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Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 Salt Blood
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'It is quiet and cool and dark blue. At this depth the pressure on my body is double what it is at the surface: my heartbeat has slowed, blood has started to withdraw from my extremities and move into the space my compressed lungs have created. I am ten metres underwater on a breath-hold dive, suspended at the point of neutral buoyancy where the weight of the water above cancels my body’s natural flotation. I turn head down, straighten my body, kick gently, and begin to fall with the unimpeded gravitational pull to the heart of the Earth.' (Introduction)

Notes

  • Epigraph:

    ‘There are no words that fit tragedy. Nothing we can say. We do not want to be told everything is all right. It is not.’ – Patrick Holland, ‘Silent Plains’ (2014)

    ‘Its constituents are – everything.’ –Victor Hugo, Toilers of the Sea (1866)

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    y separately published work icon Australian Book Review ABR no. 392 June-July 2017 11348024 2017 periodical issue 2017
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Best Australian Essays 2017 Anna Goldsworthy (editor), Carlton : Black Inc. , 2017 11466492 2017 anthology essay

    'The Best Australian Essays showcase the nation’s most eloquent, insightful and urgent non-fiction writing. In her first time as editor, award-winning author Anna Goldsworthy chooses brilliant pieces that provoke, unveil, engage and enlighten, and get to the heart of what’s really happening in Australia and the world.' (Publication summary)

    Carlton : Black Inc. , 2017
    pg. 215-230
      2020 .
      Extent: 43:31 minsp.
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      • Posted March 11, 2020
      Series: y separately published work icon The ABR Podcast 2020 Southbank : Australian Book Review, Inc. , 2020 26765067 2020 website podcast Number in series: 6
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