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'Many years ago I read a now forgotten novel by a now forgotten author, which had a truly wonderful preface. It read, simply, this bloody book nearly killed me. I therefore dedicate it, dear Reader, to myself. There is a delicate irony at play, I think, in my long remembering this dedication while the book itself is erased completely from my memory. I’ll touch on the interplay of knowledge and memory in due course. What I want to start by saying, though, is that in my case, as in the case of that forgotten preface’s author, while writing can be a horrifically stressful business - and while writing this paper did indeed feel like it was going to kill me - the Author is emphatically Not Dead.' (Introduction)
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Dedication: Dedicated to all refugees currently imprisoned by the Australian State
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Barry Andrews Memorial Lecture
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
- Barbed Wire and Cherry Blossoms 2016 single work novel
- The Conquest 1971 single work poetry
- The Only Speaker of his Tongue 1986 single work short story
- Island Home : A Landscape Memoir 2015 single work autobiography
- Mullumbimby 2013 single work novel
- Dark Emu : Black Seeds : Agriculture or Accident? 2014 single work criticism