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THE BLUE PLATEAU

Mark Tredinnick

A lyrical natural history of Australia's Blue Mountains, and a memoir of one man's attempt to belong there.
An inspired meditation on the contours of the land and its people, of time and place and family, the rhythms of nature and the rhythms of friendship, it is a book of many belongings. Here you will meet the plateau's first people; you will meet Les and Henryk and Jim; you will walk the Kedumba and the Kanimbla in drought and fire and flood.

Evocative and deeply moving, The Blue Plateau is a poet's story of an astonishing place and a loving portrait of home.

MARK TREDINNICK wrote the best-selling writing guides The Little Red Writing Book (2006) and The Little Green Grammar Book (2008). His other books include A Place on Earth (2003) and The Land's Wild Music (2005). His awards include the Newcastle Poetry Prize, the Blake Poetry Prize and the Calibre Essay Prize.
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Published 2009-06-01 by UQP University of Queensland Press - St Lucia (AUS)

Book

Published 2009-06-01 by UQP University of Queensland Press - St Lucia (AUS)

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[The Blue Plateau] puts the reader somewhere between the sensibilities of Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang and the vibrant weathered terrains of Barry Lopez.

A truly beautiful book a poet's book of prose, exquisite as the country it depicts.

This book is like a hymn of praise to a place and its people.

Tredinnick has a poet's ear for the nuances and rhythms of language and finds music in the naming of trees and mountains or rivers.