Bibliograph

First Fleet, Michael Crowley

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Label

First Fleet, Michael Crowley

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

poetry

Main title

First Fleet

Responsibility statement

Michael Crowley

Summary

Between 1787 and 1850, over 160,000 convicts were sent from Britain to penal colonies in Australia. First Fleet tells the story of the first eleven ships that sailed from Portsmouth on a 15,000 mile voyage to establish the first British penal settlement at Sydney Cove. Drawing on the surviving journals from some of those on board the prison convoy, these poems inhabit the imaginary voices of convicts, crew, marines, and Aboriginal people to give intimate voice - lyrical, poignant and unsentimental - to the poverty they left behind and the terrible "starvation years" they faced when they reached Australia

Table Of Contents

First Fleet -- Condemned -- Chimney Sweep -- Charlotte Medal -- Diplomacy -- Badlands -- First up the Fig Tree -- Reflections on a Recent Expedition -- Making Mortar -- Learning the Language: I -- Damned -- Crop Failure -- Sermon -- Flogging Duty -- Illustrating a Journal -- Mercy -- A Convict Can Sail -- Healing -- Landed -- Learning the Language: II -- Galgalla -- Discovery -- Desecration -- The World Dried -- Home -- Plenty -- Proposal -- Second Fleet -- Prayer -- Payback -- Redemption -- We Give Thanks -- Bennelong in London -- Departure -- Time Signature -- Time Signature -- The Passenger Bird -- Barely Tame -- Ten Pound Alan -- The Fatal Shore -- No Man's Land -- Missing -- Confession -- The Pitch -- Too Late -- Here Lies the Giant -- Field -- Pond -- Sky -- North Gower Triptych -- Seeds -- South Gower Triptych -- Leaves -- Waiting for Bats -- Mid Wales Triptych -- Llanmadoc Hill -- Hill of Faith -- Folly -- Reckoning -- The Last Room

Target audience

adult

Creator