Tim Hurburgh

Tim Hurburgh’s Tall Poplars: Tales of Tasmania’s fabled River Derwent Valley provides a fascinating fresh take from the murkier days of Van Diemen’s Land through to today’s picturesque Apple Isle. Stories of extraordinary stoicism, heroism and entrepreneurship but, painfully also, violence and shocking betrayal. It is a Technicolor vision with images by Matt Sansom, of Tasmania and its Van Diemen’s...

After a decorated career heading architectural firms in Melbourne, Tim Hurburgh is sharing for the first time another of his heart’s passions: poetry, firmly rooted in the Tasmanian soil on which he grew up. The sure hand of seasoned guide Hurburgh’s aptly named Disruptions persuasively jolts the reader out of shibboleth rainforests to crisp visions in amusing, aching, and compelling...