Kembla: the Book of Voices: The Book of Voices
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is indicative only and does not represent the condition of this copy. For information about the condition of this book you can email us.
100 years ago - Australia's worst peacetime land disaster: The Mount Kembla Coal Mine above Wollongong explodes. 96 men and boys are lost. In Kembla The Book of Voices Conal Fitzpatrick documents the Kembla tragedy through the eyes of the men and women caught up in that terrible event. We experience with them the approaching Disaster, the explosion itself, the ensuing struggle for life, and the terrible aftermath. Fitzpatrick's "voices" speak dramatically to the reader of their hopes, fears, beliefs and memories, and of their dreams for a future soon to be changed forever. In writing that is elegiac and hauntingly lyrical, Kembla's miners address us in poetry of startling beauty and brutal honesty. This is poetry that speaks to us plainly and directly, working almost as a meditation of sorts, a soft lament.
Author: Conal Fitzpatrick
Format: Paperback, 140 pages
Published: 2002, Kemblawarra Press, Australia
Genre: Poetry Texts & Poetry Anthologies
100 years ago - Australia's worst peacetime land disaster: The Mount Kembla Coal Mine above Wollongong explodes. 96 men and boys are lost. In Kembla The Book of Voices Conal Fitzpatrick documents the Kembla tragedy through the eyes of the men and women caught up in that terrible event. We experience with them the approaching Disaster, the explosion itself, the ensuing struggle for life, and the terrible aftermath. Fitzpatrick's "voices" speak dramatically to the reader of their hopes, fears, beliefs and memories, and of their dreams for a future soon to be changed forever. In writing that is elegiac and hauntingly lyrical, Kembla's miners address us in poetry of startling beauty and brutal honesty. This is poetry that speaks to us plainly and directly, working almost as a meditation of sorts, a soft lament.