ÒDigger SmithÓ 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 ÒANZAC eyesÓ ... what a later war would call ÒThe Thousand Yard StareÓ.
Despite his post-traumatic stress disorder, Digger Smith sets about ministering to everybodyÕs troubles but his own ... his internal conviction that his amputee status will make him seem Òhalf a manÓ 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...