Poetry

There are 50 poems per volume, varying in length from one to multiple pages, profusely illustrated. Printing, assembly and binding is done by hand. Each purchase is unique, as hand binding varies slightly book to book. The pages are around the 100gsm and the covers are 216gsm board.

Choose the volume number, then the image number, for inside back cover. Then email for paypal link to pay. If using a custom image, please send attached to order. Originals are then destroyed after use. Cost per volume is $39.00 post free, at this time.

The images here, are those that can be printed in the box, inside the back cover. They are selected by the purchaser for their order, by quoting the individual image number, after clicking main image to enlarge, to see image number. If, when you order the book is for a gift, you can send your own image. It will be printed in the box at no extra charge. If an image is not selected with order, a random image from these will be printed in the box inside the back cover.

Wandandian Wombat is the Pen Name of Robin Kirrage, now of Sussex Inlet. He spent most of his life in Wandandian NSW 2540, not far from where he now lives in retirement. He has been writing poetry since school days, where he topped his class in English. His school days were in England. He was born in Danbury Essex in 1939. He then lived after the war in Braintree Essex. He left England to come to Australia at age 16 with his parents and brother. After living in Castlereagh for a year and working on Minnaville Thoughoubred Horse Stud, he left with a couple of workmates for Queensland. Initially working on the Dingo Barrier Fence, one 7 mile section and one 12 mile section. Then wanting to work on cattle stations, he found he had to do a year with sheep to come to grips with riding unsociable horses and accumulating some animal and bush sense. He was told that it would be 3 years before he stopped getting in the way. After 6 months with sheep his employer contacted a friend of his with a cattle station in the basalt country north of Hughenden. He recomended him to work on his cattle station, being wasted with sheep. 7 Years later visiting his parents in Wandandian, he met his future wife. Never going back to Queensland to work, he agreed to help his father to start a service station in Nowra NSW 2540. After his father retired in the early 70s Robin sold the garage, not his idea of work, and started an Electronics Store and began writing computer programs. After doing this for 10 years he went back to rural work, until his retirement at 74 years of age. He wrote odd poems throughout his life. Barney Osling was written on Minnaville Stud, The Min Min Light on Malboona Station Corfield Queensland, Wild White Eyes at Gregory Springs Station north of Hughenden and The Wombat was written in his early days at Wandandian, NSW, where The Grey Nomad was written in 2008. He only started serious writing in 2017. He is mainly a Bush Poet of ballad and rhyming style. His poems are acclaimed on world wide poetry websites, where he is a prolific winner of medals. He has had poetry requested and read on New York radio stations. He does write poems commercially to order. He still has friends in the north, and as often as possible he and his wife return there to holiday in the west and north of Queensland, revisiting not only the friends, but also the properties he worked on.