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'Through writing the classic cautionary tale of The Lorax, Theodor Seuss Geisel (aka Dr Seuss) communicated a potent message to countless children: text holds power. As the Lorax says, 'I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues'.
'Almost half a century has passed since its publication, but the book's messages remain all too relevant. Like the entrepreneurial capitalist Once-ler, we too might feel some sense of loss when corporate greed and rampant consumerism force our equivalents of the Bar-ba-loots to go ... but 'business is business! And business must grow'.' (Editorial introduction)
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Only literary material within AustLit's scope individually indexed.
Contents
- Beast Evolving, single work prose (p. 9-11)
- Housing Climate From Plastic to Concrete, single work prose (p. 12-19)
- Hopes Thicks the Air, single work prose (p. 20-25)
- Ignitei"Concentrate oil of eucalyptus and pine", single work poetry (p. 26)
- Elevator Pitchi"'Picture this - I heart you", single work poetry (p. 26)
- Falsifyi"On November 22, 2018", single work poetry (p. 26)
- Charcoal, sequence poetry (p. 26-27)
- Fact Checkeri"Nimbus knows the suffering", single work poetry (p. 27)
- Prayi"Blood may be spilled, from the throat", single work poetry (p. 27)
- Rememberi"Dust to dust, or as the ashes say:", single work poetry (p. 27)
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Dr Power's Prescription for the Fabrication of a Tasmanian Imagination,
single work
criticism
(p. 36-41)'Carmel Bird revisits Dr Wooreddy's Prescription for Enduring the End of the World.'
- Exhibit A : Three Living Australians, single work short story (p. 41-45)
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Rogue Intensities,
extract
autobiography
(p. 46-51)
'In 2019, Tasmanian writer Angela Rockel won the Dorothy Hewett Award. Her manuscript of five years of 'sensations and thoughts arising from a life in place' will be published soon by UWA Publishing. These morsels, exquisite and rich, are from Year 2...' (Introduction)
- Water on Rock, Wind in Treesi"I rose at dawn to tread the shore,", single work poetry (p. 52)
- L'autre Rivei"stones stones stones stones rocks stones shingle shingle shingle", single work poetry (p. 53)
- Swift Parrot X Dark Mofo, single work essay (p. 54-61)
- Solastalgia in the Mouth of the Great Vowel Shifti"Going back to the word zawn Are there any remains", single work poetry (p. 62)
- The Superman Complexi"He cannot stop the bullet", single work poetry (p. 63)
- Ombrophobia, single work essay (p. 70-75)
- Tomorrowi"I'm here. It's just a dream. And it can't hurt", single work poetry (p. 76)
