That Deadman Dance

Prologue Part I 1833-1835 Returning on a rope Menak Chaine Cross Ships and home Things to do A single heart beats Part II 1826-1830 Bobby never learned A most intelligent curiosity Convict William Skelly River expedition Soldier Arthur Killam Where and who? Men at sea The wrong part Tongue and paper Death and spirit Spears and guns A name and memory Part III 1836-1838 One day not yet now The guvernor family's tree A Yankee challenge Jeffrey and James Jak tar The heart of home A smile for kaya Over the horizon Wriggled his toes again Firelight in an eye Sunlight and a bloody groan People's attention scatters like sheep do too Stranded Another whale season Glistening Within and under the sea Sometimes a whale's path Part IV 1841-1844 Bobby came home on high What's not in a whale song Christine and his lay Rowing Just for him Bones and children Sheep, sugar and knives The Ocean Floor Had we but The setting sun a stone In the gaol dance now About a native gang With friends like these we break apart Author's Note