Four Fires Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry for Poetry (2016) I just want to hold

I just want to hold your hand

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an IRA bomb buried Gordon Wilson and his twenty-year-old daughter beneath five feet of rubble

A history and critique of the last 200 years of cultural criticism

She must not lose strength

Four Fires Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry for Poetry (2016) I just want to holdIn a small town like any other small town around Australia live the Maloneys. They are a fifth generation Australian family of Irish Catholic descent who are struggling to reach the first rung of the social ladder. The Maloneys are a family you won't forget: a strong mother, a father broken by war, three boys and two girls, one of whom has an illegitimate daughter. Each of their lives is changed forever by the four fires passion, religion, warfare and