Wednesday, May 5, 2021

BELOVED SUNBURNT COUNTRY

 Despite the best Wet in five years , early  Dry season smoke from  a  fire  across  Darwin Harbour about  two  weeks  ago  . Such  fires  are  common  as  the  season  progresses. 

Meanwhile , Douglas Stewart Fine Books, Melbourne , is offering for $11,000  an archive of  unpublished  writings for a  period from  about  1904 to 1932  of  Australian poet  and  cultural activist  Dorothea  Mackellar, who wrote My Country .