Under the Night Sky

About the Book

Six hand-written journals, crammed with travel notes and poems, had been carefully stored in a leather bag which the author had bought on his honeymoon in Mexico. Later on, these precious items were irretrievably damaged by water rising under an elevated house. It was a salutary reminder of the ephemeral nature of things; well, of how precarious it is for poems, handwritten on paper, to be stored in a tropical climate and exposed to the elements!

Encouraged by others to publish, the author thought it would be sensible to compile a digital collection of his poetry and to select 55 for publication in this modest volume.

About the Author

Brian Devlin lives in the Northern Territory. Since he relishes his private life—as much as he does his family and friends, travel, good food, well-crafted writing and chess—these poems have seldom been shared with the outside world. A small collection was initially pulled together for the Creative Writing Group, Darwin, but quite a few pieces have been added since then. The author is an adjunct professor at Charles Darwin University. For many years his professional work has focused on bilingual education, the Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages, and remote, rural schooling in the Asia-Pacific area. He and his family have been affiliated with the Yolŋu people in northeast Arnhem Land ever since he was adopted into the Gumatj clan by a distinguished elder in 1979.