Fair Girls And Gray Horses
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
From the sunbaked stockyards and sweeping plains of colonial Australia comes the verse of Will H. Ogilvie, a poet who captured the raw, untamed spirit of the bush with a lyricism that rivals the great Banjo Paterson himself. Fair Girls and Gray Horses gathers some of Ogilvie's most celebrated poems, painting vivid portraits of drovers, stockmen, and the women who loved them — set against a landscape as wild and beautiful as the horses that thunder through its pages. Born in Scotland but shaped by years working as a jackaroo in Queensland and New South Wales, Ogilvie brought an outsider's wonder and an insider's authority to Australian bush poetry, crafting verse that pulses with rhythm, romance, and the dust of the open road. His work stands as a vital chapter in the Australian literary tradition, sitting proudly alongside the great balladists of the 1890s. For those who have felt the pull of wide horizons and the freedom of the saddle, this collection asks a timeless question: what is a man — or a nation — without the land that made him?
Author: Will H. Ogilvie
Format: Paperback
Genre: Poetry
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
From the sunbaked stockyards and sweeping plains of colonial Australia comes the verse of Will H. Ogilvie, a poet who captured the raw, untamed spirit of the bush with a lyricism that rivals the great Banjo Paterson himself. Fair Girls and Gray Horses gathers some of Ogilvie's most celebrated poems, painting vivid portraits of drovers, stockmen, and the women who loved them — set against a landscape as wild and beautiful as the horses that thunder through its pages. Born in Scotland but shaped by years working as a jackaroo in Queensland and New South Wales, Ogilvie brought an outsider's wonder and an insider's authority to Australian bush poetry, crafting verse that pulses with rhythm, romance, and the dust of the open road. His work stands as a vital chapter in the Australian literary tradition, sitting proudly alongside the great balladists of the 1890s. For those who have felt the pull of wide horizons and the freedom of the saddle, this collection asks a timeless question: what is a man — or a nation — without the land that made him?