That sensuous weight -- Dawn / Bruce Pascoe -- Meltemi / Susan Pyke -- A literary love story (memoir) / Catherine Bateson -- Crush / Kathryn Lomer -- Why Cupid is painted blind -- The lesson / Kevin Brophy -- Why Cupid is painted blind / Leah Swann -- Lover like a tree / J Anne DeStaic -- Hooked / Toby Sime -- Adrift in shards and splattered fruit -- Gen Y love / Danielle McGee -- Mother love / Catherine Cole -- The edge of the known world / Debi Hamilton -- Feed with a flat hand / Candace Petrik -- There are tears, there is hubris, there is a damnation and regret -- Swallow / Jon Bauer -- Hammer orchid / Sally-Ann Jones -- Moses of the freeway / David Francis -- A Greek tragedy / Claire Varley -- A sweetly alien creature -- The contract / Caroline Petit -- A blast of a poem / Susan Midalia -- Small expectations / Rafael Sw -- The little things / Irma Gold --It used to be his eyes / Natasha Lester -- Firm as anchors, wet as fishes -- Love and antibiotics / Sharon Kernot -- These bones / Allison Browning -- Once around the block (memoir) / Alexis Drevikovsky -- Joe Roberts / Tony Birch -- The unbroken trajectory of falling -- Eggshells / Lois Murphy -- Need gone today / Megg Minos -- A mouth full of heart / Lisa Jacobson -- Where the honey meets the air / Carmel Bird.

Between these pages lie imaginary lovers, unattainable lovers, star-crossed lovers and predestined lovers. There is straight love, same sex love and some very curious love. And all the while, Love's attendants - Cupid, lust, obsession, and betrayal - dance through this volume that contributes to the growing tradition of writing on an Australian kind of love.