Opal Sunset : Contents

All but three of the poems comprising this Opal Sunset selection (first published 2008 by Norton in the USA) were either previously collected in The Book Of My Enemy (2003), or were subsequently to appear in Angels Over Elsinore (2008) or Nefertiti in the Flak Tower (2012). I decided not to complicate our main (left) menu with duplications, but instead to include here under Opal Sunset this Contents page, which lists the poems by title, each forming a link to its corresponding entry under ‘Enemy’, ‘Angels’ or ‘Nefertiti’. Your Web-browser’s ‘Back’ button will return you here — Archive Editor.

The Book of My Enemy Has Been Remaindered

Sack Artist

A Gesture towards James Joyce

Thoughts on Feeling Carbon-Dated

Johnny Weissmuller Dead in Acapulco

Will Those Responsible Come Forward?

Echo Echo Echo

The Anchor of the Sirius

The Ferry Token

A Valediction for Philip Larkin

Jet Lag in Tokyo

What Happened to Auden

Last Night the Sea Dreamed It Was Greta Scacchi

Drama in the Soviet Union

Budge Up

Bring Me the Sweat of Gabriela Sabatini

Go Back to the Opal Sunset

The Eternity Man

Reflections in an Extended Kitchen

Simple Stanzas about Modern Masters

Son of a Soldier

Where the Sea Meets the Desert

The Lions at Taronga

Dream Me Some Happiness

Deckard Was a Replicant

Lucretius the Diver

One Man to Another

Stolen Children

In Town for the March

Six Degrees of Separation from Shelley

Occupation: Housewife

Jesus in Nigeria

The Place of Reeds

Hard-Core Orthography

Ramifications of Pure Beauty

Young Lady in Black

Flashback on Fast Forward

The Great Wrasse: for Les Murray at sixty

Status Quo Vadis

Special Needs

Double or Quits

Natural Selection

Dreams before Sleeping

Naomi from Namibia

Fires Burning, Fires Burning

Return of the Lost City

Museum of the Unmoving Image

A Gyre from Brother Jack

Diamond Pens of the Bus Vandals

When We Were Kids

Private Prayer at Yasukuni Shrine

Sonnet after Wyatt

Paddington Departures

Literary Lunch

Exit Don Giovanni

Press Release from Plato

You, Mark Antony

State Funeral

Publisher’s Party

The Zero Pilot

Iron Horse

Statement from the Secretary of Defense

Angels over Elsinore

Young Lady Going to Dakar

Only Divine

My Father before Me

The Magic Wheel

The Serpent Beguiled Me

Woman Resting

Signed by the Artist

The Australian Suicide Bomber’s Heavenly Reward

Windows Is Shutting Down

Anniversary Serenade

Lock Me Away

Sunday Morning Walk

Tramps and Bowlers

Portrait of Man Writing

Mystery of the Silver Chair

The Genesis Wafers

Yusra

The Nymph Calypso

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