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'Light, air and the autumn wind. Good drying weather. Ethics and history and peace and war and the laundry. Taking stock. Abandoned cities, lost children, political legacies emptied of all honour. 孝弟也者、其为仁之本与. How we commemorate, and what we forget. The cost of education, the cost of living, the costs of doing nothing. Insects, birds, bulls, deer, saplings, forests, the Great Barrier Reef. Ethical beekeeping, hydrogeology, the second person. Ruin porn and inspiration porn. Solarpunk and Chengyu and the Argonauts. Housing and home, love and Metta, class and compassion. Understanding where it is that we exist when we're gathering our forces. Let's get our house in order—and prepare for what comes next.'
(Publication summary)
Contents
* Contents derived from the 2023 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Messagingi"A spider caught 17 flies. (Gave", single work poetry (p. 9)
- Life of a Folk Devil, single work autobiography (p. 10)
- Study on Artefactsi"we survived", single work poetry (p. 23)
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Australia in Three Books,
single work
review
— Review of Up, Not Down, Mate! : Thoughts from a Prison Cell 1981 selected work poetry ; Carpentaria 2006 single work novel ; All That’s Left Unsaid 2022 single work novel ; (p. 24) - Adam and ADAM, single work essay (p. 40)
- Two Thousand and One Nightsi"Surely it must abate soon.", single work poetry (p. 45)
- Aria From the Last Act, single work essay (p. 46)
- Green Soul Workingi"magpie sucks air from green soul", single work poetry (p. 53)
- Blood and Bone, single work essay (p. 54)
- Barks of Great Artistsi"In Brazil, so I read, the Doberman pinscher is celebrated,", single work poetry (p. 59)
- Journal in Augusti"In the Spielplatz, children running in circles", single work poetry (p. 66)
- Hiroshima Blooms, single work short story (p. 68)
-
The Comfort of Things Past,
single work
essay
(p. 74)
'I remember my first encounter with history well. I was young. I can’t quite recall my age, but I was young enough to believe myself old for having such grown up things as a white-and-pink Spice Girls backpack and matching T-shirt. Frilly lace socks were cool, Sailor Moon pigtails and buns were a fashion statement, dunkaroos were the envy of all Australian school lunch boxes and I was on holiday. As Mum ushered me and my sister into our beat-up, once-white Ford Falcon, I had no idea that we were heading far beyond our tiny Northern Beaches flat, let alone back in time.' (Introduction)
- Gardening at the End of the World, single work autobiography (p. 82)
- Here Tonighti"As far as I can see through surf-mist", single work poetry (p. 89)
- The Washing Line, single work essay (p. 90)
- One Day on Nauru, single work essay (p. 98)
- The Argonautica I Am Re-Envisaging and Will Eventually Try to Forget, as I Should?, single work essay (p. 104)
- Orpheus’s Post-Creation Songi"Out of the elemental fusion", single work poetry (p. 104)
- De-Omening the Birdsi"No bird is a bird itself for all its feathers.", single work poetry (p. 104)
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