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Dinner Dinner single work   poetry   "She is not a complex being, transparency"
Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 Dinner Dinner
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Notes

  • Author's note: after Anne Waldman
  • Epigraph: 'When all else is lacking, verbalization can be enough. Love. There, you can stand up now, it didn't kill you.' –Margaret Atwood, from 'Women's Novels'

  • This poem is in four titled parts:

    Clearing the Kitchen Bench

    Cutting the Vegetables to Pieces

    Eating

    Returning to the Kitchen Bench

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry Bonny Cassidy (editor), Jessica Wilkinson (editor), St Lucia : Hunter Publishers , 2016 9841935 2016 anthology poetry

    'Australia has a rich history of feminist poetry but there is no one kind of feminist voice.

    'Each of the seventy new poems commissioned for this anthology cuts its own path through language. Together, their politics are restless, inextricably tied to the now.' (Publication summary)

         St Lucia : Hunter Publishers , 2016     pg. 59-60
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