Helen Watson White
Enough Horizon: The life and work of Blanche Baughan by Carol Markwell (The Cuba Press, 2021), 324pp, $40
Logs, at the door, by the fence; logs, broadcast over the paddock;
Sprawling in motionless thousands away down the green of the gully,
Logs, grey-black. And the opposite rampart of ridges
Bristles against the sky, all the tawny, tumultuous landscape
Is stuck, and prickled, and spiked with the standing black and grey splinters,
Strewn, all over its hollows and hills, with the long, prone, grey-black logs.
—from ‘A Bush Section’, B.E. Baughan (1870–1958) [Read more…]