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An Unknown Wreck: Macquarie Island single work poetry "Chief harpooner, Henry Whalley, squinted at the frozen island"

Author:agent Anne Morgan

Issue Details: First known date: 1999... 1999 An Unknown Wreck: Macquarie Island

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Epigraph: There calmly let him sleep./ Not all the winds that blow/ Can shake his bed, and he shall keep/ A quiet watch below. (Epitaph of Henry Whalley, son of a Tasmanian Aboriginal woman and the unofficial governor of Kangaroo Island. (J.S. Thomson, 1912, Voyages and Wanderings in Far Off Lands and Seas.))

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First known date: 1999

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y The Write Stuff Showcase of Tasmanian Poetry vol. 7 2003 Z1034889 2003 periodical issue 2003
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y River of Verse : A Tasmanian Journey 1800-2004 Helen Gee (editor), Buckland : Back River Press , 2004 Z1174411 2004 anthology poetry lyric/song extract Buckland : Back River Press , 2004
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1999 winner Banjo Paterson Writing Awards — Open Poetry

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