Fredy Neptune

A riveting, beautiful novel in verse by Australia''s greatest contemporary poet, winner of the 1996 T. S. Eliot Prize.

I never learned the old top ropes,
I was always in steam.
Less capstan, less climbing,
more re-stowing cargo.
Which could be hard and slow
as farming- but to say

Why this is Valparaiso!

Or: I''m in Singapore and know my way about
takes a long time to get stale
.-from Book I, "The Middle ...