Preppers and Survivalism in the AustLit Database
This work has been affiliated with the Preppers and Survivalism project due to its relationship to either prepping or prepper-inflected survivalism more generally, and contains one or more of the following:
1. A strong belief in some imminent threat
2. Taking active steps to prepare for that perceived threat
3. A character or characters (or text) who self-identify as a ‘prepper’, or some synonymous/modified term: ‘financial preppers’, ‘weekend preppers’, ‘fitness preppers’, etc.
'When I first read these poems, of course I wanted to know what the poet was referring to as having undergone the process of ‘shattering’. So much in our world which we previously experienced as continuous or self-evident, both personally and sociopolitically, has been fragmented beyond repair. Clearly, the poems in this collection speak to the shattering effects of crises in the lives of people, some intimately known to the poet, and some whose struggles are revealed through statistics which reveal the collapse of societal safety nets and social contracts that were held by previous generations to be sacrosanct. And these lived experiences, if not ‘swept aside’, but faced, especially during times of sudden change, can shatter our sense of self, our preferred beliefs, and our certainties.' (Introduction)
'Despite the publishing limitations in 2020 caused by the COVID-19 restrictions, Melbourne Poets Union remarkably released seven chapbooks last year in its new Blue Tongue Poets and Red-bellied Poets series, all under the auspices of the soon-to-retire editor, Tina Giannoukos. These chapbooks included In This Part of The World by established poet Kevin Brophy and Linda Adair’s first collection, The Unintended Consequences of the Shattering, the latter continuing MPU’s long-standing tradition of nurturing new poets.' (Introduction)
'Despite the publishing limitations in 2020 caused by the COVID-19 restrictions, Melbourne Poets Union remarkably released seven chapbooks last year in its new Blue Tongue Poets and Red-bellied Poets series, all under the auspices of the soon-to-retire editor, Tina Giannoukos. These chapbooks included In This Part of The World by established poet Kevin Brophy and Linda Adair’s first collection, The Unintended Consequences of the Shattering, the latter continuing MPU’s long-standing tradition of nurturing new poets.' (Introduction)
'When I first read these poems, of course I wanted to know what the poet was referring to as having undergone the process of ‘shattering’. So much in our world which we previously experienced as continuous or self-evident, both personally and sociopolitically, has been fragmented beyond repair. Clearly, the poems in this collection speak to the shattering effects of crises in the lives of people, some intimately known to the poet, and some whose struggles are revealed through statistics which reveal the collapse of societal safety nets and social contracts that were held by previous generations to be sacrosanct. And these lived experiences, if not ‘swept aside’, but faced, especially during times of sudden change, can shatter our sense of self, our preferred beliefs, and our certainties.' (Introduction)
