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'Midway through her debut poetry collection Moon Wrasse, in the poem “A promontory / A memory,” Willo Drummond uses form to mimic the shape of meandering thought, contained in a moment of encounter with the natural world as personified in “pink and purple pig-face / tailors of the coast / salt-resistant sentries” (61). The poem curls down the page like a path, and enacts in doing so the encounter of subjects. The flowers are active companions, overtly present: “Their gesture fills a space / that walks with me, / walks beside me, / treads here too” (61). The poem offers respect to their agency in making response. (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon JASAL Special Issue : ASAL2022 Conference Issue vol. 23 no. 2 4 November 2024 27896608 2024 periodical issue

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    'For many years, the week scheduled for the annual conference of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) has coincided with NAIDOC (National Aboriginal and Islander Day of Commemoration) Week, the event that celebrates the histories and cultures, and achievements and struggles, of Australia’s First Nations peoples. In 2022, the coincidence of these events was particularly apposite given that the focus of ASAL’s conference was the thirtieth anniversary, and the ongoing legacies on Australian writing, of the 1992 High Court Mabo decision. Over five days in early July 2022, on the Sandy Bay campus of the University of Tasmania (UTas), a program of speakers and papers, including five keynote presentations from First Nations writers and critics, explored the scholarship and analysis of the enduring repercussions of the landmark court case on Australian literary and cultural imaginaries.' (Introduction to Special Issue)

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