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Title: Garden of Earth: The Murray Darling
Author: REITH HOMER
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 15/11/2016
Imprint: BLACK PEPPER
Price: $49.00
Publishing status: Active
The Garden of Earth is told in Thirty Five Books. Each canto is a long-breathed sentence that takes you in its flow. They gather all the hues of nature, history, culture and philosophy like metaphorical rivers gathering majestic detritus. It invites us to consider the plenitude of the world, but also how precious and precarious a thing this is. Homer Rieth’s first epic Wimmera gave voice to the history, legend and folklore of the Wimmera region of north western Victoria, and to ideas of ‘place’ and ‘country’ not only as cultural markers, but as ciphers of an enduring mythos. In his new companion epic, he turns his gaze to the larger arena of the Murray Darling, to this oldest of continents more broadly. He offers a vision of the natural environment and the human world as bound together on a global scale. The Garden of Earth is a hymn to and argument in defence of the future of the planet. It is the poet’s final assay of our age-old dream vision of the world, only here it is as something at once luminous and exceptionally Australian.
ISBN: 9781876044893
Weight: 805g
Dimension: 230mm X 155mm
Pages: 600