Spendthrift Time: Poems for Lily

by Roger Averill

Celebrations of a young life in its unfolding, the poems in this collection were written by Roger Averill to mark each of his youngest daughter's birthdays from ages three to twenty-one. Often humorous, and featuring the rhythms and rhymes of light verse, these poems remind the reader of the joys and challenges of childhood in general by depicting those of one, much-loved child in particular.

76 pages, Paperback

Published September 1, 2022

About the author

Roger Averill lives in Melbourne, Australia, where he works as a freelance researcher, editor and writer... In the late 1990s [Averill] wrote a doctoral thesis about sociological readings of biographies and has since published articles in a number of international journals. Stemming from this work, he has an agreement with the eminent Australian author Randolph Stow to one day write his authorised biography.

Dr Roger Averill used Library collections to research a biography of Werner Pelz. The book, later published as Exile: The lives and hopes of Werner Pelz, was shortlisted for the 2013 NSW Literary Awards.