In Balfour Street

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Back in the early 1970s, a time that saw the height of the Cold War come and pass, the flooding of Lake Pedder, and the creation of the world’s first Greens party on a little island just south of mainland Australia, a young Bob Brown would try to calm his frustrations or express his affinity with nature by writing an occasional poem.

Those original poems were lost when his house at Liffey was ransacked, but luckily a good friend of his called Fran Newman kept copies aside for a rainy day. Thankfully that day has come, and these 14 very special poems have now been published in a little poetry book called In Balfour Street.

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