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'From the earliest years, and for many years thereafter, the voice accompanies him. Foreign, but familiar, it's barbed with an edge beyond which opens abysses. He knows his father was born into the shadow-lands of Europe, in the first half of 1940. He's heard that the men of the father's family fought on the other, resisting side, the good side. but there's no way of knowing the truth, of the time, of their enemy, notorious for being more unhinged than the worst of their German counterparts. Of knowing if his own family had a hand in the excesses, very distant now, still brooding in its veins. He imagines he has no part in it, born as he is into the lucky country, to the lucky migrant father, over three decades later.' (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon Southerly Violence vol. 78 no. 3 December 2018 16857182 2018 periodical issue 'Rarely has Southerly received so much high-quality material than in response to the call for work on the theme of Violence. In fact our poetry editor, Kate Lilley, requested we increase the extent of the issue to accommodate the volume of excellent work; hence this is a large issue that includes a wealth of poetry. The reasons for this abundance are too many. In literary terms, violence provides a readymade drama, an impetus for action and reaction, shock, emotion, transformation; from Milton’s War in heaven to Modernist aesthetics of shock to the contemporary thriller. literature also records more pervasive operations of violence including poverty, colonialism and other socially sanctioned cruelties of lived experience. Writing on violence provides testimony, a necessary record, and may enable catharsis. at the very least it is a mark, a signature of survival in the wake of violent events from an individual encounter to genocide. a deal of the work included also addresses issues of the anthropocene and the relation ships between human and non-human lives.' (Elizabeth McMahon, Editorial introduction) 2018 pg. 192-200
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