Cirrus@Austlit

'I have bought two Gerald Murnane first edition books: Tamarisk Row, his first novel, published in Melbourne in 1974 by Heinemann, and Velvet Waters, his sixth book, a collection of short stories published by McPhee Gribble in 1990. The following will tell how I got into Murnane.' (p. 10)

'Among the collection of my late father, Jim Blair, (q.v.) who worked as a journalist from 1934 to the end of 1960 with the Bulletin and The Australian Women's Mirror (q.q.v.)were a number of slim books of poetry and verse, written by both well known and not so well known poets and often published by obscure publishers. Jim Blair (q.v.) either reviewed these works for The Bulletin (q.v.) or had the books given to him by the reviewer.' (p. 32)