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Author’s talk with Michael Crowley
The Stony Ground is the story of Launceston farmworker James Ruse, reprieved from the hangman’s noose and transported to Botany Bay on the First Fleet in 1788. Ruse, commemorated as a pioneer in his adopted country, was reputedly the first prisoner ashore, carrying an officer on his back. Eventually pardoned, he became Australia’s first settled farmer, the first ex-convict to be granted land and the first settler to become self-sufficient, bringing him into conflict with Aboriginal people.
Michael Crowley is a writer and a dramatist; a published poet, playwright and novelist. His drama has been produced on the stage in the UK and Australia, and on BBC radio. His second poetry collection The Battle of Heptonstall will be published by Smokestack Books in 2021.
His first novel The Stony Ground: The Remembered Life of Convict James Ruse was published in 2019 by Waterside Press. He has taught creative writing at Sheffield Hallam University and is Artistic Director of The Brutish Multitude Theatre Company. His second novel Baghlan Boy will be released in September 2020.
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