A Thousand Campfires. Australian Bush Verse-Past, Present And Future

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 2000
Edition: First Edition

Description: 434 pages. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear present, but still a presentable copy.

Publishers Description: Australian Bush Verse - Past, Present and FutureFrom inside front cover:?A Thousand Campfires is a personal and comprehensive anthology of Australian bush ballads written during the late twentieth century. Featuring works from the cream of todays bush poets, the collection coincides with a resurgence in the popularity of the ballad since the deaths of such great Australian writers as Banjo Paterson, Henry Lawson and Will Ogilvie.As we enter the new millennium, this timely anthology reflects various raditional aspects of the bush and its people, but it also addresses more contemporary issues generated by the modern lifestyle. As Colin Munro states in the introduction: This book is to take the bush ballad forward into the new century — to offer contemporary writers the opportunity to place their fingerprints on the end of the twentieth century and look into the twenty-first.A Thousand Campfires encapsulates the spirit of the outback, and serves as a reminder of the important contribution bush poetry has made to Australias cultural heritage.

ISBN: 9780732910136