y separately published work icon Steelworkers! Could but Your Atoms Talk : a Series of Poems about Steelmaking, Its Ethos, Its Engineering and Its Illawarra Environment selected work   poetry  
Issue Details: First known date: 1998... 1998 Steelworkers! Could but Your Atoms Talk : a Series of Poems about Steelmaking, Its Ethos, Its Engineering and Its Illawarra Environment
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'Whenever cities or towns suffer the roll-back or loss of their mainstay industry, the shared experience of pain engenders a feeling of deep nostalgia. The withdrawal from the account of substantial, secure, humanising employment, the depletion of the reserves of community building affluence and working pride, the wounding loss of individual and family dignity, for a while causes its people to question the structural security which underpins its ethos, its cultural norms and its civic identity.

'Steelworkers! Could But Your Atoms Talk is a series of sixty one poems, roughly sonnet-sized, about Steelmaking, its ethos, its engineering, its Illawarra environment and its people as seen through the eye of an ex-steelworker.' (Back cover).

Notes

  • Dedication: 'This book is dedicated to the people who work at BHP Port Kembla, to the people who staff and volunteer their time at the Cancer Care centre and the voices and faces of indigenous and multicultural Wollongong.'

Contents

* Contents derived from the Wollongong, Wollongong area, Illawarra, South Coast, New South Wales,:Wollongong City Council , 1998 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Wollongong, Wollongong area, Illawarra, South Coast, New South Wales,: Wollongong City Council , 1998 .
      Extent: [viii], 60p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Introduction by the author about the Illawarra region and the steelmaking industry, dated 16 July 1998.
      • Includes index of first lines.
      • 'After meeting the publisher's costs, all monies raised from each book sale is for the Wollongong Cancer Care Centre.'
      • Sponsored by Wollongong City Council.
      ISBN: 1875400133
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Subjects:
  • Illawarra, South Coast, New South Wales,
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