Justin Lowe

Bluepepper is Pleased to Announce the Release of Magellenica by Celebrated Sydney Poet Justin Lowe, Capturing the Sights, Sounds and Smells of 1920's Sydney

It is 1924. The dusty, snaking streets of Sydney are a hive of jagged ex-diggers, widows and orphans. Albermarle Darcy, DSO, is one of those returned to a world turned on its head, his mother dying of the influenza and all his childhood friends either dead or mad. So he appears to have made a covenant, “a pact, you see/with this new world of ours,” turning his back on it all with a line off the Darling street pier. The past, however, is not so easily shunned. - May 29, 2008