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Writing to the Wire
Dan Disney
(editor),
Christopher Kelen
(editor),
Crawley
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UWA Publishing
,
2016
9625708
2016
anthology
poetry
'Surely we are better than this?
'The seeking of asylum in Australia has been politicised in recent decades. Our national conversation has vilified people fleeing persecution and desensitised the Australian polity to human suffering. We are further marginalising the most vulnerable groups in the world and at greater expense than accommodating refugees in the community. What impact does this have upon our collective ethics and national identity? And if our public conversation is steering us into murky moral territory, where may a dissenting voice be heard?
'Writing to the Wire is a collection of poems by Australians and people who would like to be Australians. It is a book about the idea of being Australian. It is about who we are and who we would rather be. Writing to the Wire offers new ways to understand injustice, to speak out and tell stories. Poetry can show us what we’re thinking and feeling in a way our politics has failed to do.' (Publication summary)
Crawley : UWA Publishing , 2016 pg. 185
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y
Writing to the Wire
Dan Disney
(editor),
Christopher Kelen
(editor),
Crawley
:
UWA Publishing
,
2016
9625708
2016
anthology
poetry
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- y A Kinder Sea St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2020 18610460 2020 selected work poetry 'A Kinder Sea explores the sea as sanctuary, hoard and repository. It is composed of sequences – love letters, elegies, narratives and odes – it looks outwards from the intimate to take in others' lives and voices, remaking form and craft. Felicity Plunkett's remarkable poems balance wrack and loss with vitality, resilience and beauty.' (Publication summary) St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2020 pg. 21
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