as Poetry magazine and The London Review of Books to anthologies ranging from The Twentieth Century in Poetry to Roger McGough's recently edited Happy Poems. His New Selected Poems was published in Australia and the UK in 2001; and his Collected Stories appeared in Australia in 2004. Goldsworthy has been described in A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Australian Poetry as "one of the most skilled and satisfying poets in Australia" and by fellow Australian poet Les Murray as “a poet of crystalline intelligence, but one who can move as well as shine." His poetry can be read online at the Poetry Foundation and at The Australian Poetry Library and read and heard online at The Poetry Archive. The Poetry Archive describes his poetry as follows: There's a pressing sense of mortality in his work and a desire to ask the big questions, even as he satirises them. Drawn to the discipline of science, Goldsworthy's poems are full of the language of the laboratory —matter, evidence, elements, chemicals— the stuff we are made of, but at the same time frustrated by these limitations into asking what else we might be. He's interested in 'The Dark Side of the Head', the things we can only know in flashes, like glimpsing a skink, but he also retains a rationalist's scepticism of the ecstatic – that "thoughtlessly exquisite" evening sky in 'Sunset' won't fool him into rapture.The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Poetry summarises his work thus: "in every line the poet strives to make language elegant enough to do justice to the world as comedy." Short stories Goldsworthy has published five collections of short stories, including The List of All Answers: Collected Stories, in 2004. The 1992 collection, Little Deaths, was shortlisted for the Christina Stead Award, the Steele Rudd Award, and the SA Premier's prize for fiction. His most recent collection, Gravel, was short-listed for the ASAL Gold Medal. As with his poetry, his stories have been widely anthologised in Australia and overseas. In Australian Short Fiction: a History, Bruce Bennett wrote that "No Australian author has written more convincingly about the power of hormones or the fear of death". Libretti Goldsworthy also writes opera libretti. He wrote the libretti for the Richard Mills operas, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll and Batavia, the latter winning Mills and Goldsworthy the 2002 Helpmann Award for Best Opera and Best New Australian Work. The premiere