ACT Writers Centre Poets Lunch, 2008

A5, pb, 32pp. ISBN 978 1 876668 16 7. Price: $10.00 (Australian dollars)

25 poems by Writers Centre members on the theme "capital letters". A celebration of Canberra's people, cockatoos and cold, with reflections on past, future and poetry.

Contents

Scatter – Kathleen Bleakley
Getting the Drift – Paul Cliff
Transferred to Head Office – P.S. Cottier
Capital Tyranny – Peter Huta
the net – Tim Entwisle
Sonnet for the National Capital – Frankie Seymour
Snail Mail – Trev Astle
Letter from Canberra – David Walker
Canberra in Winter – Meg van Beurden
The Hobby Farm, 1995 – Chris Johnston
The Weight of Trees – Moya Pacey
A Capital Letter Cold as Scottish Stone – Margaret Owen  Ruckert
From the Archive – Elizabeth Lawson
Capital Letters – Jeni Gorrel
Outside Vinnies – Alina Kulaga
The Capital Man – Tim Metcalf
Wiley’s Baths Coogee, Sydney – Terry O’Brien
A Capital Letters Fridge Magnet – Geoff Page
Hi Octane Summer – Robyn Lance
Capital Punishment –  June Foster
Poetry with a Capital “P” – Robert Copley
Write in Code –  Hal Judge
Capital Letters – Thomas Connelly
WMD – Don Sedgfield
A Higher Place – Linda Rendell

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