Tail Arse Charlie. Edited, Augmented and Arranged by Grace Perry. Poetry Australia, Number 82, 1982
Berrima, NSW: South Head Press, 1982. First Edition. Soft cover. Softcover : [84]pp. : profusely illustrated with black and white photographic illustrations of events during the Second World War from the Australian War Memorial : original illustrated wrappers. Presentation copy inscribed to poet Tom Shapcott and signed by Millett on the title page. Edgeworn with some spotting to the edges of the text block and a scrape to the lower cover. Good. Item #11355
ISBN: 0909185077
The author was in the all-Australian RAAF Number 10 Squadron as a gunner during the Second World War and based this collection of poems on his experiences during the war. It was broadcast on radio in the early 1980s and is a powerful anti-war sequence of poems strengthened by many photographs from the Australian War Memorial. Published simultaneously in hard and softcover this is a reasonable copy of the latter.
Price: $40.00