Stevo’s saying it’s a great night for footy. Zavier doesn’t know what that means for sure but the sky’s clear except for those two puffy clouds hovering over the ground. They’re pretty, glowed gold just before the sun dipped behind the skyscrapers.
Mettle, metal, well-met, this poetry weaves threads of love, fight and family with an honesty that connects the soul to the panther’s upheld fist. The openness is a gift: ‘one of the starting points/between you and me/is here on this page’ (3).
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As a white woman living on unceded Eastern Maar territory, an area now commonly known as “Victoria,” reading Emily Brontë’s Victorian novel Wuthering Heights is profoundly unsettling. Brontë’s Wuthering Heights offers evocative renditions of the Yorkshire moors, celebrating the moor’s snow-burdened beauty …
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Mixed feelings when it comes to this book, but the love of footy reads true. I play the edges. Kick to kick is easy, marks up is a battle and British Bulldogs is beyond me. One real game and I was done.
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A twist in the back, cut-throat sharp excisions, all the way to the ‘wilderness suicide’, the world in a room and ‘you’ are there, deep in the layers (206). This book cannot be scrubbed off, no matter how much coin you carry.
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The opening pages of this river of a book float you into a place you know/don’t know. A siren song that reads like a bedtime story until you realise you’re spooked out at a campfire with no light back to the house.
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A few years ago, a human neighbour picked me a handful of beans from her garden. She lived not far up the road from where I am writing this. It was a warm day and my first visit to her home. Her …
Heterotopia, Radical Imagination, and Shattering Orders, edited by Paula Acari, Routledge.
Not easy reading, this efflorescence, different voices ranging out together, holding each other, becoming truth together, calling for justice, urging towards joy, surging towards transformation. A glorious grounding. Local, right across the world, held in this basket that ‘grows and evolves’ (1).
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