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Speechless single work   poetry   "In this drought-struck place rain is stalled"
Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 Speechless
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Notes

  • Author's note: This poem was triggered by a reading of Nathalie Sarraute’s Tropisms, where the ‘tropic’ movements of the psyche are performed through a practice of ellipsis, whereby language is stalled and often eroded by silence.

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    y separately published work icon Hecate vol. 47 no. 1/2 2021 26445618 2021 periodical issue 'Rage, outrage and anger were a driving force in the formation of myself and many of my contemporaries in the women’s liberation movement from the 1960s on—and as still something like that in the 2020s—for many of those that are still here.' (Editorial introduction) 2021 pg. 199-200
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