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'A groundbreaking new work of non-fiction by one of Australia’s most respected essay writers.
'No Document is an elegy for a friendship cut short prematurely by death. The memory of this friendship becomes a model for how we might relate to others in sympathy, solidarity and rebellion. At once intimate and expansive, Anwen Crawford’s book-length essay explores loss in many forms: disappeared artworks, effaced histories, abandoned futures. From the turmoil of grief and the solace of memory, her perspective embraces histories of protest and revolution, art-making and cinema, border policing, and especially our relationships with animals. No Document shows how love and resistance echo through time.
'Anwen Crawford is best known for her writing as a critic, but here she draws on her background as a zine-maker and visual artist, and her training in poetry, to develop a new way of writing about the past, using a symphonic method of composition and collage. No Document is an urgent, groundbreaking work of non-fiction that reimagines the boundaries that divide us – as people, nations and species – and asks how we can create forms of solidarity that endure.'
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Lens on the Lines That Divide
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 21 August 2021; (p. 18)
— Review of No Document 2021 single work essay -
Anwen Crawford, No Document
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 3-9 April 2021;
— Review of No Document 2021 single work essay -
Neha Kale Reviews No Document by Anwen Crawford
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , no. 26 2020-2021;
— Review of No Document 2021 single work essay'Anwen Crawford’s No Document, a memorial to the casualties of late capitalism, occupies the space between elegy and witness, language and art.' (Introduction)
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Anwen Crawford, No Document
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 3-9 April 2021;
— Review of No Document 2021 single work essay -
Neha Kale Reviews No Document by Anwen Crawford
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , no. 26 2020-2021;
— Review of No Document 2021 single work essay'Anwen Crawford’s No Document, a memorial to the casualties of late capitalism, occupies the space between elegy and witness, language and art.' (Introduction)
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Lens on the Lines That Divide
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 21 August 2021; (p. 18)
— Review of No Document 2021 single work essay