Singing the snake

the long version

The title poem of this collection was selected by Australian poet, Les Murray, as one of the ten best Australian poems ever written. It was re-published in the University of Liverpool (UK) literary journal, THE READER, in 2008. The book chronicles through poems Stoneking's four yeras living in one of the world's most remote locations - in the hinterland of the vast Australian outback One of the greatest collections of contemporary poetry - it went into a second edition within three weeks of its initial publication.