Cover -- Author biography -- The Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize series -- Title page -- Imprint page -- Language warning -- Dedication -- Contents -- unburdenings -- phrases from my youth -- I am/am I -- swastika -- triptych -- past present future -- examinings -- blackbirds and starlings (conversation nurses' station Barnet General Hospital 1994) -- conversation doctor's consulting room Brisbane 2013 -- conversation barbeque Brisbane inner west 2012 -- how dare they -- you say -- passfail -- imaginings -- LONDON -- desert rat, part 1 -- desert rat, part 2 -- TERRA AUSTRALIS
Road to Chinchilla -- lattice screens and inkdrops -- QUEENSLAND KANAKA LABOUR TRAFFIC -- saltwater boys and Marys -- the returns were all in good health -- foundlings -- JACK JOHNSON -- Tommy Burns fight -- Rushcutters Bay -- before -- the fight -- after -- Jim Jeffries fight -- Reno -- before -- mouthfighting -- Reno -- fightday -- aftermath -- BORIS JOHNSON -- piccaninnies -- pearl of Africa -- part-Kenyan -- CHURCHILL -- in his own words -- OBAMA -- in the words of others -- epilogue -- my son -- Notes -- Acknowledgements
