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Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 Ania Walwicz : She Could Throw a Whirling Dervish Out of Whirl!
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“Hiiieee… Katherine. What a crazy world we’re living in. Be great to chat with you. All the best. See you soon. Ciao. Ania.”

'Ania Walwicz and I were born on the same day of the same month. She would be 70 this May and I should be 48, but I’m not sure really, which one of us was younger. She told me she didn’t like the idea of being 70. It wasn’t about slowing down or wanting to write an ending. ‘I am just at the start at the beginning of the tale in the end of a book at the start only 69 young only morning at a time only now only now and in my office now where I teach myself to be alive I am only alive now only now please let it go on some more…’ Ania often wrote in places full of people. Full of life. In her shared office, the State Library, in class with her students, food courts… she wrote in the midst of people rushing around, doing everyday boring things. Ania was never boring. She was a whirling dervish of creativity ‘...hoo hoo hoo here I go now my foot in leather slipper shod happy soft on shine floor now I turn I whirl I spin round and around now…’' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Australian Poetry Journal Tribute, Observations vol. 10 no. 2 2021 21500980 2021 periodical issue poetry

    'Do not be afraid to think.

    'Test form, renew form, or defy it.

    'Know there is a new permission to speak, and for more voices.

    'Not to censure, censor our inheritances—in which there is still the cherishable, the followable—but to question, yes, that. To make that effort, with caring, love, and as needed, fierceness.

    'To write, read the self, which can also be multiple, as are our inheritances, and also within if wished for, community.

    'When I first devised the idea of this New Series two years ago, it was intended to be celebratory, motivated by the current flourishing which is occurring in poetry and poetry publication in Australia. In it, another poet/critic or poetry community associate is ‘allied’ with a new or recent Australian poetry collection, be that an individual volume, or an anthology, or another platform. Some books go back a little (there is one from 2017), but most are of the past 12-24 months; the impetus was to make tribute to a splendid range of contemporary Australian poetry publishing.' (Jacinta Le Plastrier, Introduction)

         2021     pg. 128-130
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