Thanks are due to the editors of the following publications where most of these poems were first published: Active/Reactive, the Age Monthly Review, the Bulletin, Cargo, Fine Line, Meanjin, Otis Rush, Salt, Surfers Paradise, Ulitarra, and La Traductiere (France). Some have also appeared in the anthologies New & Selected Poems, Hidden Hands, Pink Ink, The Sting in the Wattle and Sydney Satirised, and have been broadcast on ABC and 2SER radio. The author acknowledges a small grant from the Australia Council in 1990.