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Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 Tongue
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Notes

  • ‘One unhappy day I was called to see
    the Benois Madonna—
    I found myself confronted by a young woman
    with a bald forehead and puffed cheeks,
    a toothless smile, blear eyes, and a furrowed throat—
    And yet I had to acknowledge
    that this painful affair was the work of Leonardo da Vinci.
    It was hard, but the effort freed me,
    and the indignation I felt
    gave me the resolution to proclaim my freedom’—
    —Bernard Berenson

    ‘ —bre 1478 I began the two Virgin Marys
    —Leonardo da Vinci

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    y separately published work icon Cordite Poetry Review Open no. 106 15 September 2022 25216336 2022 periodical issue

    'As we sit down to write this introduction it’s reaching the end of winter in Geelong (Djilang), on unceded Wadawurrung Country – close to a year since we first considered the issue and its theme with Cordite’s Kent MacCarter. OPEN. What to say? Wattle’s blossoming in the park; magnolias are opening along suburban streets.1 The pandemic isn’t over, even if lockdowns have ended and, for many, masks are no longer. The government has changed, though as Behrouz Boochani wrote recently, in fundamental ways so-called Australia remains unaltered, seemingly unwilling to imagine itself anew. And so – amid continued violence across parts of the world including Ukraine, Gaza, and this colony – our approach to ‘Open’, at least thematically, remains an ironic, uneasy one.' (Jo Langdon and Cameron Lowe : Editorial introduction)

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