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'Crab & Winkle' is a warped Shepherd's Calendar for the age of climate change: a journal of Australian poet Laurie Duggan's first year as a resident in England, it centres specifically on the area of East Kent where he lives, featuring excursions and interludes elsewhere in Britain, the Continent and North Africa. The book's title comes from an old railway route in the heart of Duggan's new territory.

Produktbeschreibung
'Crab & Winkle' is a warped Shepherd's Calendar for the age of climate change: a journal of Australian poet Laurie Duggan's first year as a resident in England, it centres specifically on the area of East Kent where he lives, featuring excursions and interludes elsewhere in Britain, the Continent and North Africa. The book's title comes from an old railway route in the heart of Duggan's new territory.
Autorenporträt
Laurie Duggan was born in Melbourne in 1949. His books include 'The Ash Range' (now republished by Shearsman), which won the Victorian Premier's New Writing Award; 'The Epigrams of Martial', winner of the Wesley Michael Wright Prize; 'Mangroves' (UQP), selected as The Age Poetry Book of the Year in 2003, and winner of the 2004 ASAL Gold Medal. Subsequent books include 'Crab & Winkle', 'The Pursuit of Happiness' and 'Allotments' (all Shearsman), and 'The Collected Blue Hills' (Puncher & Wattman). 'Ghost Nation: Imagined Space and Australian Visual Culture, 1901-1939', was published by University of Queensland Press in 2001. In the early 2000s he was a Senior Lecturer/ Writer-in-Residence in the School of Arts, Media and Culture at Griffith University in Brisbane and an Honorary Research Advisor in the Australian Studies Centre at the University of Queensland. In 2006 he moved the UK and now lives in Kent.