Pie O wrote the Ockers poem in 1983 that describes the character of a stereotyped Australian man of the seventies. Mike Hudson designed wild, colorful pop art, linocut, graphics to match Pie O's vividly expressive poem. The poem was hand set in letterpress by Jadwiga Jarvis. Julie Copeland contributed an introduction and glossary of Australian slang and neologisms to this poem in the accompanying brochure. An Ocker is defined as an "uncultivated, aggressive, boorish, uncouth Australian man who also displays qualities such as good humor, helpfulness, and resourcefulness...this is a serious poem which challenges slick, nationalistic slogans about Aussies, ockers, mates, winners & battlers, in the most effective way possible, by quoting them, reshaping them in the voice of a poet with a love of the lived life of language." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.