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Book SynopsisThis collection draws work from 5 of Gallagher's previous collections, together with a substantial body of new work. Born in Australia, Gallagher moved to Paris before settling in London. She draws on a rich inheritance from these different worlds in her poetry, which is always rooted in a passionate sense of discovery and attention to place.
Table of Contentsfrom THE EYE'S CIRCLE: Shapes within a Pattern / 15 from PASSANGERS TO THE CITY: Song for an Unborn / 21, Firstborn / 22, For Julien at Six Weeks / 23, At the Playground / 24, Distances / 25, The Trapeze-Artist's First Performance / 26, Itinerants / 27, Zelda Fitzgerald Practising Ballet / 28, The Survivor / 29, Maldon, Old Mining Town / 30, Homecoming / 32, Wimmera Windscreen / 33, Leaving / 34, Getting the Electricity On / 35, Woman in a Tableau / 36, Chartres Cathedral / 37, The Long Reach Out of War / 38, Unknown Soldier / 39, Dividing-line / 40, Domestic / 41, Momentums / 42, Passengers to the City / 43, The White Boat / 44, Concerning the Fauna / 45, Night in the Suburbs / 46 Kandinsky Journey / 47, The Magic of Hands / 48, November, Bois de Vincennes / 49, Lost / 50 from FISH_RINGS ON WATER: International / 53, Firstborn / 54, A Girl's Head / 55, Nettie Palmer to Frank Wilmot ('Furnley Maurice') / 56, Eastville, 1939 / 58, Relic / 59, Ghosts / 59, Plane-Journey Momentums / 60, Art Class on Observatory Hill, Sydney / 61, Near Keith, South Australia / 62, Scene on the Loire / 63, To Joe: In Memoriam / 63, Homecoming / 64, Alone on a Beach / 66, First Time / 67, The Affair / 68, Lines for an Ex / 69, Poem for the Executioners / 69, Political Prisoners / 70, After Kathe Kollwitz - 'The Face of War' / 71, Girl teasing Cat with Mouse / 72, Tree Planting at Alexandra Park / 73 from TIGERS ON THE SILK ROAD: 1969 / 77, In Memoriam for my Brother / 80, Dancing / 81, Jet Lag / 82, Frost Country / 83, 1942 / 85, River Murray Reunion / 86, My Mother's Garden / 88, The Gondola at Santa Maria dei Miracoli, Venice / 89, Poem for a Shallot / 90, Reckoning / 91, The Ash Tree / 92, Thirteen / 93, Knebworth Park / 94, A Visit to the War Memorial, Canberra / 95, Slippage / 97, The Lines on Her Palm / 99, Hunger / 100, Poinsettias / 101 from CIRCUS-APPRENTICE: Entente / 111, Laanecoorie / 112, The Year of the Tree / 114, Hedge / 116, Summer Odyssey / 117, From the Sahel / 119, Winter Hyacinths / 120, Hybrid / 121, Thinking of My Mother on the Anniversary of Her Death / 122, Gwen John swims the Channel / 123, Circus-Apprentice / 124, Keeper / 125, GM Scientist / 126, Tanka for a Hero / 127, Priests / 129, Girl on a Bolting Horse / 130, Nomad / 130, On the Pass from Kathmandu / 131, At Delphi / 132, Love Cinquains / 133, The Lesson / 134, Dancing on the Farm / 135, The Last War / 136, Itinerant / 137, Cloud-eye / 138, After Kandinsky - Grey Forms (1922) / 139, In the Black Square (1923) / 140, Horizontal (1924) / 140, Contrasting Sounds (1924) / 141, Blue Painting (1924) / 142, Yellow, Red, Blue (1925) / 143, Balancing (1925) / 144, Tension in Red (1926) / 144, Homage to Grohmann (1926) / 145, Counterweights (1926) / 146, Points along the Arc (1927) / 147 NEW POEMS: Biodiversity / 151, Seeing the Hand / 152, Take-off / 153, Fledgling / 154, The Dance / 155, La Fleuraison / 156, South Beach / 158, Manifesto / 159, Nostalgia Sonnet / 160, The Wild Colonial Boys / 161, Au Pays de la Somme / 162, Common Grounds / 163, The View / 164, Genealogy / 165, Soundings / 166, Snow-fire / 168 Biographical Note / 169
