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'Beyond These silky-oaks he built his first defence Against a wilderness, and deigned to stay; Mastered his span of earth in a way and rode The hills till the land gave up its secrets, harshly, And the farm was won.' ‘Old Peter’, 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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