Verses From the Goldfields collected by Margaret Bull

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Previous owners has inscribed inside page. Foxing to top foredge. Pages have sunned.

Many people have expressed their love for the Western Australian Goldfields and its port, Esperance, through the writing of verse. They are often written by ordinary, everyday people in ordinary, everyday language. Some of it records happenings in the early days when their own folk were suffering the privations of the pioneers, others tell of humorous happenings, the march of progress or abstract emotions.

In the first section of this collection, Margaret Bull has collected poems from friends and neighbours. The second section is poems written by men who wrote during the first thirty years of the Goldfields, the best known being Edwin Greenslade Murphy, better known by his pen name Dryblower.