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THE PLACE WHERE
SOCKS GO
Poems
1980-90.
Published in three
editions (1985, 1988, 1990). Most poems were re-published in Breaking the Chains.
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Poems
below appeared in this order in the final (1990) edition.
Those marked * were not carried forward to Breaking
the Chains.
The journey of the magi (cont.)
Missing*
Casualties*
Mr Yates*
Sharks*
A Laodicean estate agent writes
Paul's letter from Delirium*
Script*
Columbus*
Icons*
Vocation
In
Gethsemane*
Other poems appearing in earlier editions:
Beirut (original poem of that title)
Communion of saints
Depends how you look at it
ET (the Extra-Terrestrial)
Finger-counting rhyme
Heart and mind
Hunger
Incident at dinner
On a Melbourne tram
The first football riot in China
Two by two
Two-timer