{"title":"Barry Hill","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBarry Hill\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a compelling exploration of human experience through a lens that intertwines \u003cem\u003ephilosophy, psychology\u003c\/em\u003e, and the nuances of \u003cem\u003earts and culture.\u003c\/em\u003e His works, such as \u003cem\u003eBroken Song\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePeacemongers\u003c\/em\u003e, delve into the depths of emotional and intellectual landscapes, inviting readers to reflect on the complexities of life and the human condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBridging \u003cem\u003ebiography and memoir\u003c\/em\u003e with insightful cultural analysis, Hill's writing is characterised by thoughtful narrative and a profound sensitivity to the forces shaping individual identity and society. Readers can anticipate a rich blend of personal insight and broader philosophical inquiry within this collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"broken-song-by-barry-hill-9781740512299","title":"Broken Song","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe biography of T. G. H. Strehlow and Aboriginal possession.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA group of men chanting with the enthusiasm that made them forget age \u0026amp; weakness, becoming young again in spirit— the rising and falling of the chant melody, like the breathing that gives us life. What an unforgettable scene! Thus wrote T. G. H. Strehlow in 1935, as he began his life work, \u003cem\u003eSongs of Central Australia\u003c\/em\u003e, acclaimed as one of the great books of world literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePrize-winning poet and historian, Barry Hill, with exclusive access to Strehlow's diaries, has written a major work about the troubled man who grew up on the Hermannsburg mission, became the first Patrol Officer of Central Australia, called himself \"the last of the Aranda\", and compulsively collected secret-sacred objects and images.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBroken Song\u003c\/em\u003e straddles a century of Australian history, from the race wars on the frontier to the modern era of Aboriginal land rights, tracking Strehlow's creative and tragic life in translation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46370083307756,"sku":"9781740512299","price":36.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/19110463482807.jpg?v=1744804748"},{"product_id":"peacemongers-by-barry-hill-9780702253256","title":"Peacemongers","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn his first major prose work since 2002's \u003cem\u003eBroken Song\u003c\/em\u003e, Barry Hill has written an epic — a travel book, a history book, a peace book. His odyssey begins with a pilgrimage to Bodhi Gaya in India, where the Buddha received enlightenment and ends after he reaches Nagasaki, Japan, in the aftermath of its atomic bomb.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHis travelling is imbued with the life and ideas of India's greatest artist and intellectual, Rabindranath Tagore, along with that of MK Gandhi. Hill then travels, like Tagore, in Japan, and meditates on its militarist turn, its warmongering Buddhism and the Tokyo War Crimes Trial, with its riddled post-colonial legacy. He goes to Zen temples, secret islands, and into some of the recesses of Japanese history, all the while musing on his own capacity for inner-disarmament.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHill also has his late father with him, a union man and Australian peace activist, whose dated left-humanism may not be enough for the wars and ruins the West has recently created. 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Hill's major works include \u003cem\u003eBroken Song: T G H Strehlow \u0026amp; Aboriginal Possession\u003c\/em\u003e (2002) and \u003cem\u003ePeacemongers\u003c\/em\u003e (2015), a personal, extended meditation on war and atomic destruction, and those thinkers, in Asia especially, who sought to undermine the cultural foundations of tendencies to conflict and destruction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs a writer, Hill's voice is informed by Australian working-class and labourist vernaculars, inherited from his childhood; an education in arts, education, and psychology at the Universities of Melbourne and London; and wide reading across the Western canon during more than forty years as a full-time writer. His enduring interest in the contribution of Asian thinkers, especially Tagore, to the world, and an insistence on the importance of a creative approach to literary form, shape his entirely unique voice. His insight is both profoundly important and capable of taking the reader to places not glimpsed before or imagined visible from the light presented.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection of essays, reviews and reportage, some published for the first time, amply demonstrates the quality and enduring importance of Hill's contribution, in these genres, to Australian literary and intellectual life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47455675089132,"sku":"9781925377262","price":47.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781925377262.jpg?v=1774792742"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/barry-hill.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}