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Tasmanian Literary Awards

The Jewelled Shillelagh by Duncan Hose (Puncher and Wattmann)

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The Jewelled Shillelagh

"Has there been an Australian poet as troubadourish and piratical as Duncan Hose? The work is a response to an imaginary Auden’s (or someone’s) pronouncement that poetry be playful or drunken speech, linguistically badly behaved – more sweet-sounding than anything I can think of in Australian English." - Michael Farrell

About the author

Born in Van Diemenís Land, Duncan Hose is the author of Rathaus, One Under Bacchus and Bunratty. A shillelagh is a blackthorn club used variously as a walking stick, a companion, and a weapon. A Jewelled Shillelagh is what you have in your hands.