Author Description

From back cover: Hal Colebatch's fifth collection of poems is his most impressive book so far. While expressing views which are determinedly and courageously the opposite of fashionable, he manages to be continually entertaining. The range of his subject matter can be seen in some of his poem titles: from 'Three Yachtsmen's Songs' to 'Lines Written on Reading of a Tourist Arrested in Tibet for Wearing a Sergeant Bilko T-shirt, Which Guards Thought Depicted the Dalai Lama'. This is a highly readable book from one of Australian poetry's most individual voices.