September (2015, 2016, 2021) single work   autobiography  
Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 September (2015, 2016, 2021)
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It is September 2016. I take my glasses off to swim. I leave them tucked in the folds of my discarded dress, follow the softened outline of Lucas's body down and into the water. I let it form the world for me. Definition is unnecessary in water; fluidity renders mute any firm lines or clear distinctions. The water has its own clarity, one of light going forever down, and a brilliance of deep colour-Homer's winedark sea. I did not understand the metaphor until we arrived and saw it, this water with its surreal intensity of blue. Luminous, the opulence of wine. Lucas dives and tells me that it just keeps going down past the point of view.' (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon Meanjin vol. 80 no. 3 September / Spring 2021 23531590 2021 periodical issue 'We’re living in an information era; we know that. But not all information is created equally. Sitting here in the thick of Meanjin’s 80th year, it seems a moment to wonder at the role of a magazine like this, to think about its place in the spectrum of public ideas.' (Jonathan Green, Editorial introduction) 2021 pg. 36-45
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    Greece,
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    Western Europe, Europe,
  • 2015
  • 2016
  • 2021
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