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- Published 20230207
- ISBN: 978-1-922212-80-1
- Extent: 264pp
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Michael Farrell
Michael Farrell is the author of Writing Australian Unsettlement: Modes of Poetic Invention 1796-1945 (Palgrave Macmillan), as well as of seven books of poetry,...
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