The call of the outback / Terry Piggott ; book design J.E. James.
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TextPublisher: [Australia] : [EJ's Book Shop], 2015Copyright date: ©2015Description: 79 pages : colour illustrations, maps ; 21 x 30 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781943280339Subject(s): Australian poetry -- 21st century | Country life -- Australia -- PoetryDDC classification: A821.4 Summary: THE ARTS. AUSTRALIAN. Armed with a camera and metal detector Terry Piggott responds to the call again. This book, a selection of prize winning poems, supplies another glimpse into the life of a lone miner and prospector. While he searched for gold nuggets or Opals during the daylight, in his tent or bush shack at night, the poet wrote of life lived for over forty years in isolation. His words and his photographs record the unknown graves, the vast plains, the lonely campfires and yet, contentment is also there under wide open starry skies of outback Australia. It was a peaceful, solitary life except for the welcomed visits by goannas and an intriguing dingo for company. Within these eighty pages of Terry Piggott's second book of Australian Bush Poetry there is beauty, wonder, history and love.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| wnor- Book | Northam Northam Adult Nonfiction | 821A PIG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31111065489211 |
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| 821A/MOU The Outback : | 821A PAT Waltzing Matilda / | 821A PAT We're all Australians now / | 821A PIG The call of the outback / | 821A SEY Collected Works of Amelia L. Seymour | 821A [W]/ BUD Bellaka Bella, one time known as Dingo Flats : | 821A [W]/CHI Swamp : |
Includes index.
"Winning Poem, 'Lonely is the Campfire' : Page 12"--Page 2.
THE ARTS. AUSTRALIAN. Armed with a camera and metal detector Terry Piggott responds to the call again. This book, a selection of prize winning poems, supplies another glimpse into the life of a lone miner and prospector. While he searched for gold nuggets or Opals during the daylight, in his tent or bush shack at night, the poet wrote of life lived for over forty years in isolation. His words and his photographs record the unknown graves, the vast plains, the lonely campfires and yet, contentment is also there under wide open starry skies of outback Australia. It was a peaceful, solitary life except for the welcomed visits by goannas and an intriguing dingo for company. Within these eighty pages of Terry Piggott's second book of Australian Bush Poetry there is beauty, wonder, history and love.
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