Ros Cheney (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. The cover has a little wear. The page edges have some insect spotting. 256 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.

First edition. An octavo-size paperback original. A little foxing on the page edges, spine title faded (but here replaced in facsimile, professionally inserted into the added archival jacket so as to not compromise the book's integrity), otherwise good in wrappers as issued. A scarce and rather fragile book, published similtaneously in paperback and hardback form (same octavo-size), both versions very uncommon. at the height of the Vietnam War, and shortly before the withdrawal of Australian troops began. The book's raison d'etre is stated on a preliminary page: "The prose and verse in this anthology cover a wide range of Australian writing. The writers themselves span three generations and represent the whole spectrum of political opinion. But they come together here under a single banner--that of opposition to the Vietnam war and to Australia's involvement in it. Not all of the writing refers directly to Vietnam, but all of it springs from a concern that makes opposition to the war, and all it stands for, a natural corollary of what the writers have to say." The title carries echoes of a couple of Wildrid Owen's war poems, and the writers included here are an A to Z of Australian literary figures of the time (and before). They include: Robert Adamson, Dorothy Auchterlonie, Martin Boyd, R.F. Brissenden, David Campbell, Bruce Dawe, Robert Gray, Rodney Hall, Nancy Keesing, Thomas Keneally, Jack Lindsay, & David Malouf, to list only those at the top of the alphabet. Scan available on request.