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Echidnas Don't Live Here Any More

Poems of loss and recovery since the Black Summer bushfires
  • ISBN-13: 9781761093449
  • Publisher: GINNINDERRA PRESS
    Imprint: GINNINDERRA PRESS
  • By Belinda Broughton
  • Price: AUD $29.99
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  • Local release date: 19/07/2022
  • Format: Paperback (198.00mm X 129.00mm) 130 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Poetry [DC]
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'This powerful collection leads readers through the harrowing reality of losing everything to bushfire. Broughton experienced the unimaginable. In one terrifying day she and her husband lost everything: the home where they'd raised a family all her memorabilia her journals all their artwork. And the landscape she'd loved and tended for over forty years was burned beyond recognition. Using a lyrical mix of free verse Japanese form and prose poetry this important collection explores loss and renewal on physical spiritual and ecological levels. Intimately observed and heartbreakingly philosophical Broughton creates a clear-eyed self-portrait of a woman gently tending hope even within the maelstrom of sorrow. Finding strength in the resilience of her bushland home Broughton creates a lyrical personal history that speaks of what it means to lose everything yet still trust in family community and the natural world to sustain her through the darkest of times.' - Rachael Mead

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