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Kangaroo Island single work   poetry   "A road from Flinders turns"
Issue Details: First known date: 1993... 1993 Kangaroo Island
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Notes:
Dedication: for Syd and Jane

Works about this Work

Edwin Thumboo - The Poet as Traveller Bruce Bennett , 1999 single work criticism
— Appears in: Interlogue : Studies in Singapore Literature. Volume 2. : Poetry 1999; (p. 77-83) Homing In : Essays on Australian Literature and Selfhood 2006; (p. 123-130; notes 270)
Examines Thumboo's experiences as an 'internationalist' Singaporean travelling within Africa, Australia, Asia and the Pacific and the impact of these travels on his poetry. Particular attention is drawn to Thumboo's naming of personal friends and acquaintances in his poems and of the link between relationships and a sense of place.
Edwin Thumboo - The Poet as Traveller Bruce Bennett , 1999 single work criticism
— Appears in: Interlogue : Studies in Singapore Literature. Volume 2. : Poetry 1999; (p. 77-83) Homing In : Essays on Australian Literature and Selfhood 2006; (p. 123-130; notes 270)
Examines Thumboo's experiences as an 'internationalist' Singaporean travelling within Africa, Australia, Asia and the Pacific and the impact of these travels on his poetry. Particular attention is drawn to Thumboo's naming of personal friends and acquaintances in his poems and of the link between relationships and a sense of place.
Last amended 14 Feb 2002 13:04:51
Subjects:
  • Kangaroo Island, South Australia,
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