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Beauty and unease

Landscape, lyricism and the darker bush tradition

The Australian landscape inspired wonder, but it could also feel immense, dangerous and strange. These poems move between birdsong, rain, spring colour, fire and the unsettling silence of the inland. Their beauty is rarely simple: memory, danger and mortality remain close by. This collection shows bush poetry at its most musical and atmospheric—and reminds us that the country could enchant and disturb in the same breath.