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Title: Writing to the Wire
Author: DISNEY DAN/KELEN KIT (EDS)
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/08/2016
Imprint: UNI OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Price: $25.00
Publishing status: Active
Surely we are better than this?
The seeking of asylum in Australia has been
politicised in recent decades. Our national conversation has
vilified people fleeing persecution and desensitised the Australian
polity to human suffering. We are further marginalising the most
vulnerable groups in the world and at greater expense than accommodating
refugees in the community. What impact does this have upon
our collective ethics and national identity? And if our public
conversation is steering us into murky moral territory, where may a
dissenting voice be heard?
Writing to the Wire is a collection of
poems by Australians and people who would like to be Australians. It is a
book about the idea of being Australian. It is about who we are and who
we would rather be. Writing to the Wire offers new ways to understand
injustice, to speak out and tell stories. Poetry can show us what we’re
thinking and feeling in a way our politics has failed to do.
ISBN: 9781742588667
Weight: 250gr