Fresh Fields

Peter Kocan was born in Newscastle, Australia, in 1947. In 1966, his failed attempt to assassinate federal opposition leader Arthur Calwell saw him sentenced to life imprisonment. Later that same year, Kocan was transferred from Sydney’s infamous Long Bay jail to Morisset hospital for the criminally insane. His first books of poetry were published while he was at Morisset. Two subsequent autobiographical novellas, The Treatment and The Cure, told of his harrowing life in the asylum. He has twice been awarded the Premier’s Award for Fiction, and his novel Fresh Fields was named one of the best books of the year in The Times Literary Supplement.Kocan, Peter is the author of 'Fresh Fields ', published 2007 under ISBN 9781933372297 and ISBN 193337229X.