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Robert Harris - The Gang of One

Sun, 26 May

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Upstairs at Better Read Than Dead

Join editor Judith Beveridge, publisher Alan Wearne, and Steve Darmody and Toby Davidson for the launch of poet Robert Harris's collection, The Gang of One: Selected Poems. This generous selection of Harris’s gritty and humane poetry is a towering accomplishment by a definite ‘one-off’.

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Robert Harris - The Gang of One
Robert Harris - The Gang of One

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26 May 2019, 4:00 pm

Upstairs at Better Read Than Dead, 265 King Street, Newtown NSW, Australia

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About The Event

Join editor and renowned poet Judith Beveridge, publisher Alan Wearne, together with Steve Darmody and Toby Davidson for the launch of poet Robert Harris's collection, The Gang of One: Selected Poems. This generous selection of Harris’s gritty and humane poetry is a towering accomplishment by a definite ‘one-off’.

This launch is supported by Australian Poetry as a media and communications partner.

About the Book & Author

Robert Harris (1951–1993) is a major poet who has until now missed out on the Selected Poems milestone, despite being heavily anthologised. Unaligned with any ‘faction’, though a close friend to many in the literary community, Harris is notable for the variety of his subject matter and inspiration. Beyond this variety (which eschews novelty) there are two things which anchor the Harris opus: his commitment to non-jingoistic Australian themes and subject matter and the Christian faith that became his poetry’s bedrock. This volume represents…

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