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'In this issue of Science Write Now, launching (finally) alongside a brand new website, we’re excited to share the work of writers and scientists engaging with concepts of migration. These works examine the movement of bodies and objects - human and nonhuman, living and non-living - and the future of migration on an increasingly unliveable planet. Importantly, in an age where climate-induced migration is beginning to be framed as an issue that may affect us all, these works stay with the uneven vulnerabilities of climate migration and the ongoing histories of forced migration brought about by colonisation and global capitalism.' (Publication summary)
Contents
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Yaama Ngunna Baaka : Dancing the Riveri"Everyone is feeling the heat",
single work
poetry
Epigraph: I remember the trees from here to the mountains
You cleared the land and now there is no water. - Barkadji Elder
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Alma Mater : On Body Donation, Cell Migration and Morphogenesis,
single work
essay
'We gather around the hospital bed in late December 2022 where my Aunty Gail lies, brittle but accepting of the terms on which the cells of her body will soon embark on their mass migration from life to death. Gail is my mother’s sister and the eldest of five. For decades now, her body has been under siege. Cancer has claimed sovereignty over her cells, first in the form of breast tumours, then spreading, node to node. Now, her diagnosis is terminal, her days and breaths numbered. Her body is withering, curling up, transforming.' (Introduction)
- The Knot, single work short story
- An Appendagei"They never went back. I return", single work poetry
- Trapping Rabbitsi"Consider the rabbit:", single work poetry
- Walking Irisi"In your garden, I fill the gaps—", single work poetry
- If There Is a Butterfly That Drinks Tearsi"If there is a butterfly that drinks tears", single work poetry
- Light Yearsi"Diamanté dusted skin", single work poetry
- Yesterday Is Today - the Migration of Memoryi"Today is Saturday and you are still a child", single work poetry
- Flyawayi"I stand apart a drab donga. Zipped vests undo", single work poetry
- Becoming Hashibosoi"leaving Bass Strait", single work poetry
- Knucklebonesi"In a picture of a picture there was a man", single work poetry
- Re-Wildingi"two babies bitten", single work poetry
- Birdsi"birds flying in August . their wings flaring", single work poetry
- Revelations from Dudleyi"A ribbon of morning-lit glitter reaches the rocks", single work poetry
- Before the Borderi"No swans, nor cows nor sheep graze;", single work poetry
- The Lake at the End of Summeri"A movie is interrupted", single work poetry
- Hilltopi"They come to find each other in the heights", single work poetry
