Fourth Estate
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First published in Australia in 2010
This edition published in 2010
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Compilation copyright © Carmel Bird 2010
Introduction copyright © Carmel Bird 2010
Copyright in the individual essays remains the property of their authors.
‘Song of Exile’ Copyright © Rosaleen Love 2010
‘The New Jerusalem’ Copyright © Gabrielle Lord 2010
‘The Brilliant City Inside the Soul’ Copyright © Cassandra Pybus 2010
‘Homes Sweet Homes’ Copyright © Peter Goldsworthy 2010
‘Distance Looks Our Way’ Copyright © Marion Halligan 2010
‘No Poet’s Song’ Copyright © Matthew Condon 2010
‘Home Triptych’ Copyright © Andrea Goldsmith 2010
‘Who Trespass Against Us’ Copyright © Michael McGirr 2010
‘Start With the Tulip’ Copyright © Carmel Bird 2010
‘This Plush Embrace’ Copyright © Ian Britain 2010
The right of Carmel Bird to be identified as the editor of this work and the right of Rosaleen Love, Gabrielle Lord, Cassandra Pybus, Peter Goldsworthy, Marion Halligan, Matthew Condon, Andrea Goldsmith, Michael McGirr, Carmel Bird and Ian Britain to be identified as the authors of their essays has been asserted by them under the Copyright Amendment (Moral Rights) Act 2000.
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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data:
Home truth : an anthology / editor, Carmel Bird.
ISBN: 978 0 7322 9014 6 (pbk.)
ISBN: 978-0-730-49244-3 (ePub)
Bibliography.
Australian essays.
Bird, Carmel, 1940-
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