1     I have never written a poetry review. Performance poetry, which is what Pi was best known for in the seventies, was often ephemeral. Since then I have bought and read his big books, which account for his getting the Patrick White award. Indeed I went along to that occasion, as a run-on from the many friendly street-corner conversations we’ve had.

2      My remark about Fitzroy, which Pi has made his patch, was to show that other non-Indigenous people also had valid associations with it. I don’t know about Farrago, but I expressed this wryly in a byline for a local history: ‘Jim Davidson moved into Fitzroy in 1976, a century after his great-grandfather left it’.