The Clothes-prop Man celebrates the lives of the men and women at the work camps during the building of South Australia's South Para Reservoir between 1948 and 1958. Johnson's poems capture the colour and character of country-town living at nearby Williamstown in the early 1960s and the post-war mood of immigrant workers, tough living, six-o'clock closing and wireless sets. This book has a philosophical tone that rings through time. It is Johnson's fifth book.
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Martin R. Johnson was born at Gawler, north-east of Adelaide, in 1950. The first 12 years of his life were spent growing up at the married workmen's camp at nearby Humbug Scrub, during the building of the South Para Reservoir. The Clothes-prop Man was published in 2002, a collection of poetry celebrating the working-class lifestyles of the people who lived there.
ISBN 9781862545724
CATEGORY Poetry
IMAGES
PAGE COUNT 112
DIMENSIONS 210 x 150 mm