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Ross Gibson watches the harbour as acutely as he does the ancient land and the more recent landfall of Sydney. Over decades he has paid attention in his writing and other artistic pursuits to the aftereffects of Sydney's colonial history, its environmental silhouette, and its poetic forms.In Flooded Canyon, he uses haiku to lay down some of these contours created through deep observation of littoral zones.

A civilian chaplain records whispered confessions and low urgings, writing in a notebook during his summer tenure at Sydney's Central Street Police Station. His 'Summer Exercises' are habitual five times a day. His terseness can generate feelings so sharp that sometimes a great notion gets pared clean with a meager swatch of syllables. In constructing this notebook of a sharp observer, author Ross Gibson builds a world Sydney, Australia in 194...

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Ross Gibson's poetry is marked by the numinous, then undercut by the quotidian, the earthy, a different way of seeing.' Jen Webb, Australian Book Review Here are scrummed gangs of criminals and police, with all their lurks, quirks and argots. The underworld and its overlords: how ingenious and energetic, how ardent both sides can be. What brutes they can be too, day after day, as they track and trick each other, as they make and need each othe...

Quality management in business is a process which ensures the quality of the services and products provided by the firm. It has four main sub-headings namely quality assurance, quality planning, quality improvement and most importantly quality control. This book unfolds the innovative aspects of this field, which will be crucial for the holistic understanding of the subject matter. The various sub-fields of quality management along with techno...

Memoryscopes is a companion volume to Changescapes"--Page [4] of cover.

Changescapes is a companion volume to Memoryscopes"--Back cover.

Part road trip, part murder mystery, this compelling and creative account embarks on an enthralling journey through time, along an infamous road in Australia known as the Horror Stretch. Winding through the frontier territory of central Queensland, this long and lonely stretch is the scene of brutal history, where death, mayhem, and a myriad of murders--casual and callous--have taken place. Ross Gibson drives readers along this dangerous route...

Set in southern Ontario in the late nineteenth century, at a time when the machine age was coming into its own, "Perpetual Motion" chronicles the fortunes of settler Robert Fraser, a man obsessed with power and control. Driven by the idea of inventing a perpetual motion machine which will utilize natural energy, he neglects and destroys not only the nature around him but his own family too, as his overbearing rationality becomes a kind of trag...