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thanks for the post, a. i actually did all but three years of my schooling in the city (where my mother owned a house and taught for many years), though my family are entirely based in the country - my uncle's farm is the 'wheatlands' ref'd to, the farm i spent so much of my childhood on. i have also lived for long periods in williams and narrogin, which are rural, and before that in bridgetown in the south-west. mainly wheatbelt-dwelling though. my mother owns a place in york as well, inherited from my grandmother. my brother is a shearer. the whole thing is a 'minefield' of concerns - expressed in my poetry. there's nothing remotely 'romantic' about it. over the last five years i have been creating 'hybrid texts' through the landscapes of the cambridgeshire fens and my wheatlands 'home'. it's a problematic investigation in many ways. best, jk