Coal and meter

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  • Published 20210504
  • ISBN: 978-1-922212-59-7
  • Extent: 264pp
  • Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook

The poet digs down a decade

with her plastic pen, rests by 

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A Frances Johnson

A Frances Johnson won the 2020 Australian Book Review’s Peter Porter Poetry Prize for her poem ‘My Father’s Thesaurus’. Her fourth poetry collection, Save...

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