The whetstone

Author: Tom W McLean
 
About this book

This book can be ordered direct from the author at address:

10 Brookland Valley Drive
WOODCROFT SA 5162

OR phone: (08) 8325-2403

This book of poetry, McLean's second, will appeal as much to the person in the street as it will to poets and students of the mind. He is, like Lawson, 'a rough diamond'. His variance of style and subject material, whether philosophising reflectively about generations of cane-cutters in Queensland, lyrically story-telling of fishing in local coastal waters, beachcombing in the South-East of South Australia or signing his blood connection footsteps back to Celtic Britain and Ireland: one finds beauty, even amidst the absurdities of life.

McLean has written prolifically, sometimes as a man 'possessed', such was his propulsion into the life of a writer, or of a man 'born to write'. He is comfortable musing with the spiritual, or voicing his personal relationship between the writer and the natural environment. He is a craftsman, a natural narrator, witty and profound, with the sensibility of the sublime.

Price: $20.00

ISBN: 9781740085533
Pages:
Year: 2009

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