Contents

Included in A Sudden Sentence In The Air:

Introduction by Kevin Brophy

Jazz/Poet
Blues on the Names
The Audience
John Lewis
Oscar Peterson
Hampton Hawes
Thelonious Monk
Bud Powell
Bill Evans
Bird with Strings
Be-Bop en Cave
Lady Day
Chet
Dexter Gordon
Booker Ervin
Sonny Rollins at the Vanguard
Modern Jazz Quartet at the Blue Note, NYC, 1985
Two Goodbyes
Audiology
Ugly Beauty
Coffee with Miles
The Visuals
For Rudy Van Gelder
Parable in 4/4
The Documentation
What key’s the conversation in?
Amo, Amas, Amat
Sequestered
Lizzie Rivers’ All Girl Band
The Solo
El Rocco
Total Impro
A Manual of Style (selected for inclusion in Best Australian Poems 2011)