China bull
By: Vanessa Weeks & John Koenig
Publisher: Work & Tumble Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Collingwood, Victoria
Language: eng
Number of pages: 23
Subjects: Poetry; Country life
Description: "China Bull is a poetic re-telling of the story of Annie Caroline Dixon, a pioneer who lived in the Mitchell District of western Queensland in the early 1900s. The sequence of poems are a collaboration between Queensland poets Vanessa Page and John Koenig, who draw on their knowledge and feel for the Queensland outback and the history of the period, to tell the story from the perspective of Annie Caroline, and her jilted husband ‘Rager’ Wilson. China Bull is a non-fiction narrative, framed by the newspaper article about actual events, which appeared in the Brisbane Courier on 16 March 1909."--Publisher's website (viewed 11/30/2015).
Notes: Poems.

"Alan Loney and RD Wood letterpress printed the covers. The cover paper is 150 gsm Canson Mei Teintes. The internal pages were printed and bound in Collingwood. China Bull is the first winner of work & tumble's 'Chapbook Competition,' which was judged by Amy Hilhorst. This in an edition of 60."--Colophon.

As issued, saddle-stitched in blue printed paper covers; in prefab case, 28 cm.

work & tumble Chapbook Competition (1st winner), selected by Amy Hilhorst.
Table of contents: title: Eight segments, each in a distinct voice: Mitchell, May 1904; title: Mitchell, July 1904; title: Mitchell, January 1907; title: Mitchell, April 1907; title: Mitchell, May 1907; title: Chinaman's Creek, June 1907; title: Chinaman's Creek, June 1907; title: Morven, February 1908.