In his first full-length collection of poetry, Charles Sturt University (CSU) lecturer Mr David Gilbey has drawn on his international travel in 2006 for inspiration. Death and the Motorway will be launched in Wagga Wagga this Thursday 31 July at the Wagga Wagga City Library by local arts commentator Mr Fred Goldsworthy. Mr Gilbey is a senior lecturer in literature and creative writing in the CSU School of Humanities and Social Sciences in Wagga Wagga. He is President of the Booranga Writers’ Centre on CSU’s Wagga Wagga Campus and has edited the group’s annual anthology of poetry and prose, fourW. Published by IP Press, Death and the Motorway was completed after Mr Gilbey travelled to the United States, United Kingdom, France, Japan and China on study leave in 2006. Author and poet Ms Kate Llewellyn has described the CSU academic as “a poet of the people, never pretentious or obscure. He has a clear voice which goes straight to the heart of the matter.”