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Bowra

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November 2013, no. 356

Bowra by B.R. Dionysius

Whitmore Press, $22.95 pb, 55 pp, 9780987386625

Bowra

by
November 2013, no. 356

Australia is one of the most urbanised and docile societies on earth, but its cities are hemmed in by a vast, poetry-laden hinterland. There is Kinsella in the west, Adamson on the Hawkesbury, and, in this book, the western Queensland of B.R. Dionysius. No one ever seems to be matter of fact about the landscape in Australia. It is politically charged, or Gothic, or, most often, mythopoeic. Dionysius’s book is all of these but mostly mythic: it is a murky, flooded, uninsurable world that he depicts, with the Bremer River as its resident deity.

Peter Kenneally reviews 'Bowra' by B.R. Dionysus

Bowra

by B.R. Dionysius

Whitmore Press, $22.95 pb, 55 pp, 9780987386625

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