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* Contents derived from the 2023 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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Ant Music,
single work
essay
(p. 10-12)'I HAVE LONG BEEN SUSPICIOUS of Aesop’s fable in which a hungry grasshopper comes across a bunch of ants drying out their grain in the winter sunshine and asks for something to eat. In an early version, translated from Ancient Greek by Olivia and Robert Temple, the grasshopper is a cicada. The ants ask why she didn’t store up food for the winter. “I didn’t have time for that,” says the cicada. “I was singing melodiously.”'
- Killing for Country : A Gripping Reckoning with the Bloody History of Australia's Frontier Wars, single work essay (p. 47)
- Parkville II (A Dream Diary from Bed 15)i"Sick on one side, scholars on the other", single work poetry (p. 50-57)
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An Open Heart,
single work
review
— Review of Unfinished Woman 2023 single work autobiography ;(p. 70-72)'“I’M WORKING ON THIS INFINITE BOOK,” said Robyn Davidson in a 2012 interview, “a memoir based loosely around my mother … It’s quite a difficult book. I started it 12 years ago. I feel absolutely that I have to write it and absolutely that I can’t write it.”' - "Grasp the Nettle.", single work short story (p. 82)
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