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'It is as though a mouth in the rockface has been prised open and stomach contents disgorged, teeth too. This is the deepest of the scars left by the quarrying of stone from the range rising along the southern side of Ilparpa Valley. The disgorgement settles on a flattened turnaround for trucks and machinery, high above the valley; a second smaller turnaround has been carved out below. The road leading up to it has eroded into a deep gully; just a goat track at the side holds on, buttressed by buffel grass and rock. Up this track we go, for a picnic of promise.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon PAN Mythopoeia and Country no. 13 2018 13835831 2018 periodical issue

    'What would we hear if place could speak?

    'What would we hear if we listened to our ancestral stories for wisdom in navigating current circumstances, even while recognizing that we now inhabit entirely new circumstances requiring up-to-date science and inventiveness, as well as ancient insight into the human experience?' (Geoff Berry Introduction)

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