The Blue Plateau got its first review on Saturday (6 June 2009), the day of the brilliant full moon, in The Weekend Australian.
Under the banner “A Natural Way With Words”, Liam Davison had some nice—if sober—things to say. But, of course, the real book never makes it into the book—let alone into the review.
The North American writer BIll Kittredge has just given this quote to the book’s US publishers, Milkweed. He lets his hair down a bit more on my account, and I think I may owe him a beer:
“Blue escarpment, floods in the bottoms, a “red steer” wild fire, logging, pasturing, sod walled homes, generations evolving and perishing—Australian writer Mark Tredinnick tells us a vivid weave of stories which add up to a legend of homeland, his for some years, and along the way he illustrates the complex ways we come to a sense of place, rural or downtown.
The Blue Plateau is a gift; a guide to understanding all of us, everywhere; one of those books you read slowly, so it will last, and this one will. This one will be around.”
—Bill Kittredge, author of The Willow Field and The Next Rodeo