twelvetrees 1986
Barbecue		By Way of a Vessel; Twelvetrees 1986
Because Kingsley's okay	O merciful day!		highly commended in Kyogle Literary Group Poetry Competition 1993
Beelzebub	Beelzebub is a sly cat	Lines from the Horizon, University of Newcastle, 1982 (Mattara anthology)	ed. Christopher Pollnitz; selection from entrants in 1982 Mattara Spring Fest= ival Poetry Prize
Beelzebub			1. commended in Ballarat Begonia Festival Poetry Competition 1981 2. runner-up in Mattara Poetry P= rize 1982
Beelzebub		By Way of a Vessel; Twelvetrees 1986
Birds of the Air	Oh do you bring blessings, you birds of the air	Hobo, Issue 7, Dec 1995; Tas guest editor Edith Speers	'The Edith Speers Section' - Roger Blake, James Charlton, Stephen Edgar, Jane harvey, Morag Kirk, Ian Preston, Margaret Scott, me, Natalie Staples, Philomena van Rijswijk
Black Cockatoos	From evening sky black cockatoos descend	Brisbane Courier-Mail, February 1997	1. commended in Artlook Rhyming Poetry Contest (1980) 2. 1st in Maryborough Golden Wat= tle Festival (1991)
black coffee no sugar	your forehead was like a fridge door	Hobo, Issue 17, June 1998
Blackberries	It's not the fruit, it's the barbed vines	Island 23, Winter 1985, p 41
Blackberries	It's not the fruit, it's the barbed vines		ABC Radio "A First Hearing", 30/12/84
Blackberries		By Way of a Vessel; Twelvetrees 1986
Bless them all	Bless them all, bless then all	Imago, July 1994, Vol 6, No 2, p50	on cover with Demidenko, Geoff Page, Tom Shapcott
Bless Them All		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Branch Line		Moorilla Mosaic, BumbleBee Books 2001; p35	ed. Robyn Matheson & Lyn Reeves; launch readings 24/03/01
Branch Line		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Break your hea= rt beautiful		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Brideshead Revisited	What else could I do		2nd prize for poetry in Warana Writers Competition 1982 (part of Ms - "L= ove, Agony, and the Whole Routine)
Brief report by an alien	I came to Earth	Island 47, Winter 1991, p 43
brief report by an alien		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
British Columbia		Quadrant, July 2000
British Columbia		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Brother and Sister	She wrote a poem about him	Paradox 01/2004, p27 (formerly Coastlines)	Ed. Heather Curnow & P van Rijswijk
Burning Off	Autumn fire	Poems 1980, TFAW, p 25	3rd collection of poetry by TFAW
Burning Off	Autumn fire	Flowers of the Great South Land, 1981 (India)
Burning Off		By Way of a Vessel; Twelvetrees 1986
cannibals at a bathing beauty contest	you talked about a well-known critic	Bulletin, 5th December 1995, p93
can't they think of anything else to do	Wives and mothers	The Sting in the Wattle, University of Queensland Press, 1993
Can't they think of anything else to do?		By Way of a Vessel; Twelvetrees 1986
Caprine Venus	who would've thought	Goat World, 1981 (Journal of the Goat Breeders Society of Australia)
Caprine Venus		By Way of a Vessel; Twelvetrees 1986
Casino Mandala	red eye, black eye	Aspect, No 25, 1982, p 71	ed. Rudi Krausmann
cats rule ok		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Chastity is	no cold river	Poetry Australia 86, Jan 1983, p39 (See Coinnoisseur & Is a duck really worth it)	Special Tasmanian Issue; ed. Vivian Smith (3 poems by ES precede excerpt from C. Koch's 'The Doubleman, a novel in progress'
Chastity is	no cold river		2nd prize for poetry in Warana Writers Competition 1982 (part of MS - "L= ove, Agony, and the Whole Routine")
Clothes for a 400 Year Old Woman			Runner up in Alexandra Hasluck Award 1986 (2nd place)
Clothes for a 400 year old Woman (prose)			Equal 3rd in Judah Waten SS Award 1992
Clothes for a 400 year old Woman (prose)
Colvan Arnotts Samboy Smiths	I am standing in Australia	Island 16, spring 1983, p16 (see Confessional)
Colvan Arnotts Samboy Smiths	I am standing in Australia		1st in F.A.W. (North Shore, Sydney) Poetry Competition 1982
Colvan Arnotts Samboy Smiths		By Way of a Vessel; Twelvetrees 1986
Communication		By Way of a Vessel; Twelvetrees 1986
Confessional	In the car we face forward	Island 16, spring 1983, p17 (see Colvan etc)
Confessional	In the car we face forward		2nd prize for poetry in Warana Writers Compeition 1982 (part of MS - "Lo= ve, Agony, and the Whole Routine)
Confessional		By Way of a Vessel; Twelvetrees 1986
Connoisseur	To begin with	Poetry Australia 86, Jan 1983, p39-41 (see Chastity is and Is a duck really worth it)	Special Tasmanian Issue; ed. Vivian Smith (3 poems by ES precede excerpt from C. Koch's 'The Doubleman, a novel in progress'
Connoisseur	To begin with		3rd prize for poetry in Illawarra Writers Award 1982
Connoisseur
Contempt for Paul Keating	It makes good sense to you, so what the hell	Quadrant, Dec 1994, No 312 Vol XXXVIII No 12, p35	Listed as 'Lines of contempt for Paul Keating'
Cosmic Undertaking		By Way of a Vessel; Twelvetrees 1986
crazy		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Crow committee and Raven Review Board	On every road you travel	The Best Australian Poems 2004; ed. Les Murray; Black Inc 2004, p180	Sent to Les Murray of Quadrant who selected it
cry baby	have your lovers all left you	The Australian Writers' Journal, Vol 3 No 2, 1993, p 9 (ISSN 1035 8803)	Winter Issue. A collection of Australian Writers' work presented by Joan Lane (&= amp; Mary Boyd), WA
cry, baby		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Cultural Bedbugs	If you're an artist you will know	Famous Reporter 12, p31, Dec 1995
Cultural Bedbugs		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Dead Weather		By Way of a Vessel; Twelvetrees 1986
Decked Out Haiku		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Die poor and leave nothing		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Divorced	The dogs of disaster		2nd prize for poetry in Warana Writers Competition 1982 (part of MS - "L= ove, Agony, and the Whole Routine)
Don't strike a match, Sylvia	Did you really believe you were a Jew, then?	Overland 105, Dec 1986, p71
Don't strike a match, Sylvia		By Way of a Vessel; Twelvetrees 1986
Encounter with an Android		By Way of a Vessel; Twelvetrees 1986
Epitaph for an enemy		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Epitaph for an evil bitch		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Fanatic	The fanatic has no faith	Poems 1981, TFAW, p12	4th poetry book by TFAW; ed. Joan Woodberry
Fireworks and Falklands	This year they didn't know when to light the fuse		honorable mention in Harold Kestevan Poetry Prize 1982
Five minutes of not being depressed		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Five minutes of not feeling depressed	At the top of the hill		faxed to Antarctic bases as part of 1993 Solstice Celebration (Aus. Antarctic Division)
Folding Mountain		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
For my darling	Those muscles that my hands have traced	Island 57, Summer 1993, p 17	Listed in mag. contents as 'Lines for my darling'
Fortress of Green		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
free		Tas. Petry & Dance Festival 1996 (Oct); published in programme
free		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Gift		By Way of a Vessel; Twelvetrees 1986
Girl	Shake off the ribbons!	LINQ, Vol 8 No 3, 1980, p 49	Literature in Northern Queensland, published by the English Language and Literature Association
Goat Language - from Greedy for Goats		Southerly, Vol 58 No 1, Autumn 1998; p77
Goodbye and good luck		FreeXpression 2006
Gossip	evil to them who evil think	Quadrant, November 1985,No 217 Vol XXIX No 11, p73
gossip		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Grace After Beer		Moorilla Mosaic, BumbleBee Books 2001; p36	ed. Robyn Matheson & Lyn Reeves; launch readings 24/03/01
Grass Lake, Alberta		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Halley's Comet		By Way of a Vessel; Twelvetrees 1986
hang me said the lamb of god		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
holy people give me the creeps	flasher for Jesus	Larrikin, Summer 1986-7, p 42	Tasmanian quarterly review
holy people give me the creeps		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Home Wrecker	who me?		2nd prize for poetry in Warana Writers Competition 1982 (part of MS - "L= ove, Agony, and the Whole Routine")
Home Wrecker	who me?	Hobart Women's Shelter pamphlet 1983
Home Wrecker	who me?	Angry Women, Hale & Iremonger, 1990
Home Wrecker		By Way of a Vessel; Twelvetrees 1986
Hot Flushes Hurray		Running through the Stars, TFAW Anthology 2005, ed. Megan Schaffner, p94
Housewife	My work is invisible	Five Years, TFAW, 1982, p8	5th book of poetry by TFAW
Housewife	My work is invisible.		2nd prize for poetry in Warana Writers Competition 1982 (part of MS - "L= ove, Agony, and the Whole Routine")
Housewife	My work is invisible	The Good Oil, newsletter of the Dept of Community Services, Hobart Tasmania, = May 1993(?)
Housewife		By Way of a Vessel; Twelvetrees 1986
how things looked		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
how things looked		Running through the Stars, TFAW Anthology 2005, ed. Megan Schaffner, p52
I'd love to live in paris but		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
I'm not responsible, baby		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
i'm not responsible, baby	no one's perfect, you know that it's true	HOBO, Issue 4, Dec 1994	no page numbering; two pages before middle
In Tasmania		By Way of a Vessel; Twelvetrees 1986
In Tasmania	The spuds all have names		2nd prize for poetry in Tas. F.A.W. Christmas Competition 1983
Inflatable Woman	Rarer than any of	Island 9/10, March 1982, p 35
Is a Duck Really Worth it?	Yes	Poetry Australia 86, Jan 1983, p38 (see Chastity is and Connoisserur)	Special Tasmanian Issue; ed. Vivian Smith (3 poems by ES precede excerpt from C. Koch's 'The Doubleman, a novel in progress'
Is a Duck Really Worth It?		By Way of a Vessel; Twelvetrees 1986
It helps to have a brother	It helps to know somebody sometimes	Up from Below, Women's Redress Press, 1987, p 317	ed. Irene Coates, Nancy J Corbett & Barbara Petrie
It helps to have a brother			1. LaBoite Theatre, Brisbane, 22/9/89 2. ABC Radio "Fictions Poetry", 27/9/92 3. Beckett Theatre, Melbourne, N= ov-Dec 1993 4. The Stables, Sydney, June-July 1994
It helps to have a brother		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
itös hard to be free		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
It's hard to be free	ask the free		faxed to Antarctic bases as part of 1993 Solstice Celebration (Aus. Antarctic Division)
January the third	I'm building a wall against winter	Point of View, TFAW 1983, p24	Short stories, articles, poetry, ed. Joan Woodberry
Just another day	It's not completely useless		1st in F.A.W. (North Shore, Sydney) Poetry Competition, 1982
Just Another Day		By Way of a Vessel; Twelvetrees 1986
Krishnamurti's Consciousness Cleanser		FreeXpression 2006
letter to a friend	dear rat,	Heartland, Number 11, Dec 1994, p 18	Queensland Writers' Centre
letter to a friend		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
letter to the spirit world	i am writing to you from a place	Meanjin, 3/1994 Spring, Vol 53 No 3, p470	along with 'Superstition'
letter to the spirit world		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
love is not a garden it's the weeds		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
lrh 33 - Vulture		Blue Giraffe 3, April 2006
lrh 45 - Oasis			TFAW Christmas Competition 2003; 1st runner up
lrh 45 - Oasis		Blue Giraffe 3, April 2006
lrh 64 - Temptation			Waxing Lyrical Competition 2004; 2nd prize
Manitoba Laundromat		Island Magazine, Issue 97, Winter 2004; p67
Married	The house wears their scars for them.		2nd prize for poetry in Warana Writers Competition 1982 (part of MS - "L= ove, Agony, and the Whole Routine")
Milking a Classical Theme	My muse is a bearded lady		Patrick Morris solo recital of songs and piano music, BMIC, London UK, 22/11/88
Milking a Classical Theme		By Way of a Vessel; Twelvetrees 1986
Mouth		By Way of a Vessel; Twelvetrees 1986
Murder in the Wrong Place (novel)			very highly commended in 1992 Tom Howard Mystery Novel Contest (896 entries)
Murder in the Wrong Place (novel)
My Bluestone Ring	it's there in all the pictures	Moments of Desire, Penguin, 1989, p 180	Sex and sensuality by Australian feminist writers; ed. Susan Hawthorne & Jenny Pausacker
nicotine you field		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
nicotine you fiend	nicotine, I thought I had you beat	printed in program for Tasmanian Poetry Festival 1987 (Launceston); p6
Nightmares	Our bed is rotten	LINQ, Vol 8 No 3, 1980, p 95
Not quite the last rose of summer	No wonder you hang your head, Big Pink	Folly and Wisdom, TFAW, 1983, p 19	6th collection of poetry for TFAW
not so crazy		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Oasis (lrh 45)
One Big Stone Ontario		Quadrant, July 2000
Open letter to an ex de facto ...	Kate had a husband	Hobart Women's Shelter pamphlet, 1983
Open letter to an ex de facto ...	Kate had a husband	ABC Radio broadcast, 27 Dec 2002
Open letter to an ex-defacto postnuptial cannibal		By Way of a Vessel; Twelvetrees 1986
Orca		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Out of the Nursery Rhymes	Simple Simon met a pieman	Westerly, Winter 1992 No 2, p18-19
Out of the nursery rhymes		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Outpatients	Beside the dispensary	Poems 1980, TFAW, p 13	3rd collection of poetry by TFAW
Pandora's Box		By Way of a Vessel; Twelvetrees 1986
Pardon my French	a philospher named Jean Paul Sartre	Southerly, No 4, December 1984, p 414	Name on cover with Les Murray, Susan Hampton, Geoffrey Dutton, Peter Kocan
pardon my french		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Perennials	Hello there, neighbour!	Island 27, Winter 1986, p 68
Perennials		By Way of a Vessel; Twelvetrees 1986
play time	your mouth is a jigsaw puzzle	LINQ, Vol 13 No 2, 1985, p25	Literature in Northern Queensland
plugs and points		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
prayer	oh lord let me lay down my head	River of Verse, ed. Helen Gee, Back River Press 2004, p223	Ed. Helen Gee; specially chosen as last poem in book; read by Fran Bladel at launch
prayer		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Rainy Day	rain dissolves the days	Bogg 47, 1981, p 67 (John Elsber= g, 2010 N 21 St, Arlington, Virginia, USA 22201)
rat tail soup	the flame is in the socket	Southern Review, Vol 24 No 1, March 1991, p32-33	Literary and Interdisciplinary Essays; U of Adelaide & Curtin University
rat tail soup		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
ratbag	one day in the market place	Edgeways, Aug (?) 1987	Edgeways - Tas. eco-magazine which replaced Larrikin
ratbag		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Ratbags and Roustabouts		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
red-haired men	look out for them they get you in	Up from Below, (Poems of the 1980's) Women's Redress Press, 1987, p316	1. LaBoite Theatre, Brisbane, 22/9/89 2. ABC Radio "Fictions Poetry", 27/9/92 3. Beckett Theatre, Melbourne, N= ov-Dec 1993 4. The Stables, Sydney, June-July 1994
Rich Bitch	instant oaks	The Tasmanian Review Number 5, 1980, p17	later renamed as Island Magazine
Rich Bitch		Island - Tasmanian Review 5, 1980
Rich Bitch		By Way of a Vessel; Twelvetrees 1986
Roulette		By Way of a Vessel; Twelvetrees 1986
Running (prose)	I'm running. I can't remember h= aving started...	Iris, August 1983, p 40 (Publication Number TBG 0747)	Tasmanian Feminist's Newsletter; samples from Zoe Fairbairns writing workshop July = 1983
science fiction		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
sister and brother		Paradox, No. 1 2004; p 27	Lit. Ed. P van Rijswijk; ed Helen Curnow; formerly Coastlines (4th issue); cultural magazine, Aus/Indonesia
Slugs	A lovers knot	Island 29, Summer 1986/87, p 67
Slugs	a lovers' knot	First Rights: a Decade of Island Magazine, Greenhouse Publications, 1989	ed. Michael Denholm and Andrew Sant
Slugs		By Way of a Vessel; Twelvetrees 1986
Soft Summer		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Some Advice for the Marquis de Sade		By Way of a Vessel; Twelvetrees 1986
Something has got to be said	Something has got to be said	Quadrant, April 1984, Number 199, Vol XXVIII, No 4, p16
something has got to be said			commended in Maryborough Golden Wattle Festival 1983 (poetry)
something has got to be said	something has got to be said	By Way of a Vessel, Twelvetrees 1986
Something has got to be said	Something has got to be said	Adventures: Projects and Workshops in English I (Jacaranda-Wiley, 1988)
Song of the artiste	I took the shake from Shakespeare	Quadrant, July/August 1994, No 308 Vol XXXVIII No 7-8, p75
Song of the Artiste		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Sonnet 1	Time can stop. I have no doubt, = my dear -	Hobo, issue 1, Winter 1993; no page numbering; approx. p57	ed. Dane Thwaites & Judith Beveridge
Sonnet 1	Time can stop	Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Sonnet 8	You are not young and handsome	Quadrant, Nov 1987, No 239 Vol XXXI No 11, p46
Sonnet 11	My hands alone can always do the job.	Scarp 24, May 1994, p 19
Sonnet 18	Listen, friends, and I'll make love to you	BOGG 57, 1987, p 30 (ISSN 0882 648X)	A Journal of North American and British Writing, Aus editor- Robert Boyce
Sonnet 23	What on earth am I supposed to do	Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Sonnet 29	The days of love are always short and sweet	Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Sonnet 3	It is because light bends that I can see	Quadrant, March 1988, Vol 32 No 3, p31
Sonnet 3	It is because light bends	Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Sonnet 35	Oh, my Tubby Wubbins! Beautiful= cat!	Kunapipi, Vol 12 No 3, 1990, p 69	literature, art and culture of the post-colonial world
Sonnet 35	Oh, my Tubby Wubbins! Beautiful cat!	Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Sonnet 38	Diana, protect us women	Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Sonnet 39	Those who are too scared to love must diddle	Overland, Dec 1988, p 23
Sonnet 42	There's no comfort in love. Forget = the books.	Island 34/35, autumn 1988, p 161
Sonnet 42	There's no comfort in love	Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Sonnet 43	I've heard that there's machines	Fremantle Arts Review, Vol 3 No 2, Feb 1988, p6
Sonnet 44	Love can be heaven, if your luck is good	Island 34/35, autumn 1988, p 161
Sonnet 44	Love can be heaven if your luck is good	Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Sonnet 45	It isn't much, an hour and a half	Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Sonnet 47	The longer you go without, the more it seems	The Phoenix Review, No 7/8, Winter 1992, p 130	ed. David Brooks; Dorothy Porter, Carmel Bird, Bruce Beaver, Dimitirs Tsaloum= as featured on cover
Sonnet 49	Once upon a time and far away	Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Sonnet 52	Is this the miracle I've been waiting for?	Fremantle Arts Review, Dec 1992 & Jan 1993, Vol 7 No 12 & Vol 8 No 1, p16
Sonnet 53	The total obsession with love	Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Sonnet 54	Two cornflakes on the table and I'm undone	Womanspeak, Vol 16 No 1, Dec 1993 - Jan 1994, p14
Sonnet 54	Two cornflakes on the table	Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Sonnet 55	55 - From out of the ground and into the sky	Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Sonnet 62	Here's to the fuck that makes the flowers grow	Galloping on III, Access Press, 1992 (winners and selected poems from Grand National Poetry Stakes)	became a text for English studies courses in at least 2 WA high schools
Sonnet 63	God wanted to apologise	Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Sonnet 64 (Temptation)	There's something to be said	Waxing Lyrical; Yellow Moon Magazine 2004 (2nd prize)
Sonnet 65	The cricket's on the radio - hurray!	Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Sonnet 66	When all that should be sweet	Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Sonnet 67	We two have met a thousand times before	Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Sonnet 68	It seems that no one falls in love these days	Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Sonnet 69	Love is a tiger	Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Sonnet 7	Why are the girls in romance books so nice?	Overland 132, spring 1993, p26
Sonnet 70	Have no comets streaked across your sky?	Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Sonnet 72	Sheep and cattle graze but goats will browse	Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Sonnet 73	Isn't it funny?	Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Sonnet 74	Addiction is an awful thing, we think	Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Sonnet 75	Of all the sins that people have invented	Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Sonnet 76	Once a week I kneel, but not to pray	Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Sonnet 80	Thank God at last the wattles are in bloom	Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Sonnet 82	Put a bullet in the rifle's breech	Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Sonnet 83	Desperation isnöt love, you know	Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Sonnet 9	Darling! I have to see you! Can you come?	Contemporary Australian Poetry, Houghton Mifflin, 1990, p 180	Ed. John Leonard
Sonnet 9	Darling! I have to see you! Can you come?	The Indigo Book of Modern Australian Sonnets; ed. Geoff Page, 2002; p51
Sonnet 9	Darling! I have to see you!	Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Sonnet 90	Preening behaviour	Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Sonnet 91	Bees are buzzing	Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Sonnet 92	Every autumn they appear	Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Sonnet 94	Can love forgive the cheapskate relative	Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Sonnet 95	If youöre expecting gratitude, forget it	Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Sonnet 96	Home is a foreign country	Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Sonnet 6	A cat won't crave a rose	Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Sonnets 1-48 - "48 Love Sonnets"			runner-up in ABC Bicentennial Literary Awards 1988 (Grace Perry Award for full-leng= th MS of poetry)
Stepstone Haiku		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
stoned on stones	there's the stone that they without sin		commended in Harold Kestevan Poetry Prize 1983
stoned on stones		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Stray	I came in to your house thru the cat door	Compass, Vol 3 No 1, p 27	Poetry and prose mag; Burwood NSW; ed. Chris Mansell and Dane Thwaites
Stray		By Way of a Vessel; Twelvetrees 1986
superstition	if you break a mirror	Meanjin, 3/1994 Spring, Vol 53 No 3, p471	along with 'letter to the spirit world'
superstition		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Survival	Wet wood spews sour smoke		3rd in 1980 John Shaw Neilson Poetry Award (Victorian F.A.W.)
Survival	Wet wood spews sour smoke	Meanjin, Vol 39 No 2, July 1980, p 181
Survival	Wet wood spews sour smoke	Effects of Light, Twelvetrees, 1985, p 136
Survival		By Way of a Vessel; Twelvetrees 1986
T.V.		Trends, 1981 (U.K.) - R. Boyce, Aus. Editor
Taking a nap in the Afternoon		By Way of a Vessel; Twelvetrees 1986
taking the easy way out		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Talking to the Moon		By Way of a Vessel; Twelvetrees 1986
Tarantellas		By Way of a Vessel; Twelvetrees 1986
Tarantellas	Adultery has all the advantages		commended in Illawarra Writers Award 1981
The Amusement Park Engineer			faxed to Antarctic bases as part of 1993 Solstice Celebration (Aus. Antarctic Division)
The Amusement Park Engineer (prose)			faxed to Antarctic bases as part of 1993 Solstice Celebration (Aus. Antarctic Division)
The colour of my van	I picked the colour because it's beautiful	Hecate, Vol 20 No 1, 1994. p 61	A Women's Interdisciplinary Journal
The colour of my van		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
The Dinosaurs Drip		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
The Flying Fortuna Sister			1st prize in Judah Waten Short Story Competition 1986
The Flying Fortuna Sister (prose)			1st prize in Judah Waten Short Story Competition 1986
The heart is a muscle		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
The hook in the heart		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
The hydro demonstration	I got angry	Overland 123, winter 1991, p 53
The Hydro demonstration		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
The Loggers Motel		Moorilla Mosaic, BumbleBee Books 2001; p33	ed. Robyn Matheson & Lyn Reeves; launch readings 24/03/01
The Loggersö Motel		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
The Mercedes shop window	God alone knows why a Mercedes dealership	Island 37, Spring 1988, p 27
The Mercedes Shop Window	God alone knows why a Mercedes dealership	The International Terminal, University of Newcastle, 1988 (Mattara anthology,= ed. Chistopher Pollnitz), p128
The Modern Fiction		By Way of a Vessel; Twelvetrees 1986
The One Big Stone Ontario		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
The puzzle I can't figure out	Why hang a jigsaw puzzle on the wall?	Quadrant, Nov 1991, vol 35 no 11, p38-39
the rules of baseball as explained to a Pommie one night sta= nd	mate, this isn't cricket	Hobo, Issue 17, June 1998
The Sailor's Story			Commended AusWrite Short Story Competition, June 1998
The Sailor's Story			2nd prize in Iris Milutinovic Short Story Award 1988
The Sailor's Story		Famous Reporter 32, 2006	ed. Ralph Wessman
The Source of it all		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
The way out	Just think of me as an arrow	Muse, 20 August 1993, p19	single page supplied to me - no copy of magazine
The way out		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
The Way the Horses Flow		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
The Whole Routine	out of a clear blue sky		2nd prize for poetry in Warana Writers Competition 1982 (part of MS - "L= ove, Agony, and the Whole Routine")
Theodora (My Friend's Cats)	Theodora is delicate	Republic Readings 8, Walleah Press, Sept 2004, p35
Thoughts while burying a beloved billygoat		By Way of a Vessel; Twelvetrees 1986
Thylacine	We pursue your footprints	Here Today, TFAW, 1980, p76	Anthology, ed. Joan Woodberry
To an Intended Suicide		By Way of a Vessel; Twelvetrees 1986
To the journalist Buzz Kennedy	Dear sir, It is not rare to see	Quadrant, Dec 1994, No 312 Vol XXXVIII no 12, p34
To the Journalist Buzz Kennedy		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Trains in the Night		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Transformations	Rufus wrapped in newspaper	Island 9/10, March 1982, p 35
Transformations		By Way of a Vessel; Twelvetrees 1986
Trucks		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
truth		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Up, up & away			Australian Short Story Awards 2005; commended
Upon failing to find a sick goat		FreeXpression
values	this is better than that	Muse, May 1994, p. 27
values		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
View from the Back Seat		By Way of a Vessel; Twelvetrees 1986
Visiting the Mummy		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Vulture (lrh 33)		Blue Giraffe 3, April 2006
Warm Fog		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Warning to Poets in Particular		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Wasps in the Wall	They whisper "Winter kills"	Southerly, No 3, September 1980, p347	Name on cover with Gwen Harwood, Dorothy Hewett and Bruce Dawe
Wasps in the Wall	They whisper "Winter kills"	Effects of Light, Twelvetrees, 1985, p135	ed. Vivian Smith & Margaret Scott; signed by Tilsely, Denholm & Geoff Dean(!)
Wasps in the Walls		By Way of a Vessel; Twelvetrees 1986
Watching Casablanca		Island 103; Summer 2005, p 111
Weird kid	You see me sitting in the mall	Larrikin, summer 1986-7, p 43 (ISSN 0 815 4821)
weird kid		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Welcome to the World		Alien Shores - Australian Science Fiction (Aphelion, 1994); ed Peter McNamara &= amp; Margaret Winch	Introduction by Damien Broderick; over 600 pages, paperback
Welcome to the World			commended in State of Victoria Short Story Contest, 1981
Welcome to the World (prose)			commended in State of Victoria Short Story Contest, 1981
West Coast		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
When is life like a tin of spaghetti?	It is innocuous	Five Years, TFAW, 1982, p14	5th book of poetry by TFAW
Why i like men	mainly i like men because they're different	Overland 97, Dec 1984, p60
why i like men	mainly i like men because they're different	Moments of Desire, Penguin, 1989, p 60
why i like men	mainly i like men because they're different	Readings - Experiences and Memories, McGraw-Hill, 1988
why i like men	mainly i like men because they're different	The Sting in the Wattle, University of Queensland Press, 1993
why i like men	mainly i like men because they're different	The Penguin Book of Australian Women Poets, edited by Susan Hampton & Kate Llewellyn, 1986, p 211
why i like men	mainly i like men because they're different	Macmillan Education 1996
why i like men	mainly i like men because they're different	Grin & Tonic - theatre performance in Qland schools Feb-Sep 2002
why i like men	mainly i like men because they're different	Macmillan Education Australia. "Modern Families" by Sotirios Sarantakos.<= span style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'> A textbook for secondary schools= , 1996
why i like men	mainly i like men because	Oxford University Press, Oxford Anthology of Australian Verse, 1998
why i like men		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Wildflower Blue		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001
Women of Dunvegan	In times gone by we had no nation		1st prize in Ballad Section of Traditional Verse Competition; TFAW 2006
x - not known which poems were performed			Poets and Pianos in Pubs, Hobart, 27/8/88
yes i'm a sexist		Four Quarters, Esperance Press, 2001