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    Half Century
    Half Century
    Half Century
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    Half Century

    By Raymond Evans

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    ‘Raymond Evans’s poetry sings with lyricism. His poems melt and explode with love, lust and clear-eyed honesty, revealing the beautiful and brutal undercurrents of a passionate life.’ – Venero Armanno

    ‘This collection offers a powerful and touching insight into the interior life of a well-regarded Queensland h

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDebbie Lee
    Release dateSep 11, 2017
    ISBN9781760414146
    Half Century
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    Raymond Evans

    Raymond Evans was born in industrial South-East Wales in 1944, a few months before the D-Day landings and migrated with his parents to Australia in 1948-49. He is best known as an Australian social historian, widely published in such fields as race relations, convict studies, war and society study, gender relations and popular culture. His writings include Exclusion, Exploitation and Extermination, Loyalty and Disloyalty, The Red Flag Riots, Gender Relations in Australia, 1901: Our Future's Past, Fighting Words, Radical Brisbane and A History of Queensland. This volume, which covers roughly fifty years of his life, is his first foray into poetry.

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