Authors: Marilyn Duckworth
A Gap in the Spectrum
A Matchbox House
A Barbarous Tongue
Over the Fence is Out
Disorderly Conduct
Married Alive
Rest for the Wicked
Pulling Faces
A Message from Harpo
Unlawful Entry
Seeing Red
Short Stories
Explosions on the Sun
Poems
Other Lovers’ Children
The author gratefully acknowledges the assistance of the
Literature Programme of the Arts Council of New Zealand in awarding her the Scholarship in Letters 1993.
Thanks are also due to the Hawthornden Trust for a Writing Fellowship in Hawthornden Castle, Midlothian, Scotland, in summer 1994.
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First published in 1995.
© Marilyn Duckworth 1995
eISBN 978 1 77553 211 8
Printed in Australia
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