Digger Smith
“Digger Smith” is a series of narrative poems about an Australian soldier coming home in the closing months of the Great War minus a leg and with “ANZAC eyes” ... what a later war would call “The Thousand Yard Stare”.
Despite his post-traumatic stress disorder, Digger Smith sets about ministering to everybody’s troubles but his own ... his internal conviction that his amputee status will make him seem “half a man” in the eyes of the lady love he left behind when he went off to the War.
Oh Digger Smith, how little faith you have in woman... - Summary by Son of the Exiles
Genre(s): Romance, War & Military Fiction, Narratives
Language: English
Keyword(s): romance (1049), war (233), australia (88), WW1 (30), australian (18), narrative poetry (6), Anzac (4), veteran (1)
| Section | Chapter | Reader | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Play 01 | Before The War | Son of the Exiles |
00:09:15 |
| Play 02 | Dummy Bridge | Son of the Exiles |
00:08:56 |
| Play 03 | Dad | Son of the Exiles |
00:06:30 |
| Play 04 | Digger Smith | Son of the Exiles |
00:06:01 |
| Play 05 | West | Son of the Exiles |
00:05:08 |
| Play 06 | Over The Fence | Son of the Exiles |
00:05:54 |
| Play 07 | A Digger's Tale | Son of the Exiles |
00:06:04 |
| Play 08 | Jim's Girl | Son of the Exiles |
00:06:24 |
| Play 09 | The Boys Out There | Son of the Exiles |
00:05:21 |
| Play 10 | Half A Man | Son of the Exiles |
00:05:46 |
| Play 11 | Sawin' Wood | Son of the Exiles |
00:05:01 |
| Play 12 | Jim | Son of the Exiles |
00:08:03 |
| Play 13 | A Square Deal | Son of the Exiles |
00:05:54 |