Writing for June Meanjin (in shops June 19, or subscribe), Ryan O’Neill tells of an extraordinary discovery: the lost, quietly tragic, tale of Maud Hepplestone, and her collection The Songs of the Kookaburra, a work celebrated as a masterwork of modernism, when its author intended anything but.

Ryan takes up the tale:

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A lost treasure of Australian letters: Songs of the Kookaburra

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