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The Ballad of Moondyne Joe
The Ballad of Moondyne Joe

The Ballad of Moondyne Joe

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

266 Pages, 6 x 9

Formats: Trade Paper

Trade Paper, $19.95 (US $19.95) (CA $19.95)

Publication Date: May 2012

ISBN 9781921888526

Rights: US, CA, ZA, SAM & CAR

Fremantle Press (May 2012)

Price: $19.95
 
 

Overview

Moondyne Joe was colonial Australia’s ultimate escape artist; his daring and repeated breakouts from prison drove the country’s governor to build the infamous outlaw a special cell. When Moondyne Joe escaped once again, the governor went mad. Ironically, Moondyne Joe himself died a pauper in the Fremantle Lunatic Asylum, but not before he secured notoriety as a lawbreaker, the husband of a brothel madam, a bushman who befriended local Indigenous people, and as a folk hero who championed the underdog. This unique book is an anarchic and playful examination of an elusive man and the harsh convict system he resisted.

Author Biography

John Kinsella is an award-winning poet and the author of volumes of short stories, novels, plays, and criticism. He is a professorial research fellow at the University of Western Australia, the Judith E. Wilson Fellow in poetry at Cambridge University, and the editor of The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry. Niall Lucy is a professor of critical theory at Curtin University and one of the founding editors of the international journal Ctrl-Z: New Media Philosophy. He is the author of A Derrida Dictionary and Pomo Oz: Fear and Loathing Downunder and the coauthor of The War on Democracy: Conservative Opinion in the Australian Press.