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Sun Wind and Diesel

Sun Wind and Diesel

Miriel Lenore

Where, or rather how, does anyone belong?

In this book, Miriel Lenore reflects on her life in two places - a Ngaanyatjarra community in the desert where she is a visitor, and her home in Adelaide with family and friends. To these people and places, she brings a sharp eye, her political and historical lenses and wry humour to create deceptively simple poems with many layered meanings. In her poems, the land always carries its complex and particular history, as she interweaves her responses to the natural world with the deliberate relationships between people and the continuing effects of the past.

Miriel Lenore's spare, taut style, with its subtle voice rhythms, carries the strength and precariousness of someone who asks how she may begin to belong in the desert as her feet tell her she does in Adelaide.

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From her days as a botanist, to her years at an agricultural school in Fiji, to her passion for Australian rock art, Miriel Lenore has long been working away at questions of ecology and place. Her poetry is also deeply grounded in her experience as a feminist, mother, grandmother and pioneer of a different sort. Miriel continues to explore the heart-breaking questions of the white settler story: where is home and how do we live here?
Miriel resides in Adelaide.

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ISBN   9781862544192
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PAGE COUNT   80
DIMENSIONS   210 x 140 mm