Larry Buttrose

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The Baroness is from a collection of twelve stories, with the working title of Everyone on Mars: stories from the Red Shift. In these stories set in the near future, despite all obstacles humanity has colonised Mars, largely for its minerals as foreseen by previous generations of writers, such as the great Philip K. Dick. The collection is an imagining of the impact — psychological, interpersonal, existential — of our colonisation.

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Larry Buttrose is something of a fringe dweller in the landscape of Australian poetry. He was co-editor of two poetry magazines in the 1970s, Dharma and Real Poetry, and published poems in literary magazines, journals and anthologies. He branched out into fiction and nonfiction (ghost-writing the book upon which the film Lion was based) and writing for the stage and screen. His Selected Poems was published in 2017 by BryshaWilson Press in Melbourne.

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