Songs from the Mountains

Here is Kendall's final and most achingly beautiful collection. Written by one of Australia's founding poets, these verses capture the bush in all its moody grandeur, rain-swollen rivers, mist-shrouded ridges, the loneliness of vast interior spaces. Kendall wrote from a place of personal struggle and spiritual unrest, and that ache infuses every line. These are not cheerful poems; they are music from the clouds, sometimes breaking through sunlight but more often singing from within fog and shadow. The Australian landscape here becomes both sanctuary and mirror for the human condition, beautiful, indifferent, vast. For readers who cherish poetry that breathes with the land and speaks with quiet desperation about what it means to be small against something ancient and indifferent, this collection remains essential. It endures because Kendall found a distinctly Australian voice in these mountains, one that still resonates.