Rio Grande's Last Race, and Other Verses
Rio Grande's Last Race, and Other Verses

Author: A. B. Paterson

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-09-15

Total Pages: 131

ISBN-13:

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Rio Grande's Last Race and Other Verses is the second collection of poems by the famous Australian poet Banjo Paterson. It was released in 1902, and features the poems "Rio Grande's Last Race", "Mulga Bill's Bicycle", "Saltbush Bill's Game Cock" and "Saltbush Bill's Second Fight". Paterson is famed for writing poems about Australian life, focusing particularly on the rural and outback areas, including the district around Binalong, New South Wales, where he spent much of his childhood.

Cyclone Country
Cyclone Country

Author: Chrystopher J. Spicer

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2020-09-29

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 1476681562

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The storm has become a universal trope in the literature of crisis, revelation and transformation. It can function as a trope of place, of apocalypse and epiphany, of cultural mythos and story, and of people and spirituality. This book explores the connections between people, place and environment through the image of cyclones within fiction and poetry from the Australian state of Queensland, the northern coast of which is characterized by these devastating storms. Analyzing a range of works including Alexis Wright's Carpentaria, Patrick White's The Eye of the Storm, and Vance Palmer's Cyclone it explains the cyclone in the Queensland literary imagination as an example of a cultural response to weather in a unique regional place. It also situates the cyclones that appear in Queensland literature within the broader global context of literary cyclones.