The Hobart Bookshop, 5.30pm, February 23: The Swagman and the Parson
Hobart Bookshop
The Hobart Bookshop
Join us at our next launch …
In our first book launch for 2017, Stephen Matthews (of Ginninderra Press) and poet Robyn Mathison will launch the latest book by Jen Gibson and her father Russell Gibson, The Swagman and the Parson.
“This book contains two complementary stories written by two generations of the one family. It spans three centuries – from the 1860s to the present day, 2016. The swagman, Sully, and Russ Gibson, parson, were both born in the nineteenth century, though several decades apart. New South Wales was then a colonial state of Great Britain. The tale of the swagman was penned in the 1970s by my father.
A child of my parents’ older age, I was not born when the events of the swagman’s tale unfolded. Nor was I familiar with south and western New South Wales, where many of the incidents took place. The second half of this book is partly a narrative of my journey to those places. It also incorporates my parents’ oral memories recorded on tape in the early 1980s.” ~ Jen Gibson
Where: The Hobart Bookshop, 22 Salamanca Square
When: Thursday February 23, from 5.30pm
Free event, all welcome.
… and this is also coming up soon …
In March we’ll be launching a new book by James Boyce (University Associate in Geography and Spatial Sciences at the University of Tasmania).
Andrew Wilkie MP will launch Boyce’s new work, Losing Streak: How Tasmania was Gamed by the Gambling Industry (Black Inc. publications), at the Republic Bar and Cafe in North Hobart.
Keep your eyes out for details in our next launch email.
More information about Losing Streak can be found at the Black Inc website.