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'The Edge of Winter is a remarkable achievement by one of our oldest living poets. The poems reveal an inquisitive mind fascinated by the physical world, including particularly the ocean and the Merri Merri Creek, in Melbourne's north. Connie Barber interrogates herself and the world through which she moves with a clean-edged honesty leavened often
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