Lost poetry from a brutal jungle prison, still in search of a home
Lost poetry from a brutal jungle prison, still in search of a home We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Advertisement Reading the long-lost poetry of an unknown Australian prisoner of war on the Burma-Thai “death railway”, the sense of fierce longing strikes the heart. One of the handwritten poems tells of a hungry man, fed only rice, gaining mercy in unconsciousness. The fly leaf inscribed, “To Dad from Dick.” “And once more through the mists of sleep, he saw his native land/Wide through the landscape of his dreams/T...
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