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Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 Camping Underground
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'Set around Cessnock in the New South Wales Hunter Valley, camping underground is a brutal, lyrical and cinematic narrative that lays out the scattered fragments of Kelly Edwards’s life before and after the political violence she is implicated in unleashes a viral pandemic and societal collapse. Surviving the wreckage, moving amid the chaos while searching for her niece Ruth while she has time, a mute, traumatised Kelly responds with violence of her own, as conflict and control dance around in the aftermath of the virus.'  (Publication summary)

Affiliation Notes

  • Preppers and Survivalism in the AustLit Database

    This work has been affiliated with the Preppers and Survivalism project due to its relationship to either prepping or prepper-inflected survivalism more generally, and contains one or more of the following:

    1. A strong belief in some imminent threat
    2. Taking active steps to prepare for that perceived threat

    • A range of activities not necessarily associated with ‘prepping’ take on new significance, when they are undertaken with the express purpose of preparing for and/or surviving perceived threats, e.g., gardening, abseiling.
    • The plausibility of the threat, and the relative “reasonable-ness” of the response, don’t affect this definition. E.g., if someone is worried about climate change and climate disasters, and they respond by moving from a riverbank location in Cairns, or to a highland region of New Zealand, this makes them a prepper. If someone else is worried about brainwashing rays from outer space, and they respond by making a tinfoil hat, that makes them a prepper. 

    3. A character or characters (or text) who self-identify as a ‘prepper’, or some synonymous/modified term: ‘financial preppers’, ‘weekend preppers’, ‘fitness preppers’, etc.

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 , 2022 .
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      Extent: 130p.
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      • Published September 2022
      ISBN: 9781922571502

Works about this Work

Strange Communion : Questions of Poetic Resistance Anders Villani , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , January - February no. 461 2024; (p. 44-45)

— Review of Parallel Equators Nathan Shepherdson , 2023 selected work poetry ; Camping Underground Greg McLaren , 2022 selected work poetry

'‘Poems reawaken in us,’ writes James Longenbach, ‘the pleasure of the unintelligibility of the world.’ They do so via ‘mechanisms of self-resistance’: disjunctive strategies that work, for Longenbach, to ‘resist our intelligence almost successfully’. What ‘almost’ means here is, of course, a matter of taste – and style. Nonetheless, this Romantic mandate – that poems achieve clarity by integrating opacity – invites a question fundamental to poetics: how much resistance is too much, or not enough?' (Introduction)          

Poetry Goes Nuclear : 3 Recent Books Delve into Present Anxieties, Finding Beauty Amid the Terror Craig Billingham , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 29 June 2023;

— Review of Mirabilia Lisa Gorton , 2022 selected work poetry ; Camping Underground Greg McLaren , 2022 selected work poetry ; The Exclusion Zone Shastra Deo , 2023 selected work poetry
Poetry Goes Nuclear : 3 Recent Books Delve into Present Anxieties, Finding Beauty Amid the Terror Craig Billingham , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 29 June 2023;

— Review of Mirabilia Lisa Gorton , 2022 selected work poetry ; Camping Underground Greg McLaren , 2022 selected work poetry ; The Exclusion Zone Shastra Deo , 2023 selected work poetry
Strange Communion : Questions of Poetic Resistance Anders Villani , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , January - February no. 461 2024; (p. 44-45)

— Review of Parallel Equators Nathan Shepherdson , 2023 selected work poetry ; Camping Underground Greg McLaren , 2022 selected work poetry

'‘Poems reawaken in us,’ writes James Longenbach, ‘the pleasure of the unintelligibility of the world.’ They do so via ‘mechanisms of self-resistance’: disjunctive strategies that work, for Longenbach, to ‘resist our intelligence almost successfully’. What ‘almost’ means here is, of course, a matter of taste – and style. Nonetheless, this Romantic mandate – that poems achieve clarity by integrating opacity – invites a question fundamental to poetics: how much resistance is too much, or not enough?' (Introduction)          

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