The 48 poems on this CD come from his books Collected Poems (VUP,2001) and Lifted VUP,2005). Lifted won the prestigious 2006 Montana NZ Book Award. The poems are recorded in approximately chronological order ... Love Poem, The Voyage, The Wind, The Elaboration, The Prayer, Vidyapati's Song, Wulf, The Spell, The God Who Watches Over All Perhaps, On Originality, The Song, The Incision, Last Sonnet, Contemplation Of The Heavens, Summer, The Collaboration, A Song About The Moon, Party Going, Night Windows Carey's Bay, Zoetropes, Water: A Stopping Place, Legacies, The Caravan, Children, Miscarriage, Milky Way Bar, Magasin, Masturbating, Jalopy, Out West, Hirohito, Brazil, Phar Lap, My Sunshine, The English Teacher, Moonlight, Blood Falls, Some Frames, Deep Field Song, The Polar Explorer's Love Song, Scavenger, Song, Millennial, The Next Thousand, Without Form, Death Of A Poet, Erebus Voices and Hotel Emergencies.