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1 2 y separately published work icon Ian Fairweather : A Life in Letters Ian Fairweather , Claire Roberts (editor), John Thompson (editor), Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2019 17064168 2019 selected work correspondence

'WHEN he died in 1974 after a long period of self-imposed austerity and improvisation on Bribie Island, Queensland, Ian Fairweather was at the apex of his fame. He had been called ‘our greatest painter’, and his works were keenly sought by galleries, collectors and artists.

'Born in 1891 in Scotland, Fairweather had lived a peripatetic life, forever seeking the right place to settle. He was a prodigious and idiosyncratic letter writer—wryly documenting for friends and family members his travels, his struggles with his painting and Chinese translations, and the changing conditions on Bribie, as well as commenting on literature and world affairs.

'In their selection Claire Roberts and John Thompson have created the definitive volume of Fairweather’s correspondence: the closest thing to an autobiography of one of Australia’s most important and enduring artists.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
1 Heaven and Earth i "Life enters secretly, sun-ordained,", Claire Roberts , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Island , no. 144 2016; (p. 108)
1 December i "Now the summer flies hardly move", Claire Roberts , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Collaboration , no. 23 2016;
1 Comparison to the Continent i "Outside daylight tunes its colours. Grignan", Claire Roberts , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Collaboration , no. 23 2016;
1 Behind and Before the Day i "There's a voice barely", Claire Roberts , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Collaboration , no. 23 2016;
1 Procrastinate i "The swinging curvature", Claire Roberts , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 46.0 2014;
1 Dear Kevin i "Meanwhile you wrote", Claire Roberts , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Regime , no. 3 2014; (p. 55)
1 As Though i "As though to record", Claire Roberts , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Long Paddock , vol. 73 no. 3 2013;
1 No Record i "How could they demolish C.A.C.,", Claire Roberts , 1989 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Newcastle Herald , 25 March 1989; (p. 8)
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