Matthew Flinders' Cat Academic A band of swordsmen on

A band of swordsmen on a failed mission

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These little poems are my orphaned children

the Introduction both serve to locate Śāntideva's work in its proper context

The 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets competition: a powerful

Matthew Flinders' Cat Academic A band of swordsmen onBilly O'Shannessy, once a prominent barrister, is now on the street where he sleeps on a bench outside the State Library. Above him on the window sill rests a bronze statue of Matthew Flinders' cat, Trim. Ryan is a ten year old, a near street kid heading for all the usual trouble. The two meet and form an unlikely friendship. Appealing to the boy's imagination by telling him the story of the circumnavigation of Australia as seen through Trim's eyes,