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Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 ‘I Was the Only Blak Queer in the World’ : on Ellen Van Neerven’s Throat
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'In 2017, just over a year after the publication of Ellen van Neerven’s debut collection of poetry, Comfort Food, the poet Omar Sakr called van Neerven ‘[T]he brightest star in my generation of authors’. Gomeroi poet and multitasker Alison Whittaker marvelled, ‘I have no idea what contemporary Australian literature would look like without Ellen.’'

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  • Throat Ellen van Neerven , 2020 selected work poetry
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