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'I was once addressing a conference of visiting Korean writers at the Opera House, and, talking of Henry Lawson, I mentioned that there was a statue of him nearby. The delegates expressed a wish to see it. So at the end of the session we set off into the Domain. And I couldn’t find it. For twenty minutes I led an increasingly hot and exhausted procession of close to a hundred Korean novelists and poets amongst the varieties of native flora. But of the statue of the great native writer there was not a sign. We never did find it. The episode became quite well known in Seoul.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Wild about Books : Essays on Books and Writing Michael Wilding , Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing , 2019 17393108 2019 selected work essay

    'Wild About Books – essays on books and writing, about reading them and writing them, and publishing them and collecting them and preserving them in libraries. Essays about the shared experience of literature, the art and craft of writing, the pleasures of reading, the survival of five hundred years of print culture, together with reflections and suggestions on creative writing, on what to do, and how to do it, and on what I’ve done, and why I wrote this book and how I wrote that one, together with anecdotes from other writers’ experiences, from writers in person, and from the books they have written.'

    Source: Publisher's blurb.

    Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing , 2019
    pg. 27-30
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