Notes on the poems

(1) ‘Elegies’, Charles Tompson Jnr, Wild Notes, from The Lyre of a Native Minstrel, 1826

(2) ‘The Last of His Tribe’, Henry Kendall, (originally published in Leaves From Australian Forests, George Robertson, Melbourne, 1869), The Penguin Book of Australian Verse, Harry Heseltine (Ed), 1979: 70

(3) ‘The Bush’, Bernard O’Dowd, (originally published in The Bush, Thomas Lothian, 1912) The Collins Book of Australian Poetry, Rodney Hall (Ed), Collins, Sydney, 1981: 93

(4) ‘This is Australia’, Ian Mudie, (originally published 1941) The Jindyworobaks, Brian Elliott (Ed), UQP, St Lucia, 1979: 71

(5) Underground, Ian Mudie, (originally published 1940), Elliott, 1979: 68

(6) ‘Singing The Snake’, Billy Marshall-Stoneking, Singing The Snake, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1990: 1

(7) ‘Corkwood’, Marshall-Stoneking, 1990: 29

(8) ‘Instructions For Honey Ants’, Marshall-Stoneking, Billy Marshall-Stoneking, 1990: 77

(9) ‘Passage’, Marshall-Stoneking, Billy Marshall-Stoneking, 1990: 30

(10) ‘The Mountains Haven’t Moved’, Marshall-Stoneking, Billy Marshall-Stoneking, 1990: 87

(11) ‘Noonday Axeman’, Les Murray, (originally published in The Ilex Tree, published with Geoffrey Lehmann in 1965) Collected Poems, Angus and Robertson, North Ryde, 1991 edition: 2

(12) ‘Thinking About Aboriginal Land Rights, I Visit the Farm I Will Not Inherit’, (originally published in Lunch and Counter Lunch, 1974) Murray, 1991: 83

(13) ‘The Flying Fox Dreaming’, (originally published in Ethnic Radio, 1977) ) Murray, 1991: 105

(14) ‘The Buladelah-Taree Holiday Song Cycle’, (originally published in Ethnic Radio, 1977) ) Murray, 1991: 122

(15)’ Bora Ring’, Judith Wright, (originally published in A Moving Image, 1946), A Human Pattern, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1990: 2

(16) ‘Nigger's Leap, New England’, Wright, 1990: 8

(17) ‘Australia 1970’, Collected Poems, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1977: 292

(18) ‘Rock’ , from ‘Notes at Edge’ (originally published in Phantom Dwelling, 1985), A Human Pattern, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1990: 231

(19) ‘Fox’, Wright, 1990: 232

(20) ‘River Bend’, Wright, 1990: 232

(21) ‘Lichen, Moss, Fungus’, Wright, 1990: 233

(22) ‘Caddis Fly’, Wright, 1990: 233

(23) ‘Rockface’, from ‘The Shadow of Fire: Ghazals’ (originally published in Phantom Dwelling, 1985), A Human Pattern, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1990: 234

(24) ‘Rockpool’, Wright, 1990: 235

(25) ‘Eyes’, Wright, 1990: 236

(26) ‘Summer’, Wright, 1990: 236

(27) ‘Escape’, Lee Cataldi, The Women Who Live On The Ground, Penguin, Ringwood, 1991: 35

(28) ‘The Women Who Live on the Ground’, Cataldi, 1991: 36

(29) ‘Goanna’, Cataldi, 1991: 42

(30) ‘Rain’, Cataldi, 1991: 25

(31) ‘Dressing Shed’, Cataldi, 1991: 7