Music

Iron in the Blood: A musical adaptation of Robert Hughes’s 'The Fatal Shore' by Jeremy Rose

by Geoff Page •

October 2016, no. 385

ABC Classics (Universal Music) $24.99 CD, 69:51 minutes, 479 6387

Music

Iron in the Blood: A musical adaptation of Robert Hughes’s 'The Fatal Shore' by Jeremy Rose

by Geoff Page •

October 2016, no. 385

Iron in the Blood is jazz musician Jeremy Rose's ambitious and heartfelt tribute to Robert Hughes's The Fatal Shore (1986). Although some academic historians may demur, The Fatal Shore remains a crucial book for understanding the brutality of Australia's colonial origins.

Geoff Page

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Geoff Page is based in Canberra. His books include 1953 (UQP 2013), Improving the News (Pitt Street Poetry 2013), New Selected Poems (Puncher & Wattmann 2013), Aficionado: A Jazz Memoir (Picaro Press 2014), Gods and Uncles (Pitt Street Poetry 2015), Hard Horizons (Pitt Street Poetry 2017) and PLEVNA: A Verse Biography (UWA Publishing 2016). He also edited The Best Australian Poems 2014 and The Best Australian Poems 2015 (Black Inc). His most recent books are in medias res (Pitt Street Poetry, 2019) and Codicil (Flying Islands Press, 2020)