From Bearings (1973). Morning -- Leafburn -- Kingfisher: winter -- For where you skill -- from From the Indian funeral (1976). Chiapas -- Masks -- Lent procession -- Holy Thursday-2 -- Avenida ocho -- from Butcher & Co (1977). Resthaven -- For a third birthday -- Kaka -- Back where we started -- Butcher & Co -- Butcher in sunlight -- Butcher talks on time -- Odd -- Butcher on life in general -- Still shines when you think of it -- Hold it -- Do you ever consider -- from The Butcher Papers (1982). The tree of fancy ethics never missed a leaf -- Fish for all that rise as rise wet stars -- Don't feed us that -- Look Sheila seeing you've asked me -- N.B. -- Foreign gentleman -- What Sheila tells him, softly -- from Brother Jonathan, Brother Kafka (1980). 2 -- 3 -- 6 -- 8 -- 12 -- 13 -- 19 -- 25 -- 26 -- 31 -- 32 -- 34 -- 38 -- 39 -- 40 -- 43 -- 44 -- from The Rose Ballroom (1982). Waikato-taniwha-rau -- Love poem -- Saving the image -- So we say at sunset -- Don't knock the Rawleigh's man -- Further instructions -- Return visit, Wisconsin -- from The Pilate Tapes (1986). liberal -- An old soldier tells him -- Who doesn't know? -- Sententiae -- Domestic -- Dreamtime -- Ultima verba -- lines -- The westmere replays -- Corner -- Visiting -- Cousins -- Was she? -- Late romantic -- Meeting up -- Surfacing -- from Selected Poems (1992). Hiroshima -- Matinée -- Hund, Fuchs, und Katze -- Note from the gardener -- Excellent people -- from Seeing You Asked (1998). Secular thoughts -- 'It is one thing...' -- Check-up -- Elegy, of sorts -- Seeing you asked -- July, July -- Rilke in the mountains -- Lover response theory -- The café is always open -- Saying begins it -- from Lucky Table (2001). Right on -- Line of approach -- As is, is -- Elegy : again -- Love : revised version -- Rector, S.J. -- Dark night on the lake -- Before you go -- Lucky table -- That's the story -- Talking of stone -- Reading the Russians -- Pictures : Frida and Diego -- Gravestone, Athens -- The truth about realism -- No harm in hoping -- from Nice Morning for it, Adam (2004). The child in the gardens : winter -- Why biographers fudge it -- The best of men declines -- Reading the runes -- Nice morning for it, Adam -- 'Please?' -- The retired bruiser dreaming La Belle Dame at the least -- Brief visitation -- River road, due south -- Not quite still life -- The girl on the beach knows how -- Any sunset, with gin -- Simply -- As though -- The monastic life -- Still waiting, are we? -- from Blame Vermeer (2007). Not one to let on -- A dream of my father, winding our watches together -- 19th century -- The private man -- Taste, basically -- Blame Vermeer -- Yorick's shoulder -- Small talk -- Reference -- A moral, somewhere -- Feeding time for the elect -- Hindsight -- Blond ink -- In your case, though -- So the stories go -- How things are -- from Further Convictions Pending (2009). Being here -- Anniversary blue -- Last instructions -- Seeing's believing -- Past butcher's dam -- Ovid writes it off -- lines -- 1919 -- Nothing wrong with recycled -- Varnish -- Listen very carefully -- Check-out -- Ho hum -- Witness 217 -- Over to you -- from The movie may be slightly different (2011) -- Now, without angels -- Late tribute -- Politics for the unborn -- Who'd have thought -- Shaping up -- Even so -- The believer on the bus -- One of these mornings, Old St Paul's -- The panel meets for lunch -- Convent girl in the Wairarapa -- On the same road you can't help thinking -- Partners, from way back -- Sprung! -- By chance, this evening -- From the ranks, can you believe it -- So you like to say -- from Us, them (2013). According to the doco -- Getting the picture -- Cruise ship afternoon -- News from out the Heads -- What for some it comes down to -- Freedom -- Screensaver -- Road from the camp -- Still -- What story's that, then? -- After reading the warnings -- On the track above the bay -- Nowhere further from Belgium -- Always on the cards -- St Clair, September -- As the boy, the man -- Not included in the footnotes -- Come again? -- Skol -- Sight unseen -- First time, about Easter -- Us, then -- After that, to begin with -- New Poems (2014). There, being Monday morning -- The hare, he said -- Sunday being when I write -- All right then, are we? -- So much to remember, Dad at the Colosseum -- As it should be called -- Horace's day off -- The sentiment of goodly things.
Summary:
"Surveys the entire span of Vincent O'Sullivan's poetry, from Bearings (1973) to new poems first published in this volume"--Publisher's website.
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