Summary
He was a Melbourne surgeon. He worked for the Ottoman Empire in the Russo-Turkish War. He was the oldest man at Gallipoli, and took illegal photographs during a nine-hour truce. He repaired Ned Kelly after the Siege of Glenrowan. He cut quite a figure in “Marvellous Melbourne” of the 1880s and 90s. He did remarkable things. He wrote it all down.
In this verse-portrait of Sir Charles Snodgrass ‘Plevna’ Ryan (1853-1926), Geoff Page weaves the writing of Ryan together with his own voice…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781742588209 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1742588204 |
| Author: | Geoff Page |
| Publisher: | UWA Publishing |
| Imprint: | UWAP |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 120 |
| Release Date: | 1 April 2016 |
| Weight: | 240g |
| Dimensions: | 153mm x 234mm |
Geoff Page
Geoff Page is a Canberra-based Australian poet who has now published twenty-three collections of poetry as well as two novels, five verse novels and several other works including anthologies, translations and a biography of the jazz musician, Bernie McGann. He retired at the end of 2001 from being in charge of the English Department at Narrabundah College in the ACT, a position he had held since 1974. He has won several awards, including the ACT Poetry Award, the Grace Leven Prize, the Christopher Brennan Award, the Queensland Premier’s Prize for Poetry and the 2001 Patrick White Literary Award. His book,1953 was shortlisted in the 2014 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. Selections from his work have been translated into Chinese, Hindi, German, Serbian, Slovenian, Greek, Catalan and Spanish.
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