Liquidation single work   poetry   "The earth has always been so accommodating,"
Is part of Re-visiting Chernobyl Maria Takolander , 2018 sequence poetry (number 1 in series)
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Notes

  • Author's note:

    1. The men sent in to deal with the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear-power-plant accident in the Ukraine were called ‘liquidators’, a word derived from the Russian verb “likvidator” (ликвида́торы), which means ‘to eliminate’ or ‘to eliminate the consequences of an accident.’ Hundreds of thousands were deployed there. 

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    y separately published work icon Cordite Poetry Review No Theme VII no. 86 1 May 2018 13979368 2018 periodical issue

    'Four years ago, writing an essay on David Malouf, I learned that Hawthorn Library held a copy of his first poetry collection, Bicycle and Other Poems (1970). I borrowed it, and, sadly, I returned it, too. Today, I rang the library to find the book. The friendly librarian on duty told me that it had been ‘deleted’ from the catalogue. She could find no record of whether they had given it away or thrown it in the recycling bin.' (Lisa Gorton, Introduction to No Theme VII)

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