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A Look That Won’t Catch on single work   poetry   "Odette clutches my arm on the way back from the markets, shocking"
Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 A Look That Won’t Catch on
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Notes

  • Author's note:Charles de Lorme (1584–1678), French physician to Louis XIII, is credited with inventing (c. 1619) the first ‘plague doctor’ costume worn by physicians during the second wave of the bubonic plague in Europe.

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    y separately published work icon Not Very Quiet Mask no. 8 March 2021 21371835 2021 periodical issue poetry

    '‘Mask’ derives variously from the mid 16th century French masque, from Italian maschera, mascara, probably from medieval Latin masca, ‘witch, spectre’ but influenced by Arabic maskara, ‘buffoon’ (Wordflex app 1998–2008, using Oxford Dictionary data ).

    'It is a word with widespread interpretation and meaning. It encapsulates all seven previous Not Very Quiet issues and still leaves scope for new ideas and explorations in Issue 8.

    '‘Mask’ has special resonance in gender discourses, and of course, has a special meaning in 2020 images of bushfire smoke and the pandemic.' (Sandra Renew and Moya Pacey, Introduction)

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  • Paris,
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    France,
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    Western Europe, Europe,
  • 1621
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