Julian Croft

Gladys Fawcett, a 38-year-old war widow and journalist, is sent by the Sydney Morning Times to Newcastle, NSW, where she investigates the fractious world of Trade Union politics. She stumbles across a plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth during her 1954 Royal Visit to Australia. Nick Hawes, an ex-bomber pilot, wounded soul, poet, and ASIO operative, is also on the case....

Julian Croft's first poems were published in Australian Letters in 1962, and since then he has published five volumes of poetry. This volume is a selection from those books, together with poems from the last fifteen years. His poetry has been influenced by the Anglo-Welsh poet T. H. Jones and the empirical philosophy of John Anderson, together with the traditions...