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Six and Eight single work   poetry   "Do you ever think about that old stone hut"
Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 Six and Eight
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Notes

  • Editor's note: Baker writes: 'The poem is about a time when my sister and I lived for a year on Troubridge Island off the coast of Yorke Peninsula in South Australia, during the early 1970s when the lighthouse was still manually tended (by our father). It was a remote area for youngers aged 6 and 8, with no friends to play with, and virtually no interactions with other human beings. Our handicapped mother had the task of teaching us, assisted by the radio (School of the Air).'

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Snorkel no. 10 October 2009 Z1643003 2009 periodical issue 2009
    Note: http://nla.gov.au/nla.arc-84567-20091122-0000-snorkel.org.au/010/baker.html
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Subjects:
  • Yorke Peninsula, South Australia,
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