Quieter Histories. Poems

Antarctica 8

The Helm 11

Manners of Fish 12

Reverie For Memories 13

Smokey Cape Lighthouse 15

Omen 16

The Stream 17

Two Brothers In The Field 18

Hathaway Cottage 19

Stratford-Upon Avon 21

Ways of Seeing Snow 23

For A Pluralist 24

Winter Solace 26

The Allotment 28

Summer Orchard 29

Warwickshire 31

The Weight of Attachment 32

By Kitchen Door 33

Pilgrim Avenue 34

Winter Garden in Lombardy 35

In The Studio 36

Astronomer's Notes 37

Isle Of Wight 38

The Wreck-Yard 40

Missive 42

With Nightshade 43

Through the Masterpiece 44

Vellum 45

Cherubim 47

Verde 48

Cause of Absence 51

Recognition of Small Items 53

And The Night Is A Refuge 54

There is Order Here 55

Aotearoa 56

Land of the Long White Cloud 58

Quarter Acre Paradise 61

Visitor At Large 63

Two Dogs 65

Drought 67

Paper-writer 68

Plath's River 70

Down on His Luck 71

About The Burning 73

Escamps 76

Close to the Museum 77

Where Ends Meet 79

For Shadows 80

Gone To Bush 82

For The Record 84

The Messenger 85

Ways Through 87

Wind Of The East 88

Garden of Opium 89

Dumas 91

The Forgiven 93

Andaman Island 94

Do Trung Lai's Shirt 95

Jade 99

In Red 101

The Daydreamer 102

The Nature of Fire Lands 103

Iron Flowers 105

The Mapmaker 106

Fighting the Laughter 108

Melbourne Winter 110

The Anarchist 112

The Telescope 114

In August 116

Black Dog 117

The Distance 118

Midnight Mojave 120

The Premonition 122

In Search of Nobody 125

On Monday 127

Interlude 128

Love In A Time Of Covid 130

South West Rocks 131

Inker Of Veins 132

Maternal Ghost 133

A Note From a Foreigner 134

Those Things Unnamed 136

First Opera of Words 138

Foreign Cargo 140

Drawing In Red 141

Drawing In White 142

Drawing on Water 143

Inventory of Places to Die 144

Queen Street 145

Poems of the Intimate 147

Oriental 148

Off The Tracks 149

Divers Memory 151

For Fate 153

Fragments Of The Human Heart 154

Ellis Street 156

Farmers of Sorrow 158

The Sleeper 160