Tim Thorne - Greatest Hits: Poems 1968-2021 - Paperback

by Tim Thorne (Author), Lucie Thorne (Selected by)

Tim Thorne (25 March 1944 - 16 September 2021) was a leading contemporary Australian poet. Author of sixteen collections of poetry, founder of the Tasmanian Poetry Festival and Cornford Press, Tim was a brilliant and generous polymath, mentor, activist and commentator, who has left a profound legacy and an extraordinary body of work.

Tim's younger daughter - songwriter, musician & painter Lucie Thorne - has brought together this collection of her favourite poems spanning 53 years of Tim's writing life. These Greatest Hits include selections from each of Tim's books as well as some previously unpublished poems.

Tim Thorne lived most of his life in Launceston, Tasmania, on palawa country, with his wife and Comrade Stephanie (5 November 1946 - 19 October 2021)