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Preppers and Survivalism in the AustLit Database
This work has been affiliated with the Preppers and Survivalism project due to its relationship to either prepping or prepper-inflected survivalism more generally, and contains one or more of the following:
1. A strong belief in some imminent threat
2. Taking active steps to prepare for that perceived threat- A range of activities not necessarily associated with ‘prepping’ take on new significance, when they are undertaken with the express purpose of preparing for and/or surviving perceived threats, e.g., gardening, abseiling.
- The plausibility of the threat, and the relative “reasonable-ness” of the response, don’t affect this definition. E.g., if someone is worried about climate change and climate disasters, and they respond by moving from a riverbank location in Cairns, or to a highland region of New Zealand, this makes them a prepper. If someone else is worried about brainwashing rays from outer space, and they respond by making a tinfoil hat, that makes them a prepper.
3. A character or characters (or text) who self-identify as a ‘prepper’, or some synonymous/modified term: ‘financial preppers’, ‘weekend preppers’, ‘fitness preppers’, etc.
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Works about this Work
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Vantage Points On Lived Realities: Devika Brendon Reviews ‘The Unintended Consequences Of The Shattering’ by Linda Adair
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , vol. 37 no. 2 2023;
— Review of The Unintended Consequences of the Shattering 2020 selected work poetry'When I first read these poems, of course I wanted to know what the poet was referring to as having undergone the process of ‘shattering’. So much in our world which we previously experienced as continuous or self-evident, both personally and sociopolitically, has been fragmented beyond repair. Clearly, the poems in this collection speak to the shattering effects of crises in the lives of people, some intimately known to the poet, and some whose struggles are revealed through statistics which reveal the collapse of societal safety nets and social contracts that were held by previous generations to be sacrosanct. And these lived experiences, if not ‘swept aside’, but faced, especially during times of sudden change, can shatter our sense of self, our preferred beliefs, and our certainties.' (Introduction)
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Attention Commits to Reckoning
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , April vol. 25 no. 1 2021;
— Review of The Unintended Consequences of the Shattering 2020 selected work poetry -
John Bartlett Reviews Kevin Brophy and Linda Adair
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 101 2021;
— Review of In This Part of the World 2020 selected work poetry ; The Unintended Consequences of the Shattering 2020 selected work poetry'Despite the publishing limitations in 2020 caused by the COVID-19 restrictions, Melbourne Poets Union remarkably released seven chapbooks last year in its new Blue Tongue Poets and Red-bellied Poets series, all under the auspices of the soon-to-retire editor, Tina Giannoukos. These chapbooks included In This Part of The World by established poet Kevin Brophy and Linda Adair’s first collection, The Unintended Consequences of the Shattering, the latter continuing MPU’s long-standing tradition of nurturing new poets.' (Introduction)
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An Iridescent Debut : Anne Cassey Launches ‘The Unintended Consequences of the Shattering’ by Linda Adair
2020
single work
essay
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , November no. 30 2020;
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John Bartlett Reviews Kevin Brophy and Linda Adair
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 101 2021;
— Review of In This Part of the World 2020 selected work poetry ; The Unintended Consequences of the Shattering 2020 selected work poetry'Despite the publishing limitations in 2020 caused by the COVID-19 restrictions, Melbourne Poets Union remarkably released seven chapbooks last year in its new Blue Tongue Poets and Red-bellied Poets series, all under the auspices of the soon-to-retire editor, Tina Giannoukos. These chapbooks included In This Part of The World by established poet Kevin Brophy and Linda Adair’s first collection, The Unintended Consequences of the Shattering, the latter continuing MPU’s long-standing tradition of nurturing new poets.' (Introduction)
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Attention Commits to Reckoning
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , April vol. 25 no. 1 2021;
— Review of The Unintended Consequences of the Shattering 2020 selected work poetry -
Vantage Points On Lived Realities: Devika Brendon Reviews ‘The Unintended Consequences Of The Shattering’ by Linda Adair
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , vol. 37 no. 2 2023;
— Review of The Unintended Consequences of the Shattering 2020 selected work poetry'When I first read these poems, of course I wanted to know what the poet was referring to as having undergone the process of ‘shattering’. So much in our world which we previously experienced as continuous or self-evident, both personally and sociopolitically, has been fragmented beyond repair. Clearly, the poems in this collection speak to the shattering effects of crises in the lives of people, some intimately known to the poet, and some whose struggles are revealed through statistics which reveal the collapse of societal safety nets and social contracts that were held by previous generations to be sacrosanct. And these lived experiences, if not ‘swept aside’, but faced, especially during times of sudden change, can shatter our sense of self, our preferred beliefs, and our certainties.' (Introduction)
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An Iridescent Debut : Anne Cassey Launches ‘The Unintended Consequences of the Shattering’ by Linda Adair
2020
single work
essay
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , November no. 30 2020;
