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Isolated States | Along These Lines | Letters and Characters | I Wanted to Throw Your Things Out on the Lawn
In the Shadow of Van Diemen's Land | Creative Parlance | In the Church of Latter Day Consumers
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A Letter to Egon Kisch

Home Town Burial
Home town burial cover
by
Martin R. Johnson
80 pp pb
ISBN: 0 9577565 8 5
RRP $19.00

Home Town Burial

"even as my fist
collided with the bone
of his cheek I knew
it wouldn't end there."

Home Town Burial is a collection of poetry which triumphs over emotional and physical adversity.

Born into a working class family who lived poorly, poet Martin R. Johnson joined the RAN as a 15-year-old 'boy recruit' in 1966. Discharged for medical reasons, he got a job as a factory worker in 1971.

The next 15 years were fraught with emotional and physical hardship, yet throughout this time his sense of humour and optimism has prevailed.

These poems will inspire others to take heart.

- Danielle Blewett, The Examiner

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