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  • Poetry pack number 13

    Poetry pack number 13

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    Hugh Wade
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    Here are two longer narrative poems in the style of mythical Australian bush ballads. Intimations of inebriety is mentioned as a poem written by Banjo Reilly, the local town poet in Will Christie’s “Under Mulga Wood”. Written as an homage to Dylan Thomas’s “Under Milk Wood”, it is set in a dying country town in…

  • Trident Blue

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    Hugh Wade
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    My Mum told me a story once about my brother’s mate. She said, in her inimitable manner, “Hughie. You should write a poem about this!” Yes, Mother. Of course, this isn’t that story verbatim. This is where I took it … My brother has a good old mate He’s known since sixty-one Fifty odd years…