Freehold: Verse Novel

by Geoff Page

169 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2005

About the author

Geoff Page has published twenty-four collections of poetry as well as two novels, five verse novels and several other works. His awards include the Grace Leven Prize, the Christopher Brennan Award, the Queensland Premier’s Prize for Poetry, the 2001 Patrick White Award and the 2017 ACU Prize for Poetry. His most recent books are Elegy for Emily: A Verse Biography of Emily Remler (Puncher & Wattmann, 2019) and In medias res (Pitt Street Poetry, 2019).

Reviews

[Susan Austin · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this book, although it didn’t answer all the questions it raised about what happened and so the plot felt a little thin. But I enjoyed the glimpse it gives into the lives of families who grow up on cattle stations and the emotions that come into decisions about inheritance.