The Wandering Islands

• "Australia"
• "Flower Poem"
• "Easter Hymn"
• "Observation Car"
• "The Wandering Islands"
• "Three Romances"
• "Rawhead and Bloody Bones"
• "X-Ray Photograph"
• "Massacre of the Innocents"
• "Pygmalion"
• "Ascent into Hell"
• "The Gateway"
• "The Muse"
• "The Pleasure of Princes"
• "Imperial Adam"
• "The Trophy"
• "Pyramis or The House of Ascent"
• "Circe : After the Painting by Dosso Dossi"
• "The Death of the Bird"
• "Invocation"
• "William Butler Yeats"
• "Chorale"
• "The Cheek"
• "The Sleeper"
• "Lot and His Daughters" Note: Printed as two separate poems: "Lot and His Daughters" I and II.
• "The Dinner"
• "The Return of Persephone"
• "The Lamp and the Jar"
• "Heldensagen"
• "The Brides"
• "Toast for a Golden Age"
• "Sportsfield"
• "Standardisation"
• "Giving It Up"
• "The House of God"
• "The Lingam and the Yoni"
• "To Julia Walking Away"
• "The Explorers"
• "Conquistador"
• "The Bed"

• 1955 in Australian literature
• 1955 in poetry

"He was talked into publishing his first book in 1956 when two young printers who had inherited a printing press wrote and told him of some fine paper they had acquired. They would print a book if he would provide the manuscript. He did and The Wandering Islands was born."^[2]