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Writing to the Wire
Dan Disney
(editor),
Christopher Kelen
(editor),
Crawley
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UWA Publishing
,
2016
9625708
2016
anthology
poetry
'Surely we are better than this?
'The seeking of asylum in Australia has been politicised in recent decades. Our national conversation has vilified people fleeing persecution and desensitised the Australian polity to human suffering. We are further marginalising the most vulnerable groups in the world and at greater expense than accommodating refugees in the community. What impact does this have upon our collective ethics and national identity? And if our public conversation is steering us into murky moral territory, where may a dissenting voice be heard?
'Writing to the Wire is a collection of poems by Australians and people who would like to be Australians. It is a book about the idea of being Australian. It is about who we are and who we would rather be. Writing to the Wire offers new ways to understand injustice, to speak out and tell stories. Poetry can show us what we’re thinking and feeling in a way our politics has failed to do.' (Publication summary)
Crawley : UWA Publishing , 2016 pg. 197
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Writing to the Wire
Dan Disney
(editor),
Christopher Kelen
(editor),
Crawley
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UWA Publishing
,
2016
9625708
2016
anthology
poetry
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Cordite Poetry Review
Open
no.
106
15 September
2022
25216336
2022
periodical issue
'As we sit down to write this introduction it’s reaching the end of winter in Geelong (Djilang), on unceded Wadawurrung Country – close to a year since we first considered the issue and its theme with Cordite’s Kent MacCarter. OPEN. What to say? Wattle’s blossoming in the park; magnolias are opening along suburban streets.1 The pandemic isn’t over, even if lockdowns have ended and, for many, masks are no longer. The government has changed, though as Behrouz Boochani wrote recently, in fundamental ways so-called Australia remains unaltered, seemingly unwilling to imagine itself anew. And so – amid continued violence across parts of the world including Ukraine, Gaza, and this colony – our approach to ‘Open’, at least thematically, remains an ironic, uneasy one.' (Jo Langdon and Cameron Lowe : Editorial introduction)
2022
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Cordite Poetry Review
Open
no.
106
15 September
2022
25216336
2022
periodical issue
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