The house of roses

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  • Published 20080603
  • ISBN: 9780733322822
  • Extent: 288 pp
  • Paperback (234 x 153mm)

The ‘new’ stranger in Australia bears the burden of representing not only what ‘Australia’ was but also what we might become …

– Katrina Schlunke

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Adam Aitken

Adam Aitken is a professional poet, memoirist, academic and editor (with Kim Cheng Boey and Michelle Cahill) of Contemporary Asian Australian Poets (Puncher &...

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