Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 [Review] Memory Book : Portraits of Older Australians in Poetry and Water Colours
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'Edited by Cassandra Atherton and Jessica L. Wilkinson, Memory Book is a collection of poetic portraits of Australians over seventy-five, each poem accompanied by a watercolour portrait of the subject. The editors have conceived the work as a ‘meeting point’ between the subject, the poet and the reader. It is a work well done. The watercolours are integral to the presentation; the portraits, both artistic and poetic, a reminder of the human face of experience. I admit that, as an older person, as the introduction asserts, I often ‘feel silenced or invisible’. This collection is a welcome attempt at a rebuttal of ageism, the ‘last sanctioned prejudice’.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Social Alternatives Poetry to the Rescue: The Poetry Special Issue vol. 40 no. 3 October 2021 23781124 2021 periodical issue

    'Since its inception in 1977 Social Alternatives has had a long-running commitment to poetry. During this time the journal has published well over two thousand poems (Synott 2018: 46)1, including work by Judith Wright, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Les Murray, Judith Beveridge, Samuel Wagan Watson and Dorothy Porter (Morgan et al. 2007: 58). Alongside such luminaries, Social Alternatives has published hundreds of relatively unknown poets, many of whom had their first poems published in the journal. Certainly, when I began writing a quarter of a century ago it was one of the places you sent to. Many of the poets featured in the journal's early years were active in various social movements from anti-conscription and nuclear disarmament to Aboriginal land rights, women's liberation, and environmental protection (Synott 2018: 45). The poetry in Social Alternatives has often been slanted towards political and social themes but the work has usually been thematically broader (Morgan et al. 2007: 58), relating more abstractly to politics.' (Aidan Coleman Publication abstract)

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