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Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 Off Limits
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'Off Limits features toads and torched pubs, and the hidden lives of foxes. The title poem suggests spaces that are barred, out of bounds. By extension, the collection probes underground mindscapes and the buried lives of others. Lifts manhole covers, shines a spotlight on the ways the human heart enacts rebellion. 'Tunnel rats' skateboarding in Sydney's drains. Cavers making erotic forays into the forbidden White Bay Power Station. Developers eying off iconic buildings. These poems capture the desperation of commuters trapped on motorways, of long-distance lovers navigating desire between hot chilli sauce and Arizona landscapes. This is the territory of space travel and robots, the wonders of biomimicry and the transcending of our limitations to learn from animals. Wryly ironic about humanity's dream of reinventing itself on other planets, the poet resists the trashing of the one we inhabit. This is poetry of passionate engagement, clear-eyed and firmly earthed.'

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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Glebe, Glebe - Leichhardt - Balmain area, Sydney Inner West, Sydney, New South Wales,: Puncher and Wattmann , 2021 .
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      Extent: 140p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published August 2021
      ISBN: 9781922571021

Works about this Work

Subterranean Arteries : Peter Kirkpatrick Launches Off Limits by Louise Wakeling Peter Kirkpatrick , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , vol. 34 no. 1 2022;

— Review of Off Limits Louise Wakeling , 2021 selected work poetry
Subterranean Arteries : Peter Kirkpatrick Launches Off Limits by Louise Wakeling Peter Kirkpatrick , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , vol. 34 no. 1 2022;

— Review of Off Limits Louise Wakeling , 2021 selected work poetry
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