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Broken Song: T.G.H. Strehlow and Aboriginal Possession by Hill, Barry
Category: Fiction
The biography of T. G. H. Strehlow and Aboriginal possession. ‘A group of men… chanting with the enthusiasm that made them forget age & weakness & becoming young again in spirit…the rising and falling of the chant melody, like the breathing that gives us life – what an unforgettable scene!’ Th ...Show more
Eagerly We Burn: Selected Poems 1980-2018 by Barry Hill
Category: Poetry
Barry Hill's tenth book of poetry selects from his Naked Clay: Drawing from Lucian Freud, which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize, 2013, and described by John Kinsella as a 'masterpiece'; Grass Hut Work (2016), his excursion into Hiroshima and Japanese poetry, which Sam Hamill said was 'beautiful an ...Show more
Eggs for Keeps by Barry Hill
Category: Poetry
Eggs For Keeps picks up where the selected essays left off . It features short reviews, of poetry mainly, collected over thirty years, including the decade Hill was Poetry Editor for the Australian - responses to books by Paul Kane, Ian Wedde, Les Murray, Judith Beveridge, Robert Adamson, Seamus Heaney, ...Show more
Kind Fire by Barry Hill
Category: Poetry
Since 1990, with Penguin's publication of Raft, Barry Hill has been acclaimed for his poetry. His Ghosting William Buckley (Heinemann 1993), which won his first Premier's Award, was described by Overland's Barrett Reid as a 'major work'. David Malouf wrote that The Inland Sea (Penguin 2001) was 'a mixtu ...Show more
Lines for Birds by Barry Hill
Category: Art and Design
They follow flight paths and habitats of birds, from the Victorian Mallee to the forests of South East Asia, to Japan and the South of France. Sometimes, as the painter says, its almost as if I am looking at the earth with a birds eye view the birds suggest new ways of telling stories about the earth. T ...Show more
Naked Clay Drawing: From Lucien Freud by HILL BARRY
Category: Poetry
'Naked Clay' is an intimate response to the paintings of Lucian Freud-"the great amplifier of twentieth century figurative art"' as the critic Sebastian Smee has written. The poems are as urgent as the paintings, and taken together they constitute an essay on the ambiguous gifts from a painter of such m ...Show more
Peacemongers by Barry Hill
Category: Biography
In his first major prose work since 2002's Broken Song, Barry Hill has written an epic - a travel book, a history book, a peace book. His odyssey begins with a pilgrimage to Bodhi Gaya in India, where the Buddha received enlightenment and ends after he reaches Nagasaki, Japan, in the aftermath of its at ...Show more
Reason and Lovelessness: Essays, Reviews, Encounters - Barry Hill 1985-2015 by Barry Hill; Tom Griffiths (Introduction by)
Category: Short Stories | Series: Literary Studies
"These are intimate, stylish essays. This collection showcases Barry Hill's remarkable intellectual curiosity and erudition. From questions of belonging and attachment, to global challenges of survival, belief and knowledge, Barry unflinchingly pushes through new frontiers to reveal, with passion and pr ...Show more
The Enduring Rip: A History of Queenscliffe by Barry Hill
Category: Australian Studies
From the beginning the beautiful promontory of Queenscliff played a unique role in colonial history. Its local legend of William Buckley, ‘the wild white man’, who lived with the Wathaurong people for 32 years, is a seminal story of first contact between Aborigines and Europeans. White settlement in Que ...Show more
The Siberian Curse - How Communist Planners Left Russia Out in the Cold by Fiona Hill; Clifford G. Gaddy; Barry W. Ickes
Category: History
Can Russia ever become a normal, free-market, democratic society? Why have so many reforms failed since the Soviet Union's collapse? In this highly-original work, Fiona Hill and Clifford Gaddy argue that Russia's geography, history, and monumental mistakes perpetrated by Soviet planners have locked it i ...Show more