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- Watching Dulac’s La Coquille Et Le Clergyman and Thinking Over My Great-grandmother Playing Piano to Accompany Silent Moviesi"I know this one wouldn’t have reached the picture houses", single work poetry
- Parrot Bush and the Twisting of the Story of Firei"On the false edge created by firebreak and paddock", single work poetry
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Yassmin Abdel-Magied : Talking About a Revolution,
single work
review
— Review of Talking About a Revolution 2022 selected work essay ;'“Being buried alive by social media hatred will force you to either construct impenetrable walls around your soul or quit completely.” So says Yassmin Abdel-Magied in her book Talking About a Revolution, a collection of essays old and new that document “the private and public self” and “systems and society”.' (Introduction)
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Nathan Hobby The Red Witch : A Biography of Katharine Susannah Prichard,
single work
review
— Review of The Red Witch : A Biography of Katharine Susannah Prichard 2022 single work biography ;'Katharine Susannah Prichard published her first short story in 1899 and her final novel in 1967. At last we have a definitive biography, a book tracing her life and the formation of the Australian literary culture she helped to create.' (Introduction)
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Ellis Gunn : Rattled,
single work
review
— Review of Rattled 2022 single work autobiography ;'When he wanted to send a secret message, the ancient Greek tyrant Histiaeus shaved the head of a slave, tattooed the message on his scalp and, once the hair had grown back, sent him on his way. In this story, Ellis Gunn finds a key metaphor for how patriarchal society imprints and then hides its stories of violence and abuse on the bodies of women: “All the messages tattooed on our scalps. All the hair we’ve grown over them.”' (Introduction)
