The Walnut Tree

The Walnut Tree is Tim Slades debut collection of poetry. It is audacious yet down-to-earth writing rich with the language and icons of the bush and suburban contemporary Australia. He writes of cricket and music mountain biking snakes echidnas and extinctions and of the effects of our social and industrial landscapes on the human body psyche and other species. He engages often humorously with poets such as Les Murray and Clive James as well offering a response from the heart to Indigenous culture and Country.Slades poems have been published widely including in The Weekend Australian The Koori Mail Australian Poetry Anthology Growing Up Disabled In Australia and Cordite Poetry Review. His work has received praise in the Margaret Reid International Poetry Prize the Janice Bostock Haiku Award the Australian Cricket Poetry Prize and the Henry Lawson Festival Award.Tims is a true and strong voice in Australian poetry - Esther Ottaway