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'Leni Shilton offers us a woman’s exploration of loss and survival in the unforgiving and beautiful landscape of central Australia. Bertha Strehlow, overshadowed by her anthropologist husband’s achievements, was a woman of integrity and a brilliant observer and connector of people in settings such as the Great Sandy Desert over many years of endurance. In this volume, Leni Shilton restores to her a voice.'  (Publication summary)

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    • Crawley, Inner Perth, Perth, Western Australia,: UWA Publishing , 2018 .
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      • Published: 1st February 2018
      ISBN: 9781742589701
      Series: y separately published work icon UWAP Poetry Club Crawley : UWA Publishing , 2016- 10166627 2016 series - publisher poetry

Works about this Work

[Review] Walking with Camels : The Story of Bertha Strehlow Alison Clifton , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: StylusLit , September no. 6 2019;

— Review of Walking With Camels : The Story of Bertha Strehlow Leni Shilton , 2018 selected work poetry

'Leni Shilton’s Walking with Camels: The Story of Bertha Strehlowis as packed with meaning as the desert landscapes she depicts are teeming with life. This beautifully-realised verse novel tells the story of Strehlow’s life, from meeting and marrying her husband, an explorer and amateur anthropologist and linguist, to their trek through central Australia, to her later life as a teacher.' (Introduction)

Political Poetics : Two New Poetry Collections Jen Webb , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 410 2019; (p. 51-52)

— Review of Blakwork Alison Whittaker , 2018 selected work poetry ; Walking With Camels : The Story of Bertha Strehlow Leni Shilton , 2018 selected work poetry

'Alison Whittaker’s début collection, Lemons in the Chicken Wire (2015), introduced a genuinely new voice to Australian poetry: that of a Gomeroi woman, a Fulbright scholar, and a poet who can bend and blend forms with the best of them. Her second collection of poems, Blakwork, places her firmly in both the broad community of celebrated Australian poets and the celebrated Aboriginal writers in Magabala’s lists.'  (Introduction)

Di Cousens Reviews Walking with Camels : The Story of Bertha Strehlow by Leni Shilton Di Cousens , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , November 2018;

— Review of Walking With Camels : The Story of Bertha Strehlow Leni Shilton , 2018 selected work poetry
Age of Dust : A Review of Walking with Camels: The Story of Bertha Strehlow Fiona Dorrell , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 63 no. 2 2018; (p. 199-201)

— Review of Walking With Camels : The Story of Bertha Strehlow Leni Shilton , 2018 selected work poetry

'In a photograph in the opening pages of Leni Shilton's debut verse novel, Walking with Camels, Bertha Strehlow appears against a range somewhere between Hermannsburg and Horseshoe Bend Station in her skirt and cardigan, gazing past the camera, a joey held in against her body.' (Introduction)

From Silence into Song Sarah Pearce , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses , October vol. 22 no. 2 2018;

— Review of Walking With Camels : The Story of Bertha Strehlow Leni Shilton , 2018 selected work poetry

'Walking with Camels – The Story of Bertha Strehlow by Leni Shilton is a gorgeous, subtle rendering of the both brutal and starkly beautiful Australian desert, and those relationships that exist and are formed within this landscape. Shilton’s verse novel charts Bertha Strehlow’s transformation from a naïve and shaking girl, determined to follow the man she loves into unknown territory against the advice of loved ones, into a woman possessed, damaged and strengthened by the desert. Shilton’s rigorous research, bolstered by found poems and historical and biographical notes, grounds the poems in a moving reality, filled equally with suffering and joy.' (Introduction)

From Silence into Song Sarah Pearce , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses , October vol. 22 no. 2 2018;

— Review of Walking With Camels : The Story of Bertha Strehlow Leni Shilton , 2018 selected work poetry

'Walking with Camels – The Story of Bertha Strehlow by Leni Shilton is a gorgeous, subtle rendering of the both brutal and starkly beautiful Australian desert, and those relationships that exist and are formed within this landscape. Shilton’s verse novel charts Bertha Strehlow’s transformation from a naïve and shaking girl, determined to follow the man she loves into unknown territory against the advice of loved ones, into a woman possessed, damaged and strengthened by the desert. Shilton’s rigorous research, bolstered by found poems and historical and biographical notes, grounds the poems in a moving reality, filled equally with suffering and joy.' (Introduction)

Age of Dust : A Review of Walking with Camels: The Story of Bertha Strehlow Fiona Dorrell , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 63 no. 2 2018; (p. 199-201)

— Review of Walking With Camels : The Story of Bertha Strehlow Leni Shilton , 2018 selected work poetry

'In a photograph in the opening pages of Leni Shilton's debut verse novel, Walking with Camels, Bertha Strehlow appears against a range somewhere between Hermannsburg and Horseshoe Bend Station in her skirt and cardigan, gazing past the camera, a joey held in against her body.' (Introduction)

Political Poetics : Two New Poetry Collections Jen Webb , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 410 2019; (p. 51-52)

— Review of Blakwork Alison Whittaker , 2018 selected work poetry ; Walking With Camels : The Story of Bertha Strehlow Leni Shilton , 2018 selected work poetry

'Alison Whittaker’s début collection, Lemons in the Chicken Wire (2015), introduced a genuinely new voice to Australian poetry: that of a Gomeroi woman, a Fulbright scholar, and a poet who can bend and blend forms with the best of them. Her second collection of poems, Blakwork, places her firmly in both the broad community of celebrated Australian poets and the celebrated Aboriginal writers in Magabala’s lists.'  (Introduction)

[Review] Walking with Camels : The Story of Bertha Strehlow Alison Clifton , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: StylusLit , September no. 6 2019;

— Review of Walking With Camels : The Story of Bertha Strehlow Leni Shilton , 2018 selected work poetry

'Leni Shilton’s Walking with Camels: The Story of Bertha Strehlowis as packed with meaning as the desert landscapes she depicts are teeming with life. This beautifully-realised verse novel tells the story of Strehlow’s life, from meeting and marrying her husband, an explorer and amateur anthropologist and linguist, to their trek through central Australia, to her later life as a teacher.' (Introduction)

Di Cousens Reviews Walking with Camels : The Story of Bertha Strehlow by Leni Shilton Di Cousens , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , November 2018;

— Review of Walking With Camels : The Story of Bertha Strehlow Leni Shilton , 2018 selected work poetry
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