University of Queensland Press
Paradise Mislaid: In search of the Australian tribe of Paraguay by Anne Whitehead
by Richard Hall •
One of the principal characters in much of Thea Astley’s writing is Queensland. ‘An intransigent fecundity dominated two shacks which were cringing beneath banana clumps, passion-vines, granadillas.’ There’s a lot of sad poetry about the place; and the distances that separate us, I mean the physical distances, are like verse-breaks in a ballad; and once, once we believed the ballad might never end but go on accumulating its chapters of epic while the refrain, the almost unwordable quality that mortises us together, retained its singular soul. How express the tears of search?
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Travellers in a Landscape: Visitors’ impressions of the Darling Downs 1827–1954 by Maurice French
by Noni Durack •