Grateful acknowledgment is made to the editors of the following anthologies and journals where many of these poems first appeared (sometimes in earlier versions): Famous Reporter, Green Left Weekly, The Brew, Poet’s Republic, Blue Giraffe, Poems from the Dig, Tasmanian Times, FAW Anthology ‘A Net of Hands’, Poetry Matters, Hecate and Poetrix.
Special thanks to Dr Gina Mercer for her excellent feedback and assistance with this manuscript. I’d also like to thank the Tasmanian Writers Centre, the Fellowship of Australian Writers Tasmania, members of my group Poetry Diggers and the other Tasmanian poets who have encouraged me or provided me with valuable opportunities, especially Ralph Wessman, Ben Walter, Liz Winfield and Cameron Hindrum. Thanks to my mother for buying me that hard-cover exercise book that got me started when I was eight years old, to my partner Jeremy and to other friends and family for their support.
