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Shimmer single work   poetry   "Djotarra—mother, healer,"
  • Author:agent Diane Fahey http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/fahey-diane
Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 Shimmer
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Notes

  • Author's note: Gulumbu Yunupingu is survived by a large family and a circle of friends across the world. In recognition of her international importance the family have consented to her name appearing in text, but requested that no image be shown, and that her first name not be uttered. Instead she can be referred to as Djotarra or Ms Yunupingu.

    Epigraph: Nothing but Stars Yolgnu judge a bark painting in terms of the light and luminosity created by its cross-hatching. In art from East Arnhem Land a complex transformation process takes place, causing the bark surface to change from its natural dull tone to bir’yun, or brilliant. This expression of luminosity through shimmer is the basis of Yolgnu aesthetics … Yolgnu artists stress that the process of painting is a religious act and that the vibrancy of the painted surface is a manifestation of ancestral power … —Georges Petitjean, Contemporary Aboriginal Art

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    y separately published work icon Antipodes Articulating Southeast Asia and the Antipodes vol. 33 no. 2 2019 21208476 2019 periodical issue 'This issue goes to press ten months into the year of living with COVID-19, which is nearly a full year after the date on the volume’s cover. Part of me wanted to be coy about this delay, simply elide the disjunction between the published date and the actual publication. But to tell the truth, it seems more important to acknowledge where we are and how we are. Antipodes has been running behind schedule for the past few issues, and the patience of our contributors and subscribers has been much appreciated. The delays have yielded some fortuitous timing, such as the publication of Soren Tae Smith’s thoughtful piece on the mosque bombing in Christchurch in the June 2019 issue, apparently just a few months later than the event (although actually a year delayed). “This Is a Difficult Piece to Write” was both a timely and an atemporal reflection on the literal and figurative tragedy of a world that seems increasingly divided at the same time that it finds unity in disasters, naturally and humanly induced. So perhaps it is fitting that Antipodes lags behind time, for now, offering an opportunity to reflect on the present in the past' (Brenda Machosky, Editorial introduction) 2019 pg. 262-264
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