REFERENCES

‘The eyes are not here …’ T.S. Eliot, ‘The Hollow Men’, Collected Poems 1909–1962 (London: Faber & Faber, 1963), 91.

‘doctor says how are you …’ Paula Keogh, ‘I swallow the pills’, unpublished poem, September 1972.

‘energy of ages …’ Keogh, ‘Where eyes would be’, unpublished poem, September 1972.

‘I read a newspaper article …‘S.M. finds girl died from drug poisoning’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 8 April 1970, p. 4.

‘he is white pain …’ Keogh, ‘laugh at the sky’, unpublished poem, September 1972.

‘all is new …’ Michael Dransfield, ‘Always a season’, The Canberra Times, 18 Nov 1972.

‘prisoners of the Hotel Grand’ Dransfield, ‘paul and cathy,’ Collected Poems, edited by Rodney Hall (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1987), 361.

‘Sorcerer, note how the stars …’ Keogh, ‘Michael’, unpublished poem, October 1975.

‘poetry is the blood in my veins …’ Dransfield, ‘Journal d’un Homme Vide’, Diary March–April 1967, 23 March 1967, Papers of Michael Dransfield, MS 4741, National Library of Australia (hereafter cited as Dransfield MSS).

‘and all his words …’ Dransfield, ‘Esais’, Collected Poems, 43.

‘the inspector of tides … dressed in clouds …’ Dransfield, ‘The Inspector of Tides’, Collected Poems, 116.

‘haysheds and corners …’ Dransfield, ‘Minstrel’, Collected Poems, 42.

‘archaic … rise and fall …’ Dransfield, ‘Portrait of the artist as an old man’, Collected Poems, 17.

‘the hermit … imperfect silence … it is enough’, Dransfield, ‘The hermit of green light’, Collected Poems, 88.

‘dreams of a perfect poem …’ Dransfield, ‘Miss Havisham’, Collected Poems, 83.

‘I am Proust …’ Dransfield, ‘Chaconne for a solipsist’, Collected Poems, 243.

‘love / let live … Writ in the House of Torment …’ Dransfield, ‘The nature of passion’, Collected Poems, 342

‘The article appeared’ … Maurice Dunlevy, ‘Poet who lives in the underground’, The Canberra Times, 30 September 1972.

‘Survival is the password …’ Dransfield, Untitled poem, Collected Poems, 356.

‘The ultimate commitment …’ Dransfield, ‘Like this for years’, Collected Poems, 50.

‘I cannot pull …’ Dransfield, ‘Still Life’, Collected Poems, 356.

‘statue and prayer / of the merciful …’ Dransfield to Paula Keogh 1972.

‘poisoning by an overdose …’ Post-mortem report, Julianne Gilroy, 27 September 1968, quoted in Fraçoise Gilroy, née Droulers, Mon Histoire: Memoirs of a French Australian (Adelaide: Griffin Press, 2008), 189.

‘In the beginning …’ Bible, Genesis 1:1, King James Version.

‘Words made flesh’ Gospel according to John, 1.14, King James Version.

‘I love you so intensely …’ Dransfield to Paula Keogh, 24 October 1972, Dransfield MSS.

‘How would you feel …’ Ibid., 7 November 1972.

‘We’ll have a magic …’ Ibid., 1 November 1972.

‘you would get a good widow’s pension …’ Ibid., 7 November 1972.

‘soul is worn out’ Dransfield, ‘Looking for somewhere kind’, Collected Poems, 339.

‘love / let live …’ Dransfield, ‘The nature of passion’, Collected Poems, 342.

‘o dearest sweet Paul’ Dransfield to Paula Keogh, 31 October, Dransfield MSS.

‘Got the shits real bad …’ Ibid., 6 November 1972.

‘You will meet her …’ Ibid., 24 October 1972.

‘midnight … It’s late …’ Dransfield to Paula Keogh, 10 November 1972, Dransfield MSS.

‘cleanse the doors of perception’ This phrase is from William Blake’s poem, ‘The Marriage of Heaven and Hell’ (1790), Plate 14: ‘If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.’ The metaphor is used by Aldous Huxley in his 1954 book, The Doors of Perception, in which he describes his experiences after taking the psychedelic drug, mescaline.

‘displaced Romantics’ Dransfield, ‘No forwarding address’, Collected Poems, 304.

‘Drugs? …’ Dransfield to Paula Keogh, 26 October 1972, Dransfield MSS.

‘I’ve not had any …’ Ibid., 1 November 1972.

‘David is a poet …’ The details of David Campbell’s life in this paragraph come from Australian Dictionary of Biography, s.v. ‘Campbell, David Watts (1915–1979)’, adb.anu.edu.au/biography/campbell-david-watt-9680 (accessed December 5, 2012).

‘Mirka describes herself as a “free spirit” …’ Mirka Mora, interview by George Negus, George Negus Tonight: Profiles, ABC, 15 July 2004.

‘Let us go hence …’ This version of the poem is as Michael copied it from memory and gave me. The poem is Algernon Charles Swinburne’s ‘A Leave-Taking’, from The Poems of Algernon Charles Swinburne: In Six Volumes (Cambridge: Chadwyck-Healey, 1992), ebook.

‘only the wind and a river …’ Dransfield, ‘The hermit of green light’, Collected Poems, 88.

‘We die with the dying …’ T.S. Eliot, ‘Little Gidding, Four Quartets’, Collected Poems 1909–1962 (London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1963), 222.

‘acute broncho-pneumonia and brain damage’ ‘The poet who kept on hating himself’, Sunday Mirror, 7 October 1973, 25, quoted in Patricia Dobrez, Michael Dransfield’s Lives: A sixties biography (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1999), 509.

‘we’re much too close for any one …’ Dransfield, ‘Still life’, Collected Poems, 355.

‘I’m Prufrock …’ T.S. Eliot, ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’, Collected Poems 1909–1962 (London: Faber & Faber, 1963), 13.

‘If only we would let ourselves …’ Rainer Maria Rilke, ‘The Man Watching’, Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Robert Bly (New York: Harper & Row, 1981), 105.

‘survival is the password’ Dransfield, Untitled poem, Collected Poems, 356. (My emphasis).

‘To blown straw …’ Francis Webb, ‘Five Days Old’, Collected Poems of Francis Webb, edited by Toby Davidson (Crawley WA: UWAP, 2011), 225.

‘If I may but touch …’ Gospel according to Matthew 9:21, King James Version, 2000.

‘Martin Buber, I and Thou, edited by Walter Arnold Kaufmann (New York: Scribner, 1970).

‘Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1952).

‘Viktor Emil Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy (Boston: Beacon Press, 1992).

‘fields of praise’ Dylan Thomas, ‘Fern Hill’, from Jahan Ramazain, Richard Ellmann and Robert O’Clair (eds), The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Volume II (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2003), 108.

‘The most of love …’ Dransfield to Paula Keogh, 1972.

‘above concrete and minimal existences …’ Dransfield, ‘Geography III’, Collected Poems, 66.

‘When night or winter comes …’ Dransfield, ‘Portrait of the artist as an old man’, Collected Poems, 17.

‘What matters is to live everything’ Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet & The Letter from the Young Worker, edited and translated by Charlie Louth (London: Penguin, 2011), 23.