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I’d like to have a Tabletop, a Tabletop of words, and be remembered for what I built, for how I climbed and how I was buried there to be found one day. To be found by picknickers would do. ‘When I Returned, Never having Left,’ David Rowbotham
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is difficult to find a way to write about a regional literary culture.
One of the advantages of using a web platform is that it allows different
forms for collecting information and flexible pathways by which it might
be represented as a range of stories which answer to different needs and
expectations.
This History section therefore attempts to describe some of the key events and features of different periods in Toowoomba's literary history by chronicling some of the more significant writers, books, institutions and themes as well as to think through some of the issues which arise when trying to account for them in the form of a connected story. It is divided into eight sections: A
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