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Epigraph and quotes from the poems of Michael Dransfield taken from Michael Dransfield: Collected Poems, UQP, 1987, edited by Rodney Hall (‘Geography III’, ‘The inspector of tides’, ‘Minstrel’, ‘Portrait of the artist as an old man’, ‘The hermit of green light’, ‘Miss Havisham’, ‘Chaconne for a solipsist’ and ‘Like this for years’ also appear in Michael Dransfield: A Retrospective, UQP, 2002, selected by John Kinsella) are used with kind permission of University of Queensland Press. Other quotes from Michael Dransfield’s poems, letters and diary entries used with kind permission of the Estate of Michael Dransfield.
‘The Man Watching’ [3 I. excerpt] from SELECTED POEMS OF RAINER MARIA RILKE, A TRANSLATION FROM THE GERMAN AND COMMENTARY by ROBERT BLY. Copyright (c) 1981 by Robert Bly. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
Lines on p.231 from ‘Five Days Old’ by Francis Webb (Collected Poems, edited by Toby Davidson) used with kind permission of UWA Publishing.
Lines on p.208 and 227 from ‘Little Gidding, Four Quartets’ and lines on p.15 from ‘The Hollow Men’ by T.S. Eliot (Collected Poems 1909–1962) used with kind permission of Faber and Faber Ltd.

National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry available for this title.
Title: The Green Bell / Paula Keogh, author.
ISBN: 9781925475524 (paperback)

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