Julian Croft

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...

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....