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'I AM A poet and an essayist, a teacher of writing and a father of five children, who visit like rare birds these days, and I live with my partner and two spaniels and a cat along the Wingecarribee River (one of its many much debated spellings) on Gundungurra land, country never ceded, 125 kilometres south-west of what is now mostly called Sydney, which sits on the stolen ground of the Gadigal. I am, as far as I know, a non-Indigenous Australian man, a fifth-generation descendant of Cornish and German immigrants. They settled land that was not theirs to settle, though that’s not what they were told; I live on land to which nothing but love gives me any kind of title, and I own none of it. Who can afford to own it anyway these days, even if one felt one had the right?' (Introduction)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
- The Blue Plateau : A Landscape Memoir 2009 single work prose
- Fire Diary 2010 selected work poetry
- Bluewren Cantos 2014 selected work poetry
- A Gathered Distance 2020 selected work poetry
- Walking Underwater 2021 selected work poetry