Barry Hill

In his first major prose work since 2002's Broken Song, Barry Hill has written an epic — a travel book, a history book, a peace book. His odyssey begins with a pilgrimage to Bodhi Gaya in India, where the Buddha received enlightenment and ends after he reaches Nagasaki, Japan, in the aftermath of its atomic bomb. His travelling is imbued...

Barry Hill is a multi-award winning writer of poetry, essays, biography, history, criticism, novels, short stories, libretti and reportage. Hill's major works include Broken Song: T G H Strehlow & Aboriginal Possession (2002) and Peacemongers (2015), a personal, extended meditation on war and atomic destruction, and those thinkers, in Asia especially, who sought to undermine the cultural foundations of tendencies...

The biography of T. G. H. Strehlow and Aboriginal possession. A group of men chanting with the enthusiasm that made them forget age & weakness, becoming young again in spirit— the rising and falling of the chant melody, like the breathing that gives us life. What an unforgettable scene! Thus wrote T. G. H. Strehlow in 1935, as he began...