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'I can catalogue Antarctica by touch. The touch of air sucked dry on my cheek, the fur of a day-old seal pup, the touch of an iceberg, a blizzard, a lover, the touch of sweat at minus twenty-three, of a camera stuck to the skin on my face, of cold like glass cutting into my skin, of a snowflake, of a dead man, of a doctor's fingers on my inner thigh, of a tongue on my eye.
'Shiver tells the story of Fin, a young woman who gets the chance of a lifetime to go to Antarctica. Surrounded by the cruel beauty of the last great wilderness on earth, she finds herself transfixed by the power of the land. Travelling and living with a close-knit and idiosyncratic team, Fin learns the rules and taboos of community life in Antarctica, and then promptly breaks the strictest taboo of all - she falls in love. The consequences are shattering.
'Lyrical, haunting and sometimes painfully moving, Shiver is a first novel of great power and beauty.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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One of six books selected for the 2004 Books Alive promotion.
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Writing Belonging at the Millennium : Notes from the Field on Settler-Colonial Place
Bristol
Chicago
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Intellect
,
2019
18882857
2019
multi chapter work
criticism
'Writing Belonging at the Millennium brings together two pressing and interrelated matters: the global environmental impacts of post-industrial economies and the politics of place in settler-colonial societies. It focuses on Australia at the millennium, when the legacies of colonization intersected with intensifying environmental challenges in a climate of anxiety surrounding settler-colonial belonging. The question of what belonging means is central to the discussion of the unfolding politics of place in Australia and beyond.
'In this book, Emily Potter negotiates the meaning of belonging in a settler-colonial field and considers the role of literary texts in feeding and contesting these legacies and anxieties. Its intention is to interrogate the assumption that non-indigenous Australians' increasingly unsustainable environmental practices represent a failure on their part to adequately belong in the country. Writing Belonging at the Millennium explores the idea of unsettled non-indigenous belonging as context for the emergence of potentially decolonized relations with place in a time of heightened global environmental concern.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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Drawing Room : Amal Awad and Nikki Gemmel
Waleed Aly
(interviewer),
2012
single work
interview
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , May 2012; What do women want, in a literary sense and is it any different from what men want in a book? Simple questions with very complicated answers and to help solve the quandary, two female writers who appeared at the 2012 Sydney Writers' Festival are interviewed by Aly Waleed. [From the ABC webpage, with slight modification] -
Lip Lit : Where to Find Strong Females in Literature?
2011
single work
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First Voice : Nikki Gemmell Looks Back on Writing Her First Book, Shiver
2005
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Spread the Word
2004
single work
column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 28 July 2004; (p. 21)
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Lilliputian Satire
1997
single work
review
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Warmed by Love and Lust on the Frozen Continent
1997
single work
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Southern Comfort: Love in a Cold Climate
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 10 May 1997; (p. 9s)
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Passion and Reality on the Ice
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 21 May 1997; (p. 6)
— Review of Shiver : A Novel 1997 single work novel -
Ice Fields
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 191 1997; (p. 44-45)
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Spread the Word
2004
single work
column
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First Voice : Nikki Gemmell Looks Back on Writing Her First Book, Shiver
2005
single work
column
— Appears in: The Age , 5 November 2005; (p. 27) -
Drawing Room : Amal Awad and Nikki Gemmel
Waleed Aly
(interviewer),
2012
single work
interview
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , May 2012; What do women want, in a literary sense and is it any different from what men want in a book? Simple questions with very complicated answers and to help solve the quandary, two female writers who appeared at the 2012 Sydney Writers' Festival are interviewed by Aly Waleed. [From the ABC webpage, with slight modification] -
[Untitled] [The Age, 25 August 1998]
1998
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Strange Encounters
2000
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biography
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 18 March 2000; (p. 3)