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Throat

Ellen van Neerven
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not in Aus, mate

bad things don’t happen here

our beaches are open

they are not places where bloodied mattresses burn

Throat is the explosive second poetry collection from award-winning Mununjali Yugambeh writer Ellen van Neerven. Exploring love, language and land, van Neerven flexes their distinctive muscles and shines alight on Australia’s unreconciled past and precarious present with humour and heart. Van Neerven is unsparing in the interrogation of colonial impulse, and fiercely loyal to telling the stories that make us who we are.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
University of Queensland Press
Country
Australia
Date
26 March 2020
Pages
1
ISBN
9780702262913

not in Aus, mate

bad things don’t happen here

our beaches are open

they are not places where bloodied mattresses burn

Throat is the explosive second poetry collection from award-winning Mununjali Yugambeh writer Ellen van Neerven. Exploring love, language and land, van Neerven flexes their distinctive muscles and shines alight on Australia’s unreconciled past and precarious present with humour and heart. Van Neerven is unsparing in the interrogation of colonial impulse, and fiercely loyal to telling the stories that make us who we are.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
University of Queensland Press
Country
Australia
Date
26 March 2020
Pages
1
ISBN
9780702262913

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