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Mark Gregory

2015

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Frank The Poet: A Convict's Tour To Hell, Maree Delofski, Nick Franklin, Mark Gregory Feb 2015

Frank The Poet: A Convict's Tour To Hell, Maree Delofski, Nick Franklin, Mark Gregory

Mark Gregory

August 2012 marks the 151st anniversary of the death of Francis MacNamara, better known in convict Australia as Frank the Poet. According to one of Australia's leading contemporary poets, Les Murray, MacNamara's epic work A Convict's Tour to Hell should be placed right at the beginning of English literature in Australia.

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