The Kind Hosts of Willie Wimmera Noelle Vial

The Kind Hosts of Willie Wimmera Noelle VialWillie Wimmera, an Aboriginal boy, was ten years old when clergyman Lloyd Chase brought him from Melbourne to Reading in 1851. Tragically, he became ill and died only a few months after his arrival. He is buried in Reading Old Cemetery, his grave marked An Australian boy. A member of the Wotjobaluk People from the Wimmera region of Victoria, Australia, Willie couldnt have been further from home or in a place more different. What was he doing here? Who

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New and selected Poems by Chris Searle

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probes the bittersweet pleasures of escaping one’s origins

Failing to amuse this supernatural guest means not waking up at all

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As the earliest known major work of literature in a native language of the British Isles

but also for the all-too-human weaknesses and maddening contradictions that all honest poetry (and all good detective fiction) holds up

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