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The poems in this fifth collection of his poetry were written before, during and after Matt Simpson's two-month period as poet-in-residence at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in Launceston, Tasmania. Most of the poems are responses to encounters with the work and life of the mid-nineteenth-century writer and artist, Louisa Anne Meredith, who spent the first part of her life in Birmingham and who was already established as author and artist before, at the age of twenty-seven, she married her cousin, Charles, and emigrated to Australia. The Merediths were subsequently to spend most of the rest of their lives in Tasmania. Simpson follows Mrs Meredith there, creating an imaginative relationship with her and in his poetry (in the words of John Lucas in his Foreword to this book) 'exploring in different ways his sense of engagement with a person, a place, and, more remarkably, of hers and it with him. For among the most astonishing features of this intensely creative engagement is the way Mrs Meredith herself emerges as a full and complex character, witty, resilient, keenly observant, even able to rebuke the poet for his "arrogance of hindsight". At the same time, Matt Simpson engages with the familiar theme in his previous work, now a personal quest of following his seafaring father to the other side of the world. All those who know Simpson's poems will see this as a continuation and some sort of resolution of what much of his work has been concerned with to date. He completes a sort of odyssey though his arrival in Tasmania, a journey which began many years earlier with his father's tales of Tasmania. John Lucas again: 'It takes a rare poet to risk weaving into his own work moments from and allusions to The Tempest, that most authoritative and mysterious of plays, but his poems triumphantly surmount that danger. That they should do so helps us to recognise how assured and compelling is Matt Simpson's achievement.'

Poetry. --- Poems --- Poetry --- Verses (Poetry) --- Literature --- Philosophy --- Meredith, Charles, --- Meredith, Louisa Anne Twamley, --- Twamley, Louisa Ann, --- Tasmania --- Tas --- Tassie --- State of Tasmania --- Tasmanien --- טסמניה --- Ṭasmanyah --- タスマニア州 --- Tasumania-shū --- タスマニア --- Tasumania --- Van Diemen's Land

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Forests and forestry --- Forest land --- Forest lands --- Forest planting --- Forest production --- Forest sciences --- Forestation --- Forested lands --- Forestland --- Forestlands --- Forestry --- Forestry industry --- Forestry sciences --- Land, Forest --- Lands, Forest --- Silviculture --- Sylviculture --- Woodlands --- Woods (Forests) --- Agriculture --- Natural resources --- Afforestation --- Arboriculture --- Logging --- Timber --- Tree crops --- Trees --- Sustainable forestry --- Sustainable forestry. --- Forestry Tasmania --- Forestry Tasmania. --- Tasmania. --- Forest productivity, Maintenance of long-term --- Long-term forest productivity, Maintenance of --- Maintenance of long-term forest productivity --- Sustainable agriculture --- State of Tasmania --- Tasmanien --- Ṭasmanyah --- Tassie --- Tasumania --- Tasumania-sh --- Van Diemen's Land --- Australia --- TÌ£asmanyah --- Tasumania-shū --- Tasumania-shū --- �Tasmanyah --- Tasumania-sh�u

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Originally published in 1694, this record of recent voyages made by Sir John Narborough, Abel Tasman, John Wood and Friderich Martens includes Tasman's account of discovering Tasmania and New Zealand in 1642. Equally engaging, Narborough's journal records his voyage to the Straits of Magellan and his interest in the lands and peoples he encountered from 1669 to 1671. Here also are Wood's thoughts on his 1676 attempt to find a north-east passage to the East Indies, along with Martens' observations on Spitsbergen and whaling in northern waters in 1671. The extracts given here, translated where necessary, offer valuable insights into seventeenth-century navigation and exploration. A selection of illustrations, ranging from maps to depictions of exotic flora and fauna, accompany the text. A key reference for later navigators and for those interested in the history of maritime exploration, the book was also one of the oldest works in Darwin's library aboard the Beagle.

Voyages and travels --- Magellan, Strait of (Chile and Argentina) --- Spitsbergen Island (Norway) --- Tasmania --- New Zealand --- Arctic regions --- Description and travel --- Arctic --- Arctic Ocean Region --- Arctic, The --- Far North --- The Arctic --- Polar regions --- Estrecho de Magellanes (Chile and Argentina) --- Strait of Magellan (Chile and Argentina) --- Aotearoa --- N.Z. (New Zealand) --- Nea Zēlandia --- Neu-Seeland --- Neuseeland --- Nieu-Seeland --- Niu-hsi-lan --- Nouvelle-Zélande --- Nov-Zelando --- Nova Zelanda --- Nova Zelandii︠a︡ --- Novai︠a︡ Zelandii︠a︡ --- Novai︠a︡ Zelandyi︠a︡ --- Novi Zeland --- Nový Zéland --- Novzelando --- Nowa Zelandia --- Nu Ziland --- Nueva Zelanda --- Nueva Zelandia --- Nuova Zelanda --- Nya Zeeland --- Nýja-Sjáland --- Nýsæland --- Nyū Jīrando --- Nyu Ziland --- Nyūjīrando --- NZ --- Seland Newydd --- Uus-Meremaa --- Zeelanda Berria --- Νέα Ζηλανδία --- Нова Зеландия --- Новая Зеландыя --- ניו זילנד --- ニュージーランド --- Tas --- Tassie --- State of Tasmania --- Tasmanien --- טסמניה --- Ṭasmanyah --- タスマニア州 --- Tasumania-shū --- タスマニア --- Tasumania --- Van Diemen's Land --- Shpit︠s︡bergen (Norway) --- Spitzbergen Island (Norway) --- Vestspitsbergen (Norway) --- West Spitsbergen (Norway) --- Svalbard (Norway)