Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Content
- Preface
- Foreword By John Lucas
- Prologue
- To Tasmania with Mrs Meredith
- At Sea with Mrs Meredith
- What Mr Meredith asked the Ship's Owner about Dick
- Mrs Meredith looks about her
- Mrs Meredith and Hobart Culture
- Mrs Meredith and Hunting
- Flora and Fossil
- Mrs Meredith goes a-Gypsying and enjoys a Barbecue
- The Merediths attend a Ceremony
- Mrs Meredith speaks of the Good Old Days of Privatisation …
- You Rambling Boys of Liverpool
- The Call of the Genes
- Dear Mrs Meredith
- Dear Mr Simpson
- On the Right Side of the Earth
- Epilogue
- Melbourne Central Cemetery
- Select Bibliography
Mrs Meredith looks about her
from To Tasmania with Mrs Meredith
- Frontmatter
- Content
- Preface
- Foreword By John Lucas
- Prologue
- To Tasmania with Mrs Meredith
- At Sea with Mrs Meredith
- What Mr Meredith asked the Ship's Owner about Dick
- Mrs Meredith looks about her
- Mrs Meredith and Hobart Culture
- Mrs Meredith and Hunting
- Flora and Fossil
- Mrs Meredith goes a-Gypsying and enjoys a Barbecue
- The Merediths attend a Ceremony
- Mrs Meredith speaks of the Good Old Days of Privatisation …
- You Rambling Boys of Liverpool
- The Call of the Genes
- Dear Mrs Meredith
- Dear Mr Simpson
- On the Right Side of the Earth
- Epilogue
- Melbourne Central Cemetery
- Select Bibliography
Summary
So like an English Spring,
a showery Midlands May! Except
it's Autumn. Nonetheless
in little gardens of snug
Tasmanian houses, great bushes
of geraniums sprout
like stout and rosy children.
And there are mulberries,
such spectacle of reds,
cherries, currants, strawberries,
of greens, gooseberries, apples,
swollen pears.Veritable confectionery
of quinces, medlars,
plums! Preserver's paradise,
pickler's dream. And, O,
abundances of peaches,
such plump babies’ tender skins!
The forests promise walnuts,
clustering filberts. Here
vines succeed and, although
often nipped at night by frost,
even potatoes dream of Home.
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- Cutting the Clouds Towards , pp. 9Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 1999