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Hill's moving love poem is also a work of spiritual convergence, the mystic marriage of two desert traditions, the Song of Solomon and an even older singing, that of the immemorial world of Central Australia - something only he could have brought off with such a mixture of intense contemplation and powerful eroticism.

-- David Malouf

Barry Hill's long narrative poem, Ghosting William Buckley won the 1994 NSW Premier's Award for Poetry, and his labour history, Sitting-In won the same award for Non-Fiction in 1992. Although he lives by the sea in Queenscliff, Victoria, his recent work, including The Inland Sea, his third book of poetry, arises out of travelling and research in Central Australia. He teaches occasionally at the University of Melbourne and is poetry editor for the national newspaper, The Australian.

Part One

Song

Yapalpa

Nectar

Noon

Ribs

Nuptial Rocks

Little Buddha

Dove

Song

Banquet

Part Two

Song

Caravan

Ngkwarle

Song

Desert Cradling

At Babel Bore

Song

Salts

Song

Part Three

Back

Song

Found

Song

Byron's Sky

Song

White Bird

Song

Underground Rivers Running

Song

Corkwood psalms and sonnets

Part Four

Song

Stone

Song

From Second Highest Dreaming Place in Town

Throat

Stills

The Same Air

Single Notes

Song