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Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 The Tale of Lake Pedder
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'There are paintings one looks at, or perhaps into, and then there are paintings that one looks through—more like a window or portal. On my dining room wall there hangs such an artwork, a watercolour painted en plein air at Lake Pedder’s beach in the year before I was born. It takes me there, to the place in the dunes where Max Angus sat at his easel and mixed on his palette the dusky mauves and pinks of that legendary sand, and prepared the tiny quantity of smoky blue needed to depict the band of lake water on the horizon. It takes me also to that day in 1971 when Max Angus was painting in the hope that capturing the beauty before him might somehow contribute to its salvation.'  (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Meanjin Online 2021 21154349 2021 periodical issue 2021
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    y separately published work icon Meanjin Words vol. 80 no. 4 Summer 2021 23539484 2021 periodical issue 'The December issue of Meanjin is titled: Words. It features a special series of non-fiction pieces in which Australian writers respond to one-word titles...' (Publication summary) 2021
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    y separately published work icon Breathing Space Jane Rawson (editor), Ben Walter (editor), Tasmania : Tasmanian Land Conservancy , 2021 25742143 2021 anthology poetry essay short story

    'Breathing Space is a book of essays, poems and stories about Tasmanians' changing relationship with nature, commissioned to mark the TLC's [Tasmanian Land Conservancy] 20th birthday.'

    Source: Publisher's blurb.

    Tasmania : Tasmanian Land Conservancy , 2021
    pg. 180-190
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  • Lake Pedder, Southwest Tasmania, Tasmania,
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