Cover -- About the Author -- Also by the Author -- Contents -- from Borrowed Voices (2002) -- After Hölderlin -- From Parallax (1970) -- The Moment of Waking -- The City, the Tree -- The Visit -- Kabul -- Rescue -- Whitey -- The Plane -- The Non-commercial Traveller -- Mary Jane -- Machine -- Paint -- from Red Movie and Other Poems (1972) -- Balance -- Bestiary -- Ward Five -- On the Track of the Attainable -- Red Movie -- 1. The New Field of Knowledge -- 2. Extract from the Ice Diary -- 3. The Death Circus -- 4. The Failure of Sentiment and the Evasion of Love -- 5. The Knowledge of Our Buried Life -- from The Blast Area (1974) -- The Guadalcanal Motel -- Poem Ending with a Line by Rimbaud -- Compromise -- from The Alphabet Murders (1976) -- The Alphabet Murders -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6 -- 7 -- 8 -- 9 -- 10 -- 11 -- 12 -- 13 -- 14 -- 15 -- 16 -- 17 -- 18 -- 19 -- 20 (after R D FitzGerald) -- 21 -- 22 -- 23 -- 24 -- 25 -- 26 -- 27 -- from Crying in Early Infancy: 100 Sonnets (1977) -- Starlight -- The Bus -- The Chicago Manual of Style -- Art -- Artefact -- The Moated Grange -- Ballistics -- I Know a Man Who Lives in the Dark -- The Doll -- The Spy -- Position: Poet -- The Painting of the Whole Sky -- The Blues -- 1968 -- By the Pool -- At the Laundromat -- from Dazed in the Ladies Lounge (1979) -- Ode to Col Joye -- The Un-American Women -- The Revolutionaries -- Leavis at The London Hotel -- Sartre at Surfers' Paradise -- Foucault at The Forest Lodge Hotel -- Enzensberger at 'Exiles' Bookshop -- The Wind -- The Germ -- The Great Artist Reconsiders the Homeric Simile -- from Selected Poems (1982) -- A Jackeroo in Kensington -- from Under Berlin (1988) -- Backyard -- Country Veranda -- (Dry Weather) -- (Rain) -- North Light -- Widower -- Debbie & Co. -- Voodoo -- Fine Arts -- The Creature from the Black Lagoon -- High School Confidential.

1 -- 2 -- Stratocruiser -- Laminex -- Lufthansa -- On Looking Into the American Anthology -- 1 -- 2 -- Shadow Detail -- Parallel Lines -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- Having Completed My Fortieth Year -- Boarding School -- Papyrus -- After the Dance -- Haberdashery -- Poolside -- At The Newcastle Hotel -- Affairs of the Heart -- Lullaby -- Dirty Weekend -- La Pulqueria -- from The Floor of Heaven (1992) -- Breathless -- from At The Florida (1993) -- Journey -- At The Florida -- God on a Bicycle -- Dark Harvest -- Ariadne on Lesbos -- Days in the Capital -- A Marriage -- Falling -- Anyone Home? -- The Romans -- Storm over Sydney -- Opus Dei -- North Woods -- Con's Café -- At Naxos -- Two Views of Lake Placid -- Snap -- Old Europe -- Box Contaminant -- A Plume of Ash -- Chicken Shack -- Cable Chimp -- Bells Under Water -- Aurora -- from Gasoline Kisses (1997) -- The Duck Abandons Hollywood -- from Different Hands (1998) -- Neuromancing Miss Stein -- The Howling Twins -- from Blackout (2000) -- Blackout -- from Ultra (2001) -- Black Leather -- Gallery -- Halogen -- Locket -- Miss Proust -- My Story -- Off Radar -- On the Road -- Package Tour -- Per Ardua ad Astra -- South Farm -- Under the Trees -- Lavender Ink -- from Borrowed Voices (2002) -- After Laforgue -- Brussels -- Address to the Reader -- After Rilke -- Invitation to America -- On La Cienega -- Festival -- Night -- Harry's Bar -- What the Cyclops Said -- Where the Boys Are -- Notes from the Late Tang -- from Studio Moon (2003) -- The Twilight Guest -- Paid Meridian -- The Green Buick -- Moonshine Sonata -- Trastevere -- Radium -- 1 -- 2 -- In Praise of Sandstone -- Chinese Poem, after Mark Ford -- Christopher Brennan -- Epitaphs -- See Rover Reach -- Grover Leach -- 1 -- 2 -- Elegy i.m. M.J. -- The Beach -- Five Modern Myths -- Three Poems about Kenneth Koch -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- Black Sugar.

The New Season's Patterns -- Like Advertising -- Rimbaud in Sydney -- The Waiting Room -- Amulet -- The Seasons - Spring -- The Seasons - Summer -- The Seasons - Autumn -- The Seasons - Winter -- uncollected poems (1985-2000) -- Small Animal Poem -- The White Hole Paradox -- Two Haikus -- Yeats at Bondi -- Hawaiian Haiku -- Two Short Poems, after Li Po -- 1 -- 2 -- Two Poems for Mr Stevens -- 1 -- 2 -- What Mortal End -- Her Shy Banjo -- Fin de Siècle -- new poems The Malley Variations -- An American in Paris -- Benzedrine -- The Master of the Black Stones -- Flying High -- Pussy Willow -- Smaller Women -- Transatlantic -- Under Tuscan Skies -- Year Dot -- The Urn of Loneliness -- new poems Europe -- At the Tomb of Napoleon -- Bats -- Care and Feeding of a Small Poem -- Manikin de Vin -- On a Noted Vista -- A Poet in the Reading Room -- Stage Door -- Thistles -- Whisper -- new poems Speech to Text -- Anguish -- Bottom of the Harbour -- Deluge -- Departure -- Horticulture -- Lives -- Marinara -- Metro -- Movements -- Parade -- Pronto -- 1 -- 2 -- Royalties -- Scenes -- Shames -- Sorehead -- Story -- Subcontinent Nocturne -- Villas -- 1 -- 2 -- new poems At the Movies -- Shadow of a Doubt -- North by Northwest -- Dark Passage -- Girl in Water -- Black and White -- from Selected Poems (1982) -- The Popular Mysteries -- Acknowledgments.