Welcome to the Victorian town of Boort, where poet Miriel Lenore spent her childhood. With characteristic humour and compassion, Lenore has created a series of vivid and moving portraits of Australian rural life in the 1930s. As a child, and as a returning adult, she observes the weaving together of individual lives, the unravelling that comes with war and tragedy, and the pragmatism and everyday reality of country life. Miriel Lenore's voice is clear, forthright and transparent, and her use of form flexible and persuasive.
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From her days as a botanist, to her years at an agricultural school in Fiji, to her passion for Australian rock art, Miriel Lenore has long been working away at questions of ecology and place. Her poetry is also deeply grounded in her experience as a feminist, mother, grandmother and pioneer of a different sort. Miriel continues to explore the heart-breaking questions of the white settler story: where is home and how do we live here?
Miriel resides in Adelaide.
ISBN 9781743056448
CATEGORY Poetry
PAGE COUNT 126
DIMENSIONS 210 x 140 mm
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'Miriel Lenore's painfully honest and beautiful poems take the reader on a journey through her childhood, revealing her close relationship with her brother, Brian, and exposing the harshness and hardships of living during the war. The poems speak of The Depression, times of poverty, abuse, sorrow, and frustration, but also of great joy and celebration, seen and told through her childhood persona.' - Berenice Norris, Global Media Post