The Blue Plateau:
A Landscape Memoir
University of Queensland Press
June 2009 | Paperback
'I came to the plateau in the winter of ninety-eight. A place a thousand metres in the air ... a world of sandstone and eucalypt and unregenerate weather, a place just fallen from the sky ...'
The Blue Plateau is a lyrical natural history of the Blue Mountains, and a memoir of one man's attempt to belong there. An inspired meditation on the contours of the land and its people, of time and place and family, the rhythms of nature and the rhythms of friendship, it is a book of many belongings.
Here you will meet the plateau's first people; you will meet Les and Henryk and Jim; you will walk the Kedumba and the Kanimbla in drought and fire and flood.
Evocative and deeply moving, The Blue Plateau is a poet's story of an astonishing place and a loving portrait of home.
‘It is an exotic piece of writing, in thrall to the poem beneath our feet.’
—Australian Book Review
‘A truly beautiful book, exquisite as the
country it depicts.’
—Patrice Newell,
author of Ten Thousand Acres
“I have read The Blue Plateau twice. What a wonderful book! What great writing!”
––Laura Davis