- SKU: 9781764497404
- BARCODE: 9781764497404
- VENDOR: BooksCloud
Songs of a Psychopath (1) - Paperback
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by Graeme Hetherington (Author)
Songs of a Psychopath (1) is a powerful literary memoir in verse shaped by Tasmania's convict inheritance and a lifelong search for belonging.
Set against the bleak mining towns of Tasmania's West Coast in the 1940s, the rigid hierarchies of private schooling in the 1950s, the cultural freedoms of 1960s England and Greece, and the unsettled tensions of 1970s Hobart, this book traces one man's journey through class, exile, faith, sexuality, ancestry, and art.
This is not a conventional autobiography.
Chronology fractures. Memory shifts. The living speak beside imagined ancestors.
Personal history collides with colonial history. The legacy of Van Diemen's Land - the enduring weight of colonial Van Diemen's Land legacy and Tasmanian convict history memoir - pulses beneath the surface of every poem.
Written in tightly controlled verse, this work stands as Australian autobiographical poetry grounded in lived experience and historical reckoning. It explores:
- The inheritance of shame and survival
- Identity shaped by ancestry and displacement
- The cultural tensions of West Coast Tasmania mining towns
- Class mobility, exile, and belonging
- Faith, rebellion, and artistic awakening
- The psychological imprint of identity and inherited trauma
Unsettling, unsentimental, and deeply human, Songs of a Psychopath (1) speaks to readers drawn to memoir, poetry, Australian history, and stories of class exile and belonging.
What do we inherit? And can we ever escape it?
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