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    Reeling Backwards: Poems of Reversal and Reflection
    Reeling Backwards: Poems of Reversal and Reflection
    Reeling Backwards: Poems of Reversal and Reflection
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    Reeling Backwards: Poems of Reversal and Reflection

    By Raymond Evans

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    'Raymond writes of all he has loved in a backwards-travelling anthology that brings together the great events of Brisbane history and the small events of daily life. He writes about wars and extermination and convicts on the triangle in Queen Street. He writes about a possum like a "friendly lout" and boiled eggs and honey on the breakfast table

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDebbie Lee
    Release dateMar 23, 2022
    ISBN9781761092732
    Reeling Backwards: Poems of Reversal and Reflection
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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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