On the Value of Blankets single work   poetry   "Once I picked up a drover south of Mataranka"
Issue Details: First known date: 1991... 1991 On the Value of Blankets
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    y separately published work icon North of the Ten Commandments : A Collection of Northern Territory Literature David Headon (editor), Rydalmere : Hodder and Stoughton , 1991 Z54431 1991 anthology poetry short story prose correspondence extract

    'The writers and story-tellers included in this collection relate an important, even epic tale. They tell a story which in 1988 (white Australia's bicentennial year) rarely received attention because, while it tells of courage and love, it also focuses on killing and conquest, eccentricity and madness, and a land as hostile and murderous as it could be gentle and caring...' (Source: Preface)

         Rydalmere : Hodder and Stoughton , 1991     pg. 249
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    y separately published work icon Good Weekend 8 February 1997 Z639338 1997 newspaper issue 1997 pg. 32
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    y separately published work icon One Man Tribe Neil Murray , Darwin : Northern Territory University Press , 1999 Z897648 1999 selected work poetry short story Contains poems by Neil Murray written between 1978 and 1999 Darwin : Northern Territory University Press , 1999 pg. 27
Subjects:
Settings:
  • Northern Territory,
  • Australian Outback, Central Australia,
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