Folder 1
A

'A beginning'; 'A case of spleen: a narrative'; 'A (c)ode for Simon Templar'; 'Activities at the local pigeon club'; 'A devalued art'; 'Adieu'; 'A dream from Kurosawa and it's western shadow' sequence including ''Summer rain': the dream' and 'Werefoxes: the shadow'; 'After the tempest'; 'Against the flow' (for Gary Magee); 'Aisles'; 'All queer visiting the grave'; 'Ambivalence'; 'A milk-lip tremor'; 'An animal's struggle to become an angel' (for Robert Bly); 'Anecdotes and the orchardist'; 'A new variety of snap dragons'; ['An inherited awareness?'] (first line); 'An invitation to dinner'; 'An irruption of ibises'; 'An old lady recalls...'; 'Anorexia Nervosa - a dissertation with colophon'; 'Anticlines: Halus and Kasar'; 'A piece of blues' and ['The echidnae I have not seen'] (first line); 'A pink tinge, or Cocktails with the boys'; 'A plague of locusts'; 'A poem above guitar sampling - a second poem for John Forbes who eats neither Frosties nor saccharine tablets'; 'A poem for Rita Dove'; 'The apprenticeship'; 'A prelude: a wolf in sheep's clothing'; 'A rumour of snow'; 'Ascension'; 'The ascension of sheep'; 'As I lie dying'; 'Assassin beetles'; 'A stay of ascension'; 'At a time when the less ecologically minded'; 'At cross-purposes'; 'A voice'; 'Avon River inventory - winter'

Folder 2
B

'The battles of gods and giants' together with 'Oil on troubled waters', '(A verse for fire tumbles)' and 'On the half-life of cuttings that should have tapped the water though was left to atrophy'; 'Beyond the one lane bridge'; 'Beyond W. Eugene Smith's photographic essay 'Life without germs'' (Life, 26 September 1949); 'Birth notes' (also titled 'Epistle 6'); 'Birth of a storm'; 'Black suns'; 'Blood and bone'; 'Blue bags/Talismans'; 'The blue bus'; ['The boo-book owl leering'] (first line); 'Borobudur'; 'Brambles' sequence including 'A piece of turf' and 'The temptation of blackberries'; 'Brambles (in memoriam)'; 'Bridging the gap: the gaff'; 'Broad beans'; 'Buddhist monk, Bangkok'; 'Bull ant run (for Nicholas and Frances - an incorruptible memory)'; 'Burnt orange'

Folder 3
C

'Cactus garden' together with 'Mad song' and 'The devil's apples'; 'Cairns' together with a reader's comment re an earlier version of the poem; 'Candle, flame, stained glass and prayer for peace'; 'Carnivale, Sid e Nancy, and anarchy - for Pi O'; 'The carpet snake poem'; 'The cherry poems' sequence including 'Liberating the cherry', 'Blood', 'Notes towards the liberation of cherries', 'Cherry vignettes', 'Inner truths' and 'Cherry stalks: twists of premonition'; 'Children trapping parrots at Mullewa'; 'Chillies'; 'Chilli poems' sequence including 'Aphrodisiac chilli sonnet', 'Archetypal chillies', 'Chillies: an epigramme', 'Chilli catharsis', 'Chilli hunt', 'Final chilli poem', 'Hereditary chillies/Predestination', 'The liberating chillies', 'The police busted me with a chilli in my pocket', 'Residue' and 'Transcendental chillies'; 'Chinese rings'; 'The city refuses poetry: reproduction of a photograph from the Imperialist 1980s'; 'Civilisation'; 'Closing the curtains (on a childhood memory) - Lighthouse, Cape Leeuwin, Augusta'; 'Colloquy with John Keats'; 'The company of parrots'; 'Conceit and a hay rake' (also titled 'Conceit and the hay rake: a rural patriachy'); 'Concentricals'; 'Consumer editing : the great train robberies'; 'Cook's anthropology'; 'Coralie Court blues'; 'Corruption of white surfaces'; 'Cosmos'; 'Counterpoint'; 'Crane and hawk'; 'Crosscut' together with 'The flightless nomads'; 'The cross like a marker on cloistered waters'; 'Crows obscure and then delete the Southern Cross: telegraph poles'; 'Cupid and the antlers'; 'Cuspidor Coppinger'

Folder 4
D

'The day of the firefeast'; 'Death exposed in-camera'; 'Death of a Bishop - the funeral train'; 'Death of a phacalogyte'; 'Deception/A short story'; 'Deciduous? - ars poetica' together with 'Finches 2'; 'Dennis Hopper - eulogy'; 'Dispensation'; 'Dissertation on a dysfunctional personality'; 'Dissertation on a wasp's nest'; 'The divinations of Daniel' sequence including 'The riders', 'Obscurum per obscurius - elevations', 'Bloodline', 'The abomination of desolation', 'Lion consumes Chandrika and Ayurvedic toothpaste and moves further away from Nebuchadnezzar' and 'Nebuchadnezzar and the third rising of Lasseter'; 'Divining'; 'Divining a recollection'; 'Documentary film' (from the Lilith/Ern Malley poems); 'Doggerel from an ex-drinker'; 'Double dissolutions'; 'Driving north through pastoral country: red twisters'; 'Driving past Monadnocks - a conservation park in the south west of Australia'; 'Dry ice'; 'Duet' sequence including 'Arum lily' and ''Into a strange fashion of forsaking' - Sir Thomas Wyatt'

Folder 5
E

'Eclogue on a well'; 'Eclogue on faith'; 'Eels'; 'Elegy for friends lost in the north'; 'Epistle'; 'Epitaph, or Curriculum vitae of John Kinsella' together with 'Love - the pejorative sense'; 'Erosion(s)'; 'Erosions - seeding time'; 'Erratum'; 'Escape from Fremantle Prison'; 'Essay on myxomatosis'; 'Ethics and the Thames'; 'Etomania?'

Folder 6
F

'Faith'; 'Falnash'; 'The farmer checks his sheep two mornings after the glad day'; 'Faust in Cracow'; 'Feeding on the wastes of desire/flight' sequence together with 'Conservative chillies', 'Radical chillies' and 'Chillies without seeds'; 'The fig spire and insect grave'; 'Fireballs'; 'The fire in the 44 gallon drum'; 'The fire mist: the return from exile'; 'The fires already lit'; 'The fish still jump next to the freeway'; 'Five poems from Happy Valley' sequence including 'Happy Valley', 'Hay' and 'Predators in Happy Valley'; 'Flares'; 'Flycatcher'; 'Fog'; 'Fox wedding'; 'Frame(d) - for Karl Wiebke'; 'Fritz Lang of the streams'; 'From Ern Malley: the early drafts - Durer: Innsbruck, 1945'; 'From 'Fury!' after Francis Bacon's 'Three studies for figures at the base of a crucifixion', 1944'; 'From Westminster Bridge: the Thames &:'; 'Frost's mock epic'; 'Frozen ants'; 'Funeral procession' together with 'Grain on the asphalt thickly spread'

Folder 7
G-H

'Gender exper (i) (men) ts: the white coats neutered'; 'The genetics of film'; 'Goading storms out of a darkening field'; 'Grotesque: an elegy and a parody' (for John Forbes); 'Handstands'; 'Harvest' sequence including 'Prayers and charms', 'Dry weather', 'Harvest bins', 'Bins', 'The sunshine harvester' (also titled 'Sunshine harvester lament') and 'Verandah and watermelon'; 'Hay baling for export'; 'The healing of the circle (a response made necessary by Jackson Pollock's painting 'The moon woman cuts the circle', c. 1943'; 'High school pyrotechnics/Living next door to the Geraldton Drug and Alcohol Reform Centre'; 'Hitching south from Fortescue'; 'Hoax'; 'Holyoake'; 'Hoppers and gargoyles'; 'Horseshoes, bellows and anvil'; 'Hunting the afterlife'; 'Hybrid'; 'The hydra'; 'The hydra project'; 'Hydraulics, fly wheels, saw and PTO'

Folder 8
I-J

'Ice'; 'ICons : ab - sence'; 'The I in (my) sexuality'; 'Impacts'; 'The implications of scene'; 'Incense'; 'Indelible'; 'In memoriam Kurt Cobain: a poem for W.H. Auden and Sigmund Freud'; 'Inner-city forecast'; 'Insight' together with 'Counterpoint' and 'Ecologue on a well'; 'Inspiration and its sense of place'; 'Intermediaries'; 'Internal rust and a blue vinyl exterior'; 'The international face of destruction (after Jackson Pollock's 'Burning landscape', 1943)'; 'Interpretations'; 'Interregnum'; 'Intervention, or An encounter with a bat' (for my brother, Stephen); 'James Dickey's revenge for the killing of America'; 'Jan Saudek'; 'The Jetty poems' sequence including 'Prologue', 'Gunbower Road Jetty', 'Rookwood Street Jetty', 'Carmon figuratum' and 'Envoi/Recollection', together with 'From Mount Henry Bridge to Spinnaway Crescent', 'Deep Water Point' and 'Canning Bridge'; 'Jewels of the rain forest'; 'Joplin seen alive in Memphis'

Folder 9
K-N

'Keeping the garden alive/A sense of place'; 'Kite and mare's tails'; 'Knife in the water (after the film by Roman Polanski)'; 'Kodak safety film RI x Pan Film : Darling : Sunday thru Thursday'; 'Lambs in the cradle'; 'Lasseter discovers a reef within the Reef, and renounces his claim'; 'Legations'; 'Lilith of the harvest'; 'Lilith sings a song of herself'; 'Living with words'; 'Liz as a spectacle - so Andy need not entertain'; 'Locating the hive, or The rootless mind acting as a tachistoscope'; 'Lonely heart: the pendulum glass bird connection'; 'Long necked tortoises'; 'Love song abstract'; 'Lucidity within the premium mobile'; 'Lucion Fontana 'Green oval concept'' and 'Georges Mathieu 'Painting', 1953'; 'Lustre and the iron sky'; 'Man with a convulsive shake - a blurb'; 'Max Dupain, Milton Avery, Arthur Boyd and Paul Cezanne: bathing in the light of form'; 'The Meckering earthquake'; 'The mercury climbs in Happy Valley'; 'Merrymaking: a triptych'; 'The millenarian's dream'; 'Moreton Bay figs'; 'Mottlecahs'; 'Mrs Roxburgh and the spirit of Jack Chance'; 'Night piece 2: sleeping with Ern Malley'; 'Night seeding and notions of property'; 'Notes from Southern Seas: an allusion to love'; 'Notes on divining'; 'Notions of dispensation and re-building'

Folder 10
O

'Of'; 'Of falling asleep breast feeding'; 'Oil'; 'Omen's residuum'; 'On a plot conspired in the north: Lasseter muses'; 'On arriving at a deserted house deep in the country after running over a rabbit on a gravel road, at night'; 'On being the youngest poet included in the 1991 Penguin book of modern poetry'; 'Once I saw myself'; 'On entering my thirty first year - ref. Byron, Porter, Tranter et al.'; 'On Frances reading...'; 'On Georgia O'Keeffe's 'Black Cross, New Mexico', 1929'; 'On independent vision and voices'; 'On Jackson Pollock's 'Ocean greyness', 1935'; 'On Kathy goes to Haiti, a novel by Kathy Acker'; 'On Kenneth Noland's 'Magic box', 1959'; 'On Milton Avery's 'Bathers by the sea', 1960'; 'On the cryptic coloration of the deserted meatworks, or Swimming on the doorstep of the city'; 'On the death of a sign-writer'; 'On the destruction of golden pheasant eggs and becoming a vegan fourteen years later'; 'On the half-life of cuttings fallen short of water'; 'On the hills hoist being used as an antennae to receive masculinity'; 'On the paintings in their gilded frames'; 'On the sun being further away than it should'; 'On the transference of grain'; 'Orchardist' together with 'The orchardist's book'

Folder 11
P

'Palinode'; 'Parrot deaths'; 'Parrot deaths 2: rites of passage'; 'Petit testament'; 'The phenomena that surrounds a sighting of Eclipse Island'; 'Photo essay: prongs, ramp, Chevrolet and kangaroo'; 'Pigeon Club'; 'Pillars of salt/The heart's grain'; 'Placebo: anti-dirge: life as'; 'The plinth that haunts the photograph could be God or phenomena unexplainable - the great storm still one day off'; 'Poem as a room'; 'Poem for those at Wheatlands'; 'Poem on a granite rock formation in Dryandra Forest - The devil's backbone - or cultural palimpsest'; 'Poem out of drowning'; 'Poems for Veronica Brady' collection, including 'Vignettes of rose light and focus in Birmingham, England', 'Te deum laudamus', 'Trinity', 'Duet' sequence including 'Arum lily' and ''Into a strange fashion of forsaking' - Sir Thomas Wyatt', 'The well as entry into the overworld', 'Candle, flame, and prayer for peace', 'Death side by side, from the top down', 'Daniel - towards the lion's den', 'A splendid cryptography' and 'Epistle to Veronica Brady'; 'Poem without a dedication'; 'The poet paints grey' sequence including 'Prologue', 'Shoreline', 'Anthills' and 'Grey is reminded of King Nebuchadnezzar'; 'Pressed flowers'; 'Prospectus'; 'Pump/Drought'

Folder 12
R

'Rat tunnels in the wall of the Horse Dam'; 'Re-aligning the body fluids'; 'Red carnations and rivers of the sullen'; 'Red gladioli'; 'Red River/Sanctuary'; 'Regeneration'; 'Retainers'; 'Return'; 'Returning to Bickley Reservoir pending its re-introduction into Perth's mains water supply'; 'Ringwallbilder'; 'The rites of spring'; ''The river dies in January' (poem on a painting by Robert Juniper)'; 'Rocketry and a vision of mortality'; 'Rock picking: building Cairns'; 'Roundhouse'; 'Roundhouse and the rhetoric of salt'; 'Roundhouse - a renunciation of the America's Cup, Fremantle, 1987'; 'The roundhouse/Cornucopia nexus'; 'Rowers'; 'Ruse - a poem beginning and ending with lines by Edwin Denby'; 'Rushcutters Bay'

Folder 13-14
S

'The salmon swims in its can'; 'Sampling'; 'Sculpting a poem from the landscape's painting'; 'Self portrait without glasses'; 'The sensuality of bottlebrushes and power'; 'Sexual politics 2: Harry and Flora' sequence including 'Mezzotint - the case of the jealous husband' and 'The Ides of March', together with 'Flora : the pellucid and the moribund' and 'Brief letter from Flora to Harry Larkyns'; 'Sexual politics 4: cartoon realities c/- Roy Lichenstein'; 'Sexual politics in Edweard Muybridge's 'Man walking, after traumatism of the head''; 'Sexual politics under review - a portrait of stagnation'; 'Sex?, violence? and intrigue? - a synopsis for an essay on censorship'; 'She-oaks'; 'Shootings'; 'Shotgun shell'; 'Shot Marilyns and gunbelt'; 'The silo'; 'Silos and field bins = auger'; 'Silt'; 'The sinking sand'; 'Skippy Rock, Augusta: warning, the undertow'; 'Skippy Rock: the pretty picture' (also titled 'Skippy Rock in counterpoint'); 'Small scenes from the harbour' (also titled 'The bridge twists like a Mobius strip'); 'Smith-corona elect'; 'Soak'; 'Sonnets to be quoted out of context' sequence including 'Fable', 'Heliopause', 'Flares', 'Enclaves' and 'The dream of snapping fish'; 'Soothsay' sequence including 'Lasseter attempts to retrieve what has been lost', 'Evocation' and 'Nebuchadnezzar and the third rising of Lasseter'; 'Soul birds and the destitute dead'; 'Splendid'; 'Split ends'; 'Starting with Delmore Schwartz's 'The self unsatisfied runs everywhere''; 'Still life: the crimes of yellow sand'; 'Still life unsettled'; 'Stilt Theatre'; 'Stopover on the road from Varanasi to Kathmandu'; 'Storm sailing' with note to Susan [Good] 20 June 1993; 'Storm song tautly wound'; 'Subliminal messages'; 'Sunday afternoons'; 'Sunday at Rushcutters'; 'Sun rise, vegetable harvest'; 'Sunspots and strawberries'; 'Surfaces - redundant, made active: placebo'; 'Survival' (for Robert Adamson); 'Swarm'; 'Swarm: the sequel'; 'Syzygy 30 : re (con) structure ing / damage control'; 'Syzygy re:prise'; 'Sysygytics I'

Folder 15
T

'Tags/Go boys, and I'll tell you about Iggy'; 'Tales from the apocalypse'; 'Tales from the gutter'; 'Taxidermy in Birmingham'; 'Ten minutes drive from station road Sunday morning service is being held in York's Church of the Holy Trinity' (also 'from the Region of Decayed Smiles'); 'That...'; 'That kind of kiss'; 'Theatre: a grand tour of Hyde Park and environs' (for Brenda Walker); 'They tell me we're a contrived species anyway (abortion and contraception)'; 'This moon' (with draft letter to John Forbes, 2 March 1992); 'Thistles' together with 'A ritual of bulbs'; 'Tide table'; 'The tiger moth poem'; 'Time, place, setting'; 'To kill and not feel guilty'; 'To mix in city circles'; 'Toneday'; 'Towards beauty - conversations with a global gardener/painter. A re-enactment with variations on a theme. For Paul R.'; 'Trans-celluloid vision' sequence including 'View from a train', 'The cat and the canary, or The absence of sorrow accompanying a belated reading of the millionare's will' and 'Solarization - a celebration'; 'Translation'; 'Transpositions'; 'Tree and grave'; 'Tri-cactus in focus'; 'Trinity' together with 'Te deum laudamus' and 'Against the tide'; 'Turning out of Kerosene Lane (a particularly notorious intersection) after visiting a market garden'; 'Twelve day old child senses a fly?'; 'Two epigrammes: Touch & go and Loop the loop'; 'The two of cups'; 'Two stops from the Trestle Bridge'

Folder 16
U-V

'Uninvited'; 'Ur-texts (for my son, Nicholas)'; 'UR-US: for Lyn Hejinian'; 'The vagaries of love between the ruins of the Old Bristile Clay Works, Ascot Race Course, and the Swan River'; 'View from a windmill and the remission of sins'; 'Vignettes of rose light and focus in Birmingham, England'; 'Virtual reality'; 'Visiting a psychic'

Folder 17
W-Y

'Walking upright'; Warhol poems including 'If Warhol were just a brandname...' sequence (comprising 'Handle with care - glass - thankyou', 'On Andy Warhol's 'Optical car crash'' and 'One fourteenth (0.0714285) of a crown, or A sonnet re: Warhol's 'Camouflage Last Supper', 'The Last Supper' and coming to terms with the 'Ode''), 'On Warhol's 'Camouflage Statue of Liberty' and being refused entry into the United States by US Immigration', 'On Warhol's 'Myths' and 'Dollar signs', Reverse: 'Fade-in', 'Looking back and forth', and 'To and fro: the new world'', 'On Warhol's 'Superman', 'Fate presto', 'Untitled', 'Rorsach series' (1984), 'Moonwalk (History of TV Series, 1987)' and the 25th Anniversary of the first human moonlanding', 'On Warhol's 'Van Heuson (Ronald Reagan)'', 'Warhol at Wheatlands' and 'Warhol - 'Marilyn Monroe's lips' and 'Red disaster''; 'Washout'; 'The weather box'; 'Werefoxes: the shadow'; 'Wheatlands'; 'Wheatlands' (also 'A pastoral'); 'Where soul birds sit'; 'The wild west'; 'Wind-swept trees and RIP (two hundred k's back)'; 'Winter parrots'; 'Wireless Hill'; 'The wooden blades of the blower'; 'The yellow line diathermy'

Folder 18
Notes and manuscript and typescript fragments of poems (untitled)

Folder 1
Typescript draft of collection (incomplete) with comments by John Forbes; reader's report typescript photocopy, 1 p.; launch invitation; Western Australian Premier's Book Awards 1993 shortlist

Folder 1
Typescript reader's report, 2 p., by Philip Mead

Folder 1
Annotated typescript photocopy draft of collection (incomplete); annotated typescript draft fragment marked 'final version' comprising the poems 'Photo essay: harrow, ramp, Chevrolet and kangaroo', 'Where soul birds sit', 'A poem for Rita Dove', 'The sea of tranquillity' and 'Collecting wood near Williams Cemetery'

Folder 1
Contracts with Fremantle Arts Centre Press for Night parrots, 5 October 1988; 'Lilith', 11 April 1990; Full fathom five, 11 February 1992; The silo, 15 June 1992; Syzygy (with letter from Clive Newman, 10 February 1993); together with Department for the Arts (WA) Creative Development Grant Form, 26 September 1992

Folder 2
Newspaper cuttings and photocopies of reviews of Night parrots (1989), Eschatologies (1991), Going down swinging, no. 12 (1992), Full fathom five (1993) and Syzygy (1993)

Folder 3
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts postcards (15) featuring the poems 'Isis' and 'The tomb of the two faces' from The book of two faces (1989); Calapooya Collage 16, August 1992, featuring the poems 'Long necked tortoises' and 'Driving past the Monadnocks Conservation Park in the south west of Australia'

Folder 1
Annotated typescript draft, 40 p., originally titled 'Asia'

Folder 2
Typescript photocopy draft, 108 p.; annotated typescript draft fragment, 4 p.

Folder 1
Annotated typescript drafts of short stories 'A bargain', 'Julia 3' and 'When I'm supposed to be asleep'

Folder 1
'Divine comedy' annotated typescript drafts (2) of review of Ask me (1990) by Fay Zwicky; annotated typescript review of Excavation (1990) by Gig Ryan and Atomic ballet (1991) by S. K. Kelen; 'Every action has an equal and opposite reaction' annotated typescript review of Cats, dogs and pitchforks (1993) by Kate Jennings and Poems 1970-1992 (1993) by Fay Zwicky; 'The skeptical alchemist condenses ritual and forms a set of axioms from which we may derive points of contact' annotated typescript draft of review of Red dirt (1991) by Tim Thorne

Folder 1-2
Lecture notes and papers relating to University of Western Australia units 'Ancient History 100' and 'History 100', 1981

Folder 3
'On tradition and my poetics' annotated typescript drafts (4) with note for Maryanne Lynch of The Guide, 1994; 'Project report' manuscript and typescript drafts (3); other draft fragments and notes