Episode of Series “Videos on Australian Writers: archival writers series II”.
Author, poet and biographer, Colin Thiele recalls his childhood in the German migrant community north of the Barossa Valley and his early love of literature. Thiele remembers his student days and his association with movements such as the Angry Penguins. He also discusses the effect on his life and work of his long battle with rheumatoid arthritis and reads a poem about the isolation of pain.
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ACMI Identifier
305028
Language
English
Subject categories
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Arthritis
Literature → Australian literature
Literature → Novelists - Biography
Literature → Poets, Australian
Literature → Thiele, Colin, 1920-
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Sound
Colour
Colour
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VHS; Access Print (Section 1)