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Leaping toward Boston single work   poetry   "Tearing through ti-tree, fanning through brigalow,"
Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 Leaping toward Boston
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  • Author's note: Six hundred kangaroos run the Boston Marathon, 2019

    Written in support of a campaign to persuade Nike and other companies to refrain from the use of kangaroo skin in their footware. The author is well aware that these companies employ such skins in their soccer boots, not their running shoes, but once the metaphor of the Boston marathon suggested itself there seemed no escaping it. The suffering of the roos is just the same

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Live Encounters Live Encounters : Poetry and Writing : Australia - New Zealand May Denise O'Hagan (editor), 2021 21646497 2021 periodical issue poetry (12 issues) 'When considering the rich and varied stream of submissions from Australia and New Zealand Aotearoa, I was struck by how many were so universal and timeless both in theme and style that they transcended any geographical boundaries except perhaps that of our global community. I deliberately elicited a broad sweep of poetic voices, from the emerging to the established to the highly renowned, crowned by the prodigious talent of David Malouf, whom I had the honour of interviewing.' (Denise O'Hagan , Capturing the Spirit: Contemporary poetry from Australia and New Zealand Aotearoa, introduction) 2021
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