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The Ash Range
Contributor(s): Duggan, Laurie (Author)

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 ISBN: 0907562698     ISBN-13: 9780907562696
Publisher: Shearsman Books
OUR PRICE: $23.75  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: May 2005
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BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | Australian & Oceanian
- Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Dewey: 821.914
Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6" W x 9" L (0.81 lbs) 248 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Oceania
Features: Illustrated
 
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Publisher Description:
Laurie Duggan was born in Melbourne in 1949 and lives in Brisbane. He is the author of eleven collections of poetry in Australia, as well as a volume of cultural history "Ghost Nation: Imagined Space and Australian Visual Culture 1901-1939" (2001). "The Ash Range", originally published by Picador Australia in Sydney in 1987, won the Victorian Premier's New Writing Award that year, and is a major milestone in the author's career. The book is a long work that mixes prose, poetry, reportage and illustrations - somewhat in the manner of William Carlos Williams' "Paterson" - to narrate a history of the settlers' engagement with Gippsland, an area of south-eastern Victoria State, the narrative runnning through until the latter half of the 20th century, ending roughly when the author himself left the area. Like "Paterson", which concerns itself with small-town New Jersey, "The Ash Range" is not constrained by its locality, but instead finds the universal in its examination of the local. While the work is enormously ambitious in its mix of materials, the whole is welded into a solid structure that facilitates communication of the theme, even to an audience that has never heard of the territory it celebrates. This second edition of "The Ash Range" is published simultaneously with the author's Selected Poems 1971-2003, "Compared to What".

Contributor Bio(s): Duggan, Laurie: - Laurie Duggan was born in Melbourne in 1949. His books include The Ash Range (now republished by Shearsman), which won the Victorian Premier's New Writing Award; The Epigrams of Martial, winner of the Wesley Michael Wright Prize; Mangroves (UQP), selected as The Age Poetry Book of the Year in 2003, and winner of the 2004 ASAL Gold Medal; Subsequent books include Crab & Winkle, The Pursuit of Happiness and Allotments (all Shearsman), and The Collected Blue Hills (Puncher & Wattman). Ghost Nation: Imagined Space and Australian Visual Culture, 1901-1939, was published by University of Queensland Press in 2001. In the early 2000s he was a Senior Lecturer/ Writer-in-Residence in the School of Arts, Media and Culture at Griffith University in Brisbane and an Honorary Research Advisor in the Australian Studies Centre at the University of Queensland. In 2006 he moved the UK and now lives in Kent.
 
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