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Issue Details: First known date: 2011... 2011 Turtle Eggs
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'I like hanging from the fence at the airport. Sometimes I grab the fence up high and just hang like a monkey and my feet don’t touch the ground. This feels good and I like how my back stretches but I have to hold on tight and the tips of my fingers turn white. For a few seconds I have white fellah’s fingers. White fellah fingers on a black fellah. Other times I spread my arms and legs wide and I cling to the fence like a big black spider same like the ones Aunty squashes in the kitchen. That’s me for a minute, a big black spider in footy shorts clinging to the airport fence like it’s my own steel spiders’ web. ...'

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    y separately published work icon Northern Territory Literary Awards 2011 Northern Territory Government , Northern Territory : Northern Territory Government , 2011 9885652 2011 selected work poetry prose

    his publication is a collection of poems, short stories and essays written by the finalists and winners of the 2011 Northern Territory Literary Awards.

         Northern Territory : Northern Territory Government , 2011     pg. 16-20
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