Fly Away Peter.
This author described "each rifleshot hammerstroke" as "another notch in the silence" in the title poem of his most recent poetry collection, Typewriter Music. He wrote about Jim Saddler, who sees his friend Clancy killed during World War I, in the novel Fly Away Peter. He created Digger Keen and Vic Curran, who were both imprisoned by the Japanese during World War II, in his novel The Great World. In his most famous novel, the lives of Lachlan Beattie and his cousins Janet and Meg are affected when the McIvor family takes in Gemmy Fairley, an Englishman who is stranded in Australia. For 10 points, name this Australian author of Remembering Babylon.
This author described "each rifleshot hammerstroke" as "another notch in the silence" in the title poem of his most recent poetry collection, Typewriter Music.
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